Reading's Talking Newspaper

Useful Links

BBC Radio Berkshire
Berkshire NHS
Cookham.com (excellent community web site).
Reading Council
Reading Access Guide(A good guide for accessible places and services in and around Reading).
Readibus ReadiBus' principal service is a telephone-booked accessible bus service, Dial-a-Ride. It is available door-to-door across a large part of Central and West Berkshire and South Oxfordshire. Some services are timetabled and run at the same time each week.
Reading libraries
Reading libraries new titles page
On this page you can find links to the latest additions to their audio & large print titles.
Reading Chronicle
Reading Evening Post

Action for Blind People (Useful Links)
BooksBeforeWeDie
96% of books are inaccessible to print disabled people. This website has been set up to create a focus for all affected peple in the UK.
British Sound Recording Association
Confederation Of Tape Information Services
Royal Mail (Postcodes Online)
Royal National Institute for the Blind
Soundings - A audio magazine
Talking News Federation
Talking Newspaper Association of the United Kingdom
Talking Newspapers - Local talking newspapers directory
Talking Newspapers - Links
Big Print Newspaper
A weekly newspaper for people with sight problems.
The Big TV Guide
The Big TV guide is a breath of fresh air For readers who struggle with small print. Now you can see what’s on TV at a glance, without straining. A unique, 36 page weekly.
Thrive (Thrive is the national horticultural charity based at Beech Hill just out side Reading).
Accessible Friends Network (TAFN )
TAFN is a UK based charity dedicated to support and advice for people with a visual impairment the the field of computers and the internet.
Talking Computers
A monthly audio cassette for the vision impaired computer user, now you can listen to it on line.
Artsline (A telephone advice and information service on arts and entertainment for disabled people and access to venues in the Greater London area, including theatres, cinemas, galleries and museums.
Tel: 020 7388 2227)
DA-CC is a consultant who will advise vision impaired people and there carers with dementia

Reading's Talking Newspaper for the blind
Charity No. 271880
The chairman Bob Bristow (Please note you need to replace *** with waitrose in the to box) Telephone (The Chairman) 0118 958 2056.