News stories are selected from local newspapers such as The Portsmouth News and Hayling Herald by a team of editors and researchers for stories of local interest. Producers arrange the articles into audio scripts which are recorded in our purpose-designed recording suite in East Street, Havant.

The readers’ group has one presenter and three readers of alternating gender for each edition so that there is a clear voice break between articles. Everyone taking part in a recording session is named in the introduction by the presenter. Our recording sessions take place on Tuesday evenings.

The distribution team comes in the next day to duplicate the master memory stick. The recorded media is put into a blue ‘Articles for the Blind’ pouch, according to the listeners’ preference and labelled. The pouches are delivered by post later in the week. When a listener has finished with the media, they return it in the pouch with their address label inside and post it back to us. No postage is required.

The recording is available on the British Wireless for the Blind Fund website via its app for smart phones.

Smart Speakers

We can supply a ‘Boombox’, a device for playing back memory sticks, for listeners at nominal cost where they have no other means of playing the audio. They are purpose-designed for the blind or visually impaired, with easy to use controls, large tactile buttons and a prominent on/off volume dial.