THE REDDITCH and Bromsgrove Talking Newspaper (RBTN) is appealing for people to join its ranks in two key roles.
The charity is made up of volunteers and provides weekly audio recordings for those who are blind, have visual impairments or struggle to hold or read a regular newspaper.
Each edition of the talking newspaper features local and county news, sport, local history, weather, a quiz, advice, exercise sections and more.
The RBTN is looking for cuttings editors and USB copying operators.
The Cuttings Editor role involves people working on their computer at home, choosing, extracting and occasionally editing interesting articles/stories (’cuttings’) from local newspapers and sending them out for readers to record for the week’s edition.
Each person would be on duty once-a-month and the role takes around eight hours, spread across several days.
People need reasonable computer skills (eg Word and basic working on Excel spreadsheets).
Eventually, they would need to be good at working on their own and to deadlines, especially on a Wednesday.
The USB Copying role entails attending the RBTN office in Redditch on a Friday morning, loading the current week’s edition from the Internet onto USB sticks, placing USBs in individual postal wallets and then taking the post bags to the Redditch sorting office. This role is also once a month, usually for around two hours and anyone undertaking it would need to have reasonable computing skills and be good at, eventually, working on their own, and to deadlines, on Friday mornings,
A spokesperson for the Redditch and Bromsgrove Talking Newspaper said: “We are a cheerful, supportive group, and we provide thorough training and ongoing support.”
They urged anyone wanting to find out more to email: [email protected] or call 01527 517165.
Visit: redditchbromsgrovetalkingnewspaper.co.uk to listen to the latest edition of the talking newspaper.
