During 2009 The Worcester Music festival raised \u00a34068, which was split between our chosen charities. Pictured are The Worcester Music Festival\u00a0presenting a cheque to Choice Hospital Radio.<\/p>\n
11 Colin Chance House, Wylds Lane, Worcester, WR5 1DA<\/p>\n
READING a newspaper is something most people take for granted, but for vision-impaired people it can become nothing more than a distant memory. But thanks to a Worcester charity, more than 300 blind and partially-sighted people are able to listen to the week\u2019s round-up of news on cassette players.<\/p>\n
The Worcester Talking Newspaper was founded in 1976 by Colin and Beryl Chance.<\/p>\n
The charity, based in Wyld\u2019s Lane, is supported by dozens of volunteers and relies solely on their fund-raising efforts, and donations, for its survival.<\/p>\n
The Talking Newspaper is prepared once a week, on Thursday night, with teams of readers reading out selected stories from the week\u2019s editions of the Evening News.<\/p>\n
The charity also has a library of more than 300 \u201ctalking\u201d books, which have been recorded onto tapes by Jacki Ager and her team of readers.<\/p>\n
Choice is the hospital radio service for the Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester. It\u00a0 is a voluntary service broadcasting to patients from a purpose-built studio centre. Broadcasts are internal to the hospital, via a closed-circuit system called Patientline and they broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Choice radio are a charity broadcaster and all their members are volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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