Enfield Talking Newspaper

The Enfield Talking Newspaper was the first talking newspaper in the UK, established in 1961. More than fifty years on, their purpose remains the same - to create an audio recording of the news articles in their local newspapers and to deliver this, as quickly as they can, to blind and partially sighted residents in the borough. The service is entirely free and the charity run and managed by volunteers. In 1961 they began with 6 listeners; today around 100 people receive a memory stick or hear their recording via the internet each week.