The Talking Newspaper for the Blind and visually impaired in Kings Lynn and West Norfolk.
As many of the volunteers who run the Kings Lynn talking newspaper are in the at risk category from the Corona virus the edition recorded on the 23rd March 2020 was the last regular weekly edition. We are recording a fortnightly edition with our volunteers recording from home. This is now available on the link below and on an app for Android or iphones, The Talking Newspaper app. This new service is funded by the Rotal National Institute for the Blind.
FROM WEEK STARTING JUNE 8TH 2020 WE WILL START SENDING OUT MEMORY STICKS AGAIN BUT ONLY FORTNIGHTLY
We will continue this in 2021.
We would appreciate any feed back you have on the current edition.
Keith Leedell Chairman
FROM WEEK STARTING JUNE 8TH 2020 WE WILL START SENDING OUT MEMORY STICKS AGAIN BUT ONLY FORTNIGHTLY
We will continue this in 2021.
We would appreciate any feed back you have on the current edition.
Keith Leedell Chairman
Vision Link celebrated 40 years of the Kings Lynn Talking Newspaper with a celebration on Saturday 30th November 2019. Many former and current volunteers attended including some of the founders from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Radio and the Lions association. Certificates for ten and twenty years of voluntary service were awarded. The Mayor of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk was a special guest.
The Mayor of Kings Lynn annd West Norfolk, Councillor Geoff Hipperson, recording his 2019 Christmas message for Vision Link. For his 2020 Christmas message he recorded it remotely.
VISION LINK
King's Lynn Talking Newspaper Association for the Blind
Charity No 1048633
- The King's Lynn Talking Newspaper for the Blind, Vision Link, contains local news not available from other sources. It is available free to any visually impaired person. It is compiled from a local newspapers and magazines. The Lynn News, Your Local Paper and the KL magazine. It is recorded weekly by volunteers. In December 2019 we celebrated 40 years of production.
- Following the closure of the Downham Market and Hunstanton Talking Newspapers, Vision Link now covers the whole of West Norfolk to provide a Talking Newspaper and even supplies locals who have moved away as far as London and Glasgow.
- For recording we use facilities at the Norfolk and Norwich association for the Blind (NNAB) on the North Lynn industrial site. The Talking Newspaper is run entirely by volunteers and receives no funding from any statutory body.
- The News is recorded onto USB memory sticks for play back on special players. These players are given to listeners for as long as they need them. They operate on battery or mains. The USB sticks are distributed and returned in special pouches by the Royal Mail free of charge as articles for the Blind. They can then be recycled.
- We always need volunteers to keep this valuable service going. Apart from reading there are many other tasks, from preparing the script to operating the recording equipment, packing and unpacking the memory sticks and making copies. if you can spare just two hours a month please contact us.
One of the special USB players with the Usb stick inserted and the dispatch and return pouch. They are very easy to operate. The large dial is on\off and volume while on top you can pause, forward, rewind and stop just as you would with cassette tapes.
