We are a local charity set up to record a cassette tape each week for the visually impaired residents of the London Borough of Sutton. Now our recordings are fully digital, and we distribute CDs and memory sticks for our listeners based on news and letters from the Sutton Guardian and other sources. The TN is completely free to use and is run by volunteers. In addition to the usual content, we now are able to bring our listeners who use the memory stick the following national magazines each week: Hello, My Weekly, People’s Friend, Woman’s Own, Woman’s Weekly, Sport Weekly, The Week, Amateur Gardening, and Nature. We also provide the following Monthly magazines: BBC Good Food, BBC History, and BBC Wildlife. The only condition is that potential listeners need to be either registered as Blind or Partially Sighted, or can be certified by an ophthalmologist, an ophthalmic optician, a GP or a social worker to have close-up vision with spectacles of N12 or less (unable to read newsprint) A person does not have to be registered as blind or partially sighted to be entitled to this service. An inability to read newsprint through visual impairment is enough to qualify. To comply with Post Office regulations for free postage, it is necessary for the application to be signed by one of the following persons, stating that your close-up vision with spectacles is N12 or less (unable to read newsprint) An ophthalmologist An ophthalmic optician Your GP A social worker Sutton Talking Newspaper 1 Grove Cottage Grove Park High Street Carshalton Surrey SM5 3BB If you have any questions about Sutton Talking Newspaper, please write to the studio, or leave a message on the answerphone at 020 3759 6679. You can also email the studio at either publicity@suttontn.org.uk or secretary@suttontn.org.uk SUTTON TALKING NEWSPAPER is a member of the TALKING NEWS FEDERATION Registered Charity Number 269628