Registered Charity No 514838
SCARBOROUGH TALKING NEWS
Founded: 1982
A free, weekly, audio newspaper, plus a periodic magazine, for people who are blind and partially-sighted in Scarborough, Whitby, Filey and the wider area.
Local audio news and features for you, to your letterbox, digitally, or by a local phone call. each week, plus our audio magazine
Talking Newspaper and Magazine
Are you blind or partially sighted? Or perhaps you have difficulty reading a newspaper or magazine? We would be delighted to add you to our mailing list to receive our Talking News and our Talking Magazine, entirely free of charge, sent directly to your door each week through the Royal Mail. Or there are additional ways you can listen – please find out more below.
A Weekly Service
We supply a free weekly audio ‘newspaper’ to registered listeners in Scarborough and along the Yorkshire Coast – and beyond.
Free Audio Player
We loan our listeners a completely free audio player to listen to our weekly news by USB, and we provide full tuition on using it.
More Ways to Listen
Listen in many other ways: you can hear our weekly news via an app on your Android or Apple phone, via Alexa, or here online.
Volunteer with Us
Would you like to help us? We welcome new Readers, Recorders, Copiers and Despatchers to join our team of volunteers.
New in 2024: Talking Magazine
In May 2024 we launched our new Talking Magazine. Full of features, interviews, advice, tips, and much, much more.
Donate
We do not charge our listeners a subscription to receive the Talking News, or for their audio player, so we rely entirely on donations.
Founded 1982
Serving Scarborough, Whitby, Filey – and beyond
Scarborough Talking News can reach out to you along the North Yorkshire coast, and inland, too.
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Your roundup of local news, views and features read to you by our volunteers and contributors.
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Delivered to your door by post, or digitally online, via your smartphone or device and even via your landline.
Join our team
40 years
of service
Helping blind and visually impaired people across our region since 1982.
2000th edition
22 May 2024
Weekly news from a wide range of sources – with the human touch.
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Accessibility
Ensuring the news is available and accessible to the whole community.
Testimonials
Listen to our Listeners
Listener happiness is at the core of our charity’s aims. If our listeners aren’t happy, we’re not happy. Read what they’re saying below.
I think the Talking News is a fantastic idea for people who cannot read. It tells you local knowledge and ideas of what is coming. I think the Talking News is a brilliant idea for people who can no longer read, it keeps them in touch with their area.
Irene
Whitby Listener
The reason I like the Talking News so much is that there’s always at least one item that really of real interest. There’s always something of particular interest. To anyone. As well as the general news of what’s going on in Scarborough and villages. So thank you.
Anne
Scarborough Listener
Since I’ve been severely visually impaired, I’ve no longer been able to read for myself. So the Scarborough Talking News is marvellous for me. It helps me to feel included in what is going on and makes me feel that I’m still part of the community.
Gill
Scarborough Listener
Our partners
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Come and join us
Join a great team of volunteers
We are a wide range of volunteers from a variety of backgrounds. You can volunteer your services to Scarborough Talking News in many ways, as often as you are able. You can be part of the production process, to make each week’s News, but we also need administrative help and fundraisers.
Working to produce a weekly Talking News is a very rewarding and enjoyable role to play within our community. 😍
— Mary Grunwell, Chairman
Please support us
What it costs – and why we need your help
Scarborough Talking News is run entirely by volunteers, and our services are completely free to our blind and partially-sighted listeners.
As an alternative to volunteering, your generosity could help to support us financially to continue to operate successfully.
The two sums shown below are what it costs STN to welcome a new listener.
A total (in 2024) of £53.
This is in addition to our running costs to maintain our Studio premises on Dean Road.
£24 per listener
For plastic postal wallets and USBs
We need four new special postal wallets and four USB sticks for each new, blind or partially-sighted listener
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Returnable, velcro sealable wallets
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Address labels (reversible)
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USB sticks and address labels
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Easily managed by the blind or partially-sighted
£29 per listener
For a USB Player
We provide – on lifetime loan – a free USB Player to each new, blind or partially-sighted listener
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Large controls
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Bright, contrasting colours
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Simple operation but good sound quality
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Easy to charge
Any sum you can contribute, no matter how big or small, will be of great help.
Thank you.
Latest News
Read our latest Announcements
Follow our regular announcements here on a range of matters – local and wider – with Scarborough Talking News.
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STN Volunteer News 5: August 2024
It is only just over a year ago that I, amongst others, received the bombshell news that the previous group of Talking News Trustees planned to close the service to our wonderful Listeners because, as they said, we had little money, not enough volunteers and no one wanting to serve on the Committee. I spent…
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Fundraising Coffee Morning: Saturday, 7 September 2024
A Coffee Morning in support of Scarborough Talking News will be held at Scalby Methodist Church on Saturday, 7 September from 10am – 11.30am. There will be cake stall and book stall plus the novelty of model trains running throughout the morning. Admission by donation at the door. The address of the church is North Street,…
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If you require any additional information on the range of services we provide at Scarborough Talking News, we are only a phone call or email away.