Sutton Talking Newspaper

This amounts to over 20 hours per week on one stick with publications including BBC Good Food, BBC History, BBC Music, BBC Wildlife, Choice, Country Living, Economist, Hello, History Today, My Weekly, National Geographic, New Scientist, People’s Friend, Private Eye, Readers Digest, Rugby World, Saga, The Cricketer, The Garden, The Oldie, The Week, Which, Woman’s Own, and Woman’s Weekly.

Any listener who does not already own a device with a USB socket, or a memory stick player, can be given one free of charge by STN, and demonstrated in their own home by one of our volunteers.

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 optician, optometrist, or a GP to have close-up vision with spectacles of N12 or less (unable to read newsprint).

Listeners must agree to notify Sutton Talking Newspaper of any change in circumstances affecting the supply of recordings, and to return any machine on loan if it is no longer needed.

The organisation is administered and staffed entirely by volunteers, and is funded by generous donations and legacies.  There is no charge for the service.

Many of our listeners have been with us for years, but we know there are many more out there who are not aware of what we do, so we are trying to spread the news about our news!