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We had a great time at the Enfield VisionFocus Day on 20th
October, meeting manylisteners and introducing ETN to those whodo
not currently receive our tapes. Thanks toPat, Audrey, Muriel and
Diane for running ourstall and to the Mayor of Enfield and
David
Burrowes MP for coming to support us!
The team is run by Muriel Arthur and works atCommunity House,
Fore Street, Edmonton onFriday evenings. We are looking for
volunteersto help speed copy the tapes, who are ableto commit to a
regular monthly slot. The taskinvolves setting up our four machines
(whichare desktop units and heavy-ish), cleaning theheads, checking
and duplicating the mastertape, then speed copying the cassettes
whilstquality checking a random sample.
The Production Team is a happy and sociablegroup which starts
work from 5.00pm - butspeed copying can begin later. CommunityHouse
has a big car park and is a short walkfrom Edmonton Green Station.
If you are ableto spare part of one Friday evening a month,please
get in touch with us to arrange a tastersession! (Clockwise from
top left: Peter,
Margaret, Jenny, Muriel, Vivienne and Sandra.Please note:
wearing pink is not compulsory!)
VOLUNTEERING VACANCIES
ON OUR PRODUCTION TEAM
Information for Volunteers and Supporters
December 2011 [email protected]
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Enfield Vision Focus Day
HOT TIPS FOR READERS!
Ensuring we deliver a high quality tape toour listeners each
week is our top priority!Jessica Thurtell, a former radio
technician anda volunteer with Dorking Talking Newspaper,has
produced a Tips for Readers sheet whicheven our most experienced
volunteers mayfind of interest! If you are a member of oneof our
reading teams or on our standby list,youll find her handy hints
enclosed with thisnewsletter. Thanks Jessica!
Registered under the Charities Act 1960 Number 270935 and the
National Assistance Act 1948 [email protected]
Welcome to everyone who responded to ourappeal for volunteers in
the summer. We are
currently in need of more assistance on ourProduction Team
(details opposite). We hada great day at the Enfield Vision Focus
Dayin October. We are indebted to all those whodontate funds to us
and have recently had somegood news from Waitrose in Enfield! If
you havecontent ideas for our next Magazine Tape, pleasedo get in
touch. On behalf of everyone at ETNthank you for your support and
Happy Christmas!
Phillip Dawson, Chairman
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Thank you to everyone who nominatedETN to be one of the
Charities of the Monthat Waitrose Enfield Town as part of
theirCommunity Matters scheme. We wereselected as one of three
beneficiaries inNovember 2011 and are delighted to have just
heard that we will be receiving 320!
A BIG thank you to thecustomers of Waitrose Enfield
In addition to our weekly recording of localnews we also produce
a Magazine tape, filledwith stories, recipies, poems and longer
reportsand interviews that we dont have space to
feature on our weekly cassette. If you haveany content that
might be suitable for our nextedition (either as a copyright free
audio file oras a script) please email or post it to us,
forconsideration by the Editorial Team.
Do you have materialfor our next magazine?
DID YOU KNOW.....
Our email address is [email protected]
Chairman: Phillip Dawson, 1 White HouseFarm Cottages, Waterfall
Close, Southgate,N14 7JP Telephone: 07843 445 963Email:
[email protected]
Vice Chairman & Listener Representative:
Diane de Jersey Telephone: 020 8805 6578Email :
[email protected]
KEEP IN TOUCH - Contact us !
There are 515 people registered blind and415 people registered
partially sighted in theLondon Borough of Enfield. According todata
from the Enfield Observatory,Enfield has the second lowest
number
of people registered blind per head ofpopulation of any London
borough; atbelow 0.20%, only the City of London hasa lower number
on its register:
56% of people registered blind in Enfield areover 75 years old,
although thats less thanthe London average;
We are delighted thatKeith de Jersey (pictured
left with his wife Diane- who is also our ViceChairman and
ListenerRepresentative!) has been
Introducing our new volunteers
helping the Production Team. We welcome ColinBurke and Cassandra
Marshall who have takenover as recordists with Team C, working on
thethird week of every month. We welcome JennyBoyd to the
Production Team. Robin Bester,our Senior Recordist, is now training
two morevolunteers from our list of new recruits!
