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| The PGP's Appeal for 2008 The P.G.P., Bro. Pete Carnell K.O.M., has chosen to support the Peterborough & District Talking Newspaper Association as his Outside Charity for 2008. ******************************** Appeal Update 1st December, at PGL Bro. Pete Dudley CP the President Of Examining Council presented the PGP with a £25 donation from Examining Council and Bro. Barry Burrell raffled a bottle of whiskey which raised £50 for the Appeal. The winner was Bro. Simon Dowse ROH who donated his prize to Bro. Pete Dudley for his PGP 2009 Appeal. ****************************** Appeal Update, 4th November Bro. Chaz Fenner KOM & his Good Lady Angie, presented the PGP with a cheque for £1100, at the PGL Dinner, donations from the Eastgate Lodge Sponsored Walk. At November PGL Bro. Dave Spencer ROH presented the PGP with a cheque for £100, the proceeds from raffling a £50 note at the PGL Dinner. Bro. Bill Smith ROH also presented a £500 cheque to the PGP on behalf of the Welland Lodge. ******************************** Appeal Update, 25th September Bro. Barry Burrell presented cheques to Bro. Chaz Fenner KOM at September PGL, from: The Fenman Lodge (£35), Members of 'Talking Newspapers for the Blind' (£110) and Mr Stuart Deane (£270) for The Yaxley Walk sponsorship. ***************************** Appeal Update, 7th July Bro. Pete, informed PGL that the Garden Party held at his home the day before had raised £452. Bro.Graham Spencer ROH, presented the PGP with a cheque for £75 from the Willoughby Lodge and thanked Bro. Alan Brown KOM for coming to the aid of their Lodge following an attack by vandals on the Bourne RAOB Club. ******************************** Appeal Update, 2nd June The PGP, Bro. Pete, paid a cheque into the fund to the value of £531 - The monies raised at the Bingo Night and £15O from the sale of Flowers grown at home. ******************************** An Introduction from Bro. Barry Burrell KOM PETERBOROUGH & DISTRICT TALKING NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION The Association was formed in 1980 to provide the visually impaired in the Peterborough area with a weekly news tape containing items which have appeared in the Peterborough Evening Telegraph taking in the headlines, shorter news stories, sports news, what’s on and a selection of letters to the press. Announcements on behalf of other organizations for the blind are also included. To accompany this service there is a monthly audio magazine to provide information such as new helpful equipment for the blind that is now available, features of interest and entertainment. At this time there are about 200 visually impaired people receiving our service not just in Peterborough but, all over this province with listeners in Bourne, The Deepings, Stamford, Glinton, Eye, Thorney, Crowland, March, Whittlesey, Farcet, Yaxley and out to Oundle in the west. The Association is run on a completely voluntary basis by a team of about 55 to 60 volunteers, which are made up of 5 teams of readers and 5 teams of duplicators along with committee members and editors. We are funded entirely by voluntary donations mainly from groups such as Rotary Clubs, Inner Wheel groups, The Ashton Conker Club and on occasions BBC Radio Cambridgeshire’s Trustline Appeal. We receive no funding from local authorities or from any government department. How is the Talking Newspaper created? After gathering a weeks Evening Telegraph’s from Tuesday through to the following Monday a teams editor will cut out a selection of items to be read. A team of readers, once every 5 weeks in turn, meet at a volunteers home where the recording equipment has been taken, they will then record the news onto a master tape. The master is then taken to Bretton Library where our duplicating equipment is installed. If all goes to plan on a Wednesday morning the Royal Mail delivers the mail bags containing the listener’s wallets with last weeks returned tapes enclosed. In the afternoon one of the teams of duplicators wipe clean all the returned tapes before recording the new edition on to it. The equipment we have copies 18 tapes each run at high speed recording on both sides of the tape at the same time. The tapes are then placed back into the listeners wallets, which have had their address labels reversed and checked that everyone on our books is being sent a copy, the wallets are then put back into the mail bags ready for collection later that afternoon so hopefully the listeners receive their newspaper tape in the post on the Thursday morning. There are no postal charges to us as the tapes are sent under the Articles For The Blind concessionary scheme. Plans for the future: Since 1980 the newspaper has been sent out on compact cassettes, which are rapidly coming to the end of their effective life along with our ageing recording and duplicating equipment. Therefore, we are looking very seriously at an alternative format. With modern technology available now, we would like to be able to improve the service that we provide for our listeners. It is very important that we should firstly have the capability to make a clear as possible recording as some of our listeners are not only visually impaired but have hearing problems as well. With sufficient funding the association would like to go over to a system where the paper could be recorded digitally onto a computer and then duplicated onto a memory stick. Because most of the listeners do not have access to a computer at this time a piece of equipment would have to be purchased to allow them to listen to the device. The committee looked at going over to CD’s but, the annual running costs would be very high due to the number of write once only CD’s required in a year as other Talking Newspaper groups in other parts of the country have discovered. The committee accepts that the cost of such equipment initially will be high but it feels it will be well worthwhile in the long term as the quality of the recordings will be improved quite dramatically and the annual running costs should be kept low. The PGP's Appeal for 2007 The P.G.P. of 2007, Bro. Peter Robertson R.O.H. as his Outside Charity supported Hospital at Home. IPPGP's Charity Final update At the April PGL Brother Peter presented a queque for £3,736:40 to the Hosptal at Home representative, Dee George. A presentation was also made by Richard Sistrom, who gave a cheque to Dee for £500:00 on behalf of the Retained Firemen of Yaxley.
PGP's Charity Appeal update 4 At December PGL, Brother Peter was presented with £42 from Bro. Barry Scotney IPPGP, donations collected by his Good Lady, Romaine, who had taken part in a Darts mini-marathon. He was also presented with cheques to the value of £250 from the Queen Elizabeth Lodge - proceeds from their Quiz Night, & one from the Eastgate Lodge for £408:45 - mainly raised during the Thorpe Hall Summer Fete.
PGP's Charity Appeal update 3 At October PGL Bro. Alex Denniston presented £1020.15 in cash to the PGP, the total proceeds from the 'Rock & Roll evening (See below). Brother Peter thanked Bro. Alex and everyone who had helped and supported the event. Bro. Peter also thanked the Valiant Lodge for a cheque to the value of £100 presented to him at a visit to their Lodge in September.The PGP was also presented with a cheque for £205 by Bro. Graham Spencer, the Proceeds from the Bannister Cup Fishing Competition. For details of further Bannister Cup action in November go to News / Events.
PGP's Charity Appeal update 2 A 'Rock and Roll' Evening organised by Bro. Alex Denniston took place on Saturday 22nd of September. The Raffle held on the night raised £380 for Brother Peters Appeal. Well done to Brothers Alex & Peter who were supported by Bro's Pete Carnell, Pete Dudley & Seamus Madden.
PGP's Charity Appeal update The PGP announced at July PGL that he had raised £1,087.50 from his sponsored golf marathon and that he had also been given a £50 voucher for a future raffle prize. Bro. Peter thanked everyone who had given their support.
The PGP's Appeal for 2006 At March 2006 PGL, the now IPPGP Bro. Barry Scotney ROH announced his outside charity for the year, Bro. Scott Simpson's disabled son George, Bro. Scott is a member of the Eastgate Lodge. On the 7th of May Bro. Barry presented Mrs Simpson with a cheque for £4844:50.
The PGP's Appeal for 2005
Following the Provincial Grand Lodge Meeting on Monday 6th of March 2006, Bro. Roddy Woodthorpe ROH, the PPGP of 2005, made a presentation of a cheque for £2,230 to Jemma Dixon, the South Lincolnshire Fund Raiser for Macmillan Cancer Relief. Jemma then gave an informative presentation to the assembled Brothers, including an insight of the services and support offered by the Macmillan Cancer Relief Charity.
Jemma presents Certificates for the "Around Rutland Water" Sponsored Cycle Ride, in appreciation of their efforts. Pictured are, Dan Perkins, Kelly Claypole and Tom Carter (now Bro. Tom). A big thank you to all Brothers & Family members who supported Brother Roddy and this truly worthwhile cause. |  |
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