If you live in the Swindon area, and you are unable to read a newspaper because you are blind, visually impaired or have other disabilities, you are eligible to receive The Swindon Talking Newspaper (STAN) on audio-cassette, every week.

The newspaper contains 45 minutes of local news items from the Swindon Evening Advertiser, and 45 minutes of features such as sport and music. The service costs nothing to the listener. The tapes are FREE, including postage.

If you don’t have a tape recorder to listen to the tapes on, we can lend one to you, and that is also free.

The talking newspaper tapes are sent out each Thursday by post, and usually arrive with the listener on Friday morning. You then have the weekend to listen to the tape. Listeners are asked to put the tapes back in the post on the following Monday, so they will arrive back with us on Tuesday ready for wiping clean and re-recording the following day. Again, there is no charge to the listener for postage.