Welcome
Chairman’s Welcome
Welcome to the Oxtalk website. You probably know already that we are the charity who produce weekly local news tapes for the blind and visually impaired of Oxford and its environs. We have been doing this for over 25 years now and intend to continue to do so for many years to come! The tapes are produced by a group of around 70 volunteers who edit, read, copy and deliver around 150 tapes each week in the Oxford area. Without the volunteers we could not run our service so please do make contact if you would like to help us in any way, perhaps by becoming a volunteer.
The major challenge that Oxtalk faces as we hurtle through the 21st Century is to keep pace with technological developments to ensure we provide the very best service to our listeners. With this in mind we know we will have to upgrade our technology from the now out-dated audio-tape format to a digital format at some stage in the future (although, we will, of course, still be offering an audio-tape format for our listeners for some time to come). To this end we are now assessing new digital delivery formats (including this website) and will be putting in place a medium-term plan to move to one or more of these new formats in the future. Watch this space!
Fundraising is a key element for all active charities and we are no exception. The change to digital recordings as outlined above will be costly and so we are trying to raise as much money as we can to ensure we can fund this change-over when it happens. We are very active on the streets of Oxford holding charity collection days and we also apply for grant aid if we are eligible to do so. Please do look at our donations page however if you would like to help to fund the work we do.
Finally I hope you like our user-friendly site and are easily able to find the information you are looking for. Do let us have your comments on how we can improve it however, or if there are any specific questions you would like answers to.
Best wishes
Margaret Simpson (Chairman)
