Welcome to the Granta Grapevine Website

www.grantagrapevine.org.uk

Granta Grapevine is the Talking Newspaper for the village of Linton and the surrounding district in South Cambridgeshire. It is a Registered Charity No. 1013086

The Talking Newspaper is a 90 minute cassette tape distributed free each month to blind and visually impaired people. It comprises a news side based on the editorial content of the Linton News, produced in the village, and a magazine side where general interest items appear.

The first edition produced was for March 1990 and the latest in January 2010 was number 239.

If you are registered blind or partially sighted, or you know someone who is and might like a copy of the tape, please contact us. If you would like to join the production team by reading, helping to record or would like further information about us,

contact the Chairman Mike Crofts,

8 Rhugarve Gardens, Linton, Cambridge CB21 4LX
Telephone:- 01223 893619
e-mail:- mikecrofts (at) gmail (dot) com

Click here for an mp3 sample of the magazine side

(This is a 16Mbyte file, so downloading will be slow without broadband)

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Links to organisations supporting Visually Impaired People - VIP's

• National Links
  • Royal National Institute of Blind People
  • Insite Radio from RNIB
  • Action for Blind People
  • Infosound audio magazine from the team that produced Soundings includes material for Talking Newspapers.
  • Talking News Federation
  • National Talking Newspapers and Magazines
  • Guide dogs for the Blind
  • British Wireless for the Blind Fund
  • Vocalise - audio described performances
  • Seeing Ear - online books for visually impaired people
  • Portset - Electronic products for visually impaired people
  • Soundaround - Audio magazine for blind and partially sighted people
  • The Audio network - Website for blind and partially sighted computer users
• Local Links
  • Cam Sight - The Cambridgeshire Society for the Blind and Partially Sighted
  • BDAN - The Bedford Talking Newspaper

The name Granta Grapevine was coined from the river Granta which flows through the village and the local Chilford Hall Vineyard

Organisations who have provided financial support include (in no particular order):-

The Charles and Mary Anderson Benefaction
Linton Women's Institute
Linton Parish Council
Linton Fire Station
Linshare
Sainsbury's
The Shell Company
The Cambridge Evening News
Granta Masonic Lodge Cambridgeshire
The Alper Charitable Trust based at Chilford Hall

Website by Mike Crofts

© Granta Grapevine 12 January 2010