Welcome to the Granta Grapevine Website
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 July 2010 was number 245.
If you are registered blind, partially sighted, have difficulty reading the Linton News for whatever reason, 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 below for the magazine side of the Granta Grapevine for July 2010 split into tracks
Links to organisations supporting Visually Impaired People - VIP's
The name Granta Grapevine was coined from the river Granta which flows through the village, the Grapevine being the informal transmission of information and the local Chilford Hall Vineyard
Organisations who have provided financial support include (in no particular order):-
The Charles and Mary Anderson
Benefaction
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Trustline
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 23 July 2010