Welcome to CamRead
CamRead provides audio publications for blind and partially sighted people in Cambridgeshire. Our services are provided by unpaid volunteers.
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"I used to read a book at bedtime, now I listen to a book"
"CamMag provides clear practical information, together with lively and interesting features such as those on Cambridgeshire in the past."
"Not being able to read properly I have been helped by hearing interesting items that I wouldn’t have otherwise heard about. The items especially for VIPs have at times been invaluable!"
"CamMag keeps me in touch with services, products, benefits, events, recipes and talks on the past."
"CamMag broadens my horizons."
"CamRead is helping me to cope."
"It is nice to feel that others appreciate one’s situation."
Our listeners welcome the news we provide about local activities for VIPs, and the practical information about keeping active. They confirm that our personal reading service and audio publications promote better connection with others.
Services are free of charge and delivered entirely by volunteers. Three part-time staff coordinate the work from a small office. To continue to provide our valued and unique service to VIPs in the region, CamRead applies for funding to Charitable Trusts. Fundraising activities, however, remain the major source of income and the Charity would not have survived without donations and the generosity and goodwill of Supporters.
Our Trustees are legally and personally responsible for the running of CamRead including its finances. Our Executive Committee manages and monitors the Charity's activities and is attended by Trustees, staff, representatives of the CamMag Team and of the bodies we work closely with, such as the Library.
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Our volunteers:
- produce CamMag, our audio magazine;
- record periodicals of local interest;
- record books for the County library's Postal Tape Service;
- help with clerical and administrative tasks.
Our listeners tell us:
"I used to read a book at bedtime, now I listen to a book"
"CamMag provides clear practical information, together with lively and interesting features such as those on Cambridgeshire in the past."
"Not being able to read properly I have been helped by hearing interesting items that I wouldn’t have otherwise heard about. The items especially for VIPs have at times been invaluable!"
"CamMag keeps me in touch with services, products, benefits, events, recipes and talks on the past."
"CamMag broadens my horizons."
"CamRead is helping me to cope."
"It is nice to feel that others appreciate one’s situation."
Meet our audience:
A valuable service
The loss of sight is a loss indeed. Those of us who are sighted can scarcely imagine parting with the opportunity to pick up a book or a magazine, to read our mail or sort out our bills, or maybe sit down to a crossword.Our listeners welcome the news we provide about local activities for VIPs, and the practical information about keeping active. They confirm that our personal reading service and audio publications promote better connection with others.
Services are free of charge and delivered entirely by volunteers. Three part-time staff coordinate the work from a small office. To continue to provide our valued and unique service to VIPs in the region, CamRead applies for funding to Charitable Trusts. Fundraising activities, however, remain the major source of income and the Charity would not have survived without donations and the generosity and goodwill of Supporters.
Our Trustees are legally and personally responsible for the running of CamRead including its finances. Our Executive Committee manages and monitors the Charity's activities and is attended by Trustees, staff, representatives of the CamMag Team and of the bodies we work closely with, such as the Library.
Vital Help: Maxine Turkington, front, with other members of the CamRead team, from left, Sally London, Paul Philpott and Clive Young. From the article 'Lifeline for the visually impaired' published in the Cambridge News.
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