Help Us

Sandbach & District Talking Newspaper is a charity that depends entirely on donations, sponsorship and fundraising, as well as the time and other generosities of its team members. We have no official funding from any public body or charitable trust. Therefore in addition to volunteer help, we need YOUR financial assistance too. There a number of ways to do this:

Fundraising at NO COST TO YOU!

Do you shop online? If you do, you could help us raise desparately needed funds AT NO COST WHATSOEVER TO YOURSELF. Here's how it works.

When you decide you want to buy something online, instead of going direct to the website of the retailer you want to buy from, go instead to the website of Easyfundraising. There you will find a list of about 500 retailers (including all the big ones like Amazon, M&S, Debenhams, Next, Tesco, Comet, John Lewis, Asda etc) who promise give a donation to the charity of your choice every time you buy something from them via the Easyfundraising website.

All you need to do first on the Easyfundraising website is to register ("Register As A User"), next choose from a list "Sandbach & District Talking Newspaper" as the charity you wish the retailer to send their donation to ("Register A Cause") and finally, when you want to start shopping, select from the "A-Z of Retailers" list the retailer you are interested in. You will then be re-directed to the website of your chosen retailer where you can make your purchase safely in the normal way at the normal price. The retailer will later send us a cheque with the donation that has resulted from your confirmed and paid purchase. You pay no extra.

On top of all this there are special offers from some retailers which are only available to those that are registered with Easyfundraising.

So just go the Easyfundraising website and start buying. It costs you absolutely nothing but we receive some funding that we need so badly to support our charitable activities. This couldn't be simpler for you yet would mean so much to us:

www.easyfundraising.org.uk/talkingnewspaper

Or here's an even easier way to help us. Instead of using your normal search engine (e.g. Google) to find things on the web, just click on http://talkingnewspaper.easysearch.org.uk/ and use the Yahoo sponsored Easysearch search engine. For every search you make we receive a penny!

Other fundraising ideas

If you would like to arrange a fundraising event or even just a garage sale on our behalf, please contact Pam Johnson on 01606 833408 to confirm that we are able to accepts funds from the kind of event you have in mind.

For larger events we would consider providing several team members to attend and in certain cases would perhaps record the event for distribution to our listeners.

Volunteers

Our charity depends on volunteers. At the moment we have sufficient Relief Readers but we would like to hear from anyone who would be interested in training as a Relief Technician or anyone who would be prepared to assist with tape copying.

Please contact Pam Johnson on 01606 833408, email us at info@talkingnews.org.uk or use our response form if you would like to discuss volunteering.

Donations

If you would simply like to make a financial donation to us, however small, please contact Pam Johnson on 01606 833408 who will be glad to assist. Alternatively please email us at info@talkingnews.org.uk

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Sponsorship

We are very open to receiving direct financial sponsorship from organisations or private individuals. We would prefer these to be lump sums but other methods can be arranged. In return for your sponsorship we will provide you with the option to have:

Your name mentioned as a sponsor in at least 4 issues of “NEWSWEEK”
Your corporate logo displayed prominently on our website and exhibition stand
Your corporate information or promotional literature displayed at any events we participate in
Your chance to visit a recording session two times per year at which you may bring two guests, be introduced on the recording and read a news story if you wish.
Your name will be mentioned as a sponsor in our press releases and newsletters
You will be entitled to 2 free tickets to our annual dinner

If you are a local company, we feel sure you will benefit from the good publicity you would receive in the local community from being associated with our charity.

If you would like to discuss this more, please contact Pam Johnson on 01606 833408 or email us at info@talkingnews.org.uk

Friends of Sandbach & District Talking Newspaper

If you would like to become an official Friend of our charity, you may do so by making an annual donation to us of £10.

You will be entitled to:

Receive copies of our weekly recordings of "NEWSWEEK"
Attend a recording session once a year, be introduced on the recording and read a news story if you wish
Attend our Annual Dinner & Awards Evening (tickets not provided)
Attend a special Friends evening at which you will able to give your views about our service
A souvenir Sandbach & District Talking Newspaper quality pen on joining.

To become a Friend, please either call Pam Johnson on 01606 833408 or fill in our response form on the Tell Us! page. All money raised by our Friends contributions is used towards the running costs of our purely voluntary Charity.

Join Us! Know Us! Hear Us! Use Us! See Us! Tell Us! Follow Us!

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