The Accessible Friends Network
1) In January 2008 TAFN's former Vice chairman Bob Whiteside, featured on Playback Magazine.
Listen to a recording of the Playback Magazine interview
Visit the Sue's Kitchen on Insight Radio, Audio Recipes page
Listen to a recording of the Robert Grimwood Valentines Day interview
Listen to a recording of Audrey's Insight Radio interview
5) In April 2008, TAFN member Michael Brown featured in the UK press in an article featuring the launch of a new website by and for the Blind and Visually Impaired Community of Kirklees in West Yorkshire.
Read the online news article "Bringing 'net to the blind"
Visit the Society for the Blind of Dewsbury, Batley and District's new website, at www.bvik.co.uk
6) On April 23rd, TAFN member and blind actor & musician Dave Kent, was featured in a whole page article in The Guardian national newspaper, entitled "Job Satisfaction".
Read the Dave Kent Guardian article here
Listen to the article in MP3 audio format here (2'12")
View Dave Kent's page on the Internet Movie Database
7) On 17th June 2008, Audrey Tonge was on Insight Radio talking to Jill Daley about the accessible friends network and online dating for blind & visually impaired people.
Listen to Audrey's June 17th Insight Radio Interview
8) On 26th June 2008, TAFN member & musician Robert Grimwood had a small review written by John Gibson published in the Edinburgh Evening News. Here is the text of the review:-
About time, too. They've called in a pianist to the Balmoral's Palm Court worthy of a five-star hotel. Lincolnshire-born Robert Grimwood during his 25 years on America's east coast worked in and around Washington, where Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, separately, have been among his audiences.
Jazz-influenced, his repertoire brings a quality and professionalism to the room that's been missing far too long. "This piano's excellent," he reckons. "A couple of hundred pounds spent on it and it would be positively brilliant." Robert's been blind virtually from birth. Listen!"
Visit the source page for this review
9) On July 7th 2008, TAFN member Trevor Franklin was featured on Media Access Australia Radio, talking about Audio Description.
Listen to Trevor's Audio Description Interview (7 minutes 35, M3U format)
Visit the Media Access Australia website, where you can download the MP3 file and find out more.
10) July 2008 - TAFN member Andrea from Belfast is a singer in The Open Arts Community Choir, who made it through to the sing-offs in the popular BBC series "Last Choir Standing".
Visit the Open Arts Community Choir page on the BBC Web site, which features video clips with sound.
11) September 2008. TAFN member Jim Welch, who is also the founder of Blind Life in Durham, was shortlisted in the "Individuals who have made a difference" category of the 2008 North-East Equality Awards.
Read a press article from the Northern Echo about the awards
Visit the Blind Life in Durham (BLinD) Website.
12) Robert and Mary Grimwood got married on 23rd September.
Congratulations! Click here to visit our dedicated congratulations page
Click here to read the article from The Sun, entitled "Will these stop YOU smoking?"
Trevor also did an audio
interview with RNIB on the same subject.
Click here to listen
to Trevors RNIB interview (M3U format, 5:56)
Click here to Visit the RNIB page where Trevors and other audio interviews are available, with transcripts in Word format.
14) On 16th November 2008 at The Accessible Friends Network's 5th AGM, Paul Weston was presented with the Member of The Year Award 2008, along with a Certificate of Appreciation for Voluntary Service.
Congratulations to Paul! Who as of this AGM has now joined our Executive Committee as Online Events Co-ordinator.
15) In November 2008 Jim Welch, a TAFN member who is totally blind and also a wheelchair user, was awarded the Community Spirit Award by County Durham and Darlington Fire & Rescue Service. Jim sent the following information via email, and there is also a link to an audio recording from the ceremony below:-
Hello Friends,
Over the last 2 years, I have been working with County Durham and Darlington Fire & Rescue Service. My role is to advise them on best practice on awareness issues when dealing with Blind & disabled people, regarding fire prevention and safety. I enjoy this type of work very much, and I am sure that my efforts have given disabled people in County Durham more confidence when communicating with the fire service.
Some months ago, I was nominated for the County Durham and Darlington Fire & Rescue Community Spirit Award. The ceremony was held last night Friday 21st Nov at a large hotel in the city of Durham, around 250 people attended the ceremony.
After a drinks reception we all sat down to a delicious three course meal, I am very proud and honoured to announce that I won the community spirit award.
Regards
Jim Welch
Blind Life in Durham
Listen to a recording from the award ceremony
Visit the Blind Life in Durham website
16) On 21st November, 2008 TAFN secretary Amanda Burt was featured in an article published in the Aberdeen Press and Journal about Grampian Society for the Blind, entitled "Scheme to improve lives of blind people is launched".
Our previous members in the news pages, have now been split up to a separate page for each year:-
2007 TAFN Members in The News
2006
TAFN Members in the News
2005 and earlier TAFN
Members in The News
There's so much happening within TAFN nowadays that's it's a constant challenge keeping our website up to date with it all!! VIP's from across the UK are networking online, sharing their talents and interests, and supporting eachother through accessible teamwork. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the site so far.
We welcome audio clips, technical tips, game reviews, creative writing, jokes, or even pictures. Anything you think that our website visitors may like! Thanks to all the real accessible friends out there, it's you doing your bit that's made our little part of the internet the great place that it is. & If you're new here why not give TAFN a try? We look forward to talking with you online!
TAFN - The Accessible Friends Network - is a U K-wide voluntary group set up to improve the quality of life by and for blind & visually impaired people and their partners, via internet voice conferencing. Welcome to our website!
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