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To all our website guests, we're glad you've stopped by this website, & we hope that you enjoy your visit here. TAFN - The Accessible Friends Network - is a small but growing independent national charity with over 90% blind members that aims to make the internet a friendlier & more enabling place for all blind & visually impaired people. And we have great fun doing it! Here are details of just some of the latest things happening:-
1) Accessible Golf is really catching on at TAFN!
5. Recent TAFN Publicity: from BBC Radio Humberside, BBC In Touch, & Soundings Magazine.
7. Sad News: Geoff Grant our former Treasurer, has passed away (May 2007).
8. We Cordially invite you (internationals included ) to join the TAFN Mailing List.
9. Wanted!! Website feedback & contributions.
10. New TAFN Secretary inaugurated at our 4th AGM, November 2007.
From March 2007 this website and our new VIP Communicator voice program are hosted on a new fast dedicated server based in Europe. In the long term we can promise all our visitors - and especially our members - that there will be a number of excellent new features for all to enjoy.
You will have to be a member of our Communicator server, but that's free and easy to set up. The main things you need are a PC with a broadband connection and microphone. For more information please send an email to the address below and we'll get back to you and let you know what you need to do.
Come join people from all over the world for fun and games on a Friday night. What better way to start the weekend? We hope to see you soon!!!
Click here to go to the quiz page or Click here to Email the Quiz organisers Chris & Teresa.
Various members of the accessible friends network, have made it into the news for different reasons, in the past. As the number of incidences of this has grown, we've now made a special page on which we feature them all.
Visit the all-new TAFN "Members in the News" page
Leon Gilbert and The Accessible Friends Network, won the IT4 Communities "Best Accessible IT Project" 2007 award in late November. Congratulations!
Find out more about the I T4C award
Jim Welch had an excellent article
published in the Northern Echo in July 2006. Click here to
Watch
the online video, called
"Blind, but with the world at his fingertips".
BBC Radio Humberside interviewed the late Chris Cant about TAFN on 8th April 2005. Sue Palletts v i cookery guide "Sues Kitchen" (a part of the TAFN website) was featured on BBC In Touch on 19th April 2005. And Steve Pallett did a phone interview with Soundings Magazine, in August 2005.
"TAFN on Soundings Magazine" interview (6:56)
BBC Radio Humberside interview, with the late Chris Cant (10:49)
BBC In Touch programme, which featured Sue's Kitchen (18:48)
As from 1st January 2006 TAFN has got a new web shop, where people can shop online from a choice of over 90 major retailers, and through various offers & promotions earn money for The Accessible Friends Network at the same time! Please tell your friends about it! The address is www.buy.at/tafn
(TAFN is a UK Registered Charity, No 1108043. Over 90% of our members are British registered blind people, and 100% of donations go to our group which is run entirely by volunteers).
Click here to visit the brand new TAFN web shop!
It is with deepest regret that we announce that Geoff Grant, who was a pioneering volunteer and the former Treasurer of TAFN, sadly left this world on May 6th 2007.
Click here to visit our Geoff Grant memorial page, with condolences book
Click here to visit the all new TAFN memorial page, where we honour all of the members who are no longer with us.
This is a cordial invitation to guests and new members to join one of the TAFN mailing lists, which also extends to everyone who already uses our Voice conferencing server. We invite you all to subscribe to the list of your choice, whether the main TAFN list which is a low volume list through which we keep in touch with each other, or the TAFN Announce List, which simply keeps you up to date once per day with the latest on what is going on at TAFN.
Follow this link to go to our mailing list information page, where you can find out about all of our mailing lists and subscribe from the web if you so wish. Anyone having problems with their subscriptions please send an e-mail to Amanda who will add you manually.
Lastly if you are not already a TAFN Communicator Voice Chat server user but would like to be, instructions & details are available on our Voice Conferencing page. To request a user ID and password, please use the link on this page to fill out an application form, a FREE 3 month trial is currently available to all blind or visually impaired people over the age of 18.
Thank you and look forward to meeting you.
Audrey Tonge
TAFN Chairperson.
On our Voice Conferencing server there's a dedicated room where we hold TAFN members meetings on the first Sunday of each month at 3.00pm. Meetings are minuted and members and friends get to catch up with what TAFN has been up to, as well as have a say in it's future! All members are welcome, however the members room is password protected & guests will need to contact us for the password if you wish to attend. For further details please contact us/
Find out more about membership of the Accessible Friends Network
(A word from the TAFN Webmaster) There's so much happening within TAFN nowadays that's it's a constant challenge keeping the website up to date with it all. We're always adding new stuff, so please do come back and do remember to hit refresh! Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the site so far. Friends this is our space, and you're welcome to have anything you want put on here, just email it over anytime. We especially welcome audio clips, technical tips, game reviews, written pieces, jokes, or even pictures. Anything you think that other v i p's & website visitors may like! Thanks again to all the contributors so far, it's you doing your bit that's made this little website of ours the great place that it is. Click here to email Leon,
Following our fourth Annual General Meeting in Hertfordshire in November 2007 there was one major change to the TAFN Executive Committee. Christine Brown was inaugurates as Secretary was welcomed heartily.
Here's a picture of the current executive committee. Unfortunately as of June 2008 Christine has resigned and we currently have an open vacancy for this role. We would still like to thank Christine for all her hard work.
Christine was presented with a TAFN Certificate of Appreciation for Voluntary Service, in recognition of her previous work for TAFN. Congratulations Christine!
Our special thanks to Steve Pallett (co-Founder), the late Geoff Grant, amd the late Chris Cant (co-founder) who have now retired from the committee, for their hard work and dedication.
Our Annual Report, is available on request.
Tribute page to the late Chris Cant from Yorkshire (1955 - 2005), our first Chairman
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