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Witney Talking News is staffed entirely by volunteers and relies on donations and grants to keep our service running. Last year we received funding from… Read More »2024 Funding

We’ve had an amazing start to 2023 due to the kindness of four grant-awarding community funds. Our first award came in early January from the… Read More »Grant Awards News

Invitation & Programme The 42nd Annual General Meeting will take place via Zoom and telephone on Monday 9th November 2020 at 7pm. The meeting is… Read More »AGM 2020

Page Updated 15th April 2021

Following recent changes to government advice we are now able to meet to recording at the High Street Methodist Church in Witney.  This means that we will be able to record in better quality than we have been using the telephone but more importantly it means that we will be able to return to sending out USB sticks.  Tonight (15th April 2021) we will meet at the Church to make necessary preparations and the first “normal” edition will be 1860 – 22nd April 2021.

Social distancing arrangements still in place mean that we will still be restricted to just two readers for the time being.

As with all organisations we will be keeping our activities under constant review as we monitor the risks to both listeners and volunteers, and we may need to amend our service again if the guidance changes.  If we do have to remove our USB service, you will still be able to listen by telephoning 01993 555 986.  Calls from our catchment area to that number are charged the same as a local call.  In case we need to revert to the telephone option at short notice we will be keeping it running for the foreseeable future.

At the 2019 Annual General Meeting of Witney Talking News on the 11th November, chairman Peter Brading presented Barbara Barringer with a certificate marking 40 years of service.

Recently we were privileged to be able to interview Gareth Davies and that interview appears on our 13th December edition.

Mr Davies, born in Wales but educated in Witney, is the only Welshman to be selected for the England squad for the Blind Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan in 2019.

We were sad to learn that Nigel Parker had died in October 2018. Nigel was one of our founder readers, and apart from a spell… Read More »Nigel Parker