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We celebrated our 50th Anniversary in style on 16th May. Thank you to everyone who helped to make the event so special. Congratulations to all those who received special awards for Long Service. It was amazing to meet so many ETN pioneers from the early days and wonderful that so many listeners could attend. If you missed the event and want to find out what went on, see the photographs from the evening here http://www.flickr.com/photos/ enfieldtalking newspaper/ and view a video of the speeches, filmed by Group B’s Malcolm Sleath, on our You Tube site : http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=EJAzoDptaeM Browse through our pictorial past by visiting: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ enfieldtalkingnewspaper/ If you can identify anyone in the photos who isn’t already named (or if you spot any cases of mistaken identity) please let us know! If you have any other photographs or memorabilia that we could feature on the site, do get in touch. ETN Photo Archive now online! Information for Volunteers and Supporters September 2011 [email protected] NEWSLETTER |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 50th Anniversary Party  After an excellent response to our appeal in the Enfield Independent for ‘Techie’ volunteers, Senior Recording Engineer and Recording Taster Sessions attract new ‘techies’ ETN Treasurer Robin Bester ran two induction sessions in September. We were delighted that a number of keen new recruits attended. Our trainee recordists will begin shadowing teams from 15th September. Welcome to all of them!  Are your details up to date? Please send us your email address for the 2012 Rota! We aim to get the news to our listeners as fast as possible and sometimes our Team Leaders need to contact volunteers at short notice. We are about to prepare our Directory and Rota for 2012. Please use the enclosed form to tell us about any changes to your contact details. Better still, email them to us before Monday October 24th: [email protected] Registered under the Charities Act 1960 Number 270935 and the National Assistance Act 1948 [email protected] There has been so much news at ETN during the summer that we have decided to produce a special newsletter! We celebrated our 50th  Anniversary in style in May. At our AGM in June our long standing Chairman, Audrey Jenkins and our Vice Chairman, Alan Mooge (  pictured centre  and right with Tony Vale of the Talking Newspaper Federation) both stepped down after many years of service. It is no surprise that ETN won ‘Enfield’s Finest’ award for best team-working charity under their stewardship. A new team of officers was elected at the committee meeting in August and we are pleased that  Audrey has agreed to stay on the committee! New contact details are on the next page.
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We celebrated our 50th Anniversary in style on16th May. Thank you to everyone who helpedto make the event so special. Congratulationsto all those who received special awards forLong Service. It was amazing to meet somany ETN pioneers from the early days andwonderful that so many listeners could attend.If you missed the event and want to find outwhat went on, see the photographs from theevening here http://www.flickr.com/photos/enfieldtalkingnewspaper/ and view a video ofthe speeches, filmed by Group B’s MalcolmSleath, on our You Tube site : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJAzoDptaeM

Browse through our pictorial past byvisiting: http://www.flickr.com/photos/

enfieldtalkingnewspaper/ If you can identifyanyone in the photos who isn’t already named(or if you spot any cases of mistaken identity)please let us know! If you have any otherphotographs or memorabilia that we couldfeature on the site, do get in touch.

ETN Photo Archive now online!

Information for Volunteers and Supporters

September 2011 [email protected]

NEWSLETTER||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

50th Anniversary Party

 After an excellentresponse to ourappeal in the EnfieldIndependent for ‘Techie’volunteers, SeniorRecording Engineer and

Recording Taster Sessionsattract new ‘techies’

ETN Treasurer Robin Bester ran two inductionsessions in September. We were delighted thata number of keen new recruits attended. Ourtrainee recordists will begin shadowing teamsfrom 15th September. Welcome to all of them!

 Are your details up to date?Please send us your email

address for the 2012 Rota!We aim to get the news to our listeners as fastas possible and sometimes our Team Leadersneed to contact volunteers at short notice. Weare about to prepare our Directory and Rotafor 2012. Please use the enclosed form to tellus about any changes to your contact details.Better still, email them to us before MondayOctober 24th: [email protected]

Registered under the Charities Act 1960 Number 270935 and the National Assistance Act 1948 [email protected]

There has been so much news at ETN duringthe summer that we have decided to produce

a special newsletter! We celebrated our 50th Anniversary in style in May. At our AGM in Juneour long standing Chairman, Audrey Jenkins andour Vice Chairman, Alan Mooge ( pictured centre

 and right with Tony Vale of the Talking Newspaper 

Federation) both stepped down after many yearsof service. It is no surprise that ETN won ‘Enfield’sFinest’ award for best team-working charityunder their stewardship. A new team of officers

was elected at the

committee meetingin August and weare pleased that Audrey has agreedto stay on thecommittee! New

contact details are

on the next page.

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Some more ways you can help us !

The “Community Matters” scheme run byWaitrose donates money to three good causesa month. £1000 a month is donated frommajor branches (like Enfield Town) and £500 amonth from convenience stores (like WindmillHill and Palmers Green). If you live near abranch of Waitrose, please pick up a formto nominate Enfield Talking Newspaper as abeneficiary. The forms are available from eachstore. The more nominations we receive, themore likely we are to be selected!

Please nominate ETN asWaitrose Charity of the Month

Recently we wrote to every school, cluband faith organisation in Enfield providinginformation about ETN and asking them toconsider making us their chosen charity forfuture fundraising events. We’ve alreadyreceived generous donations from a numberof individuals and a sum from St Monica’s RCChurch, to whom we are most grateful. If youare involved in any organisation that mightbe willing to make ETN their chosen charity,

please let us know (contact details below).We have a stock of posters and leaflets thatwe can send you to spread the word!

 Are you involved in asports club, school or faithorganisation in Enfield?

Word of Mouth on BBC Radio 4 recentlyfeatured the history of the Talking Newspapermovement. The programme is still availableon the BBC I-Player : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01322dh#synopsis

BBC Radio 4 covers the historyof Talking Newspapers

The management committee was electedat the AGM in June and officers appointedat the August management meeting. ThePresident and Vice Presidents are ex-officio

members of the committee until retirement:

President Patricia AllbuttVice Presidents Peter Sykes

Les Tew, June TewGladys Dredge

Chairman Phillip DawsonVice Chairman Diane de JerseyTreasurer Robin BesterSecretary Frances Sidey

Listener Representatives Diane de JerseyJean SawreyCommittee Members Audrey Jenkins

Muriel ArthurPat HarrisPhilip Taylor

New Committee Details

 A big THANK YOU to all our volunteers, supporters andlisteners who have been suchan important part of our firstfifty years!

Our email address is [email protected]

Chairman: Phillip Dawson, 1 White HouseFarm Cottages, Waterfall Close, Southgate,N14 7JP Telephone: 07843 445 963Email: [email protected]

 Vice Chairman & Listener Representative:

Diane de Jersey Telephone: 020 8805 6578Email : [email protected]

New contact details


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