Volunteering
Borders Talking Newspaper employs a part time manager (who is also a volunteer) but everyone else involved is a volunteer. We have about 80 volunteers but are always looking for new people to take on the various tasks. Every so often we distribute a volunteer newsletter.
The routine tasks are:
Dealing with returns
We need at least one person each Friday
morning
to empty returned wallets and
clear the sticks. |
Editing
Every Thursday, teams of one or two people go
through the Southern Reporter and Berwickshire
News to select suitable articles. These are then
edited down to a good length for reading. |
Readers
A team of three readers meets on a Friday
afternoon to read the articles.
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Recorders
One person records the newspaper, again on a
Friday afternoon. This person also edits
the
recording, splits it into tracks and produces
the masters. This task calls for a limited
knowledge of computers and is really no harder
than basic word processing. |
Copying and dispatch
This is usually done on a Saturday morning.
Sticks are copied then put into the
wallets
and taken to the Royal Mail Sorting Office.
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As well as carrying out one or more of these roles, there are many other ways you could get involved such as fund raising and social events. We are a very friendly group of people and, most of all, being part of BTN is FUN!!!
If you would like to learn more about volunteering for Borders Talking Newspaper, please contact our manager, Wendy Moss, on 01361 884206 or by email office@btn.org.uk
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