ST HELENS-based national charity, The Disability Advice and Welfare Network, is appealing for help from the public to continue its work with the blind.
Every month the charity sends out more than 5,000 audio cassettes for blind people, including tapes devoted to information and technology, plus the week's 'best buys' at major stores. But there is a shortage of suitable players to play them on.
Roy Derbyshire, manager of the charity's Services for the Blind, explained: "We know there are people who would like to receive our tapes, but they don't have a cassette player to play them.
"We would dearly love to be able to lend people cassette players but our funds simply won't stretch to buying them. We are therefore appealing to anyone who has a cassette player which they don't use, to donate it to our charity."
Donations will be gratefully received at the Disability Advice and Welfare Network, 64 Bickerstaffe Street, St Helens. For more information call Roy on 01744 451215.
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