Your Weekly Talking News Service for Ely and District

 
The Reading for the Ely Standard of
18th April 2024
is now in the Podcasts Section

 
 
 

Welcome to Fenprobe

The Fenprobe Talking News service brings local news to blind and partially-sighted people across East Cambridgeshire, UK.

Each week a team of volunteers gets together to record the latest stories from the Ely Standard.  A Post Office concession ensures that the USB sticks with the news can be sent and returned throught the Post for free.  The service is entirely free of charge and all registered listeners receive a free USB player, shown here, (which can also be used for RNIB talking books).


We have over forty volunteers who regularly dedicate their time and the news recording is produced fifty-one weeks out of fifty-two, with a break at Christmas. 

                                                                                             
We are a registered charity (CFB 279355R) and a member of the Talking Newspaper Association of the United Kingdom . The service benefits from the Post Office concession of free postage for blind people and other costs are met through grants and donations.

Please take a look round the site to find out more about Fenprobe and how you can use our service.

We provide our local news service in East Cambridgeshire and the neighbouring regions including Newmarket, Peterborough, H
Huntingdon, Soham, Stretham and, of course Ely, where we are based.

Opening our new Fenprobe Studio

Latest News


Fenprobe Talking News AGM - Wednesday 17th April 2024

A small, but select, group attended the AGM. The commitee members were re-elected with the welcome addition of reader Chris Evans to the team. There are still two vacant seats on the committee if anyone is interested in joining us, and a new secretary needs to be recruited. The chairman was able to report that Fenprobe's finances are in a healthy state, and that the numbers of both readers and listeners had increased over the year.