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RNIB Connect Magazine – Issue 7 / September 2016 Confidence in the kitchen Tech tips for all budgets Bringing together everyone affected by sight loss Issue 8 / October 2016 Tune in on your radio, TV, computer, smartphone or tablet. Available on Freeview 730 or online at rnibconnectradio.org.uk News. Discussion. Entertainment. Community. 2 Welcome Contents 4 The Big Connection update 5 Writing competition launch 6 Your Voice 8 News 10 Tech tips for all budgets 12 Confidence in the kitchen 13 Recipe for Weetabix Fruit Cake 14 Update on How I See Welcome to the October 15 Information directory audio edition of Connect, your community magazine. I’m Contact the RNIB Connect team Hussein Patwa, from Aberdeen, and I’m registered blind. Call 0303 1234 555, email [email protected] or This edition includes a feature visit rnib.org.uk/connect from me which should hopefully make your life a little easier. Hussein Patwa RNIB Connect community and communications panel member © RNIB October 2016 Registered charity numbers 226227 and SC039316 3 Your community The Big Connection The Big Connection update Thank you to everyone who together to achieve more in the joined in the conversation community. And we got practical, around our recent Big with a series of workshops – with Connection conference. tips on how to influence and achieve local change, engage The two-day event in with young people, and ultimately Birmingham brought together ensure our voices are heard. RNIB Connect members from across the UK’s blind and partially sighted community. It was a great opportunity to Tune into RNIB Connect share ideas and concentrate on Radio to hear clips from the next steps to continue to the event. Listen on build RNIB Connect for the future. Freeview Channel 730 The big issue conversations and online at from your September magazine rnibconnectradio.co.uk were carried through to the Continue to share your ideas conference. We explored the big and reflections on social picture and how we can work media using #rnibconnect 4 Writing competition Enter this year’s writing competition This year’s writing We invite entries of up to competition is now open. 1,000 words of prose or 30 lines or poetry, and the closing As we are celebrating the date is 31 January 2017. competition’s tenth year, a panel of RNIB Connect community members decided on the How to enter theme of ‘anniversary’. You can send entries in any format by email or by We encourage you to interpret post. this in any way you choose. No matter what your experience Email: [email protected] or expertise, if you think Post: RNIB Writing Competition, you’d like to give writing a Talk and Support, 105 Judd try, why not give it a go? Street, London WC1H 9NE. About the competition Our annual creative writing There will be plenty more in competition is open to anyone with Connect magazine and on sight loss, not just RNIB members. RNIB Connect Radio to get your creative juices flowing. There are two categories – prose and poetry – and each will have We’ll have exciting news of a winner and two runners up. another prestigious author to be added to our judging panel, Everyone who enters will receive exclusive interviews, the chance an audio recording of their to join a telephone writing entry. Winners will have their workshop and much more. entries professionally recorded by Talking Books narrators. It’s also an opportunity to have To find out more call the your writing read by our panel Helpline on of judges. Joanne Harris, author 0303 123 9999 or visit of Chocolat is heading up the rnib.org.uk/writingcomp panel for the prose section. 5 Writing competition Join the club Did you know that RNIB folk who have got the same runs telephone book enjoyment in such a pastime. groups throughout the UK? If you want to join a group, it’s simple. Just get in touch with the Two community members told Talk and Support team. They will us how the groups work and phone you once a month – very why they love being involved. easy – everybody’s relaxed.” Olive Bligdon lives near Cliff Corbett lives in Essex, Aberdeen, is registered blind has AMD and joined RNIB with retinitis pigmentosa and seven years ago. facilitates a book group. “I’m in a group with six other “We discuss our favourite authors, people. I thoroughly enjoy it and I books and what we love about think they do too. We do discuss reading. There are six sessions books, but we also get to know for each book group, with what books people like, and from around eight people in each. The that you can perhaps judge a little members choose two books to of the person you’re speaking to. talk about, from a choice of six. It was particularly difficult for I like being a facilitator as I get to me initially, because I knew meet people and find out what of no authors – reading was a they enjoy about different types of completely new venture for me. books. You hear opinions from a But eventually I came to read range of people, and it makes you Wilbur Smith and PD James. think, ‘maybe I’ll check that book I’m reading what you might out.’ That’s what it’s all about. consider ‘men’s books’, but I’m If you’re like myself, who loves still exploring and have recently books and wants to discuss read a few of what I would call them, but has got nobody else books on the feminine side. in the family who enjoys books If you’re wondering what this like I do, then it’s a great way book club is all about, I’d say, of being able to speak to other join and find out for yourself!” 6 Writing competition Thanks to both Olive If hearing from them has and Cliff for taking part inspired you to join a in Your Voice this telephone book group, it’s month. They’ll each quick, easy and free of receive a Sonic music player charge for RNIB Connect members. for their contributions. Just call the Talk and Support team on 020 7391 2218 or email [email protected] If you’d like to take part in Your Voice, do get in touch. Call 0303 1234 555 or email [email protected] 7 News Audible partnership announced RNIB has teamed up with Audible to offer Talking Books service users access to thousands of new titles. Talking Books users already Campaign enjoy one of the world’s most extensive audio books against delayed collections, and this move will see the library grow by over 4,000. appointments Audible are one of the Next month RNIB is holding world’s biggest sellers of an event at Parliament to alert audio entertainment. This MPs to a problem which could agreement will mean Talking be costing people their sight. Books customers can access all existing Audible titles. In Hospital eye services are under addition, they can also read any huge pressure, and as a result, future titles they produce in both follow-up appointments are being the US and UK markets that delayed or cancelled more often. they hold the audio rights to. Daryl Chapman, Talking Books We need you to invite Manager, said: “We are excited your MP to the event on to share these new books Tuesday 22 November so with our members in DAISY they can find out how to and USB formats. We are support the campaign. incredibly grateful to Audible for partnering with us in this way.” Find all the details you need by calling our campaign hotline on 020 7391 2123 or at rnib.org.uk/inviteyourmp 8 News See Through Sound Mercury Prize-winning musicians are set to perform at a special gig for RNIB later this month. Badly Drawn Boy and Newton Faulkner (pictured) are just two of a plethora of artists playing at the See Through Sound event in London. It’s at Cadogan Hall on Friday, 14 October. Tickets cost £25 each plus booking fees. Visit ticketmaster.co.uk/ seethroughsound or call 0844 844 0444. For accessible tickets, contact the box office on 020 7730 4500. For the latest on the event, visit rnib.org.uk/see-through-sound 9 Technology Community member Hussein Tech tips for Patwa from Aberdeen has been finding ways to make all budgets life a little more accessible to suit a range of budgets. “In these times of austerity, social welfare cuts and uncertainty over benefits, many blind and partially If you’re blind or partially sighted people are concerned sighted, you’ll be well over access to technology and aware of the rising costs aids. I spoke to two contrasting people, who told us what of gadgets and aids. There they use to help and how.” are so many high tech devices out there that Ally is 63 and has been promise to make your life registered blind since 1978. easier, but they can leave He shared some simple, low your purse a lot lighter. cost tips for everyday life. “One handy technique I use is to always take the toothpaste out of the tube directly into the mouth. This saves dropping it on the floor, using too much or covering everything in toothpaste! Elastic bands are so helpful. You can use them on food tins to help you keep track of what you’ve got. Devise a simple system; perhaps one band for beans, two bands for soup and so on – then keep the tins separate in the cupboard.
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