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I am partially sighted and also have hearing problems. I got a Roberts Radio, CD and cassette player in November 2007 and I get a lot of pleasure from it.
I get Talking Books now and they are ideal. I can listen to a story and do a little plain knitting at the same time. I wouldn’t like to be without my player, it is so easy to manage. A treasured possession.
Alice, Northumberland

Betty Foster, Company Secretary and Office Manager Sunderland and North Durham Royal Society for the Blind
Betty Foster celebrated more than 14 years working for the Sunderland and North Durham Royal Society for the Blind (SNDRSB) in the same year that the Society celebrated its 130th Anniversary. Betty started working with SNDRSB as Company Secretary and Office Manager, a role she continues today and one of her first jobs was to organise and update the records for BWBF and to get acquainted with the Rules and Regulations.

SNDRSB are one of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund’s longest serving agents and as the Fund is 80 years old this year it’s possible that they were one of the first although, sadly, our records don’t go back far enough to confirm this.

Betty Foster

However, Betty has discussed this with long standing members and discovered that the Society has issued radios since the early days when radios had valves and the first one was a Decca.

Over the years SNDRSB have issued literally hundreds of radios on our behalf and Betty has been responsible for most of the distribution in recent years.

We at British Wireless for the Blind Fund are always delighted to focus on the work of local agencies like Sunderland and North Durham Royal Society for the Blind so we’d like to congratulate and thank them – and especially Betty for their many years of service on our behalf.