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BWBF has received two grants from different organisations which will benefit visually impaired people in Scotland. The Crerar Trust has donated £3,150 to BWBF Waitrose partner Slava Yakupov presents a cheque Visually impaired people in Scotland will benefit from two grants which British Wireless has just received. The Crerar Trust has donated £3,150 for replacement…

Our radios mean so many different things to people, but one of our recipients credits his British Wireless set with saving his life. During the days which followed him losing his sight, Paul King relied on his BWBF set to get him through the darkness. In fact he says it helped him so much, he…

A Second World War veteran has been presented with a BWBF radio so she can enjoy memories of her time as a Spitfire pilot. Joy Lofthouse is one of the few remaining Air Transport Auxiliary pilots who flew Spitfires in the Second World War. The 93-year-old veteran recently worked with Forces Radio BFBS on a…

A donation from a trust will support elderly visually impaired people in Essex. People living with sight loss in Essex will benefit from free radios thanks to a grant. BWBF has been awarded £1,500 by the Fowler Smith & Jones Trust. The money will be used to provide six blind or partially sighted elderly residents…

Generous Medway motorists have helped raise funds to support visually impaired people in the area. British Wireless will be able to support more people with sight loss in Medway thanks to a generous grant. The Moto service station on the M2, between junction four and five, has given the charity a £2,000 grant from its…

BWBF attended a conference at the weekend to learn more about community radio stations and how we could work with them. A conference held by the Community Media Association has given BWBF an insight into the world of community radio. Agent Liaison Manager Dave Beard went along to the organisation’s annual Community Media Conference on…

A listener has sent their old radio back to BWBF – which they’ve had since the mid-1980s – and it still works! The British Wireless team was surprised to receive a Roberts RP20 in the post yesterday. (Tuesday, August 30th). It’s one of our older models which was first issued in the mid-1980s and discontinued…

British Wireless’s technical team is working on a redesign of the charity’s Talking Newspaper service. With the annual Talking Newspaper Federation conference just six weeks away – BWBF’s technical team is working hard to redesign the service it offers. This is to make it easier both for the listeners who use it and Talking Newspaper…

Users of the British Wireless Sonata internet radio will now be able to enjoy a streamed version of David Suchet’s Audio Bible. Sonata Plus+ users can now enjoy all 83 hours of David Suchet’s Audio Bible. BWBF’s technical team has been working hard to upload the six CDs so listeners have access to all 1,189…

A well-known blind artist has spoken about how her BWBF radio keeps her company while she’s painting. Despite having no sight at all in one of her eyes and no peripheral vision in the other, Dawn Parkinson creates beautiful pieces of artwork. She taught herself to paint and uses a magnifier which enables her to…