DAWN is a registered charity in the UK which provides weekly audio recordings of the Didcot, Abingdon and Wantage newspapers for the blind and partially sighted.
DAWN is one of over 520 talking newspaper groups around the country, which are affiliated to, but autonomous from, the Talking Newspaper Federation (TNF). The TNF provide advice and information. DAWN contributes a membership fee of (currently) £45 per annum. DAWN pays for insurance cover, including trustee liability insurance, through the TNF. In other respects DAWN is completely independent. The TNF is now separate from the Talking Newspaper Association of the UK (TNAUK), which provides national newspapers and magazines on audio tape, computer disk and e-mail for visually impaired people.
DAWN is run by a committee of up to twelve elected people, drawn from our volunteers and recipients. A further three people may be co-opted. As required by our constitution, three of the committee members are visually impaired. The officers of the committee are the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. All committee members are automatically trustees of the charity. All are unpaid.