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4 Places Left in East Dunbartonshire Council Funded Youth Programme - 03 Jun 2002

Young people from Bishopbriggs High School have recently participated in a series of recording sessions run by Crowhill Road based charity, Cue and Review Recording Service.

As reported in The Bishopbriggs Herald some weeks ago, East Dunbartonshire Council has funded the group to the tune of £3000, enabling the pupils to transcribe print material aimed at young people onto audio formats. The funding also ensured that the charity was able to arrange publicity to attract young people to the project.

With only 4 places left on the programme Cue and Review's Managing Editor Alastair McPhee said, I am keen to ensure that as many young people as possible benefit in the same way I have from working in a recording studio. 20 years ago, when the teaching and janitorial staff at Bishopbriggs High School supported our efforts to record just one talking magazine, I never thought that my dream of being a journalist would be achieved through a talking newspaper service for the blind. Now, we combine distributing 71,000 tapes annually throughout the UK with watching young people move on from working with our charity to working for national broadcasters and music recording studios.

Alastair, along with other senior pupils of Bishopbriggs High School, founded the service in 1982 and speaks of the enormous sense of achievement they had when their team got their first 60 minute recording out to Glasgow's blind community. I hope that today's team will have that same exciting experience when their material is not only sent by post but is also uploaded to our brand new website, to be heard by listeners from around the world. Young people are making a difference in this community, and we, at Cue and Review Recording Service, are proud to broadcast their achievements.

Whilst composing our latest newsletter, Alastair has been working with the Officers of the 268th Boys Brigade Company (attached to Springfield Cambridge Church) to secure another 4 young men to our successful training programme. If we are to join our project over the next few months we will have achieved our target for the East Dunbartonshire Council funded project.