Hachette UK donates audiobooks to substantially increase RNIB’s library collection

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has received hundreds of new audio books that will be available to lend to people with sight loss. Hachette UK is donating the audio books to RNIB and will make a selection available to RNIB’s Reading Services customers each month. This will substantially increase the Library Collection. The books, which are donated from the entire Hachette Audio catalogue, include customer favourite authors Michael Connelly, Andy McDermott, Maggie O’Farrell and Elly Griffiths. James Bartlett, RNIB’s Senior Reading Services Manager, said: “RNIB Library is…

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Hachette UK’s Accessibility network signs partnership with Mencap

Hachette UK’s Accessibility Network, which supports those with disabilities & neurodiversities to create, to read, to access and to work, has announced a partnership with Mencap, the UK’s leading learning disability charity, to deliver talks, fundraiser activities and awareness-raising events starting from May 2021. The partnership aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of learning disability, by generating as much visibility of people with a learning disability as possible to reduce the everyday stigma and misunderstanding this group face. People with a learning disability face huge inequality every day of…

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