The final edition of the monthly Soundings audio magazine was produced in March 2008. This web site, which used to carry the magazine, its component interviews and audio material to support those who provide information for visually-impaired people, ceased operating on 31st March. [more on closure of Soundings]

Soundings postal addresses and phone numbers, in both Birmingham and Brighton, are no longer functioning and the Soundings Forum on-line discussion group has been closed. However incoming e-mails to audio@soundings.org are being monitored for the time being.

Since the beginning of the year, an on-line service, called Infosound, has been offering free, accessible, impartial and relevant information for those in the UK who live with sight loss. Each 15-minute 'briefing' covers a variety of different topics, often with comment from providers of support, advice, help, goods and services.

It is intended for individual blind and partially-sighted people, their families, friends and carers to access and for talking newspaper and magazine groups, as well as radio stations and other information providers, to freely use in their own audio publications and programmes.

Infosound's audio material can be played and downloaded from the charity's web site at www.infosound.org.uk and everything they produce is also podcast.

If you are searching for relevant information about living with sight loss, the following links may prove helpful. This list is not exhaustive but it comprises organisations that, just like Soundings used to do, provide news and information for blind and partially-sighted people.

• Action for Blind People's Advice and Information Service. The freephone support service offering information, help and advice on all aspects of living with sight loss.
   

• BBC Radio 4 In Touch programme. The weekly, 20-minute roundup of news, views and information for people who are blind or partially-sighted.
   

• Infosound - free, accessible, impartial and relevant information, produced in audio, about living with sight loss for vision-impaired people in the UK.
   

• Insight Radio. Europe's first radio station dedicated to the blind and partially sighted community, run by RNIB.
   

• The National Association for Local Societies for Visually Impaired People. They can give you details of your nearest local society, which will offer practical support, advice and help.
   

• Playback Magazine. The free monthly audio magazine, of broad appeal, that approaches everything it features from a visual-impairment perspective.
   

• The Royal National Institute of Blind People's Helpline. The local call rate support service offering information, help and advice on all aspects of living with sight loss.
   

• Soundaround. The monthly 100-minute interactive audio magazine for blind and partially sighted people, offering features of interest and listeners' comments.