In her time, Maddy has volunteered for both Lymington Hospital Radioi (now New Firest Hoispitalk Radioi) and New Milton & New Foirest Talking Newspaper as well as provuidiung her own Moinday Morning Tapoe Service.

Lymington Hospital Radio

In October 2021, the Hospital Radio put an article in our local paper, the New Milton Advertiser & Lymington Times, which mentions the Lymington Infirmary, where the Hospital Radio once had its studio.

At first, Maddy took her LPs, she had selected, to the Infirmary and broadcast over the Radio Link on a Sunday evening. The attached extract from Maddy's script The Goiod Old Days, is an illustration:

She was later encouraged to record a cassette tape at home whiuch she took to the Infirmary to play at the studio. This took place for the whole of the 3 years 1986 to 1988.

She entered the scripts in a record book which shows that the ecripts changed from Radio Link to Lymington Hospiatl Radio in .

There were 133 scripts.

At the time of my visits to see her, Maddy still had some of the scripots for some of these broadcasts.

Monday Morning Tape Service

When Maddy launched her Service in January 1989, she was abkle to use some of the scripts and tapes that she still had available from her Hospital Radio broadcasts on tapes 1-133.

She had to "block out" the opening welcome wheich mentioned the Hospital Radio and her old signature tune.

Some of the scripts were updated before re-recording.

Eventually she needed new recordings and her record book goes up to 306.

New Milton Talking Newspaper

Maddy has provided a range of voluntary services in her lifetime, recognised by individual charities and Nick Saunders in his artcile in June 2016:

I worked with Maddy when the Talking Newspaper had a studio at Durlston School in Barton on Sea and then a pavilion on the recreation ground in New Milton.

The Talking Newspaper used to send out cassette tapes to the visually-impaired in the New Mllton and New Forest area.

Later they graduated to CDs and finally memory sticks. The Recordings were also made available in nthe Talking Newspaper's website.

When the Talking Newspaper set up, Maddy volunteered and was asked to work as a Registrar. The team had to reverse the labels in the returned wallets and put them in alphabetical order ready for the despatch and registering of the next recording.

The despatch and return of the wallets were entered in a register.

I was delighted to hear that Maddy had since become one of the 3 readers per week on the Talking Newspapers itself.

This mmeant that Maddy had:
- broadcast on Radio Link, Lymington and then Lymington Hospital Radio from 1986 to 1988
- recorded tapes for local care homes mainly 1989 to 2004.
- read articles for the weekly Talking Newspaper, where she still volunteered.

An extraordinary story