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In Touch: Redundancies at Guide Dogs; Voting Equipment

Redundancies at Guide Dogs; Voting Equipment

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, Redundancies at Guide Dogs; Voting Equipment

Guide Dogs is making some big organisational changes. Their CEO explains what's happening.

The charity Guide Dogs is in the process of making some big organisational changes, which will mean some redundancies for staff. Their CEO Andrew Lennox explains what's happening.

As the charity Guide Dogs looked into its own future, they have predicted some financial hardship due to rising costs. Similarly to many organisations within the charity sector, they are having to come up with ways of cutting costs in order to maintain current levels of service provision. Their staff have been told that redundancies are a possibility for many. Guide Dogs' CEO Andrew Lennox tells In Touch what is happening and why, in his view, such cuts are necessary.

With elections just around the corner, In Touch explores a new audio voting system: the McGonagle Reader. It will be available at a few local council areas for the 2024 local and general elections.

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Beth Hemmings	 
Production Coordinator: Pete Liggins
Website image description: Peter White sits smiling in the centre of the image and he is wearing a dark green jumper. Above Peter's head is the BBC logo (three separate white squares house each of the three letters). Bottom centre and overlaying the image are the words "In Touch" and the Radio 4 logo (the word Radio in a bold white font, with the number 4 inside a white circle). The background is a bright mid-blue with two rectangles angled diagonally to the right. Both are behind Peter, one is a darker blue and the other is a lighter blue.

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