Fundraising
Hopefully you will already be aware from our web site that Radio Teesdale has been awarded £12,692 from Ofcom from the latest Community Radio Fund. Since Radio Teesdale began broadcasting on a full time license in March 2007 this is the third award received from Ofcom and a very positive statement from them as to how they view how we have operated in the last 3 years. The funds are to support the fundraising activity of the station in order to help secure its longer term future. This is fantastic news, but of course there is still a lot of fundraising work to do to keep us operational.
In the last six month we have secured a number of important Service Level Contracts. These are project, often referred to as SLAs (Service Level Agreements) that allow community radio stations to engage with relevant organisations for the delivery of output of social benefit, in return for funding. These are of a high priority in terms of the station activity and programming. To remind you, we need volunteers to get involved in the following projects:
Working with young people and documenting the TCR Hub construction/opening.
Producing programmes with the young people at Deerbolt
Producing material and presenting a series of 12 x 2hr programmes about older people
3 further programmes about the Barnard Castle Vision Projects. These follow one that is almost ready for broadcast on the Witham Hall developments.
Finalising a programme about community projects receiving Leader Funding.
Members Meeting to progress the TCR Hub Programmes & Related Activities
In order to progress the activities required to complete the documenting of the new TCR Hub project (mentioned above) we will we holding a working meeting for any members who are interesting in getting involved. There will be lots of opportunities to extend your skills as training will be given in interviewing, editing and putting together documentary style programmes. The project also involves working with young people. It also gives the opportunity for leading manageable media initiatives.
The meeting will be held on Wednesday the 10th March from 6.00pm to 7.30pm. Any member (or member wishing to join) is welcome to come along and get involved. If you intend coming it would be helpful if you could let Peter Dixon know so we can make sure we have the right level of resources available.
School Visits to our studios
We have school visits to the studio for Tuesday 23rd February, Wednesday 24th and Wednesday 3rd March. In this time we will have well over 100 young people through our doors. If you would like to help the young people get the most from their day and are free during the day then please let Peter Dixon know.
Outside Broadcasts
We have outside broadcasts planned for Thursday 4th March and Thursday 11th March as well as Barnard Castle Whit Saturday Morning 29th May. Again, if you would like to get involved then let Peter Dixon know.
We have already committed to the Meet that we would broadcast live from the Vision Box on the Whit Saturday morning. If we have enough volunteers we could also broadcast during the Whit Monday (as the parade passes by!). If you would like to get involved and make that happen then let us know.
Media Partners
We are running a scheme where we become media partners with community organisation. Radio Teesdale provide the organisation with media advice and generally produce programmes or programme features about events and/or activities. In return the organisation includes our logo in their printed material. This is all done free of charge and spreads the word about the station’s extensive community activity and reminds people of our frequency. A copy of the media partner logos are on our web site:
http://www.radioteesdale.co.uk/mediapartner.html
Organisations currently working with us in this respect include The Witham Cinema, Swaledale Festival, Georgian Theatre Royal and McMillan Cancer Support.
If you know, or are involved in, any organization that would like to get involved in this scheme then please contact the office during office hours.
Work experience
We have already had two work experience students in the office this year doing great work and another is joining us for two weeks from Monday. Others are booked in for later in the year. If you know of any students interested in media studies, broadcasting, marketing or journalism looking for work experience then please put them in touch with our office.
Leader Celebration
John Atkinson from Radio Teesdale compered the Leader Celebration evening at the Morritt Arms on the 11th February. Radio Teesdale were also featured in a video of successful projects. This video is soon to be put on line. Look out for details on our web site in the next week.
Radio Teesdale on the CMA web site
The Community Media Association are creating a web site that has a photo for every day of the year (all 365 of them) to represent Community Radio. Radio Teesdale was selected for day 21
http://photo365.commedia.org.uk/2010/02/02/radio-teesdale/
Robin and Ruth flying the flag for Radio Teesdale.
Twitter
Radio Teesdale constantly updates the Twitter page with information on things happening at the station and items being posted on the Listen Again web site. We can be followed on
Follow us on www.twitter.com/radioteesdale
The latest tweets appear on the home page of our web site.
Presenting Opportunities
We are looking for presenters to stand in for the following shows:
Monday Breakfast Show 7.30am to 9.00am 1st March
We are looking for volunteers to share the rota for the Saturday Breakfast show (8am to 10am) from the 20th March onwards.
Spring Schedule
A reminder that the Spring Season will be from the 19th April to the 18th July. We intend to take a careful look at the schedule well before this time. We would, therefore, ask you to let Peter Dixon know of any initial programme proposals and ideas you have by Friday 5th March. Likewise, if you currently produce a programme then please let us know of your intentions for the Spring Season (and any alternate times you will have available for producing live programmes).
AGM
Our next AGM will take place this coming Monday (22nd February) at 7.00pm at Enterprise House. All members are welcome to attend.
