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FC On Air 131 document:3_COLON-.AIR 29/07/2010 10:41 Page 1 IFC Heartbeat 131:20 Contacts 127 29/07/2010 10:38 Page 1 IRC Regional REP DETAILS 131:19 Regional REP DETAILS 127 29/07/2010 10:42 Page 1 Regional Reps details Region Rep AddRess phone e-mAil Regional Dave Lockyer 54 School Lane 0870 321 6005 [email protected] Manager Higham Rochester Kent ME3 7JF Anglia Mike Sarre 0870 765 9601 [email protected] Home Donald McFarlane 0870 765 9602 [email protected] London Ben Hart 0870 765 9603 [email protected] Midlands 0870 765 9604 [email protected] North David Nicholson 0870 765 9605 [email protected] Northern Davey Downes 0870 765 9606 [email protected] Ireland North West David McGealy 0870 765 9607 [email protected] Scotland Jim Simpson 0870 765 9608 [email protected] South Neil Ogden 0870 765 9609 [email protected] South East Dave Abrey 0870 765 9611 [email protected] Wales & West Steve Allen 0870 765 9613 [email protected] Yorkshire Iain Lee 0870 765 9614 [email protected] Please address correspondence to the Regional Reps at: Hospital Broadcasting Association, PO Box 341, Messingham, Scunthorpe DN15 5EG All members of the EC and Regional Reps are volunteers and will respond to any contact as quickly as possible. Please understand however, that work or family commitments mean that availability may not always be immediate and may be limited to evenings and weekends. RC Contacts 131:20 Contacts 127 29/07/2010 10:43 Page 1 Who to Contact on the Executive Committee Chairman Phil Moon Deputy Chairman Iain Lee 82 Greenleaf Gardens, Polegate, Hospital Broadcasting Association, E Sussex BN26 6PH PO Box 341, Messingham, Tel: 0870 321 6000 Scunthorpe DN15 5EG Tel: 0870 321 6014 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Main contact with statutory bodies. Sub committee chairman. Ambassadors Special projects Treasurer Julie Cox General Secretary Hospital Broadcasting Association, Nigel Dallard PO Box 341, Messingham, 54 St. Annes Close, Badger Farm, Scunthorpe DN15 5EG Winchester, Hampshire SO22 4LQ Tel: 0870 321 6004 Tel: 0870 321 6003 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Financial matters (other than General correspondence, Company subscriptions) Secretary, annual review President June Snowden Regional Manager Dave Lockyer Hospital Broadcasting Association, P.O. Box 76, Ely, CB6 3WH PO Box 341, Messingham, Tel: 0870 321 6009 Scunthorpe DN15 5EG e-mail: [email protected] Tel: 0870 321 6005 Station visits, represent HBA e-mail: [email protected] publicly, print and present long Regional meetings, contacts, setting service certificates up a region etc. Sales & Advertising Executive Programming Adviser Paul Sysum Paul Easton Hospital Broadcasting Association, Hospital Broadcasting Association, PO Box 341, Messingham, PO Box 341, Messingham, Scunthorpe DN15 5EG Scunthorpe DN15 5EG Tel: 0870 321 6026 Tel: 0870 321 6002 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] All Corporate sales for HBA Advice on programme content Technical Adviser Editor Geoff Fairbairn Michelle Newstead Hospital Broadcasting Association, Hospital Broadcasting Association, PO Box 341, Messingham, PO Box 341, Messingham, Scunthorpe DN15 5EG Scunthorpe DN15 5EG Tel: 0870 321 6012 Tel: 0870 321 6011 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Technical matters On Air magazine Acting Public Relations Webmaster Mark Venus Manager Hospital Broadcasting Association, Sean Dunderdale PO Box 341, Messingham, Hospital Broadcasting Association, PO Box 341, Messingham, Scunthorpe DN15 5EG Scunthorpe DN15 5EG Tel: 0870 321 6018 Tel: 0870 321 6008 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Maintenance of HBA website Press & public relations, charity profile Conference Bookings Membership Enquiries Marie Harper Tel: 0870 321 6003 50 Neale Street, Sunderland e-mail: [email protected] Tyne & Wear SR6 9EZ General Enquiries Tel: 0870 321 6017 Tel: 0870 321 6019 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] 01 INTRO 131:01 INTRO 127 29/07/2010 11:06 Page 1 SUMMER 2010 Issue 131 The Official Journal of the Hi Everyone, Hospital Broadcasting Association Thank you to everyone who has taken the time and trouble to send in reports and photographs. They are very much appreciated, please keep them coming. in this issue ... If you need to update the information on your hospital radio station, you can now login to the HBA Website and Board Report .................................................................................................. 2 update your own details. News Round-Up.............................................................................................. 3 There are several items for sale in this issue; if you have Normandy Landings ...................................................................................... 4 any studio equipment you no longer require or is surplus to Basingstoke’s Interview with Simon Parkin .............................................. 6 requirements, why not send me the details, with a View from the Basement .............................................................................. 8 photograph if possible and we will see if we can sell it for you ... and all for free! What I’ve Learnt ............................................................................................ 9 And please don’t forget to let us know what your station Obituary, Graeme Meanley .......................................................................... 9 has been up to. Notes from Newcastle .............................................................................. 10 Countrywide – News from the Stations .............................................. 12 The Newcomer ............................................................................................ l6 Michelle Regional Rep Details ................................................................................ IRC Who to Contact on the Executive Committee .................................. RC DIARY DATES 2011 CONFERENCE 25th-27th March 2011 Ramada Hotel, Hollingbourne Nr Maidstone, Kent ME17 1RE 2012 Conference, Northampton FrONT COvEr STOrY: 2013 Conference, Blackpool Hospital Radio Plymouth volunteer, Josh Andrews, takes up the challenge spending a day with the Fire Service. See full story page 12 Our Ambassadors: Dr Chris Steele, MBE; Ken Bruce and Alex Lester On Air is the Official Journal of the HBA which is the trading name of the National Association of Hospital Broadcasting Organisations, a Company limited by guarantee. Registered in England No. 2750147. A Registered Charity No. 1015501. Registered office: Mariners House, 24 Nelsons Gardens, Hedge End, Southampton, SO30 2NE. On Air is distributed free of charge to all member stations of the Association plus interested parties. All material is ©2009 of HBA and may not be reproduced in any form without the written authority of the Editor. Views expressed in the magazine are not necessarily those of HBA, or the Editor but are the personal opinion of the contributor. Whilst every effort is taken to ensure the accuracy of the publication, all advertisements and articles appear in good faith and HBA and the Editor accept no responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies. Address for On-Air: The Editor, On Air, 2 Falkland Close, Boreham, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 3DD Tel: 0870 321 6011 Email: [email protected] COPY DATE NEXT ISSUE 15th August, 2010 02 Board Report 131:02,03 Committee report 127 29/07/2010 10:45 Page 1 Board Report Training Strategy invitations to renew their membership At the May Trustee Board meeting, by e-mail in early April. Those of you we discussed HBA's training strategy. who have not opted to receive Last year, we held a single national correspondence solely in electronic event, something that we are planning form received a hardcopy invitation to to repeat again this year, together with renew in early May, along with a copy a couple of locally-organised regional of the Trustees' Annual Report and events. Accounts. I am writing this at the The original plan was to move to a beginning of July, yet only 76% of Full series of quasi-national events, Members and 55% of Associates have centrally organised but held in of so-far renewed their membership. different locations round the UK. The Reminders have already been sent to problem is that, certainly until we many stations and will be sent to the have paid staff, HBA simply does not remainder in the next few days. have the manpower to centrally The excuses I receive never seem to organise a number of training events change very much from year to year in addition to the national conference by Nigel Dallard, Secretary and are seldom compelling. As I said and awards. last time, handling renewals is a time- Unfortunately, most of our Regional consuming enough job as it is, on top Reps don't have the resources to We had hoped to have completed of my day-to-day out-of-ours work for arrange regional events without some the re-structuring of the Association HBA and my local hospital radio sort of central support – and the costs by the end of the current financial station and my paid employment and of staging regional events are likely to year (31st August) but this is not having to chase members is just a be proportionately higher per attendee going to happen; whilst we now have further added burden that I could than national events, simply because agreed role descriptions for the really do without. OK. Enough said. the costs are largely fixed and Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary, other Rant over!