Winter 2012 Issue 140 Hi Everyone, The Official Journal of the Another year gone and time to reflect... Has your station Hospital Broadcasting Association achieved all it wanted this year and what are your plans for 2013? We’d love to hear if you reached your targets and also what your highlights were in 2012. Please send in your stories in this issue ... and photographs for the first issue of On Air in 2013. Board Report .................................................................................................. 2 We’d also be delighted to hear about any special Christmas HBA National Training Day ........................................................................ 4 events at your station and photographs would be an added Andrew Volunteers at Harrogate .............................................................. 5 bonus. In this issue are details of the 2013 Conference in Blackpool Bristol Celebrate 60 Years of Broadcasting ............................................ 6 together with a Booking form; please get your bookings in as News Round-Up ............................................................................................ 8 soon as possible as demand is bound to be high. HBA Conference News ............................................................................ 10 I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Spring Conference Booking Form .......................................................... 12 prosperous New Year and thank everyone who sent in articles HBA Conference Booking Terms & Conditions ..................................13 for the magazine. It is much appreciated ... please keep sending Mid Downs Radio: Music to our ears .................................................... 15 them in!! Rookwood’s Silver Celebrations .............................................................. 18 Countrywide – News from the Stations .............................................. 20 Michelle Southampton Celebrations ........................................................................ 23 Regional Reps Details ..................................................................................24 DIARY DATES Who To Contact on the Executive Committee ..................................IRC Livingston Mercure Hotel 2013 Conference, Blackpool FrONT COvEr STOrY: Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville sent a Hospital Broadcasting Week 2013 special video message to this year's Compass Saturday 23rd March to Monday 1st April 2013 Community Awards held at Grimsby's Humber Royal Hotel. The Awards recognise outstanding Our Ambassadors work and extraordinary achievement by individuals, groups and communities in North East Lincolnshire. Grimsby Hospital Radio scooped Team of the Year as it approaches almost 60 years of entertaining hospital patients. NE Lincolnshire's Mayor, Cllr Mike Burton and Mayoress Audrey Burton presented the Awards. On Air is the Official Journal of the HBA which is the trading name of the National Association of Hospital Broadcasting Alan Dedicoat Ken Bruce Organisations, a Company limited by guarantee. Registered in England No. 2750147. A Registered Charity No. 1015501. Registered office: Avebury House, St Peter Street, Winchester, SO23 8BN On Air is distributed free of charge to all member stations of the Association plus interested parties. All material is ©2011 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 Alex Lester accept no responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies. Dr Chris Steele, MBE 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 20th January, 2013 Board Report Future strategy and direction of the Association Charity Commission Thanks to the 151 respondents Partnership Programme to our membership survey on the HBA is to be one of the launch HBA's future strategy and partners in the Charity direction. The results were collated Commission for England and by Jim and are being considered Wales’s Partnership Programme. by the Trustees and other post- As part of this programme, HBA holders. Working groups will be working with the considered internal and external Commission to update our model communications, and conferences constitution, to create a set of between the September and ‘Charity Commission approved’ November Trustee Board answers to frequently-asked meetings, and further working questions and to pass on other key groups will consider training, messages from the Commission benefits of membership and the about charity law. provision of advice and guidance The Commission will include ahead of the January Trustee HBA in its online list of umbrella Board meeting. This meeting will organisations and will encourage be extended into a second day to non-member hospital allow the Trustees time to discuss by Nigel Dallard, Secretary broadcasters to consider joining and agree the proposed way HBA. forward, ahead of the conference It is planned that a and AGM in March. representative of the Commission What is clear is that members Livingston in October. Although I will attend our conference in want the HBA to be doing more, was unable to attend these events, Blackpool in March to talk about raising the profile of hospital feedback from delegates was very the Charitable Incorporated broadcasting, representing good. The Training Committee are Organisation, a new form of hospital broadcasting at a national now in the process of planning charity that gives all the benefits level and supporting members on events for next year. More details of being a company limited by a day-to-day basis. Many ideas will be available from our website – guarantee without the need to have been proposed, some simple, www.hbauk.com/training – as register with Companies House or some radical but generally all soon as they have been agreed. understand company law and to constructive. In the meantime, if you have any answer any other questions that The Trustees would love to be in suggestions for either topics or members have about the a position where HBA was able to venues, please get in touch with Commission and their relationship do all that is being asked of it. Jim Simpson ([email protected], with it. However, what is less clear is 0870 321 6000). where the resources are going to Hospital Broadcasting in come from to enable HBA to do all Hospital Broadcasting Parliament that our members want us to do Week The Shadow Minister for Civil and that we would like to do. I said last time that a working Society, Gareth Thomas MP, Realistically, there are going to group has been set up to focus on quoted extensively from HBA’s have to be some tough decisions Hospital Broadcasting Week. Next written evidence to the House of made in January. What are we year, HBW will start with the Commons Committee scrutinising going to, reluctantly, say that we awards ceremony on Saturday the Small Charitable Donations Bill don’t have the resources to 23rd March and finish on Easter during October. undertake? Do we have to employ Monday, 1st April. Already the Mr Thomas, who volunteered at someone (or some people) to do group has a plan for a higher- Radio Northwick Park a number of some or all of these tasks? Can we profile week next year; more years ago, asked for a verbal find a number of additional details as soon as we can release briefing and I was able to supply volunteers to assist at a national them. him with a number of case studies level? If you have any suggestions or based on the responses to the would like to get involved with the survey that I asked members to HBA Training Network planning of the week, please complete earlier in the year. The last of the HBA training contact Jim Simpson As a result, Chichester Hospital events for 2012 took place in ([email protected], 0870 321 Radio, Hospital Radio Stafford, Stourport-on-Severn and 6000). Radio Nightingale, Radio ON AIR <http://www.hbauk.com> Page 2 Winter 2012 Board Report Northwick Park, Roch Valley Radio, responding to consultations, to found on the Committee’s pages and Winchester Hospital Radio submitting a Freedom of within the parliament.uk website. were all mentioned in the Information request to HMRC (the And finally, HBA’s Chairman, Jim committee debate. The answer to which was picked up by Simpson, attended a Government conceded little during some of the specialist sector press parliamentary reception to launch the Committee stage debate, and also used extensively during the Hospedia Partnership although it did amend one clause the parliamentary committee Programme. as requested by HBA, allowing debate), to surveying members, to Jim tells me that HBA and charities that merge or change reading the Bill as introduced into hospital broadcasting were their legal form to retain their the House of Commons, mentioned in both the opening and claims history after the submitting evidence to the closing speeches, that he had the restructuring. Committee and following the opportunity to discuss the value of At the time of writing, the Bill is debate in Hansard. hospital radio during the evening just about to return to the main I think, however, it was well worth and that he has a number of chamber of the House of the effort; not