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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 Editor Paul Sysum 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 6026 Tel: 0870 321 6011 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] All Corporate sales for HBA On Air magazine Technical Adviser Webmaster Mark Venus Geoff Fairbairn 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 6018 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Technical matters Maintenance of HBA website Acting Public Relations Conference Bookings Emma Sysum Manager Tel: 0870 321 6017 Sean Dunderdale Hospital Broadcasting Association, e-mail: [email protected] PO Box 341, Messingham, Scunthorpe DN15 5EG Tel: 0870 321 6008 Training Bookings John Bryson e-mail: [email protected] Tel: 0870 765 9615 Press & public relations, charity profile e-mail: [email protected] General Enquiries Membership Enquiries Tel: 0870 321 6019 Tel: 0870 321 6003 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Summer 2011 Issue 135 The Official Journal of the Hi Everyone, Hospital Broadcasting Association I trust your summer events have been more successful than the weather this sumer. Please send in reports of your Outside Broadcasts. Can’t promise you all a front cover photograph like in this issue ... Hillingdon but we would love to publish any photographs you Who to Contact on the Executive Committee ..................................IFC may have taken. In these difficult economic times, inspiration for new ways Board Report .................................................................................................. 2 of raising much-needed funds are of great interest to all Obituary Procedure ...................................................................................... 3 hospital radio stations; so please share your ideas. A Festival of Volunteering ............................................................................ 4 Do make sure that each issue of On Air is circulated Valley Park Radio’s Annual Quiz Night ......................................................5 throughout the station so all members get a chance to read it. Volunteers Honoured at Awards Ceremony .......................................... 6 You can also read the latest copy of On Air, and indeed, all A Tribute to Mike Smith .............................................................................. 7 issues since the hundredth edition on the website. Radio Tyneside’s Diamond Celebrations .................................................. 8 Special Memories of Hospital Radio ...................................................... 10 Ideas from Ipswich ...................................................................................... 12 Michelle Countrywide – News from the Stations .............................................. 14 News Round-up .......................................................................................... 18 Keeping Patients on Track ........................................................................ 19 DIARY DATES View from The Basement .......................................................................... 20 15th October, 2011 Regional Reps Details .............................................................................. IRC HBA National Training Event Ramada Leeds Parkway Hotel 30th March-1st April 2012: Conference Park Inn, Silver Street, Northampton 2013 Conference, Blackpool FrONT COvEr STOrY: Hillingdon Hospital Radio celebrate the return of their Summer Fete on 23rd July, 2011. See inside for full story. 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 ©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 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 5th October, 2011 Board Report Midlands Regional Rep HBA Training Network I'm pleased to be able to say that By the time you read this, the Tony Wilding of Rugby Hospital Radio Training Day on recruiting, motivating has recently volunteered to take up and retaining volunteers, organised by the position of Midlands Regional the Wales & West region will probably Representative, which has been vacant have already happened. for some time. This year's national training event is If he hasn't already, I'm sure Tony being held on 15th October at the will be in touch with all stations in the Ramada Leeds Parkway Hotel, close to region to say ‘hello’ and to try to re- Leeds Bradford Airport. establish regional activities. Welcome This year we're covering the speech on board Tony. and interview side of presentation and Also a welcome to Luke Osborne, are running a highly practical health who has taken over from Donald and safety workshop specifically McFarlane as the Home Counties rep. targeted at the needs of hospital radio Our grateful thanks to Donald for all stations. The latter will be run by his hard work. Martyn Smith, an ex-NHS professional, now a health and safety Contacting HBA – consultant. withdrawal of 07017 There has been a late change of leader for the speech radio and numbers interview training: we're pleased to For a number of years, HBA has announce that this will now be been using 0870 phone numbers, that by Nigel Dallard, Secretary provided by Andy Carter. have allowed us to divert incoming Andy was a volunteer at Winchester calls to our volunteers' landlines and Hospital Radio before starting a 16- 07017 numbers to divert calls to our year career in radio journalism, volunteers' mobile phones. Whilst the eventually becoming Group Head of Payment must be received by 1st cost of calling 0870 numbers is not News for a radio company with October; our governing documents excessive (except from some mobile responsibility for editorial policy, state that any payment outstanding phones), calls to 07017 numbers are compliance and regulatory issues as for more than six months results in very expensive (they are known as well as training and development membership being automatically ‘personal’ numbers and attract a across 27 radio stations and a total of terminated. If your station has not premium fee). approximately 60 staff. He then renewed its membership (check the As a result of changes to the ‘switched sides’ to become Head of membership certificate that should be amount that mobile phone operators Communications for a large city on the wall or contact me for are allowed to charge the originating council in Yorkshire. confirmation), please remind the telephone network for delivering an More details and a booking form appropriate person to do so, otherwise incoming call, it is now as cheap for us can be found on the website this is likely to be the last edition of to divert calls to the 0870 numbers to (www.hbauk.com/training). mobiles as it is to landlines ‘On Air’ that you receive! (4p/minute). We have thus taken the And here's an advanced warning – What do you want decision to discontinue use of the membership subs for next year (due 07017 numbers. The appropriate 0870 on 1st April 2012) will be increased to from the HBA? number is diverted to the volunteer's £42.50. At the recent Trustee Board As I mentioned last time, the landline or mobile as they prefer. meeting, we set the budget for the Trustee Board is embarking on a major Please remove the