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Spring 2012 Issue 137 The Official Journal of the Hi Everyone, Yes, It’s Awards Time again and on page 4 you will find Hospital Broadcasting Association those shortlisted this year. Also included in this issue are details of the Seminars, so that you can plan your weekend. in this issue ... Once again, sincere thanks must go to Sean and Iain and their team for all their hard work. I don’t think people realise Board Report .................................................................................................. 2 how much goes into organising an event of this kind. I am sure Training Day Track 2 ...................................................................................... 3 they will have been burning the midnight oil on more than one National Hospital Radio Awards 2012 .................................................... 4 occasion. I look forward to receiving your photographs and stories on National Hospital Radio Awards 2012 Seminars .................................... 5 Awards which will be included in the next issue along with all Why Are You Involved in Hospital Radio? .............................................. 6 the results. News Round-up .......................................................................................... 10 I Always Knew I’d make it to Radio 1 One Day ....................................11 Michelle View from The Basement .......................................................................... 12 Steve Harris Xfm London DJ .................................................................... 14 DIARY DATES Countrywide – News from the Stations .............................................. 16 30th March-1st April 2012: Bay Trust Celebrate 35 Years .................................................................. 19 Annual Conference Regional Reps Details ..................................................................................20 Park Inn, Silver Street, Northampton NN1 2TA 31st March, 2012 Who to Contact on the Executive Committee ..................................IRC Annual General Meeting Park Inn, Silver Street, Northampton NN1 2TA Hospital Broadcasting Week 30th March 2012 FrONT COvEr STOrY: 2013 Conference, Blackpool Robbie Firmin made it to the semi finals of Britain’s Got Talent and recently visited Hospital Radio Medway to promote his charity single. The eight year old from Chatham in Kent told presenter Trevor Fox that his ambition is to sing for The Queen. Robbie finished his interview with an impromptu rendition of My Way, the song he wowed the judges with. 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 April, 2012 Charity Law Update Board Report England & Wales The Charities Act 2011 Membership Renewals (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2 As I write this, the 2012 membership 011/25/pdfs/ukpga_20110025_en.pdf) renewal process is about to start. For the received Royal Assent on 14th first time for many years, however, your December and will come into force on scribe will not be directly involved in 15th March 2012. administering it. Grant McNaughton, The Act is a ‘consolidation act’, Chairman of Radio Grapevine in Livingston, Scotland has recently joined bringing together the provisions of a HBA as Membership Manager and I'm in number of existing Acts of Parliament the process of handing-over responsibility covering charity law into a single act. It for all membership-related matters to does not make any substantive changes Grant. to the law. However, any references to By the time you read this, if Grant the Charities Acts in documents (such hasn't already been in touch about paying as your station's Trustees' Annual your dues, he will be very shortly. In the Report and Accounts) signed-off after meantime, if you have any queries about 14th March must refer to the Charities your membership, please contact Grant Act 2011, not the earlier legislation. via [email protected]. The Act generally extends to England and Wales only (with some exceptions). HBA Training Network by Nigel Dallard, Secretary It replaces the Recreational Charities The Training Network committee are Act 1958, the Charities Act 1993 busy planning another national training (which was itself a consolidating Act) event for the autumn. Subject to contract, and many of provisions of the Charities it will be in Stourport on Severn in Act 2006. The provisions of the Worcestershire on 6th October. More Blogs details as soon as we have them. Charities Acts 1992 and 2006 which Mark, our Webmaster has recently Neil Ogden, our South Regional Rep is apply to institutions other than added a blogging facility to the HBA also in the process of organising a charities as well as to charities, website. Iain Lee and myself are currently training event to be held in Basingstoke including the fundraising provisions, beta-testing it, after which it will be on 26th May. Despite being organised by are not included in the Act. rolled out wider. You can follow our Neil primarily for the South region, updates via the website homepage. attendance is open to all members and, Note that this is not intended (at least Scotland once again, full details will be made at this time) to replace the ‘HBA available as soon as we have them. On 15th December, the Scottish Announce’ e-mail list – we're aware both Government passed legislation of the need to push information out to (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/201 AGM, National Conference members and also of the and Awards Ceremony 1/446/made) that requires that need/appropriateness to only pass on Scottish Charities publish certain certain information to our members, not The Association's AGM will take place information on their website home on Saturday, 31st March in the general public. Northampton, as part of the national The Trustee Board is also in the midst page. Conference. Attendance at the AGM is of developing a strategy for the wider use The information is the same as that open to representatives of all members of social media by the HBA – watch this already required to be included in stations free-of-charge. Please note, space. certain other documents: however, that you will need accreditation 1. the registered number allocated to participate. The form used to appoint a Future strategy and by OSCR as part of the registration representative of your station, or to direction of the process; appoint a proxy if no-one from your Association 2. the charity's name as entered in station is going to be present, can be the Scottish Charity Register; The survey I mentioned last time downloaded from the website – go to 3. any other name by which the should, by the time you read this, have www.hbauk.com/agm. charity is commonly known; and At the AGM, there will be elections for arrived at your station by post. It will also Chairman, President and Treasurer. The hopefully be on the website. 4. where the name entered in the latter two are due to terms of office The Trustee Board is undertaking a Scottish Charity Register does not coming to an end in the usual way. fundamental review of the services that include ‘charity’ or ‘charitable’, that the The election for Chairman is out of the HBA provides to its beneficiaries. organisation is a charity. sequence and due to Phil Moon's Please do take the time to tell us what decision, announced at the meeting last you think HBA should (and should not) year, to stand down as after five years be doing. We're looking for answers both Northern Ireland leading the organisation in a role which from the management committees of On 2nd February, the Northern was initially titled Chief Executive then, member stations and from individual Ireland Dept for Social Development following adoption of a new governing volunteers. issued a statement as to how it was document, renamed as Chairman. As an incentive, we'll be offering a free going to address the shortcomings in I'm sure that you will wish to join with year's membership of HBA (for the the Charities Act (NI) 2008 which have the rest of the Trustee Board in wishing 2013/2014 membership year) to three stopped the Charity Commission for Phil a very happy retirement. stations whose names are drawn from a Northern Ireland starting the process hat (or some other suitable container) Later the same day, Hospital of registering the estimated 7-10,000 Broadcasting Week is kicked off in style holding the names and stations of Northern Ireland charities. with the National Hospital Radio Awards everyone who completes the survey – so ceremony. the more of your volunteers who fill in The necessary legislation amending Good luck to all those stations and the survey the more chances you have to the Act will likely be enacted in early individuals through to the final ten. win! 2013. ON AIR <http://www.hbauk.com> Page 2 Spring 2012 HBA Training Day 2011: Track 2 Health and Safety. Mentally shoved Health and Safety was, I knew where to start. The stuff to the back of a drawer and muddled at the back of the drawer had been up with political correctness, silly Euro with Martyn Smith sorted and indexed and it looked a lot regulations, ambulance-chasing less daunting.