On Air No.104 Front Cover 12/5/05 12:25 pm Page 1 On Air No104 IFC 12/5/05 12:41 pm Page 1 On Air No104 p1 12/5/05 12:56 pm Page 1 May/June 2005 Issue 104 The Official Journal of the Hospital Broadcasting Association in this issue ... Dear Reader, Well, another Awards Ceremony has come and gone Committee Report ................................................................ 3 and by all accounts an excellent time was had by all. In June’s Travels ............................................................................ 4 the centre pages, you will find photos of all the winners. A Guided Tour of the HBA Accounts .............................. 5 May I take this opportunity of wishing them many All Our Yesterdays ................................................................ 6 congratulations – and keep up the good work. All Our Yesterdays, A Response ...................................... 7 We have Garry Lakin to thank for all the photographs Music is the Best Medicine, It’s Official ..............................7 of the Awards. Sincere thanks Garry. If you would like The Radio Academy .............................................................. 8 copies of any of the photographs, please get in touch Winners of the 2005 National Hospital Radio Awards 9 with Garry direct. You can contact him at [email protected]. A Year in the Life of Awards ............................................ 10 Thank you to everyone who sent me in articles and Meet the Judges .................................................................... 11 photos – I have a wonderful and varied selection and if Meet the Winners ................................................................ 12 your feature didn't appear this time, it won’t be Conference and Football (Part 2)...................................... 14 discarded but used in a future issue. Awards has been Countrywide ... News from the Stations ...................... 16 given priority this time – but I still look forward to hearing Hey Mister, Can We Have Our Radio Station Back? .. 21 from you. You can email me, write, send articles and My Weekly ............................................................................ 22 photos on CD or disk; the details are at the bottom of the Regional Rep Details .......................................................... 23 page. Articles are best sent in Word or Quark, photos Who To Contact .................................................................. 24 (clearly marked who, what and when the event took place) can be emailed as jpegs or tifs. If there are any special features or articles you would FRONT COVER PICTURE: like to see, please get in touch with me and I’ll see what Ice Cold in ... Belfast. I can do. The spectacular ice sculpture created especially for the 2005 Hospital Radio Awards Michelle 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. 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Address for On-Air: The Editor, On Air, 2 Falkland Close, Boreham, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 3DD Tel: 0870 321 6011 Fax: 0870 321 6019 Email: [email protected] COPY DATE NEXT ISSUE 16th June 2005 On Air No104 p2 12/5/05 1:49 pm Page 1 On Air No104 p3 12/5/05 2:08 pm Page 1 Committee Report Promotional Film Meetings, etc. This has all taken rather I mentioned last time that Mike Skinner longer than we anticipated but it's better had arranged for the Media Trust to to spend the time getting things right make a short promotional film about than rush into things and have to redo Hospital Broadcasting. At the time of them shortly afterwards. writing, it is still being completed but Five-Year Business Plan Mike is hoping it will be complete in With the Association on a much time for DVDs to have been made and firmer administrative footing now than a included with this edition of ‘On Air’. If few years ago, the EC are beginning to that doesn't happen, copies should be think more strategically about the future available very shortly. Please let Mike direction of the HBA. Where do we know what you think of the film and want to be in five years' time? What what, if any, use you make of it. should HBA have done and being doing by then? Once again, we'd love Charity Law by Nigel Dallard, Secretary to hear your ideas – Phil Moon is the Some of you will be aware that the man to contact. We hope to be able to calling of a General Election has result- present the EC's initial thoughts at the ed in the Charities Bill that was going Grants Autumn Conference. through the House of Lords being lost. It was agreed with PPL that £5,000 It is hoped that the next government, of of their £26,000 donation to HBA, And finally… whatever flavour, will re-introduce it as which we received towards the end of Thanks and congratulations to the soon as possible but at the moment, it's our last financial year (our new financial conference team and the Northern a case of ‘wait and see’. year started on 1st March), is to be used Ireland region for putting on such a good Up in Scotland, there is no delay and to fund a grants programme. PPL have weekend in Belfast. I'm sure everyone by the time you read this, the Scottish indicated that they will likely be provid- who attended will agree when I say it Parliament will be well into the 2nd ing another donation this year and we was a superb weekend – with yet anoth- Stage debate on the Charities and are proposing to allocate a proportion of er excellent awards ceremony on Trustee Investment (Scotland) Bill. And this donation to fund further grants. Saturday evening thanks to Dave not to be left out, the Department of A small subcommittee has been set Nicholson, Chris Cook and their crew. Social Development in Northern up to administer this programme of A number of the awards judges took Ireland is consulting on introducing grants, with its first task to propose its the time to hold a ‘surgery’ on the new charity law too. own terms of reference and modus Sunday morning where they discussed The Executive Committee have allo- operandi. Expect to hear more on this their judging criteria and their thoughts cated some funds to allow us to stage in coming months. We hope to be in a on the entries. They said the general some ‘roadshows’ around the country position to accept applications for con- standard of entries was much higher than to explain the changes in Charity Law sideration by the time of the AGM. in previous years. You can listen to the as and when they happen. More details top three entries in each category on the when we've got a better idea of what is Restructuring website. It is well worth spending the going to change when! Over the last 18 months or so, much time doing this – the winners certainly time and effort has been put into think- deserved their prizes and set an excellent Best Practice Guide ing about restructuring the EC and target for us all to aspire towards. The Executive Committee created a updating the Association's governing The Autumn conference and AGM Policies and Guidelines subcommittee documents. In the end, it was decided will be in Portsmouth 14-16th October many months ago, to work on the pro- that no wholesale changes to the struc- and the Spring 2006 conference and duction of model policies and guidelines ture of the EC were necessary. Where 2006 National Hospital Radio Awards documents that members could easily changes will be made is with the ceremony in Blackpool. I hope to see adjust to cater for their individual cir- Regional structure. At the time of writ- you at both events. cumstances and then adopt as their ing, Chris Berezai and the Regional own. The first few of these policies are Dirty Work at the Crossroads Reps have yet to finalise their proposals Users of Dennis Rookard’s Hosiprog available and more are in the pipeline. but there will be more of an emphasis drama and feature service must have We'd like to expand this collection to on developing the relationship between wondered what had happened when his become a comprehensive handbook of the HBA and its members at a regional web pages disappeared from the Internet. guidance and model documents but we level. A proportion of the PPL donation Disaster struck when the ISP, used under only have a limited amount of time and is also allocated to fund regional activi- a special charitable arrangement, was sold effort available. We'd therefore very ties for the first time. Once the basic to another provider, who without inform- ing anyone, promptly removed all of the much like to hear from you as to what ideas have been agreed, formal bylaws charitable sites. Fear not, Hosiprog has areas you'd like us to concentrate on. If will be written and adopted by the EC reappeared with a new address. Now it’s you've got any particular skills or knowl- and, in accordance with our Articles of back as Error! Reference source not edge in specific areas and you'd like to Association, (hopefully) ratified by the found, well worth a visit for the latest volunteer your services to assist with membership at the AGM in October.