On Air No 105 FC 12/7/05 5:25 pm Page 1 On Air No 105 IFC 13/7/05 8:08 am Page 1 On Air No 105 p1 13/7/05 8:16 am Page 1 July/August 2005 Issue 105 The Official Journal of the Hospital Broadcasting Association in this issue ... Committee Report ................................................................ 3 Dear Reader, Charity Law Update .............................................................. 4 As I write this, it is the end of a roller coaster week: Technical Matters .................................................................... 5 on a total high one day with the announ cement about Conference and Football (Part 3)........................................ 6 the Olympics to be followed by an all time low the very June’s Travels ............................................................................ 8 next day. I do hope no members were involved in the PPL ... The Latest .................................................................... 8 tragedy – if any were, may I offer my sincerest wishes All Our Yesterdays ................................................................ 9 for a speedy recovery. In th News ............................................................................ 10 In this bumper edition, you will find a copy of the The SBES Exhibition ............................................................ 11 HBA DVD ‘Hospital Broadcasting the UK’. To Hospital Broadcasting in the Uk ........................................ 12 complement this we have prepared a supplement Countrywide ... News from the Stations ...................... 18 which looks at ways of publicising your station. Please The Highs and Lows of Hospital Radio .......................... 21 share your comments with us. The only way we can Magic in the Air .................................................................... 22 give you what you want is by having input from you. And Now for Some Name Dropping .............................. 24 In the last issue, I asked what features or articles you The HBA Conference Bursary .......................................... 25 would like to see – to date – nothing. Can I assume that Bursary Application Form .................................................. 26 you are totally satisfied with everything in the magazine? If you don’t tell us, we’ll never know. Regional Rep Details .......................................................... 27 Don’t forget either to send in reports of your station’s Who To Contact .................................................................. 28 activities – it is always helpful to know what other stations are doing. FRONT COVER PICTURE: Looking forward to receiving your reports. Celebrations in Bournemouth as Hospital Radio Bedside celebrate Hospital Broadcasting Week 2005 and I am assured it was only tea he was drinking! 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. 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 ©2005 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 Fax: 0870 321 6019 Email: [email protected] COPY DATE NEXT ISSUE 16th August 2005 On Air No 105 p2 13/7/05 8:36 am Page 1 On Air No 105 p3 13/7/05 8:40 am Page 1 Committee Report BEDSIDE Portsmouth on 15th October. The annual report is already mostly ENTERTAINMENT complete! You will shortly be receiving SYSTEMS the first batch of paperwork, including At the last Executive Committee nomination forms for election to the meeting, there were a number of Executive Committee. This year, there reports of stations having problems of will be elections for Chief and Deputy one sort or another with the company Chief Executive, President and Vice providing the bedside entertainment President, Secretary and Regional system in their hospital. These ranged Manager. If you think you might be from connection/installation problems, interested in any of these roles, please through broken bedside units to an read the role descriptions available on apparent total absence of staff to assist the ‘Contact Us’ page of the website patients to use the system. June asked and talk to some existing EC members that anyone experiencing such problems about what is involved. contact her, preferably by e-mail. She by Nigel Dallard, Secretary We will also hopefully be asking you has built up a good relationship with to ratify Regional bylaws that, for the first Patientline HQ and problems ACADEMIC REPORTS time, formally create HBA Regions as entities within the national association. forwarded are usually resolved fairly John Watson has obtained copies of Copies of these bylaws, along with the promptly. June is also attempting to set a number of academic papers from Annual Report & Accounts and list of up similar relationships with the other Glasgow Caledonian University's nominees for election will be posted out system providers. Department of Psychology covering to you in September. their research into the effect of music MEMBERSHIP listening on chronic pain. DIRECTORY The research appears to show that CHARITY COMMISSION We are planning to produce a new listening to music (and to a lesser extent WARNS AGAINST printed version of the Membership comedy) is an effective distraction for those in pain. Allowing the patient to NEW SCAM Directory, listing contact details etc for Charities risk having their bank all HBA members. This will be based select their own music/comedy improved the results. We're hoping to accounts emptied in a clever but nasty on the information provided to us new scam, the Charity Commission during this year's membership renewals get a summary of the papers in laymen's terms but it looks like we may have warned today. Fraudsters obtain cycle. If any of your station's details charities' bank account details from Gift have changed since you renewed your academic proof that hospital radio and especially patients' requests Aid forms and use this information to subscription, please contact Marie as set up standing orders, taking funds soon as possible. programmes, have a real beneficial effect on patients. away from charities and into the accounts of thieves. The Commission PPL LICENCE today urges charities to check bank Many of you will have recently NATIONAL HOSPITAL statements thoroughly for rogue received an invitation from PPL to RADIO AWARDS payments and to consider deposit-only apply for a licence to broadcast music At the last EC meeting, Dave accounts for charitable donations. and to dub music to your computerised Nicholson presented figures that Sign, the National Society for Mental playout system. The details of the showed that the 2005 Awards cost the Health and Deafness, uncovered the licence have been the subject of lengthy HBA only £1500 from our general scam when it spotted two new standing debate between HBA and PPL and the funds, the rest being covered by orders adding up to hundreds of EC believe that the licence terms are as sponsorship, grants, etc. pounds set up on the charity's account. good as we can achieve and should Dave was congratulated on a job It immediately contacted its bank and cover most of your individual well done and he's now already stopped the standing orders before any circumstances. If you have any detailed planning the 2006 awards, for which money was lost. questions, please direct them to John we have set a budget of £26k, with the Steve Powell, Chief Executive at Watson. hope that they can be fully self-funding. Sign, said, ‘It's a sad fact of modern Dave also stated that it was the intent of times that charities have to constantly HBA ENTERPRISES LTD both him and Chris Cook to step back fight against clever con artists. We all from the awards after next year's have a duty to be aware of the forms The directors of Enterprises have these scams can take and to take steps finally submitted their accounts for the ceremony. If anyone would like to get involved to protect charitable funds.’ year ending April 2004 to Companies Andrew Hind, Chief Executive at House. They showed that Enterprises in helping out with the planning or staging of the awards, please get in the Commission, said, ‘This is a owed HBA £7855.89. I'm pleased to particularly worrying scam because it be able to report that just as I was touch with Dave. Whoever takes on the task has a tough act to follow! requires no contact with the charity. In writing this, I heard that, with a little turn, this leaves charities with no prodding from our solicitor, they have opportunity to become suspicious. We paid-up. However, the directors are still IT'S AGM TIME AGAIN! urge charities to consider deposit-only not co-operating with either the HBA I'm writing this at the beginning of accounts for charitable donations and or our solicitor to wind-up the company June but by the time you read it, I'll to contact its bank if unsure about any or transfer its ownership to HBA. We already be well in to the planning the standing orders.’ will continue to pursue them about this. AGM at the Autumn Conference in ON AIR <http://www.hbauk.com> Page 3 July/August 2005 On Air No 105 p4 13/7/05 9:32 am Page 1 Charity Law Update ENGLAND AND WALES immediately changed, however. No As you may be aware, the Charities substantive provisions of the Bill/Act are Bill that was being debated in the brought into effect on Assent.