The Bradley Stoke Safer and Stronger Community Group (SSCG) meets on Tuesday (18th January) at the Jubilee Centre, Savages Wood Road (7pm start). Items scheduled for this month’s SSCG meeting include: A presentation on the 2011 Census Updates on the possible closure of pedestrian entrances to the Willow Brook Centre from the Manor Farm Crescent area A presentation by Bradley
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£5,000 grant will fund community radio station
Bradley Stoke Community Radio Association has been awarded a grant of £5,000 from the Quartet Community Foundation’s Grassroots Grants Programme towards setting up a community radio station in the town. The money comes on top of the £2,500 awarded to the group in August by South Gloucestershire Council’s Southern Brooks Area Forum, £1,500 from the same source in 2009, £1,000
Continue readingCommunity radio team attends Radio Academy talk at BBC Bristol
Members of Bradley Stoke Radio Station attended a Radio Academy event at BBC Bristol earlier this week. The function was hosted by BCfm (the local station’s community radio mentors) and the Heart Bristol breakfast team of Bush, Troy and Paulina. The group took part in a quiz night and had a chance to question the controller of BBC Radio 1
Continue readingRadio station to host open evening for new members
Bradley Stoke Radio is holding an open evening on Thursday (22nd July) for anyone looking to find out more about the town’s new community radio project. The event, which takes place in the Culbone Suite of the Aztec Hotel & Spa (7pm start), will be an informal get-together for anyone interested in getting involved with the radio station. Members of
Continue readingRadio station airs Paul Burling interview
Bradley Stoke Radio has finally aired its interview with Britain’s Got Talent finalist Paul Burling, recorded at the Community Festival on Saturday 13th June. The interview is available as a podcast on the Bradley Stoke Community Radio website and may also be heard via the ‘listen again’ feature on BCfm (Community Radio for Bristol).
Continue readingCommunity radio station finds its voice
The embryonic Bradley Stoke Community Radio has published its first material, in the form of a podcast recorded at the recent Community Festival. Reporters from the organisation, which describes itself as “an exciting new community radio station run entirely by volunteers living in and around the Bradley Stoke area”, were at a number of festival events and even managed to
Continue readingBradley Stoke Community Radio moves a step closer
Enrolment for Radio Workshops is now open – all ages welcome Bradley Stoke Community Radio Association (BSCRA), under the guidance of Southern Brooks Community Partnership (SBCP), has announced that it has been successful in securing grant funding to provide radio workshops for the residents of Bradley Stoke. The workshops are seen as the first step towards establishing a community radio
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