Following their hugely successful fundraising drive in May, in which Frome College Radio Club students broadcasted live for a marathon 24hrs, the Radio Club project has expanded into Oakfield Academy, with the aim of helping the year 8 students with the transition to College. Frome College Radio donated recording equipment and, with the help of FromeFM arranged training in OFCOM standards, presentation and technical skills.

FromeFM Director for Children & Young People, Jennie Smith, said:

“FromeFM are proud to be able to offer the young people of Frome this unique and exciting opportunity to broadcast regular shows on FromeFM. It enables young people of all abilities to work with and get to know people within the wider community of Frome. It allows them to have a say in services that affect them and to develop the confidence and expertise to articulate what matters to them, providing vital skills and experience that last for a lifetime”

The new show, ‘Acorns on Air’ was a huge success, and the team, led by Oakfield Head of Maths Mr Andrew Stephenson, enjoyed it so much they asked to present a Christmas show. You can next hear ‘Acorns on Air’ on Wednesday 19th December at 4pm on 96.6FM locally or anywhere via the internet on www.frome.fm

Everyclick is a search engine that donates to FromeFM every time you search the web using their search engine. We get 1p for every 10 clicks – it might not sound like much, though most people make many thousands of searches in a year, so it all adds up!

Everyclick is run by the same organisation as Give as You Live, so you can get one account for both and raise money for FromeFM when you shop online. Sign up here- and remember to select Frome FM (with a space) as your charity.

If you use the Chrome browser, here’s how you can change your default search engine to Everyclick:

1. On your computer, open Chrome.
2. At the top right, click More >  Settings.
3. Under “Search engine,” click Manage search engines.
4. Find “Other search engines.”

• Add: To the right of “Other search engines,” click Add. Fill out the text fields as shown below and click Add.
• Set as default: To the right of the search engine, click More > Make default.

Text fields:

Search engine: everyclick

Keyword: everyclick.com

URL with %s in place of query: http://www.everyclick.com/search?keyword=%s

Give as you Live is an online fundraising platform where you can shop at over 4,200 top stores and raise free funds for FromeFM. The store pays Give as you Live a percentage of your total purchase price in commission and of this, 50% is passed on to FromeFM – it doesn’t cost you anything!

And it’s not just goods, Give as You Live works for booking hotels and holidays, and when you’re looking to switch your broadband, utilities, insurance and much more.

It only takes a couple of minutes to get an account, so please sign up now and raise money for FromeFM when you shop online. As a bonus, when you use this sign up link, Give as You Live will donate an extra £5 to FromeFM when you raise your first £5. Please remember to select Frome FM (with a space) as your charity.

Once you have signed up, there is a really useful browser add-on that will remind you when you are in an online shop that supports Give as You Live. They will email you about it when you sign up – it’s well worth installing as it makes supporting FromeFM even easier!

And check out the badges once you’ve got an account. You can raise extra funds for FromeFM by doing simple things like filling in your profile and buying on certain days.

Give as you Live.

Help shape the future of FromeFM programming by completing this short survey on listening habits. It only takes a minute or two to complete and will greatly help us improve our content. Thank you.

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Did you know that Co-op gives 1% of what members spend on Co-op branded food products and selected services to local projects?

This year (until October 2019), FromeFM is one of those community organisations. As a member, you can sign in to your Co-op account at https://membership.coop.co.uk/ and click ‘Chose a local cause’. Alternatively, you can go directly to our local cause page at https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/22741

If you’re not already a member please visit https://www.coop.co.uk/membership to earn rewards.

So just by buying a pint of milk from a Co-op store, you could help make things better for us, and our community.

We have handed the reins of this month’s Bad Detectives Show to Bruno, a thirteen-year-old student at North Hill House in Frome.

Bruno has a special interest in music primarily from the 60’s and 70′s, and he would like to share this with listeners to FromeFM.

Tune in to hear his extraordinary music choices on Sunday 14th October at 8pm, repeated again on Saturday 20th October at 8pm.