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All About Frome – April 24

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Rupert Kirkham

IN THIS WEEK’S SHOW

Bill Palmer, Fair Housing for Frome

talks about a range of ways to address the housing problems in Frome.

The next meeting of Fair Housing for Frome will be

in Frome Town Hall on Monday, 30^th April from 6.30pm.

elderventure.org.uk

bill.palmer@nullfairhousingforfrome.org.uk

Des Harris, Mendip District Green Party Councillor

joins the others in the studio to discuss the plans to build

Selwood Garden Village on the south side of Frome.

Cllr.Harris@nullMendip.gov.uk

https://fromesgv.wordpress.com/

Richard Ackroyd and Dalma Luttrell, Frome’s Missing Links

Richard and Dalma talk about

fundraising to raise £30,000 needed to develop Phase 2 of the cycle path.

Dalma tells us about her fundraising cycle ride, from Frome to Corfe Castle

on Sunday, 6^th May starting at 09.30am from Cycology Cycle Shop, Frome.

Dalma and Paul, with their children, will be cycling the 75 mile journey

to raise money to complete the remaining cyclepath from Frome

to Radstock and Midsomer Norton.

fromesmissinglinks.org.uk

sustrans.org.uk

ALL ABOUT FROME – 1200 and 1800 TUESDAYS, 1400 FRIDAYS, 1300 SUNDAYS
If you want your voluntary organisation to feature on All About Frome,
please contact the producers, Rupert Kirkham and Julia Wellard on studio@nullfrome.fm

Frome College 24 hour takeover 2018 coming soon…

Posted on April 18, 2018 by FromeFM

Frome’s young students have given themselves 24 hours to raise £2,400. They need your help!

On Saturday 5 May at noon, Frome College students will stage a ‘24hour takeover’ of FromeFM to raise funds for their radio club and provide mental health counselling.

Frome College Radio Club is a student-led group for young people to express their views and opinions on local issues that affect them and the wider Frome community. The average age of the Radio Club is just 14, and over half of the Club have some form of Special Educational Needs or come from a disadvantaged background. They will broadcast live for 24 hours continuously on FromeFM community radio. Please do listen on 96.6 FM locally, or online at Frome.FM from anywhere in the world.

The Radio Club have the unique and exciting opportunity to broadcast both live and pre-recorded regular shows on FromeFM. Students meet in their own time to research, plan, edit and broadcast their own shows. The Radio Club make features about life in the College, as well as wider local, national and global issues that matter to them. It enables our 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.

This funding drive will buy the equipment to help more students to be part of the radio project and bring their views to the whole community and beyond. The project will expand into the middle schools of Frome, helping the year8 students with the transition to College, as well start to equip them with the skills they will need in future life. For this, we need to buy laptops, printer, headphones and monitors, and employ the services of a media production trainer.

For many young people, working with the Radio Club is enough to help them develop the confidence and skills that will last throughout their lives. However, some students need more intensive and professional support. 1 in 5 young people experience a mental health issue in any given year. Half of mental health problems are established by the age of 14. By addressing these problems early, our young people can grow to be healthy and fulfilled individuals who will make a valuable contribution to our community. Part of the funding we raise will be used to provide professional specialist one-to-one counselling support to those young people that will benefit from it.

Please give what you can by visiting www.frome.fm/24, and don’t forget to tune in from midday on 5 April for 24 hours! More information and a schedule for the 24 hours will be posted soon.

If you are a small business and want to sponsor the children on this day, please go to the donation page to donate a minimum of £25. Make sure to add ‘Business sponsor’ to your message and we’ll get in touch with you for more details. Business sponsors will receive a special poster, created by the college, to display in a window or to keep as a memento. Logos/links will be placed on the 24/hour takeover schedule page and your business will get mentioned on air during the day. For privacy reasons, we are unable to respond to Anonymous donations.

Different Sounds – April

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Rupert Kirkham

DIFFERENT SOUNDS Presented by Ian Leak.

A monthly musical road trip along highway of the unexpected, the unpredictable and the downright fabulous. Featuring regular interviews with respected figures from the music industry.

Ian’s guests on Different Sounds this Saturday (21st April 2018) are Martin Carr, and Nick Heyward.

Martin found fame in the 1990s as lead guitarist and chief songwriter with The Boo Radleys. He is now a critically acclaimed solo artist and recently released a fantastic new album ‘New Shapes of Life’.

Nick Heyward was lead singer with 1980 pop legends Haircut 100. He is now a highly respected solo artist. His last album ‘Woodland Echoes’ was one of the best albums of last year.

Show airs Saturday 21st April at 8pm

All About Frome – April 17

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Rupert Kirkham

ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW

Peter McFadyen, IfF and Director, Renewable Energy Co-op

talks about the importance of allotments for growing food

and providing a social network

petermac@nullgn.apc.org

Local farmer and Free-range milk innovator Neil Darwent promotes

the importance of farms connecting with the public

so that farmers can get full value for their products

freerangedairy.org

Andy Salmon, Bullsbridge Farm describes his new project,

selling unhomogenized milk and other food products

via vending machines at his farm

and the unpredictability of milk prices.

Bullsbridge Farm, Tytherington BA11 5EP

Andy Fussell of Fussell’s Fine Foods

talks about marketing his rapeseed oil

and describes a great new idea to help children

connect with the farming community using FaceTime

– the Apple-based social media app.

fusselsfinefoods.co.uk

ALL ABOUT FROME – 1200 and 1800 TUESDAYS, 1400 FRIDAYS, 1300 SUNDAYS
If you want your voluntary organisation to feature on All About Frome,
please contact the producers, Rupert Kirkham and Julia Wellard on studio@nullfrome.fm

Competition rules

These competition rules shall be binding on you when entering any competition(s) operated by us, our sponsors or any company or website owned or controlled by us from time to time.

In addition to these general competition rules, other specific terms and conditions may also apply to a particular competition. We will post any such specific competition rules on our website.

You must be over 18 years of age and resident in the UK to enter our competitions.

Only one entry per person is permitted unless otherwise stated. Automated entries will be invalidated, including multiple entries from the same IP, email address or telephone number range.

Proof of making phone call, sending post/e-mail/text is not proof of our receipt of your entry. No responsibility can be accepted for entries that are lost, delayed or damaged.

The closing date is as specified in the relevant competition. This will always be a time and date in the UK. Where a time is not given, the closing time will be 11.59pm (UK time) on the relevant day.

In the case of a prize draw, the first correct entry drawn will be the winner.

Winners will be formally notified (by email or post) within seven days of the closing date. Full details of the prize will be given in writing upon notification. Where we notify a winner by email, we will ask for confirmation of receipt by reply email.

In the case of prizes in the form of free tickets, we will contact the prize winner by phone and prize details shall be as printed on the tickets. Ticket holders shall be bound by the event promoter’s terms and conditions together with those set out on the ticket and the rules and regulations of the venue. The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

The prize may not be transferred to any other person.

No cash alternative or alternative prize is available on entrants’ request but in the event of the advertised competition prize being unavailable we reserve the right to offer an alternative prize of equal or greater value.

FromeFM will not be liable for any damage, loss or disappointment suffered by any person taking part or not being able to take part in a competition.

Competition winners may be required to take part in or co-operate with publicity.

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No responsibility is accepted for inaccurate prize details supplied by sponsors.

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Contestants who are rude, abusive or deemed otherwise unsuitable by FromeFM will be excluded from the competition.

We reserve the right to amend these rules at any time. Entry in the competition implies acceptance of these rules.

We will keep your personal details for a reasonable time so that we can send you any prize that you have won, to verify that these rules have been complied with, and for accounting purposes. We may pass your details on to our service providers and agents for the purposes of sending you the prize on our behalf.

FromeFM may at any time issue specific rules to be read in conjunction with these rules. In the event of a conflict between two sets of rules, the competition-specific rules take priority.

These rules are governed by English law.

The promoter of the competition is: Frome Community Productions, Frome Town Hall, Christchurch Street West, Frome, Somerset, BA11 1EB

All About Frome – April 10

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Rupert Kirkham

IN THIS WEEK’S SHOW

Bob Ashford from Frome Allotments Association

talks about gardens, vegetables, fruit and flowers

and encouraging schools to run allotments

fromeallotments.co.uk

FROGS members Sheila Hedges, Liz Hutchinson,

Emma Tilley and Pavla Kislerova tell us about their riverside project,

growing and using herbs, medicinal and culinary

fromefrogs.org

Dave Whitehead, Secretary of Frome Park Bowls Club

tells us about the club, bowling greens, bowling techniques

and their Open Day on 22 April, 11-3pm at Victoria Park

fromepark.bowlsclub.net

COMMUNITY NEWS

SPARK and Health Connections Mendip are holding an

Older People’s Information event on 16 April 10.30-2.30

at the Cheese and Grain with free refreshments.

Open event, all welcome, booking not required.

NHS 70th anniversary celebration at the Merlin Theatre

on 15 April at 7.45 with Dr Phil Hammond looking back at

NHS achievements and forward to the weird and

wonderful directions medicine may take.

Tickets £12.50/£15.50