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

Don’t forget to tune in from midday on 5 May for 24 hours!

Full schedule and details at Frome College 24-hour takeover 2018

Business sponsors

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 and you will be mentioned on air during the broadcast.

ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW

Ros Whitehouse talks about the newly-launched

Women’s Shed and the skills on offer.

The venue will be the Welshmill Hub Remakery, 1st floor.

Start date is Monday 0900 a.m. 21st May

Facebook page : Frome Women’s Shed

Patrick Abrahams from Frome Men’s Shed tells us about the plans for

mutual help with the Women’s Shed and the Remakery project.

The Improve Don’t Move event will have a Men’s Shed

stall on draught-proofing

Improve Don’t Move – Cheese & Grain, Sat 19th May 10-3 Free

Asham Woods Somerset Wildlife Trust woodland crafts event

with bird and batboxes made by the Men’s Shed

5th May 9.30-5.45 £6 or £4 for children

somersetwildlife.org

Sue Willis from the Frome Children’s Festival

is in the studio to tell us about the festival’s 

recent grant, their plans for this year’s event

which has a special emphasis on support for children with disabilities.

Sunday 8th July in Victoria Park

Facebook page : Frome Children’s Festival 

 Charlie Orr, Project Officer, Frome Town Council

talks about his role as a project officer concerned with

economic development in Frome

and the main events – business breakfasts and Discuss and Do events.

frometowncouncil.gov.uk/your business.

There’s also a short segment about new volunteering opportunities coming up in Frome

taken from the volunteerfrome.org website

volunteer.volunteerfrome.org

Facebook page : volunteer Frome

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

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’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 May for 24 hours! More information and a schedule for the 24 hours is here.

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 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

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