At the end of February 2012 an exciting new training scheme will launch at BBC MediaCityUK and if you are over 18 with a great knowledge of your community, an interest in storytelling and a passion for journalism we want you to be involved!

The BBC 2012 Community Reporters scheme is giving budding reporters the chance to receive training in all aspects of journalism and then work with journalists and programme makers to develop, pitch and produce radio and television content for potential broadcast on BBC North West News, BBC Radio Manchester  and also working with teams in 5Live News and 5Live Sport.

For further information click here.

Good luck!

Nine new plays have been written by the writers on the project  covering a range of issues, genres and styles.

During the project we have have looked at the many components that comprise writing a play for radio. The next task was to explore ideas and pitch stories.  Finally, came the writing.

The stories ranged from the absurd to the tragic,  but each is unquiue and entertaining.

The Levenshulme Players provided the actors,  giving life to these voices.

Nine plays have been recorded and will be broadcast in the new year.  We will also be inviting budding writers to apply.

This project is supported by The Arts Council and Manchester City Council.

Are you looking for low cost affordable office space  in Levenshulme?

ALL FM has a  furnished office  approximately one hundred square foot with 24 hour access in a friendly environmen?.

For only £40/week including utilities.

If you’re interested please email ed@allfm.org or call 0161 248 6888

Do you want to improve your speaking, listening, reading and writing skills?

Well now’s your chance!

Starting in November at various places in Manchester including ALL FM, you’ll have the opportunity to learn or improve your English; speaking, reading and writing.

Classes are free, but you must be a Manchester resident.

To join the ALL FM course you’ll need to sign up on the 16th November between 12 and 3 pm.

Classes will take place once a week from November till July. Each class is three hours long and by the end of the course  your English speaking, writing and reading will be much improved.

Enrolment will take place during class times from 14 November 2011 but learners will be able to enrol on the classes if there are spaces at any point during the year.

Teaching starts the week of 21 November. Classes will run during term time and finish in July 2012.

For more information please call Nuala on: 0161 254 7447.

Or if you want to learn at ALL FM call: 0161 248 6888 or email ed@allfm.org

Below are the details for the other venues.

This project is supported Manchester City Council, Manchester Adult Education Service and Manchester College.

To celebrate ‘The Levenshulme Festival’ ALL FM is offering young people the chance to  make their own radio show, small business the opportunity to write, record and brodacst their own ad whilst team building at the same time and buddling playwrights the chance to write their own radio plays. If interested in any of the below opportunities please email ed@allfm.org

I LOVE LEVENSHULME FM

Are you a young person aged 13-17?
Ever wanted to present your own show?
Now’s your chance.

To celebrate ‘The Levenshulme Festival’ ALL FM are recruiting young people to write, broadcast and present a LIVE radio show.

We only have a few spaces so if you live in Levenshulme and you love Levenshulme, why not tell the world?

CALLING LEVENSHULME SMALL BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS

Would your organisation benefit from a team building day? Ever fancied learning about radio?

Would you like the chance to write, record and broadcast your own ad? Have it played throughout the festival?

To celebrate ‘The Levenshulme Festival’ ALL FM is offering this opportunity to one lucky Levenshulme organisation.

EVER WANTED TO WRITE FOR RADIO?

Are you interested in writing radio plays?
Do you want to learn to write for radio?

Would you like to have your play recorded and broadcast on air?
If the answer to the above is ‘yes’, then ALL FM is giving you the chance.

To celebrate ‘The Levenshulme Festival’ ALL FM is providing you with the opportunity to learn the techniques of writing for radio. You will develop your own radio play with the assistance of a writing tutor and a small group of fellow writers. This will be performed by community actors and broadcast on ALL FM 96.9

If you live in Levenshulme then get in touch. But be warned we only have a few spaces.

ALL FM has applied to Natwest Community Force for funds that will allow us to work with children, training them in radio broadcast and supporting them as they plan, write and present  their own shows LIVE  on ALL FM 96.9

We will provide them with a voice to speak to other children and young people. This project will allow these children and young people to speak for and to their communities.

It will improve their communication skills, confidence, literacy ability and above all they’ll  HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!

We need your help please vote for us by the following the link:

http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/3868

Tell your friends, spread the word; Facebook, Twitter,  maybe even by by talking..

Thanks

Saturday 10th September  1pm – 5pm: Northmoor All Together Community Event 

Outside Broadcast live at Crowcroft Park:

Live music in the park, fun fair, bouncy castle, face painting, food, drum workshop, make your own instruments, information stalls, giant games and a record sale.

11am to 1pm – Trash to Treasure litter pick.
Swap a bag of litter for a reward!

For more information contact Sarah Riley on 07929651447

Interested in advertising on ‘The Real Voice of Manchester?’

You can now get 99 plays of your advert for only £99 (including breakfast and drivetime) with free advert production included.

For more details email: ed@allfm.org

Or call Ed  on: 0161 248 6888

ALLFM will be running a Radio Production Summer School for children in August.

So, if you’re aged 8-11 and live in South, East or Central Manchester and want to work in team;  producing, writing, recording and broadcasting your own show LIVE – now’s your chance.

If you’re interested all you have to do is get your mum, dad, guardian etc….to email ed@allfm.org with your name, your parents’/guardian’s name and contact telephone number and email address and we’ll get back to you.

Oh and it’s free!

Places are limited so what are you waiting for….?

We’ve teamed up with  Manchester Literature Festival for a project celebrating poetry along the A6 Corridor. Earlier this year, we commissioned 5 poets from the area (Suzanne Batty, Helen Clare, Pete Kalu, Shamshad Khan and Martin De Mello) to produce new poems set in and around the Stockport Road area of Manchester. We also provided training in radio production for a group of volunteer producers who will be recording the finished works in location and interviewing the poets about their work.

ALLFM’s Intergenerational Radio Project was part of the successful Manchester Generations Together bid.

The bid for this particular project had been submitted on behalf of the North West District Partnership Panel (Children’s Services). A multi-agency steering group was formed to oversee the project and they met on a monthly basis.

The aim of the Generations Together programme (co-ordinated by Manchester City Council’s Valuing Older People Team) was to break down barriers between young people and older people and the wider community through the development of intergenerational practice.

Have a look through the ALLFM_Intergenerational_Radio_Project_Report to see how we got on.

To see what other projects around Manchester were involved in Generations Together, go to Manchester City Council’s website.

Here are just a few of the many people we’ve recently worked with across our community radio training projects.

These two short films show some of our presenters and staff talking through their work with AllFM. We’re grateful to Hannah Burleigh, James Balmont, Beatrix Mortimer, Linda Laace, Aneesa Asam and Hannah Brown, all students from the University of Manchester’s Combined Studies department, for sharing these with us.

We’re pleased as punch to announce a Summer Fete in aid of ALLFM taking place on Saturday 28 May [11am-5pm] at the Klondyke Club [1 Burnage Range, Levenshulme].

There’ll be live bands, super fun activities for the little ‘uns and some amazing local arts and crafts sellers. As well as some nice cake and a record fair thrown in for good measure.

We’re offering traders free stalls: so get in touch! We’d love you to come and sell your wares.

We’re also looking for helpers on the day – so if you’re any good at raffles, face painting, or cake baking, then we need your input!

The Mainstream will be broadcasting live from the Fete between 11-1pm so come along and say hello.

Admission is just £1 for adults and kids can come for free [though they must be accompanied by a grown up].

So, if you’d like a stall or want to help out in any way, just drop us a message here and we’ll get straight back to you.

Sir Gerald Kaufman attends Summer Fete

The Labour MP for Gorton attends Summer Fete in aid of ALLFM and commends the station on its ‘community spirit’.
Sir Gerald Kaufman, the Labour MP for Gorton, honoured the Summer Fete with his guest attendance and spoke to representatives from the station and members of the local community.

ALL FM (96.9) was proud to welcome the MP to the Klondyke Club, Burnage Range, where there was live music, market stalls and fun kids’ activities for everyone to enjoy.

Here he was able to see firsthand the station’s close relationship with people from thriving diverse local and business communities that distinguish the station as a voice of the area.

Speaking on the day, Sir Gerlard commented: “It was great go along and see the community spirit represented so well by the ALL FM and all who work there. “This is reflected in its broad and diverse audience and proves it is something worth defending for in the face of harsh government budget cuts.”

ALL FM (96.9) has a listener audience of seven per cent in Greater Manchester (14,000 regular listeners) and is presented by a team of dedicated volunteers, broadcasting shows in English, Farsi, Urdu and Polish to provide a voice for as many members of the community as it can.

Station Manager Ed Connole thanked Sir Gerald for the visit and congratulated everyone who contributed on the big day. “I would like to take this opportunity to thank Sir Gerald Kaufman and everyone who volunteered to help bring this event together. It could not have been such a success without you.”

The station provides training for all of its volunteers, whether young or old, working with some of the most vulnerable, including young people at risk of exclusion, adults with mental heath issues, and adults with learning difficulties.

Many of our volunteers are unemployed and the experience they get from ALL FM gives them skills they can use to gain employment and as a result many of our presenters have gone on to work for local and national broadcasters.

Contact details:
For more information, please contact info@allfm.org

Notes to Editors:
ALL FM is a community radio station broadcasting to South, Central and East Manchester 24 hours a day from our studios in Levenshulme.

Our output is almost entirely volunteer-led, with a small team of staff to run the studios and manage our community projects.

A “something for everyone” approach aims to reflect the diversity found in the local community, and we strive to deliver varied, distinctive community radio for our listeners.

We have debates, discussions, radio plays, live bands/artists, comedy and news programming in a variety of languages… and much more besides!

Turn your dial to 96.9 FM

To listen live click LISTEN NOW or to catchup, click LISTEN AGAIN

Click here for our first Volunteer Steering Group Newsletter: July 2011 VSG Newsletter

To listen live turn your dial to 96.9 FM or click LISTEN NOW

Or to catchup click: LISTEN AGAIN

Are you interested in writing radio plays?

Do you want to learn to write for radio?

Would you like to have your play recorded and broadcast on air?

Working with a playwright you will learn the techniques of writing for radio. You will develop your own radio plays and with the assistance of the playwright develop a short radio play. This will be performed by community actors.

If you live in South, East or Central Manchester and are interested then get in touch.

For further information please

Email ed@allfm.org

Call Ed on: 0161 248 6888

This project is Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Manchester City Council

Pupils from St Mary’s R.C. Primary School in Levenshulme work with Dave Murat at ALL FM as they write, record and produce an advert for their school to be broadcast on ALL FM.

Pupils from St Mary's Primary School write and record an advert for their school

On Tuesday 19th July pupils from Brentwood S.E.N. School came to ALLFM to find out about radio. Here they spent the afternoon with Jason Cooke learning all about writing and presenting.

They wrote about themselves and their school and then went into our studio to record and present their work.

You can hear them on  The Breakfast of Champions this Friday 7-9am.

An independent charity would really like to know what you think of ALLFM.

Is it like audio wallpaper in the background or do you love it?
Does what you hear change what you think of the area or could it be “Made in Chelsea” for all its relevance to you?
We’re holding  a focus group (tea, biscuits and conversation) about ALLFM.  Can you join us ?
If so, call 0161 237 3931 and leave a message with your name, number and the area you live in – and we’ll get back to you.    Thank you!