On Thursday at 5pm, Audrey will be hosting a tribute to Denise on her show. Tune in 5pm ALL FM 96.9

… the real voice of Manchester
On Thursday at 5pm, Audrey will be hosting a tribute to Denise on her show. Tune in 5pm ALL FM 96.9
We were saddened to hear of the sudden death of Denise. Denise had been a guest on Audrey’s show on numerous occasions and was also a close friend of Audrey’s. She was always a positive presence and an amazing singer. She is much missed.
At 4pm today is the Last Lockdown show. Thank you to all you lovely orgs & people doing amazing things. Our role was merely to highlight the amazing things you’re doing to help the communities of Greater Manchester at this time. Thx also to One Manchester for supporting us.
HUGE thanks to Sean Connors for presenting & producing and generally doing an all round super ace job.
On Friday 26th June at 5pm, Sean will be hosting a Dave Booth’s tribute show. Dave had co hosted with Sean on ALL FM for a couple of years now and we’re all devastated here by his death.
Tune in ALL FM 96.9 this Friday.
Delighted to receive a Special Recognition Award from the High Sheriff of Manchester for our efforts during the pandemic. A testimony to the hard work of our staff & volunteers.
The Summer lectures had to be postponed but over the past few weeks The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society has been producing regular e-magazines to keep lively minds nourished and, what do you know, it includes ALL FM.
We have been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. This follows on from being awarded ‘Community Radio Station of the Year’ in October 2019.
The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service aims to recognise outstanding work by
volunteer groups to benefit their local communities. ALL FM is one of 230 charities,
social enterprises and voluntary groups to receive the prestigious award this year.
Ed, the Director of ALL FM said ‘ this award reflects the hard work, talent and
vision of our volunteers. The voices of our volunteers represent many communities in
Greater Manchester. They speak for and to communities. This award recognises
and celebrates this. Now more than ever it’s vital that our communities have a voice.
I’d also like to thank our small staff team who has helped train our volunteers and
keep the station on air. It’s a real team effort.’
Co-chair of the Volunteers Steering Group, Vicky is delighted; ‘As the
longest serving female presenter, nineteen years and counting, my enthusiasm and
love for this station has never faltered and is something I have never and will never
take for granted. I’m still learning all the time and it’s such a privilege and pleasure to
be here and long may it continue’.
We were devastated to hear of Dave’s sudden death on Saturday. Dave had co hosted with Sean on ALL FM for a couple of years and was a part of the family here. Dave’s contribution to Manchester music is legendary and his legacy is huge.
We send our condolences to his family and friends.
If you missed the Daily Lockdown Show; 4pm every weekday, highlighting what’s happening in your community right now and what’s open, available and support there is. Listen again on:
https://www.mixcloud.com/ALLFMBulletin/
If you want to promote what’s happening in your community or your an organisation supporting your community, get in touch with Sean on info@allfmtraining.org
We will be producing a Daily Lockdown Show, every weekday 4pm, highlighting what’s going on in your community to help support you during this period. The show will be presented and produced by Sean Connors.
If you are an organisation and you want to promote and highlight events, initiatives or ways to help please email Sean on info@allfmtraining.org
Freephone helpline to support the more vulnerable in Manchester
A new freephone helpline to support the more vulnerable people in Manchester during the Coronavirus pandemic will go live on from 8.30am from Monday 30th March 2020 offering support to
• People over the age of 70 who are self-isolating and have no support network
• People who have received a letter from the NHS advising they are at higher risk or are medically vulnerable according to government criteria
• Those who are self-isolating with no support networks (ie. friends or family).
Help will also be available, but not limited to, other groups such as carers, care leavers or young carers.
The primary needs that call handlers can help with are:
• Delivery of food
• Delivery of medication
• Combating loneliness
• Managing fuel top-up payments
The freephone number is: 0800 234 6123 and lines are open Monday to Saturday, between 8.30am and 5.30pm.
You can also goto: www.manchester.gov.uk/coronavirus where people can access up to date information immediately.
The Inspired Taskforce will help by
– providing a freshly cooked meal every day to a group of 50 targeted older or vulnerable people
– delivering food bags on Fridays to all those who would normally get food bags from The Bread & Butter Project.
– working with Levy Corona Helpers to mobilise a team of around 30 delivery drivers
– organising a ‘telephone tree’ to support 150 older people with a phone call each week
IF YOU KNOW OF ANYBODY WHO MIGHT NEED SUPPORT OR IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE A DELIEVRY VOLUNTEER OR PHONE VOLUNTEER THEN PLEASE CALL KATE ON 07459626955
Spotted on Slade Lane, Lev
For those in need call 0300 365 3101 or goto:
www.feedmycity.org
The government has issued guidance saying that community centres should be closed other than for “essential voluntary and public services” and cafes are permitted to be open for “food delivery and takeaway”. Following this guidance, and in discussion with other community partners, the Inspire Centre is now closed to the general public.
However, Inspire staff and volunteers will continue to work to provide services to the community in three ways:
We have calculated that to provide the services set out above it will cost Inspire £2421 per week. We have made a handful of funding applications for emergency support but we have also launched a community fundraising campaign.
If you feel able to support our work and would like to make a donation then please visit our Virgin Money Giving Bee Kind Be Safe Be Levy fundraising page.
Many thanks for all your support.
Here’s a couple of website that may help
Mary Watson, tel: 0161 860 5523
Angeliki Stogia, tel: 07901 528 750
Aftab Razaq, tel: 07799 560 244
A remote Befriending Service
Referral’s to other organisations such as those helping with Emergency Food Packs, grass roots community/church groups
Those volunteers who are eager to offer their time will be signposted to grass root community/church groups
They are registered to issue Foodbank Vouchers Electronically
Holding a virtual Youth Club at the times youth provision would normally be on
Providing online play activities and packs for children
Offering remote services and staying in touch with all our parents and carers of Nursery Children
Tel: 0161 446 4805 or 07985 740 669
Books to Go provides a home delivery service for Manchester residents who have limited mobility, a visual impairment or any difficulty leaving their home.
They have books in both ordinary and large-print size, talking books and DVDs. Call 0161 227 3800 or email bookstogo@manchester.gov.uk
They are particularly in need of: Paper products, e.g. toilet roll, kitchen roll, tissues, cleaning products, toiletries, non-perishable food items
Things to pass the time when in isolation, e.g. books, crossword books, jigsaws etc.
Donations can be dropped off Monday to Friday, between 9am and 5pm at:
Gorton Day Centre, Melland Centre, Mount Road, Gorton. M18 7QR
Crossacres Care Home, Reel Hall Road, Wythenshawe, M22 5DG
Openshaw Resource Centre, 10 Catherine Street, Openshaw. M11 1WF.
Ardwick and Longsight Foodbank need donations; food and money. So if you can help pls email info@ardwickandlongsightfoodbank.org.uk
or call 0161 273 3977, that 0161 273 3977
FareShare needs volunteers to help manage food redistribution to the more vulnerable . They’ll provide training and expenses.
If you are COVID-19 free ,not in a vulnerable group nor supporting someone who is, please call 0161 223 8200 option 6 or go to faresharegm.org.uk
Try and stay in contact with people when possible. Even when isolated, try as much as possible to keep your personal daily routines or create new routines.
Minimise watching, reading or listening to news that causes you to feel anxious or distressed. Get information updates at specific times during the day, once or twice. The sudden and near-constant stream of news reports about an outbreak can cause us all to get worried. Get the facts; not the rumours . Gather information at regular intervals, from places such as the BBC, Manchester City Council, NHS, ALL FM. Facts can help to ease the fears.
Assisting others in their time of need can benefit the person receiving support as well as the helper. Check-in by phone on neighbours or people in your community who may need some extra assistance. We’ll get there.
Hi everyone, we’re going to attempt an ALL FM daily update re CoronaVirUs and what’s on out there. Firstly, there’s a lot people out there who want to help and support, so let’s try and stay positive. If you want to tell us about anything going on in your community please email ed@allfm.org
Let’s quickly cover the symptoms of CoronaVirus, these are:
If you have these symptoms, however mild, please stay at home and do not leave your house for 14 days from when your symptoms started. You don’t need to tell the NHS you’re staying at home, and you won’t be tested. Get in touch with the NHS if:
You should do this by calling the NHS on phone number 111. Don’t go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital. The Government has advised us that we should try and avoid contact with other people in confined or social spaces such as cafes, pubs, cinemas and theatres. These measures are called social distancing. In practical terms, for many this means trying to remain at home if possible. There are some people who need to pay particular attention to this advice to stay at home and avoid contact with other people. These include:
If you’re online, go to nhs.uk for more info.
You’re still able to go outside to exercise, or to get fresh air and it’s OK to go to the shops for essentials as long as you do not have any symptoms. Go to local shops if you can. Firstly they’re more likely to have the essentials. Secondly we need to support our local businesses, now more than ever.
You need to avoid coming into close contact with other people, and avoid gatherings with friends and family where possible.
One of the best ways of killing the virus and stopping its spread is by making sure you wash your hands frequently and thoroughly with soap and hot water, or hand sanitiser if you have it
You should wash your hands:
Local organization that need our support right now, include:
Ardwick and Longsight Foodbank need donations; food and money. As you can imagine foodbanks are having issues right now. So if you can help pls email info@ardwickandlongsightfoodbank.org.uk
or call 0161 273 3977, that 0161 273 3977
FareShare needs volunteers to help manage food redistribution to the more vulnerable . They’ll provide training and expenses.
If you are COVID-19 free ,not in a vulnerable group nor supporting someone who is, please call 0161 223 8200 option 6 or go to faresharegm.org.uk
AgeUK Manchester are setting up donation and distribution hubs in Openshaw, Wythenshawe and Gorton to provide local older people with daily essentials.
They are particularly in need of:
Donations can be dropped off Monday to Friday; 9am to 5pm at:
Gorton Day Centre, Melland Centre, Mount Road, Gorton. M18 7QR
Crossacres Care Home, Reel Hall Road, Wythenshawe, M22 5DG
Openshaw Resource Centre, 10 Catherine Street, Openshaw. M11 1WF.
For more info; please email terri.torevell@ageukmanchester.org.uk
We’re going to try keep this daily bulletin going, so tell us what’s going on in your area, big and small. Email Ed@allfm.org
Let’s stay calm and support each other.
Today is International Women’s Day; An equal world is an enabled world.
Celebrate women’s achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.
Tune in today, all our shows are being hosted by female presenters focusing on the challenges, issues and celebrations of and for women around the world.
Freelance Sales Person
ALL FM Training Ltd is the trading arm of ALL FM (ALL ARTS & MEDIA trading as ALL FM), a registered charity supporting the communities of Manchester. We use radio training and live broadcast to improve the soft, employability and life skills of the more vulnerable in the Manchester communities.
ALL FM Training Ltd uses radio training for companies, SMEs and individuals to generate profits for the charity to improve its sustainability.
We are seeking a sessional freelance service, which may be provided by a company or a self-employed individual, to promote and secure sales of the ALL FM radio training, develop new income generating partnerships and helping sustain the parent charity’s work.
This is a temporary position, three days per week for initially five months. If it’s a role that you love and are successful in then there is the potential for contract extension and long term work.
A basic of £70/day plus a generous commission of 25%, we’re looking for someone who’s self-motivated, doesn’t want micro managing and shares our beliefs. Is that you?
Sales Tasks:
Required:
The successful applicant will be required to arrange their own working hours and use of their own resources to complete the tasks; access to the ALL Arts and Media office can be provided but this will be only during office hours and by prior arrangement.
If you think this is you please email a cover letter detailing your experience and CV if applicable to ed@allfm.org
Deadline: 17/2/20 5pm
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/studio-two-opening-tickets-86679650167
Following the amazingly brilliant live music event to launch our Stevie Fly Studio. We’ve decided to host another amazingly brilliant live music event to launch Studio 2 and we’d like you to come. Live music, live bar and lots of lively people, it’s going to be a lot fun. We have fantastic artists performing:
Ticket are only £5 (+ eventbrite commission) and all the money raised goes to ALL FM building a training room & office. Support ALL FM plus have an amazing night. Its a Win Win!!
Thanks to the Foyle Foundation & the Leathersellers Company for the support.
For tickets go to:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/studio-two-opening-tickets-86679650167
ALL FM Training Ltd is looking for a Salesperson
ALL FM Training Ltd is the trading arm of ALL FM (ALL ARTS & MEDIA trading as ALL FM, a registered charity supporting the communities of Manchester). ALL Arts & Media run a community radio station serving the communities of South, East and Central Manchester. With over 100 volunteers from a diverse range of backgrounds presenting and producing radio shows, we use radio training and live broadcast to improve the soft, employability and life skills of the more vulnerable in the Manchester communities.
ALL FM Training Ltd uses radio training for companies, SMEs and individuals to generate profits for the charity to improve its sustainability. Training can take place at ALL FM or from an organisation’s base and its aim is to improve its workforce’s skills, teambuilding and promotion.
We are seeking a sessional freelance service, which may be provided by a company or a self-employed individual, to promote and secure sales of the ALL FM radio training, develop new income generating partnerships and helping sustain the parent charity’s work.
This is a temporary position, three days per week for initially five months. If it’s a role that you love and are successful in then there is the potential for contract extension and long term work.
A basic of £70/day plus a generous commission of 25%. We’re looking for someone who’s self-motivated, doesn’t want micro managing and shares our beliefs. Is that you?
Sales Tasks:
1.Identifying and establish potential new sales opportunities for ALL FM Training and respond positively to such opportunities;
2.Ensuring that timely, accurate and persuasive presentations are made to prospective customers;
3.Conducting research, telesales and prospecting projects in order to recruit potential clients;
4.Setting sales targets with the ALL FM Training team and tracking sales goals and reporting results as requested;
5. Promoting ALL FM Training and its services;
6.Networking with ALL FM Training Ltd’s partners to promote training opportunities and develop relationships
Required:
1. Experience in planning and implementing sales strategies;
2.Experience in customer relationship management;
3. A track record of success in sales;
4. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
5.Knowledge and experience of the Manchester and Greater Manchester business sector.
The successful applicant will be required to arrange their own working hours and use of their own resources to complete the tasks; access to the ALL Arts and Media office can be provided but this will be only during office hours and by prior arrangement.
If you think this is you please email a cover letter detailing your experience and CV if applicable to ed@allfm.org
Deadline: 22/11/19 5pm
ALL FM is looking for an Employment Support Provider
We are searching for a Provider; this may be a sole trader or an organisation.
Purpose of the Role:
The Employment Support Provider will play a central role in the implementation of ensuring that the ALL FM Radio Production Training is addressing employability skills for the participants. You will be working closely with the ALL FM Radio Trainer and Station Manager and wider team to complement the Radio Production skills training and to support employability training for out of work adults.
Employability training will include: acting as a job coach for participants who are seeking employment, helping them to search, prepare for and access into employment, cv development.
Main Elements:
I. To support the employability aspect of Radio production
II. To utilise employability training to support the participants.
III. To help engage and liaise with employers to identify suitable opportunities (work experience, jobs, placements, trials, internships, volunteering) for participants including contacting employers, assessing potential job roles/work placements and joint planning
IV. To promote and support links between local employers, ALL FM and participants.
V. To develop and maintain links with relevant organisations, groups and agencies e.g. education and training providers, Jobcentre Plus/Department for Work and Pensions, to support the delivery of ALL FM’s training.
VI. To work with the staff team and volunteers to identify and support participants to enable them to progress towards work/supported employment including CV development, interview skills, portfolios, training and qualifications
VII. To ensure a full understanding of available job roles/work opportunities for participants and to help match them to appropriate opportunities taking full account of both employer and participant needs
VIII. To provide job coaching support to participants to help them transition into work safely and effectively e.g. adopt appropriate workplace behaviour, integrate into the social environment of the workplace and making sure the work gets done to the standards required by the employer
IX. To monitor and review participants in work experience and/or volunteering placements and to provide advice and support to the employer and participants to enable progression
X. To maintain confidentiality at all times in line with ALL FM’s policies.
XI. To develop, operate and maintain robust record keeping procedures in line with relevant GDPR and confidentiality requirements, ensuring accurate and up todate records including individual member files, daily and weekly logs, records of achievements and significant occurrences
XII. Any other duties as agreed commensurate with the nature and level of the post.
Main characteristics
1. Experienced in helping people with barriers to improve their employment and job search skills to secure employment
2. Knowledge of and commitment to person centred approaches to supporting vulnerable/disadvantaged people.
3. Experience of working with and/or supporting volunteers
4. Excellent organisational and time management skills and ability to manage a diverse workload/prioritise effectively
5. Passion for developing others and effective interpersonal style including; able to lead by example in supporting others to fulfill their potential, excellent communication and facilitation skills, good team working skills, ability to work on own initiative
6. Good administration and IT skills (e.g. word processing, excel, email)
7. Knowledge of recruitment and/or of working with out of work adults.
8. Experience of developing employment opportunities for those facing labour market disadvantages
9. Experience of working in/with community based organisations & businesses
10. Experience of marketing and promotion e.g. newsletters, press releases, events Letter of application and interview
Additional Information:
The post is for 1.5 days/week with flexibility in delivery to match delivery commitments.
There may be a requirement for some evening working.
Note that as this post will have responsibility for working with vulnerable adults it is subject to an Enhanced DBS check. Rate: £100/day
Applying for the post
To apply for this position please send:
A letter of application setting out why you want the position, how you meet the requirements and what you will be able to contribute to ALL FM (no more than 2 sides of A4) and a CV if applicable to ed@allfm.org
Subject to a service contract.
A sole trader will need to prove evidence of self employment.
Deadline: 22/11/19 5pm
We have commenced building Studio 2. We anticipate it being operational in December.
We are very grateful to The Foyle Foundation and The Leatherseller’s Company Charitable Fund for their support in this project.
The Community Radio Awards 2019 ‘Station of the Year’ is……..ALL FM 96.9
Manchester’s ALL FM won the prestigious ‘Station of the Year’ award in the Community Radio Awards in South Wales on Saturday night. Nominated for the third successive year, ALL FM was competing with; ‘Pride Radio’, ‘Spark FM’, ‘Ujima Radio’ and ‘Wycombe Sound’.
A judge commented on ALL FM that it was ‘possibly the most inclusive, diverse station I have ever heard and is a wonderful example of what Community Radio should be’. Another judge praised ‘the wide range of programming available and the clear passion of the presenters’.
ALL FM’s ethos is ‘by the community, for the community’. It has 115 active volunteers and broadcasts 7 days a week, 16 hours a day. Its shows include six foreign language shows, shows by and for; carers, people on the Autism Spectrum, those with mental health issues, disabilities, people from BAME communities, LGBTQ communities as well as specialist music shows, DriveTime and Breakfast shows.
In addition to broadcasting, it trains a diverse range of people in the Manchester communities. In November it will be commencing radio training projects with those who have long term mental health issues, out of work adults, women and older people at risk of isolation. Chair of ALL FM, Martin Logan who also presents the very popular ‘Out & About in Manchester’ said ‘The Irish are one of many communities in Greater Manchester to benefit from ALL FM’s diverse outlook and innovative approach to training and broadcasting.’
Ed Connole, Director of ALL FM said ‘There are so many amazing community radio stations in Greater Manchester and the UK. So we’re very proud to have won ‘Station of the Year. This award represents the hard work, dedication and talent of our volunteers and staff who have been going above and beyond for over nineteen years. It’s a great achievement.’
In addition to the ‘Station of the Year’, ALL FM also won the ‘Community Development Project’ of the year for its partnership with Chapel St Primary School on the Radio Takeover Day in December 2018. On December 14th from 9am until 7pm Chapel Street’s children presented and produced every show live on air covering a diverse range of issues and topics. Martin Steers, Chair of The Community Radio Awards commented ‘“Radio continues to play a strong community role, and it’s a privilege to showcase it. The recognition for ALL FM is well deserved, and we hope it showcases their success, and encourages others to engage, represent and support their communities.”
ALL FM acknowledge and thank Manchester City Council, Our Manchester and the Tudor Trust for its support. Without whom winning ‘Station of the Year’ would not be possible. We also thank OneManchester and Children in Need for their support on the Chapel Street Primary School Radio Takeover Day.
ALL FM & Chapel St Primary Primary School were triumphant in the Community Radio Awards winning Gold in the Community Development Project Award for their ‘Radio Takeover Day’ in Dec 14th, when children from Chapel St presented and produced every show live from 9am till 7pm
One judge commented; “Great to see Community Radio’s resources being used in this way. Good to see stations working with Primary-age children – often projects like this focus on teenagers.”
The project was supported by Manchester City Council, Children in Need and OneManchester’s Community Soup initiative.
For the third year in succession we have been nominated for ‘Station of the Year’. Last we were Bronze, so come on ALL FM….
Our Radio Takeover Day with Chapel St Primary School, when on Dec 14th, the children presented and produced every show from 9am -7pm, has been nominated for ‘Community Development Project’ at the Community Radio Awards.
Congratulations to our very own Moz who has been nominated for ‘Sage Person’ in the Community Radio Awards.
ALL ARTS & MEDIA Prize Draw Terms and Conditions
Communities speak with one voice to protect girls in the lead up to the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM
● FGM stands for Female Genital Mutilation and it is also known as ‘cutting’, ‘female circumcision’ or ‘sunna’ among other terms
● 6th February – International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM
The Government’s ‘Let’s Protect Our Girls’ campaign has garnered support from healthcare professionals, FGM campaigners, grassroots organisations, community-based media and people from practising communities who have spoken out against FGM, highlighting the lifelong consequences it can cause women. The campaign sends a powerful message that communities should protect children from this horrific practice, as it is child abuse and is illegal in the UK.
Dr Israa Siddig, Obstetrician & Gynaecologist said: ‘The Let’s Protect Our Girls’ campaign and the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM has provided a good platform to talk about a very important but uncomfortable issue for many. I’m a keen advocate for women’s health and am passionate about helping people to understand the life altering health consequences that FGM can have on women which can include childbirth complications, period problems, scarring, mental health issues and urinary infections. In some cases, FGM can even cause death.”
Dr Seun Bakare, GP goes further to explain: “People need to be aware of the dangers of FGM. It has no medical benefits and is often carried out by traditional circumcisers or cutters who do not have any medical training.”
Hibo Wardere, FGM campaigner added: “Many FGM survivors that I meet do not make the connection between the health issues they are experiencing and FGM. There’s a real disconnect. More education is needed to help practising communities understand the harmful effects.”
Janet Fyle, Policy Advisor for the Royal College of Midwives comments on the cultural aspect of FGM, she said: “I’m from a community that practises FGM and I say categorically that FGM is not part of my culture. When people ask me about my culture I talk about our food, my language, the music – things that are joyful and uplifting. FGM is child abuse, full stop. It condemns the girl to lifelong physical and psychological health problems. It’s a serious criminal offence in the UK and it rightly carries stiff penalties, with a maximum of 14 years in prison.”
Sarian Kamara, FGM campaigner added: “Some people believe that FGM will stop girls and women from being promiscuous. I can tell you from my own experience and talking to other survivors that it’s not true, however, it does leave you with emotional and physical scars that can last a lifetime.”
From a faith perspective Dr Mohamed Fahim, Imam said: “There’s nothing in the Quran that says we have to conduct FGM, it doesn’t exist. There is not a single Hadith (Prophetic Tradition), that Prophet Mohammed performed this on any of his daughters or granddaughters.” Likewise, Reverend Marjorie Esomowei also commented: “The bible is very clear, there isn’t any requirement for a woman to undergo FGM. It doesn’t make her more honourable in the sight of God.”
We all have a responsibility to protect our girls and should contact the NSPCC’s free dedicated FGM helpline if you are concerned that a child is at risk of or has undergone FGM.
You can speak to an NSPCC FGM helpline advisor anonymously on 0800 028 3550 or email fgmhelp@nspcc.org.uk so that appropriate action can be taken. More information can be found online at www.nspcc.org.uk/fgm
Together we can end FGM in a generation
We trained twenty pupils from Chapel st School in radio production and live broadcast. On 14th Dec ALL FM 96.9 hosted a Radio Takeover Day by their pupils. Fr
Today and tomorrow we hosted training days aimed at recruiting more women radio presenters and producers at ALL FM. Introduction and training today. More training tomorrow which will culminate in a live show on ALL FM 96.9!!
After a year of researching, training, audio editing and drinking lots of coffee, we launched Routes Into Levesnhulme, a series of shows about the people of Levenshulme; their journies, their stories, their lives.
On July 6th at Fred’s Ale House, the Bridgewater Blues Band with able support from Jelly Sours will playing a benefit gig for ALL FM. So come along, enjoy, sup and help support your favourite community radio station!!!
A brave team of volunteers will be running across the NW on May 20th to raise funds for your favourite community radio station.
We train, we broadcast, we support. The voice of Manchester and slightly beyond…
Please support our runners:
https://www.wonderful.org/fundraiser/thegreatrun-59518be9
We have our Young Carers training and broadcasting on ALL FM 96.9
Volunteers Needed!!
Levenshulme community workshop and clean-up will be taking place this Saturday 3rd March (weather permitting!!).
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS…
Meet at Levenshulme Inspire on Stockport Road
12-1pm CLEAN UP OF WOODFOLD AVE CAR PARK
1-1.30PM REFRESHMENTS
2-4PM PRIORITES FOR LOCAL ACTION WORKSHOP
To reserve a place email e.mccarten@manchester.gov.uk
Or just show up on Saturday…
The Library opened its doors and the good people of Levenshulme, Gorton & beyond came. We are delighted to be part of this ambitious project and look forward to exciting times ahead…
We’re delighted to welcome the Owl & the Coconut to Lev Library as our fellow tenants & neighbours.
Their mission is to create a mindful, healthful, happy, creative society for all!
‘We create safe, preventative Mindful Art tools, events and resources, to enable people to be active partners in nurturing their own mental and emotional wellbeing. Mindful Arts is a catalyst, creating empowered, mindful, creative, compassionate people and communities.’
What’s not to like!!
We are looking for a Freelance Radio Trainer to assist in training children aged 8 to 11 for our Children’s Radio Training project. This project will involve training and supporting children aged 8-11 in all aspects of radio production leading to live shows. The shows will be a mix of interviews, discussion, issues affecting children and music – by children for children. The training sessions (2-3 hours) will take place after school. The times/dates will be decided after consulting with the children.
Attached is a Job Description & Person Spec. Please email and CV and covering letter detailing your experience and why you wish to participate in this project by 6th March 5pm to Ed Connole; ed@allfm.org
Huge congratulations to our very own Linda Breakbeat Bee who just won best radio show in the 2017 BBS awards! Tune in every Friday at 9pm to find out why.
So it’s a bit cold and needs a little hoovering here and there. But its home to ALLFM. Or least the West Wing of the library is home to ALL FM. Or at least it will be when the crack gets repaired. We’re getting there….
troubles, we believe…
We are departing 19 Albert Road. Many live sessions came from here, lots and lots of radio training, radio drama, thousands of hours of broadcast and many happy memories. Many people were welcomed as guests, presenters, volunteers and friends.
But don’t despair they’ll be lots more to come in our new home; Levenshulme Old Library. So stay tuned in…
Here we are with Sheun Lok with our Bronze for ‘Best project’. It’s nice to be recognised for the good quality work that so many people here at ALL FM put; staff & volunteers.
We have been nominated in two categories in the Community Radio Awards;
‘Best Station’ and in partnership with our friends Sheun Lok, ‘Best Project’.
Excited & deserved…!
On the 21st July ALL FM hosted an Outside Broadcast at the Manchester School of Art for the launch of ‘Creative Health’, the report of a research inquiry into Arts and Health by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health & Wellbeing (APPG).
The aim of the report is to inform a vision for political leadership in the field of arts, health and wellbeing in order to support practitioners, and stimulate progress and future research. In the light of its findings, the APPG will seek to influence the thinking and practice of politicians and other decision-takers.
The report was introduced by co-chair of the APPG, Lord Howarth of Newport (pictured below) who was accompanied by parliamentarians and special guests. It was quite a prestigious event for Manchester and ALL FM
As part of ALL FM Training’s #RadioTrainingInADay program on Sunday 11th June, we trained Didsbury FM. They take their place along side organisations such as Hilton Hotel, Manchester City Council, Pixel8, Magnetic North, Manchester Histories Festival and many many more.
This is Didsbury FM’s show. And we think it’s amazing…
https://www.mixcloud.com/ALLFMTraining/didsbury-fm-11th-june-2017/
ALL FM Training was broadcasting live from the Greater Manchester Manchester Business Fair. Opening our live Outside Broadcast was our Patron, Lemn Sissay.
We met and talked with lots of Manchester businesses and the day provided us with the opportunity to promote our radio training programs for companies & organisations in the North West.
If you’d like more information about our radio training for organisations and companies as a teambuilding and skills development program, email ed@allfm.org or click on the link above.
We’re planning to interview the candidates in the Gorton byelection.If you have a question pls email projects@allfm.org & we’ll try to ask.
ALL FM Training Ltd was established to train organisations and SMEs in team building via radio training leading to a live show on ALL FM 96.9. The live show which is devised, written & hosted by the particpants. What’s in it for organisations? Your staff inprove their communication and presentation skills plus it’s a great way to bond a team. Also it’s a great way to promote your organisation; LIVE on ALL FM 96.9
You start the course knowing nothing about radio and very soon you’re going live on air with your very own show. We run 1 day, 2 day & 5 day training courses.
Already we have worked with Pixel8, Shuen Lok, University of Manchester, PossAbilities, Coffee Cranks & MACC. In March we are welcoming the Big Issue and Manchester History Festival.
For more information go to allfmtraining.org
ALL FM & North Manchester FM joined forces to broadcast a special Christmas show from Manchester’s Central Library.
From 9am-5pm we re wrote our schedules for some festive fun at one of Manchester’s most iconic resources.
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Having successfully completed the World War One Radio and Theatre project,we interviewed the children (& their teacher) from St Mary’s CE School to gain their thoughts on the project and World War One.
https://soundcloud.com/user-644698099/evaluation-through-the-ears-project.
Our revised Ofcom Key Commitments
Key Commitments
Licence number: CR000023
Service name All FM Licence area South Manchester (as shown in the licensed coverage area map) Frequency 96.6 MHz
Description of character of service
All FM provides an ‘ultra-local’ service for the local communities of South Manchester and encourages members of the communities to be involved with its programming. It provides content that reflects the diverse inner city communities of the area, both in terms of the music and the speech content provided.
The service broadcasts:
-Music. The main types of music broadcast over the course of each week are: chart music (past and present) and music of appeal to the different ethnic communities in the local area. The service will also feature specialist music programmes.
-Speech: The main types of speech output broadcast over the course of each week are: content that reflects topics and issues of concern to members of the target community, as well as events taking place within the local area, discussion and local information.
-Over the course of each week, the majority of programming is broadcast in English, however, specialist programming in other languages that reflect the diversity of the communities in the area also feature.
-The service provides original output during daytime hours between 07:00 and 19:00.
-The studio is located within the licensed coverage area.
-The service provides a range of community benefits (social gain objectives mandated by statute) for the target community, both on-air and off-air, and in doing so, achieves the following objectives:
-the facilitation of discussion and the expression of opinion,
-the provision (whether by means of programmes included in the service or otherwise) of education or training to individuals not employed by the person providing the service, and
-the better understanding of the particular community and the strengthening of links within it.
Members of the target community contribute to the operation and management of the service.
The service has mechanisms in place to ensure it is accountable to its target community.
[March 2008. Revised September 2016]
1 Original output is output that is first produced for and transmitted by the service, and excludes output that was transmitted elsewhere before. Original output can be live or voice-tracked. Repeat broadcasts of original output do not count towards the minimum requirement. cr000023
On 30th September to celebrate the close of the Vintage FM project and ‘National Older People’s Day’, ALL FM hosted an OB at the Whitworth with each show hosted by an older person. The majority of whom have been trained in the Vintage FM project.
Vintage FM is a project run in partnership with Age Friendly Manchester, Royal Exchange, the Whitworth and the Manchester Art Gallery. The project is supported by the Baring Foundation, Anchor Homes & Manchester City Council.
After months researching the lives of children in Manchester & Moss Side during World War I, working with; IWM North, PHM & John Rylands Library, the children then worked with a Soundscape artists to create the sounds of Manchester & Moss Side in 1916. The next task was to work with a writer to recreate the voices of these children of a hundred years ago.
The final task was to record the voices of these children at ALL FM in the form of letters to their fathers.
Their words play over the Soundscape in memory of the children of the First World War.
https://www.mixcloud.com/ALLFMTraining/through-the-ears-of-a-child/
On July 15th St Mary’s CE School performed ‘Through the Ears of a Child’. Working with ALLFM (via Alison Down and Joe Gillbanks) the yr 10 pupils using the monologues they’d developed earlier in the project as a starting point for a performance about being a child in Manchester in WW1.
This project was supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Manchester City Council
After merely a few weeks of training our Culture Champions broadcast their first radio show on ALLFM and they were amazing!!
Culture Champions are part of the Vintage FM project in which we’re partnered by; Age Friendly Manchester, The Royal Exchange, Manchester Art Gallery & The Whitworth Art Gallery. The project is supported by The Baring Foundation, Anchor Housing and Manchester City Council. The aim of the project is to promote and encourage participation in culture for older people in Manchester.
In July St. Mary’s CE Primary School, Moss Side broadcast their ‘Through the Ears of a Child’ audio project on ALLFM 96.9 FM. This project saw ALLFM work with St Mary’s in researching the lives of Moss Side children in WW1. Visiting; the Imperial War Museum, the People’s History Museum, the John Rylands Library, as well as welcomeing an expert to St mary’s from MMU, the children learnt about the lives of Manchester children in 1916. They then worked with a writer and Soundscape artists to write monologues from the point of view of a Manchester child one hundred years ago. They then recorded these monologues at ALLFM.
The monologues were broadcast on ALLFM alongside a soundscape of the sounds of Manchester from 1916.
This project was supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Manchester City Council
Our Vintage FM team were at The Royal Exchange to review ‘The Mighty Waltzer’.
Vintage FM is a project in which we’re partnered by; Afe Friendly Manchester, The Royal Exchnage, Manchester Art Gallery & The Whitworth Art Gallery. The project is supported by The Baring Foundation, Anchor Housing and Manchester City Council.
ALL FM hosted the very best unsigned Manchester bands to promote #LiveMusicDay along with our radio broothers & sisters at North Manchester FM.
A range of whows, diverse musicians and lots of fun.
Btw it was also our 16th birthday!!
Here is Jess, our community news reporter. You have something you want to promote let her know…
email ed@allfm.org
tweet @Jess_Franny
Tel: 0161 248 6888
Susan Cattan was a writer on ALLFM from the first soap writing session onwards. She helped develop the ideas, the characters and the script. Her contribution to ‘Station Road’ and ALL FM was significant and we mourn her passing.
There are many scripts that she wrote we have still to record. We will miss her creativity, her artistry and her joy.
https://soundcloud.com/station-road/discussion-and-episode-1
We will offer unemployed Manchester residents training in radio production and broadcast leading to a live show on ALL FM 96.9.
The learners will learn all aspects of radio production; driving the desk, utilising the software, writing shows, interview techniques, talking on the mic, planning, pitching and presenting a show. The benefits for the learner will be improved IT skills, greater interview skills, improved literacy, better communication and social skills, improved confidence and the experience of producing and presenting their own live show.
Each learner will be given the opportunity to host their own show after the course.
For more info email ed@allfm.org
As part of our ‘Through the Ears of a Child’ project, which looks at children’s lives in Manchester during WWI. Pupils from St Mary’s CE Primary school tour the city centre looking at the Great War’s effects upon Manchester, courtesy of the People’s History Museum.
The project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, North West.
Radio training commences for Culture Champions at ALLFM.
Partnering with Age Friendly Manchester, Royal Exchnage Theatre, Whitworth Art Gallery & The Manchester Art Gallery, we’ll be training our newest presenters to broadcast live radio shows about Manchester’s Cultural opportunities for older people.
This project is supported by The Baring Foundation, Anchor Housing, Manchester City Council & Adactus Neighbourhood Fund.
ALL FM is joining forces with Age Friendly Manchester, The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester Art Gallery & The Whitworth Art Gallery in a project designed to promote arts and culture to older people using radio and radio training.
We are working with older people, some in care homes training them in radio production and broadcast leading to live shows. Listen in Thu morning at 9.30 am to catch their shows.
We are grateful to The Baring Foundation, Anchor Homes, Awards for All, Manchester City Council and all who support us in working with older people.
Thirteen different shows, including children, older people and everyone in between, all to celebrate International Women’s Day. Teaming up with North Manchester FM we both re wrote our schedules to promote and celebrate womens’ issues and achievements in Manchester and beyond.
Thanks to all the presenters, guests, artists and volunteers who made this such a special day.
On Tue 8th March ALL FM are re writing the schedule, inviting special guests and celebrating all things female, joining forces with North Manchester FM to bring music, news and interviews from a woman’s perspective. From 7.30 in the morning till 11 at night
Dec 12th ALL FM joined forces with North Manchester FM to broadcast live music to the whole of Manchester. We kicked off at 7.30 am finishing at 10pm. Even then we weren’t finished, broadcasting live sessions recorded at ALLFM throughout the years all night long.
Cajun, folk, rap, rockabilly, poety and Iranian rap were among the 24 different bands & musicans who performed throughout the day.
We are the home of new Manchester music.
ALLFM & North Manchester FM are teaming up to broadcast live music to the whole of Manchester, by some of Manchester’s finest and up and coming musicians.
The ALLFM scheule for #LiveMusicDay is:
Presenter Musican
7.30am-9am James Graham The Early Risers
9am-10am Lydia Ni-Cola
10am-11am Mog CP Lee & Vocal Harem / Amy and Aidan from Oh Man The Mountain
/Tracey Browne / more TBC
11am-12pm Billy/Rowland Rowland Jones & Liam McClair
12pm-1pm Caroline I See Angels
1pm-2pm Suzi Cajun Specials + Martha John Rose
2pm-3pm Mike z Cosmic Ray & the constellations, The HotRock trio,
3pm-4pm Ann Doolally
4pm-5pm Calum & Ed Impulse, Lou & the Llamas
5pm-6pm Ursula Old House Playground
6pm-7pm Vicky Garron Frith
7pm-8pm Rahim Arash
8pm-9pm Tracy Paulo Simoes
9pm-10pm Eric TBC
We are the home of new Manchester music.
HUGE congratz to Martin, Annette, Donal & all the team at ‘Out and About Manchester Radio’ and to everyone who danced, sang and supported the ALLFM’s 15th birthday fundraiser.
The Spunyboys came from Lille to Longsight to close our 15th birthday celebrations. That, they did in style.
Big thanks to The Spunyboys and to the rock ‘n’ roll fans there for helping support us. And let’s not forget ‘Girls Gone Rockin’ crew (Deb’s,Lesley,Sue ) & of course Davy Jones for promoting and organising the gig.
And we also thank Mike Zodiac for his extensive efforts. Here he is presenting Jason with a cheque for the money raised, which goes towards keeping ALL FM rocking for another 15 years.
Thanks to everyone who came along, supported, popped in, listened in, donated money, donated time, beeped their horn, retweeted, smiled and in anyway at all made ALL FM’s 15th birthday a day to remember.
LIST OF PRIZES IN ORDER OF DRAW WITH WINNER’S NAMES:
The draw was made on 26th July by an independent adjudicator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK6gOL05Ii8
Terms and Conditions: All FM Community Radio Prize Draw 2015
Are you: out of work, in part time or temporary employment?
ALLFM radio training: Learn new IT & interview skills,go LIVE on air and pitch for a show on ALLFM96.9.
And ITS FREE!!!
June 15th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd, 29th, 30th. (This will be the last course for a while.)
For more info email ed@allfm.org
1. Radio training:
We’re running monthly radio training. It’s aimed primarily at adults who are:
unemployed
low paid employment
part time employment
not f/t students
It’s a 30 hour course, so you need to attend all these dates. It’s @ all fm, Levenshulme.
The course will culminate in a live broadcast on ALL FM 96.9 FM. We will also offer the opportunity of broadcasting your own show after your training is complete. You don’t need previous experience and all you need to bring is enthusiasm. A pen and paper may be handy too.
Training is free. Email ed@allfm.org
2. ALLFM Soap ‘Station Road’
We have trained members of the community to write drama for radio. They are currently writing episodes of ‘Station Road’, which is due to broadcast Jan 2015. We are looking to recruit new potential writers. If you’re interested in learning to write for radio email ed@allfm.org
3. Fusion
Fusion is the name of our project where we are training young people in music making, recording, lyric writing & performing. The majority of young people on this project are having issues at school. If you would like further information please email ed@allfm.org
IrishTV broadcast a feature on ALLFM. Here we are talking about ‘Fusion’ (our young people’s music project) and all what’s good about ALLFM…
Sadly Christine will be leaving ALL FM in November. In the year and a half that she has been here, she has been a wonderful asset to ALL FM and I know that everyone at ALL FM will miss her. On the plus side Jane will be taking over the running of the ‘Fusion’ project.
We would like to say a big thanks to Christine (even though she hasn’t left yet). On behalf of all the staff, volunteers and listeners we’d like to say a big THANK YOU.
It is with much sadness that we have to inform you that Danny Lumley aka Fish who presented ‘The Antisocial Social’ on Tuesdays passed away on Friday 19th September.
Fish was a wonderful presenter and person, and his talents and energy will be missed by everyone here at ALL FM. Our sympathies, thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.
His funeral is on Friday 10th October in Bedford Crematorium at 4pm.
His family have requested that no flowers be sent, but would welcome a donation to MIND (via Kingfisher Independent Funeral Directors, Gate Lodge, Cemetery Road, St Neots, Cambs. PE19 2BX).
After the funeral ceremony, there will be a celebration of Danny’s life at St Neots Rugby Club.
(no experience needed)
Limited places so call or email us to book your
place. Contact Mandy/ Chrissie on 07434 282513
or email Christine@allfm.org
The next all fm radio training course runs 12-5pm on the following dates in October:
Tue 1st
Wed 2nd
Tue 8th
Wed 9th
Tue 15th
Wed 16th
The course will culminate in a live broadcast on ALL FM 96.9 FM. We will also offer the opportunity of broadcasting your own show after your training is complete. You don’t need previous experience, all you need to bring is enthusiasm. A pen and paper may be handy too.
Training is free.
Email ed@allfm.org
Artbeat’s Andrew Edwards has been nominated for the Lesbian and
Gay Foundation Homo Hero
So let’s get busy voting…spread the word for Andrew……………..
https://www.lgf.org.uk/surveys/index.php?sid=95345&lang=en
We’ve started a radio training project working with unemployed adults using radio production and broadcast to develop employability and soft skills.
At the end of the training you’ll have the opportunity to have a regular show on allfm broadcasting to South, East and Central Manchester.
For information email jason@allfm.org
The Project is supported by MAES, The Skills Funding Agency and Manchester City Council.
ALLFM projects is our new mixcloud page and online streaming outlet for current or recently funded projects with groups and schools within our local community.
All of our projects are broadcast live on 96.9FM across Manchester UK and online.
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You can now catch up on some of your favourite shows from the stations archive. See what you’ve missed out on and listen again.
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Please note: All of the cloudcasts (re-broadcasted shows) are uploaded solely by the presenter and not by the station, so if there’s something that you can not find – please contact the presenter directly.
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See the latest uploads here: http://www.mixcloud.com/allfm/latest
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From a room full of junk just a few weeks ago, the basement is now resembling a new training room. Not there yet, but not far away.
BIG thanks to Martin, Mark and Terry for their hard work….lets not forget Kev who had the idea and submitted the funding bid to the CDF (thanks CDF) and the Levenshulme Community Panel.
Hello!
Thank you for the warm welcome from everyone. I’ve really enjoyed my time at the station so far and hope I can get to know you all.
If I haven’t met you yet: please come in and say hi.
Chrissie : )
christine@allfm.org
This week pupils from Alma Park Primary School and St Mary’s RC Primary School recorded plays, that were written by pupils from their respective schools. The plays ‘Victoria’ and ‘Reborn’ will be broadcast on ALL FM 96.9.
Pictured are pupils from St Mary’s preparing for their next scene.
The project was supported by the Co-operative Community Fund and Manchester City Council.
Students from Alma Park Primary School are attending workshops at ALL FM where they’ll develop their writing skills. Working with a writing tutor they will write their own radio plays. These plays will be recorded and peformed by young actors from Alma Park. The plays will be broadcast on ALL FM 96.9 FM.
Thanks to the Co-op Community Fund.
BIG THANKS to Paul Johnson who collected £115.74 for ALL FM just by ‘rattling a tin’…..
Thanks to Martin Logan & Fiona Ledgard who ran the Manchester 10k for ALL FM…and also big thanks to Ursula Pabisch for her top sponsorship skills…
Over 50?
Out of work?
Fancy training in radio and broadcasting a show?
ALL FM is starting a course for you.
Email Ed Connole ed@allfm.org
We’ve started a radio training project working with community organisations and individuals working with unemployed adults using radio production and broadcast to develop employability and soft skills.
At the end of the training you’ll have the opportunity to have a regular show on allfm broadcasting to South, East and Central Manchester.
For information email ed@allfm.org
This project is supported by MAES
Business Development Officer
The post of ‘Business Development Officer ‘ is to develop revenue streams for ALL FM via fundraising and sales.
The hours are flexible. We anticipate the working week will be 2-3 days.
This post is supported by Ofcom.
Experience in community radio is not essential. We are looking for candidates who have experience in sales, fund raising, bid writing. You tell us what you can bring to the post.
£20k-25k pro rata
www.allfm.org
For further information please email Ed Connole on ed@allfm.org
Deadline: 12th April
Older Person’s Support Worker,
ALL FM is commencing a radio training project aimed at developing older people’s employability and soft skills. The Support Worker’s role is to support the older people offering encouragement, advice and working with the ALL FM staff team to ensure quality of training.
Main purpose of the job:
1. To support in the recruitment of older people for ALL FM radio training
2. To support in the devising and delivery of training courses and sessions for older people.
3. To assist older people in developing their employability, IT and soft skills
4. To engage older people at ALL FM in line with the Station Policy for community involvement &. Equal Opportunities
5. To work with ALL FM’s delivery partners to ensure maximum benefit for ALL FM and its clients.
6. To work with the ALL staff team to ensure best practice.
7. To identify, create and promote progression opportunities to the older people that are engaged.
8. To assist with the monitoring & evaluation of the project in co-ordination with ALL FM’s policy
9. Other activities deemed necessary by the Management Committee or Station Manager to support the work and development of the station.
Person Specification
Skills/Knowledge
Experience of working with older people over long term projects.
Experience of planning, delivering and evaluating projects with an understanding of the needs of older people.
Excellent communication skills
Experience of liaising with agencies related to older people’s issues.
Excellent knowledge of community learning issues.
The ability to work co-operatively within a team.
The ability to work under your own initiative with the minimum of supervision.
The ability to manage a programme of work and prioritise tasks.
An understanding of the principles and implementation of an Equal Opportunities, safeguarding and Health and Safety.
Experience, Qualifications, Training
At least two years experience within a volunteer-led organisation.
This is a freelance post and the rate of pay is £70/day.
Please email CV and covering letter to Ed Connole ed@allfm.org
Deadline: 12th April
ALL FM is running a young person’s radio training project.
If you’re aged between 13 and 17 and interested in radio production and broadcasting then this could be the project for you. On this project you will learn the technical aspects, how to write your own show, interview guests, use software and how to talk to Manchester via ALL FM 96.9.
Having learnt all the necessary radio skills by the end of the project your group will broadcast your own show. You don’t need previous experience and all you need to bring is enthusiasm. A pen and paper may be handy too.
Places are limited, so if you’re interested email ed@allfm.org
Doodlebug Nuggets fortnightly Sunday evening show (7PM-9PM) features a wonky live mix of ‘dutty’ audio extracts juxtaposed topical narratives and music for both ears.
Dutty Lingo on Doodlebug Nuggets
Ok…Take a step back and try to recall your own generational transgressions. Youth culture, dominated by musical tastes, fashion, objectionable hairstyles and its own language, is nothing but an artefact of growing up. It’s the outcome of the process that young people, navigating the tortured period of adolescence, go through as they seek a community that’s distinct from that which has come before. Essentially it is a period rich in self-expression, catalysed by the negotiation of social boundaries.
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Hulme based artist, doodlebug nuggets host and cultural programmer, Michael Barnes-Wynters was invited to produce a new audio visual installation as part of the high profile, Tate Tanks opening season during last summer’s Cultural Olympiad programme.
Intrigued by young people’s language of the street, where the English language has morphed into Jamaican patois and then some, juxtaposed with being tired of hearing the ‘usual’ Mancunian story, owned by just the same few storytellers. Michael decided to explore the true richness and diversity of our city’s subcultures with its textures, sounds, aromas and the influence of Jamaican culture at its core. With a young creative team, he led the unique production of filming over one hundred and twenty Mancunian and Salford ‘ talking heads’ at Work For Change’s ‘Yard Theatre’ in the heart of Hulme.
An amazingly diverse mix of cultures and ages from 16- 68 shared their stories from Queer to Dancehall, Goths to Grime as all were asked the same three key questions which explores the myriad of subcultures and ultimately the meaning of dutty lingo.
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Britain is as much about jerk chicken, rice’n’peas as it is about fish ‘n’ chips and is as much about the Caribbean Carnival as it is about the Hallé Orchestra.
Dutty Lingo is seeking a home for all to access and an autumn installation in the heart of the Northen Quarter is planned so in the meantime…
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Explore Dutty Lingo Tumblr
All information for this post kindly supplied and written by Doodlebug
Standing in The Shadows of Lev in March. The Americans are coming and the Canadians are going home
On this months SITSOL, we say welcome back and Bon Voyage to some of our favourite guests.
Gabriel Minnikin has been a mainstay of the show over the last few years and before returning home to Halifax, Nova Scotia will be doing his last UK radio session on 9th March. He’ll be bringing a couple of pals with him including Sam Lench (Samson & Delilah, Glad Eyes etc) so it looks like being a mighty fine, if slightly tearful session.
Brooklyn resident and genius singer/songwriter Rebecca Pronsky is playing at The Verge in Stalybridge on 29th March so it’s only natural for her to set the alarm to get over to ALL FM the following morning for a 9.o’clock start.
She’ll be accompanied by her guitarist/producer Rich Bennett, who not only plays some of the twangiest geetar ever but has well cool hair too.
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30th March is a double guest bonanza as not only will Rich and Rebecca be in session but also Blind Atlas front man Ross Thompson will be playing a couple of songs for us.
Ross originally from Denver Colorado, settled in Manchester 5 or so years back and recently moved with Blind Atlas to some place called London. Ross is in town to play on 31 March at one of the gigs that Mog is curating at the Kings Arms and it’ll be great to have him back on the show.
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It’s not all transatlantic guests on this months SITSOL though. On 16th March it’s our pleasure to welcome Little Sparrow for her first SITSOL session, she’s brilliant and has already done a session on Vicky’s Night Moves and recently played at 2 of Levenshulme’s finest establishments The Pod and The Klondyke. Keeping it local, there’s a strong possibility SITSOL will be doing an outside broadcast at Levenshulme Market on 23rd March too. (Though there are court orders in place to stop Mog venturing out of the studio on a Saturday morning).
SITSOL Event Details:
Rebecca Pronsky @ The Verge in Stalybridge
The Lonesome & Penniless Cowboys present A Month Of Sundays
Levenshulme Market – March 2013
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Contact SITSOL on Facebook | Listen back to current and archive SITSOL Shows via Mixcloud.
All information for this post kindly supplied and written by Mog.
Standing In The Shadows of Lev is a SITSOL production broadcasting live on ALL FM every Saturday 9-11am.
You can now catch up on some of your favourite shows from the stations archive. See what you’ve missed out on and listen again.
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Please note: All of the cloudcasts (re-broadcasted shows) are uploaded solely by the presenter and not by the station, so if there’s something that you can not find – please contact the presenter directly.
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See the latest uploads here: http://www.mixcloud.com/allfm/latest
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The Audio and Music Department of the BBC is seeking to develop its relationship with communities across the UK by developing partnerships with community radio stations. They are offering a limited number of 2-week work placements to gain new contacts, stories and experiences. If you’re passionate about Radio and understand what it’s like to have worked in community radio for at least 1 year and can provide a recommendation from your Station Manager or equivalent click on PLACEMENT DETAILS to find out more.
Placement Locations: London and Salford
Placement Month: May, June and July
Placement Duration: Various (not exceeding 20 days)
Free Radio Training if you’re out of work!
Are you unemployed?
Why not train in radio broadcast and production?
You could host your own radio show on ALL FM 96.9!
We’ve started a radio training project working with community organisations and individuals working with unemployed adults using radio production and broadcast to develop employability and soft skills.
At the end of the training you’ll have the opportunity to have a regular show on ALL FM 96.9 broadcasting to south, east and central Manchester.
For more information email ed@allfm.org
This project is supported by Manchester City CouncilTune into ALL FM 96.9 from 3pm today to catch The Mike Zodiac Rock’n’Roll Christmas Special!! Featuring band sessions and interviews from the past 12 months ALL on one show! Tune in and join in the Festive Cheer with Mike Zodiac, with you until 4pm.
It’s true, it’s true. The end has happened, the Mayans were right.
The Mainstream has ended!
From way back when, the 19th of March 2009 Kev and Bex brought you: Pet Corner, Style File, Eye on TV, The Cultural Sector, Movies With Mother the rumble from the concrete jungle and the line from the cable grapevine.
In 2011 allfm had ‘a bit of Kev and Laurie‘ until the 22nd December 2012 with features including, but certainly not limited to: Leonard or Leonard?, In Your Bed, MorrisSez, Ukulele Tune of The Fortnight, Cormac In The Community and The Saturday Lion.
So after 182ish hours of bibble, babble, shouting and nonsense, we’re leaving your alternate Saturday mornings on the mighty allfm 96.9.
As the old adage goes; all good things come to an end, please don’t cry, but do keep your eye on the allfm blog for what’ll be coming in the new year.
We’ll try and get as many shows from the past up to be preserved for ALL OF TIME!
at The Mainstream Museum. For visual goodness, clicky here for videos of Mainstream sessions from Gideon Conn, Tracey Browne, Lou Armer and Jim The Schoolgirl.
Have a verry Merry Festmas from Kev, Laurie and ALL of the Mainstream Team X
Tune in this coming Saturday 22nd December for a Standing in The Shadows of Lev Christmas Special. As is tradition, the show will last for 3 hours and feature a studio packed to the rafters with live guests and festive cheer. Upon this year’s conveyor belt of talent will be Aidan Smith, Quiet Loner, Butcher the Bar, Peter Glennie, Walton Hesse, The Lonesome and Penniless Cowboys and those fine choristers Vivaleve.
In between all this fine live music Mog will be playing Christmas records that you didn’t realise you loved, but trust us, you do!
So that’s this coming Saturday 22nd December, a SITSOL Christmas Special, broadcasting live from 9am, only on 96.9 ALL FM!
There’s always plenty of great stalls, fun and food at the Levenshulme market and with Christmas being a special occasion you can expect lots more to choose from. Hope to see you there this coming Saturday, 22nd December.
Bring your family and pick up some great gifts for Christmas.
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The 2012 ALL FM Annual General Meeting is on Tuesday 11th December: 7pm- 9pm at:
St Mary’s Parish Centre, Elbow Street
(off Stockport Road, 3 min walk from ALL FM, first left after ‘The Fiddler’s Green’ Pub if you’re walking towards Stockport.)
We’ve started a radio training project working with community organisations and individuals working with unemployed adults using radio production and broadcast to develop employability and soft skills.
At the end of the training you’ll have the opportunity to have a regular show on allfm broadcasting to South, East and Central Manchester.
For information email ed@allfm.org
This project is supported by Manchester City Council
All FM is commencing a radio training project in September to work with community organisations and individuals in Longsight, Ardwick and Gorton South.
We aim to work with unemployed adults using radio production and broadcast as a means to develop employability and soft skills.
At the end of the training you will have the opportunity to have a regular show on ALL FM broadcasting and highlighting their work to the residents of South, East and Central Manchester.
If you are interested, or would like more information please email ed@allfm.org
This project is supported by Manchester City Council
Expect to see the combined on-stage clout of… DISLOCATION DANCE + guests THE 99’S + MATT WOLF AND THE BLEEDING HEART BLUES BAND + DENISE MORGAN plus allfm DJs
On Thursday 28th June 2012, 7.30pm
all for only £4.50
For tickets: Click wegottickets
For more info: The Ruby Lounge
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Thanks for supporting the real voice of Manchester here’s to another 10 years!
Our very own Yasmin has landed her dream job at BBC 1Xtra!
Years of studying and broadcasting has paid off and we’re all terribly proud of young Miss Evans.
It goes to show that hard work and being nice pays.
We’d all like to wish her well in her broadcast career.
In a project supported by the Media Trust, allfm are working with students at Cedar Mount School developing a radio show about issues that affect their lives. They are learning the technical skills involved, plus how to write, produce and present for radio.
Their training will culminate with a live broadcast of ‘Cedar Hype’ on Wednesday 4th July between 10:00-11:00am on allfm 96.9!
To celebrate our 10th birthday we’re launching the allfm App.
Designed by ‘The App Media Company’, the allfm App will be available for download from the 14th May.
And it’s FREE!
Available on the iPhone app store and compatible with all Apple devices.
With the allfm App you can tune into the real voice of Manchester anytime, anyplace, anywhere!
World music from Manchester’s diverse communities and beyond…
Manchester’s third Cultural Collage World Music Festival will take place in venues across the city centre between Thursday 10th and Saturday 20th May 2012.
The Cultural Collage World Music Festival is the only Manchester event to promote professional world music from the city’s diverse communities. It was started in 2010 by a voluntary group comprising local world music radio producers, promoters and performers, attracting around 8,000 attendees to its first programme of events.
The programme has included performers from around the globe, including DR Congo, Bulgaria, Jamaica, the Gambia, Argentina, Brazil, India and many other countries and has also included dance workshops and world DJ nights.
Celebrating diversity, music and arts in beautiful North Wales
allfm has teamed up with Manchester Mencap and Manchester People First to train adults with learning difficulties to develop their own radio shows.
Supported by an ESF Community Learning Grants in the North West, the project is aimed at overcoming barriers and gaining the skills and confidence to get back into work.
Once trained the groups working with allfm staff will be writing, developing and broadcasting their own show on:
The real voice of Manchester: allfm 96.9
ALL FM is recruiting freelance staff for the following posts:
-Youth Support Worker:
To support young people at risk of exclusion in a radio training project. One three hours session per week . You will be working with a radio practitioner assisting the young people in radio training production and presentation. You do not need experience of working in radio, but at least two years experience in working with hard to reach young people.
The sessions will take place at ALL FM and other venues in Manchester.
Rate £10-£15/hour
The successful candidate will be require a CRB clearance via ALL FM
-Radio Trainer:
To train young people in radio production techniques. One day (seven hours) per week. You will be working with young people at risk training them in radio production, presentation and supporting them as they broadcast live on air.You will have experience of producing community radio, working with children and young people, especially hard to reach children, delivering training sessions (both formal and informal).
The sessions will take place at ALL FM and other venues in Manchester.
Rate £100/day
The successful candidate will be require a CRB clearance via ALL FM
– Support worker for adults with learning difficulties
To support adults with learning difficulties in a radio traing project. One day per week, including delivery and admin. You will work with the particpants offering encouragement and assistance. Each particpant will have a personal learning plan for which you will help them devise, update and manage. You will work with a radio trainer in delivering the sessions. The role involves both delivery and admin
Rate £10-£12/hour
The successful candidate will be require a CRB clearance via ALL FM
If you would like further information on any of the above posts please email ed@allfm.org
To apply please email a cv and covering letter to Ed Connole at ed@allfm.org
The deadline for these posts is Wednesday 11th April.
If you answered ‘yes’, then allfm is the station for you!
We’re running a radio training project where you’ll get to broadcast LIVE on allfm!
You’ll be trained by a radio professional and will learn how to produce and present a live show.
Best of all, the course is FREE!
For more info email: ed@allfm.org
We’re about to embark upon a second radio play writing training course.
In February we’ll start broadcasting the nine plays written by our first group of writers.
Course details:
Oh and it’s free! (Please note places on the course are limited).
If you live in South, East or Central Manchester and are interested then get in touch soon as.
For more information call Ed on: 0161 248 6888 or email ed@allfm.org
This project is Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Manchester City Council
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.
Monday (enrolment to take place 14 November during class times) | ||
09:30 – 12:30 | Westcroft Community Project 24 – 26 Westcroft Road, Burnage, M20 6EF |
0161 448 8232 |
10:00 – 13:00 | Royal Oak Community Centre Brookcot Road, Baguley, M23 1DX |
0161 998 2146 |
10:00 – 13:00 | Trinity House Community Resource Centre Grove Close, Rusholme, M14 5AA |
0161 225 1064 |
10:00 – 13:00 | Somali Advice Link (women only) 57 Cariocca Business Park, 2 Hellidon Close, M12 4HA |
0161 272 7909 |
Tuesday (enrolment to take place 15 November during class times) | ||
10:00 – 13:00 | Harpurhey Neighbourhood Project Carisbrooke Street, Harpurhey, M9 5UX |
0161 205 5143 |
11:00 – 14:00 | Crumpsall Methodist Church Lansdowne Road, Crumpsall, M8 5SF |
0161 226 7364 |
12:00 – 15:00 | Chrysalis Family Centre 4 – 6 Westerling Way, Moss Side, M16 7EA |
0161 226 8090 |
12:00 – 15:00 | Trinity Church Welcome Centre 2 Greenhill Road, Cheetham, M8 9LG |
0161 720 7284 |
13:30 – 16:30 | Somali Advice Link (men only) 57 Cariocca Business Park, 2 Hellidon Close, M12 4HA |
0161 272 7909 |
17:30 – 20:30 | Wesley Enterprise Centre Royce Road, Hulme, M15 5BP |
0161 226 7364 |
Wednesday (enrolment to take place 16 November during class times) | ||
09:30 – 12:30 | Pakistani Community Centre (women only) 481 Stockport Road, Longsight, M12 4NN |
0161 248 1879 |
09:30 – 12:30 | Whalley Range Methodist Church 51 Withington Road, Whalley Range, M16 7EX |
0161 226 7364 |
12:00 – 15:00 | All FM 19 Albert Road, Levenshulme, M19 2EQ |
0161 248 9988 |
12:30 – 15:30 | Manchester Settlement at The New Roundhouse 1328-1330 Ashton Old Road, Openshaw, M11 1JG |
0161 614 8318 |
Thursday (enrolment to take place 17 November during class times) | ||
09:30 – 12:30 | Northmoor Community Centre Northmoor Road, Longsight, M12 5RT |
0161 248 6823 |
09:30 – 12:30 | Moston Methodist Church Moston Lane, Moston, M40 9PA |
0161 226 7364 |
10:00 – 14:00 | Rainbow Haven 113 Abbey Hey Lane, Gorton, M18 8TJ |
07508838348 |
11:00 – 14:00 | Himmat Support Centre 642 Stockport Road, Longsight, M13 0RZ |
0161 248 0425 |
12:00 – 15:00 | Pakistani Resource Centre 13 Copson Street, Withington, M20 3HE |
0161 434 7800 |
Friday (enrolment to take place 18 November during class times) | ||
09:30 – 12:30 | Healthy Ardwick at Coverdale Baptist Church Coverdale Baptist Church, Coverdale Crescent, Ardwick, M12 4FG |
0161 273 1262 |
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.
ALLFM has a regular listenership of 14,000 people in Central, East and South Manchester and a potential audience of 200,000 people. These are your customers and with our help you can reach them directly. A multilingual station we broadcast in English, Portuguese, Farsi, Urdu and Polish.
Now you can be what everyone’s talking about!
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….?
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!
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Listen in to Breakfast and Drive Time shows on ALLFM 96.9, 8.30am and 5.30pm, Monday 9th – Friday 13th May 2011 to hear how our poets have been inspired by everything from reclaimed tips to tropical fish.
Podcasts of the poems and interviews will soon be available for download via the website.
Poems on the Road project is part of the Connect programme supported by the Community Media Association in partnership with Arts Council England.
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.
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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.