£10,000 lottery award to Hospital Radio

The local Hospital Radio serving the patients and staff at Hereford’s County Hospital have been successful in obtaining a Grant for £10,000 from the Big Lottery fund.

Hereford Hospital Radio is a local charity that has over 40 members, and provides bedside entertainment to patients at the City’s Hospital and to those former patients listening at home, via the Internet  or via the Hereford Hospital Radio’s recently developed iPhone APP.The APP for Apple itunes allows former patients and relations listen to the radio station wherever they are in the world. It was developed earlier this year.The Grant is being used to extend the stations output, by allowing it to attend many local events and broadcast these events live back to patients.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is also working with the station to strengthen its output and to find new ways of getting the radio heard across more of the county and into the local community.

Chris Hughes Chairman said ‘ We are delighted that on our first ever application to the National Lottery we have been successful. We are excited that over the coming months we can be broadcasting from events around the county, if anyone has an event they would like us to attend, please email info@hhr.org.uk”

If you would like to know more about HHR, Call 01432 233033

The Weekend starts here with Olle Grove – Except here is BBC Radio 1.

Friday nights, The weekend starts here, presenter Olle Grove represented Hereford Hospital Radio and broadcast to the whole nation thanks to Greg  James and Feet up Friday on BBC Radio 1.

Olle Tells the HHR Website “I applied for Greg James’ Feet Up Friday show and thanks to Gary Pounder, who works on the show, (and also happens to attend the University of Westminster and doing the same course as me but 2 years above) myself and 3 others on my course were asked to come to the Radio 1 studios to be in the audience! After a lengthy wait and various meet and greets with the producers of the show, we were shown through to the Live Lounge, which happens to be a slightly unmagical control room,

where we got to see Trevor Nelson on his 1Xtra show. Just after 1pm we were shown through to the studio where we met Greg James and shared some stories with him. After our introduction on air we stood and sat at the back of the studio and watched everything happen (for a radio geek like myself, it was absolute heaven!). I then got to talking with Greg off air about his background and how he got into radio, he had his own Hospital Radio show when he was teenager and that’s when I got onto the subject of Hereford Hospital Radio which he then mentioned on air! It was so nice to A) have some more air time and B) raise a little awareness worldwide of our radio station. At the end of the show, they collate the whole audiences shout outs for one person to read, now after our chat about my show on a Friday night, Greg spoke the most amazing words I’ve ever heard in my life “Olle, you’re going to present on Radio 1, you sit in my chair, have my headphones and I’ll produce you.” I cannot describe how excited I was! I did the shout outs and to round the whole experience off, he let me take us out of the show by doing my normal opening link on HHR! We went for a tour of Radio 1 after the show which was extremely interesting and we got to meet the big boss, all of the production teams and all of newsbeat. It was a truly incredible day and one I wont be likely to forget in a very long time.”

Andrew Easton and BBC Hereford & Worcester live from our studios

BBC Hereford & Worcester presenter, Andrew Easton, came back to his roots and broadcast a very special Easter Bank Holiday show from our studios.

Andrew has probably travelled the furthest out of all the BBC Hereford and Worcester presenters team to be with you as he hails from down under – Christchurch, New Zealand in fact!

He arrived in the UK in 1993 and has always had a passionate interest in radio and joined the HHR team which helped him get a foot through the door at BBC Hereford & Worcester in the early 2000′s when Andrew started doing ‘all the other things that no-one else wanted to do.

But in April 2011 he came back to where his radio career started, and thanks to the support of the BBC Hereford & Worcester team, did his show live from our studios.

If you are buying CD’s, Music, Electrical items then please visit our new eStore! You can help us to raise valuable funds today by shopping online – and you won’t spend any more than going to the retailer’s website directly

HHR has today released an APP for Apple itunes that allows former patients and relations listen to HHR.

The App has been written Brett Jenkins, who grew up in Hereford and a number of years offered to join HHR, since that time Brett has been to Swansea, where he was invloved in a Student Radio Station Xtreme and wrote an APP for their station.

Brett was approached by Hospital Radio, to expand the Internet radio base of HHR, following its launch in 2010. Following months of work, and testing, and the approval process laid down by Apple, the APP has been launched. Download it now from iTunes

Becoming a member of Hereford Hospital Radio is a lot of fun, but also involves training on our Studio equipment, and broadcast training. Training is enjoyable but can take a while to master the studio equipment.
Please be aware that all new members have to have a CRB check which may on some occasions take a while to complete.

So please, give us a ring on 01432 233033

or email us to find out more about joining Hereford Hospital Radio

We cater for all age groups and tastes of music with an extensive collection of audio in our library. The station is run entirely by volunteers and we rely on outside events, show sponsorship and donations, to provide funds to continue this valuable service.
If you want to find out more about Hereford Hospital Radio call us on 01432 233033