Roll on Spring please! I thought I had escaped the winter sniffles but alas, this week I have been fighting off a tickly throat and runny nose. Fortunately, I don’t think it has taken hold, but I think that is only because I have forced myself to take it easy, go to bed early and consume copious amounts of echinacea and vitamin C (I am a little obsessed with the stuff!)
Grant Funding Workshop
Last Tuesday I attended a superb grant funding workshop lead by Stephen Wright from Grant Funding Skills. The three-hour workshop was packed with hints, tips and examples of good and bad funding applications. I am now on a mission to secure funding for a variety of projects, not to mention some much needed new studio equipment as most of ours has been in constant use for nearly eight years!
I am delighted to say that Stephen will be one of our panel speakers at our next Community Expo on Thursday 19th April at Rookery Hall Hotel. He will be joined on the panel by Su Turner, of Insight to Impact Consulting, offering advice in governance and leadership in education and the Third Sector, Jo Grubb of JG Creative Communications who helps businesses and charities with their branding, Andrea Holland who helps with communication in both sectors and Dianne Parrish from Cheshire Connect, a brilliant organisation that links charities to commercial organisations for non-financial and practical support to either help them grow or become more sustainable.
Please do contact me if you would like to attend as a delegate, or an exhibitor and next week I will provide a full run down on who the Keynote speakers will be.
Regent's Park Nantwich Broadcast
Last Friday I presented a mammoth six-hour Business Day show all about Regent’s Park, the site where we are based on London Road in Nantwich. It was the grand finale to our #LoveYourCommunity month at RedShift where all through February, our guests have been individuals, schools, community and commercial organisations that are active in our Crewe & Nantwich community.
We have interviewed over 60 people and learned heaps about things that are going on right here on our doorstep. Please visit our Listen Again page on our website to catch up with the interviews.
Our #RegentsParkDay included interviews with the ladies from Pressed for Time Ironing Service, Young Gas and Oil, The Nantwich Therapy Centre, Little Angels Pre-School & Nursery, Beastmasters Thai Boxing, Inches Weight Loss Gym, AJH Accountancy and Hullaballoo Kids. This is just as small sample of the dozens of great small businesses we have here at Regents Park. You can hear all the interviews at www.redshiftonline.org/regentspark.
Welcome to Two New Presenters
Last week we welcomed two new young presenters; Sinead D'Abreu-Hayling who has sung at a number of our events over the last two years has joined with her old school friend Ellen Adby to host a musical theatre show on Sundays at 3pm. Ellen has Tourette’s but certainly doesn’t let her tics get in the way of learning a new skill.
Being able to train and give opportunities to people with certain life challenges like Ellen is something that I am really proud of about RedShift. As an online radio station, we are not subject to the strictness of Ofcom so opening our doors to people that may not get the chance to present radio through traditional FM stations is something we value greatly.
Battle of Nantwich
We had our debrief meeting of the Battle of Nantwich last week. The feedback was very positive and I would especially like to thank the new volunteers and sponsors that we have recruited this year following a plea for help via this article. I would also like to mention however, that the event does reply on people paying to go on to Mill Island to watch the Battle and unfortunately, this was the lowest year yet for income, largely due to the number of people who stand on Waterlode and refuse to make any donation.
If you would like to help out with the next couple of big events for us: The Big Day Out and the Nantwich Show - both in July - please call 01270 440 750 and we can let you know about the volunteer opportunities.
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