Community

Currently over 90 people aged 12 to 75 are training/working with SWINDON 105.5 across the average week, learning or developing skills or sharing skills with other volunteers.

SWINDON VOICES 
  get your neighbourhood, group or community involved with their community radio station

Represent your views, issues, good news...    Take advantage of training sessions, make  your own programmes, take part in public debate or promotion of your interests, concerns or celebrations.

A grant from AWARDS FOR ALL through the NATIONAL LOTTERY (January 2009) allowed us to work with PENHILL to form a new media group and develop a range of skills enabling regular programmes to be made and broadcast by and through the team.  In addition we are developing our project in BROADGREEN, working with people of all ages and abilities to capture stories, discuss issues and record individuals' experiences.

Voices  Allowed
first Friday of each month 
programmes produced by members of Upham Road Training Centre with people with learning difficulties

Penhill Voice
 fortnightly Tuesdays at 10am;  listen again Wednesdays at 1pm
To find out how to get involved give us a call or e-mail the studio...

Central Voices
The Broadgreen weekly programme  Tuesdays after 4pm
and again Sunday mornings at about 9.20am

More about Broadgreen...
Broadgreen is a residential neighbourhood located close to the town centre, developed during the years either side of 1900 on land owned by the Goddard family. Victorian terraced housing, in a grid formation of narrow roads and 'back alleys', is now home to a richly diverse community.

The long established Community Council has sought and achieved strong partnerships with statutory bodies to ensure sustainable improvements have been delivered for all residents. Physical changes to some of the central street areas were developed and delivered between 2005 and 2008 in close consultation with a wide spectrum of the community. This project had led to the holding of regular 'Community Events' which provide lively and relaxed opportunities for closer community engagement.

One strand of the Community Council's engagement strategy is the strengthening partnership with Swindon 105.5 through 'Swindon Voices'. In this series of programmes John Taylor has conversations with people who live, visit or work in the Broadgreen Neighbourhood with a view to 'painting a rich picture' of Swindon's most cosmopolitan community. An equally important outcome is the development of an oral achive of first hand experiences and memories from residents and others who are proud to be part of the Broadgreen kaleidoscope.

Contributors have included 'senior citizen' residents who have only ever lived in the same house, residents who have made Broadgreen their home after coming to England from the Punjab, Liberia and the Caribbean complimented by conversations with community activists and dedicated Youth Engagement workers who bring both interest and enthusiasm into the lives of Broadgreen's young people.

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