ALLFM @ Inspire
ALLFM has operated as a successful community radio station for 6 years. Its name is derived from the areas across which it first operated: Ardwick, Longsight and Levenshulme. Its reputation has grown steadily and in 2006 it won a 5-year community radio license and now operates across south, central and east Manchester and according to a BBC survey has become the preferred radio station for 9% of the local population. ALLFM provides various training programmes for volunteers and other beneficiaries including a ‘Skills for Community Radio’ NCFE level 2 training course.
It is currently located in an inadequate, inaccessible house on a residential street in Levenshulme and so the Inspire Centre development presents an ideal opportunity for the radio station to move into a purpose-built facility and join up its services with those of the other Inspire partners.
ALLFM will fulfil 3 broad functions within the Inspire Centre:
- It will deliver radio broadcasts and web based media services that engage, entertain and inform the local community and create a platform for local people to discuss issues affecting their communities and a conduit to discuss their concerns with the statutory services working in the area.
- It will provide volunteering, accredited training and educational support packages in creative arts and media to key beneficiary groups including presentation, research, interview techniques and many other transferable workplace skills.
- It will celebrate and promote the cultural offer within the area through providing a recording studio for hire and promoting occasional live performance events within the Inspire Centre.
For more information about ALLFM please click here.
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