Hospital Radio Colchester (Charity Registration No. 1053331)
Trustees' Annual Report for the year ended 31st December 2004
March 2005
Forward
This report has been compiled in accordance with the provisions of Section 23 of the Charities Act 1992 and the Statement of Recommended Practice (Accounting by Charities) October 2000.
This report has been prepared on behalf of the Management Committee (The Trustees) by the Hon Secretary and Treasurer. The report has been agreed by the Management Committee (The Trustees) for submission to, and adoption by, the Annual
General Meeting of members on Tuesday 29th March 2005.
Legal & Administrative Information
1. The name and address of the Charity is Hospital Radio Colchester, Hospital Radio Studios, Wilson Marriage Centre, Barrack Street, Colchester, Essex. C01 2LR.
2. The governing instrument of the Charity is its Constitution, as amended at the AGM on 29th May 1998. The Management Committee are the Managing Trustees.
3. The names of the Managing Trustees who served during 2004 are as follows.
Mrs Christine Bennett (Chair)
Mr Mark Roberts (Vice Chair)
Mr Kevin Biggs (Treasurer)
Mr Andy Patrick (Secretary)
Mr David Morgan (Fund Raising Officer)
Mr Ray Jennings (Chief Engineer)
Mr William Street (OPC)
Mr Andrew Thompson (Publicity Officer)
Mr Trevor Richards (Membership Secretary)
Mr Brian Dawson (Chief Hospital Visitor) – From 30th March
New trustees are elected annually by the general membership for a term of 1 year.
The Charity operates 2 bank accounts. Current account at Barclays Bank, High Street, Colchester and a CAFCASH charity account with the Charity Aids Foundation, West Malling, Kent.
The Independent examiner of the Charities accounts for the 2004 financial year is Mr Peter Patrick.
Narrative Information
4. Objects
In accordance with the Objects of the Charity specified in the Constitution, Hospital Radio Colchester provides a local radio service for patients in the Colchester General and Essex County Hospitals.
5. Policy
Hospital Radio Colchester has continued its policy of operating and managing the radio service and the facilities at the
Studios, within its financial resources.
6. Organisation
Hospital Radio Colchester is organised as follows.
i) The AGM elects 4 Officers (Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer) and 6 other members to fulfil specific roles (Overall Programme Coordinator, Chief Engineer, Membership Secretary, Chief Hospital Visitor, Publicity Officer and Fund Raising Chairman). The Officers and the other members make up the Management Committee, which administers the management of the service.
ii) Team Leaders are appointed by the Management Committee to organise teams of presenters on weekly broadcast
teams.
iii) The Management Committee appoints Sub-Committees/Working Parties, as appropriate.
7. Membership
Hospital Radio Colchester is staffed entirely by volunteers who present programmes, visit the hospitals and take part in fund
raising activities.
Review of Activities - 2004
8. General Review
The trustees are pleased to report as follows.
a. Programmes
In early 2004 Hospital Radio Colchester introduced our new 24-hour schedule, replacing BBC Radio 2 as our sustaining service. Our main programmes are still produced “live” on weekday evenings between 6pm and 10pm and on Sunday mornings. With the addition of live football commentary these live programmes account for approx. 25hrs per week. Our automation service takes care of the rest of the time with a mixture of pre-recorded programmes (produced both in-house and external) and our “music jukebox”.
The request programme remains Hospital Radio Colchester’s core programme and during the year we have looked at ways of extending the programmes to ensure we cover all wards at least once per week. In addition, and to capitalise on our unique position, interactive programming remains high on our priority list to differentiate ourselves from the more general programming available on other radio stations and the increased competition from TV. Hospital Visitors have played a major part in helping to shape our hospital visiting policy, including taking part in a detailed visitor workshop.
b. Membership:
Membership of the service during 2004 reduced slightly with an average of approx. 45 members involved with programming, fundraising and hospital visiting. As a result we have found it difficult to maintain the Sunday Evening teams, both of which ceased broadcasting in 2004. In an effort to attract more new members we have introduced a new membership process with the aim of speeding up the
overall process and reducing the number of people who join, only to leave again shortly after. This new process will be fully implemented in early 2005
c. Fundraising:
Fund raising activities during 2004 continued to raise the majority of Hospital Radio Colchester’s annual running costs. In particular the annual Fun Day held on 31st May attracted more than 5000 people to Colchester’s Lower Castle Park and included live music, arena events, charity stalls and children’s fun fair. The event remains our biggest single fundraising event and raised over £4000 for HRC. In addition even more money was raised for local charities through our policy of providing free pitches to other local charities. Other successful fund raising activities during the year included Catering for the Firework Display in Castle Park on 5th November, raising £930, and the HRC Roadshow unit, which raised over £1000. During the year major repairs were made to the Roadshow unit to smarten up its appearance as it remains a consistent source of income.
d. Patientline:
With the full introduction of the new Patientline terminals at the General Hospital during 2004 every bed now has an individual bedside entertainment unit which provides telephone, TV and radio. Hospital Radio Colchester is broadcast on channel 6. The benefit to patients is that they can now listen to radio and TV in high quality via headphone rather than by using the old air tube system. As a result of the increased quality HRC made a considerable investment during the year to dramatically improve the quality of our signal. The old BT phone lines which have been used to distribute the signal since 1963 have been replaced by a high quality radio link between our studio’s at the Wilson Marriage Centre and both the Colchester General and Essex County Hospital sites. HRC output remains on the old air tube system at the Essex County Hospital. We also identified the need to have a “freephone” service on the Patientline system to allow patients to call the studio free of charge. This implementation was not straight forward but following negotiations with both the Trust and Patientline we were able introduce the new “Star 800 freephone service” in March 2004. This has proved to be very popular. Now that Patientline has staff based on-site at the General Hospital we have worked to develop a close relationship and hold regular formal and informal meetings with the Manager and members of the team. Patientline staff have also been very co-operative with providing training for our regular ward visitors on how to use the system. We also receive periodic listening figures from Patientline detailing the number of people tuning in. Throughout the year HRC has maintained a relatively consistent performance of being the 3rd or 4th most listened to radio station (out of 6) with a daily average of approx. 115 hours. This figure improves dramatically with live programmes from the wards / hospital and reduces when we are not able to visit the wards.
e. Hospital Trust / CGH Accommodation:
Relationships with the Management at the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust continued to prosper during 2004 with regular review meetings being held with Elizabeth Stalley, Head of Facilities at the Trust. Elizabeth and her staff have been championing our cause within the Trust, which has resulted in HRC continuing to have a very high profile within the Trust. The Essex Rivers NHS Trust PFI project to centralise all acute services onto one site (Colchester General) made significant progress during 2004, culminating with the selection of AMEC as the preferred bidder for the contract. Building work is expected to start in the summer of 2005 with a staged implementation starting in 2007. HRC’s request for accommodation at the CGH site has been fully included in the new plans with an area of approx. 60sqM set aside for our new studio complex. The accommodation will be in a prominent position on the main entrance corridor and will include a large glass window looking into the main studio. We will continue to work as part of the Trust’s implementation team to define the final design. The Management Committee believe that being located on the main hospital site will bring significant benefits to the service
and are committed to making it happen as soon as possible. The amount set aside towards relocation costs has been increased to £12000.
f. Public Relations:
A major milestone during 2004 was the agreement of a new contract with Smile! Publishing to produce our annual patient’s handbook. With increased regulations and general guidance from the Charity Commission our relationship with external companies like Smile needed to be put on more formal basis. Following detailed negotiations HRC has now agreed a contract that covers all aspects of our relationship and is probably one of the first contracts agreed in the UK between a Hospital Radio station and publisher.
To coincide with Patientline going live new posters advertising HRC have been put up in all wards and public areas as well as a permanent advert on the Patientline screens at the bedsides and by vending machines. HRC’s web site (www.hrcolchester.co.uk) continues to be a popular way for people to get in touch and to request for a record to be played for a friend or relative whilst in hospital. We have received requests from as far away as America and Australia
g. Organisation Structure:
The Management Committee introduced a revised meeting structure during the year in an effort to streamline our meetings and spend more time focussing on our core activities and strategies. This has worked well and will continue in the future. We have also started to review the overall structure as well as the roles and responsibilities of the Management Committee to ensure it remains effective.
9. Financial Review
The audited statement of accounts and the auditor’s formal report for the year ending 31st December 2004 is attached at the end of this report. Salient features of the accounts are as follows.
9.1 General Appraisal
Cash balances held by Hospital Radio Colchester decreased to £25,360.28 at the end of 2004. This was due to a deficit of £534.63 on Income over Expenditure for the year. The purchase of the new Radio Link equipment contributed to an increase in equipment assets of £4,926.91, which together
with equipment depreciation costs for 2004 of £3,177.40 saw the considered value of our equipment assets rise by £1,749.52 to £9,532.19. The overall effect of the cash deficit and the increase in equipment assets is an increase of £1,214.89 in our net worth. Net Assets of Hospital Radio Colchester (monetary and equipment) is £34,879.67.
9.2 Income
Donations during 2004 were £2,545.00, a significant decrease on the £5,120.32 generated in 2003. A contribution of £1,650 was received from the Smile! Magazine, down from £2,100 in 2003. The other major donations received in 2004 were £400 from the Prudential Timegivers award scheme, £250 received from M&G and £150 from King Coel Kittens. Fund-raising. Net Income from internal fund-raising activities during 2004 raised a total of £5,968.72 compared to £7,248.60 the previous year. Our main event, the HRC Fun Day on May 31st, raised £4,006.19, a decrease from £4,676.04 in 2003 due mainly due to increased spending on entertainment. Bonfire night catering on November 5th raised £928.31, a small increase
on the £836.52 raised in 2003. Income from Roadshows was £1,034.22; a decrease from the £1736.04 accounted for in 2003 which is reflected by a drop in the number of events attended and £200 included in the 2003 accounts from the 2002 season. Bank Interest in 2004 of £633.61 showed an increase on the figure of £443.85 from the previous year and reflects the upward trend of bank interest rates during the early part of the year. Sundry Income and Membership Fees brought the total income for 2004 to £11,516.42 compared to £15,247.86 in 2003.
9.3 Expenditure
Total expenditure for 2004 was £12,051.05, an increase of £2,434.87 on the total spent in 2003 of £9,616.18. This included BT line rental of £1,704.92, accommodation costs of £1,410.76 and total fund-raising expenses of £1,892.99. Studio maintenance costs for 2004 increased to £948.31 from £166.71 in 2003. This included the cost of repairs to the Roadshow caravan of £744.17 and the installation of a new satellite dish for £65. A total of £5,004.73 was spent on studio and general studio items and equipment, compared to £2,060.58 in 2003. The majority of this amount was spent on the purchase of the new Radio Link equipment for a cost of £4,784.66 and as previously stated this meant that £4,926.91 was added to the value of equipment assets. Licence fees of £377.50 includes the cost of a TV licence of £116, a licence fee paid to IRN of £117.50 and the sum of £144 for a JFMG – Radio Link licence.
Other expenditure in 2004 included £167.00 for insurance, this amount reflects a premium for a six-month period only, £63.18 on new CD’s, £247.31 for the studio phone (which includes the cost of the freephone service of £17.36) and £134.45 on administration.
10. Prospects for 2005
The Trustees feel that after another successful year Hospital Radio Colchester remains in a very strong financial position for the year 2005 and beyond. However we believe we still have some challenges ahead in ensuring we provide a beneficial service for patients. 2005 will be a year of stabilisation with focus on making sure we operate consistently and in accordance with the policies which have been agreed and implemented over the past year or so. We need to ensure that we provide a unique service to
our listeners, one that they want to listen to and take part in. To this end extending patient request shows and patient-interactive programmes will remain a primary objective of the service.
To support the growth in patient focused programmes extra focus will be put into recruiting new members onto the service with hospital visiting being a core responsibility of all new members. We will also be looking to route out the various skills that already exist within our membership and put them to good use in supporting the running of the organisation. We intend to fully implement the 24-hour schedule with focus on adding more locally produced content throughout the year and providing full schedule information for all of our programme output. In addition we will continually monitor the results of both patient surveys and listening statistics from Patientline to ensure we are providing a “complete” service to our listeners.
Another key area of focus for 2005 will be the detailed planning of our move to accommodation at the Colchester General Hospital. This will include areas such as the specific design and layout of the new studio’s, equipment requirements and moving costs etc. Although we are unlikely to move before 2007 it is imperative that we plan the move well and ensure we have adequate funds available.
We will continue to work closely with the hospital authorities to ensure that Hospital Radio Colchester is recognised as an integral part of the hospitals services.
11. Approval by Management Committee
This report was submitted to and approved by the Management Committee (the Trustees) on Tuesday 22nd March 2005 for submission to the Annual General Meeting of Hospital Radio Colchester on Tuesday 29th March 2005.
Signed on behalf of the Management Committee:
C. Bennett (Chairman)
M. Roberts (Vice Chairman / Station Manager)
Trustees' Annual Report for the year ended 31st December 2004
March 2005
Forward
This report has been compiled in accordance with the provisions of Section 23 of the Charities Act 1992 and the Statement of Recommended Practice (Accounting by Charities) October 2000.
This report has been prepared on behalf of the Management Committee (The Trustees) by the Hon Secretary and Treasurer. The report has been agreed by the Management Committee (The Trustees) for submission to, and adoption by, the Annual
General Meeting of members on Tuesday 29th March 2005.
Legal & Administrative Information
1. The name and address of the Charity is Hospital Radio Colchester, Hospital Radio Studios, Wilson Marriage Centre, Barrack Street, Colchester, Essex. C01 2LR.
2. The governing instrument of the Charity is its Constitution, as amended at the AGM on 29th May 1998. The Management Committee are the Managing Trustees.
3. The names of the Managing Trustees who served during 2004 are as follows.
Mrs Christine Bennett (Chair)
Mr Mark Roberts (Vice Chair)
Mr Kevin Biggs (Treasurer)
Mr Andy Patrick (Secretary)
Mr David Morgan (Fund Raising Officer)
Mr Ray Jennings (Chief Engineer)
Mr William Street (OPC)
Mr Andrew Thompson (Publicity Officer)
Mr Trevor Richards (Membership Secretary)
Mr Brian Dawson (Chief Hospital Visitor) – From 30th March
New trustees are elected annually by the general membership for a term of 1 year.
The Charity operates 2 bank accounts. Current account at Barclays Bank, High Street, Colchester and a CAFCASH charity account with the Charity Aids Foundation, West Malling, Kent.
The Independent examiner of the Charities accounts for the 2004 financial year is Mr Peter Patrick.
Narrative Information
4. Objects
In accordance with the Objects of the Charity specified in the Constitution, Hospital Radio Colchester provides a local radio service for patients in the Colchester General and Essex County Hospitals.
5. Policy
Hospital Radio Colchester has continued its policy of operating and managing the radio service and the facilities at the
Studios, within its financial resources.
6. Organisation
Hospital Radio Colchester is organised as follows.
i) The AGM elects 4 Officers (Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer) and 6 other members to fulfil specific roles (Overall Programme Coordinator, Chief Engineer, Membership Secretary, Chief Hospital Visitor, Publicity Officer and Fund Raising Chairman). The Officers and the other members make up the Management Committee, which administers the management of the service.
ii) Team Leaders are appointed by the Management Committee to organise teams of presenters on weekly broadcast
teams.
iii) The Management Committee appoints Sub-Committees/Working Parties, as appropriate.
7. Membership
Hospital Radio Colchester is staffed entirely by volunteers who present programmes, visit the hospitals and take part in fund
raising activities.
Review of Activities - 2004
8. General Review
The trustees are pleased to report as follows.
a. Programmes
In early 2004 Hospital Radio Colchester introduced our new 24-hour schedule, replacing BBC Radio 2 as our sustaining service. Our main programmes are still produced “live” on weekday evenings between 6pm and 10pm and on Sunday mornings. With the addition of live football commentary these live programmes account for approx. 25hrs per week. Our automation service takes care of the rest of the time with a mixture of pre-recorded programmes (produced both in-house and external) and our “music jukebox”.
The request programme remains Hospital Radio Colchester’s core programme and during the year we have looked at ways of extending the programmes to ensure we cover all wards at least once per week. In addition, and to capitalise on our unique position, interactive programming remains high on our priority list to differentiate ourselves from the more general programming available on other radio stations and the increased competition from TV. Hospital Visitors have played a major part in helping to shape our hospital visiting policy, including taking part in a detailed visitor workshop.
b. Membership:
Membership of the service during 2004 reduced slightly with an average of approx. 45 members involved with programming, fundraising and hospital visiting. As a result we have found it difficult to maintain the Sunday Evening teams, both of which ceased broadcasting in 2004. In an effort to attract more new members we have introduced a new membership process with the aim of speeding up the
overall process and reducing the number of people who join, only to leave again shortly after. This new process will be fully implemented in early 2005
c. Fundraising:
Fund raising activities during 2004 continued to raise the majority of Hospital Radio Colchester’s annual running costs. In particular the annual Fun Day held on 31st May attracted more than 5000 people to Colchester’s Lower Castle Park and included live music, arena events, charity stalls and children’s fun fair. The event remains our biggest single fundraising event and raised over £4000 for HRC. In addition even more money was raised for local charities through our policy of providing free pitches to other local charities. Other successful fund raising activities during the year included Catering for the Firework Display in Castle Park on 5th November, raising £930, and the HRC Roadshow unit, which raised over £1000. During the year major repairs were made to the Roadshow unit to smarten up its appearance as it remains a consistent source of income.
d. Patientline:
With the full introduction of the new Patientline terminals at the General Hospital during 2004 every bed now has an individual bedside entertainment unit which provides telephone, TV and radio. Hospital Radio Colchester is broadcast on channel 6. The benefit to patients is that they can now listen to radio and TV in high quality via headphone rather than by using the old air tube system. As a result of the increased quality HRC made a considerable investment during the year to dramatically improve the quality of our signal. The old BT phone lines which have been used to distribute the signal since 1963 have been replaced by a high quality radio link between our studio’s at the Wilson Marriage Centre and both the Colchester General and Essex County Hospital sites. HRC output remains on the old air tube system at the Essex County Hospital. We also identified the need to have a “freephone” service on the Patientline system to allow patients to call the studio free of charge. This implementation was not straight forward but following negotiations with both the Trust and Patientline we were able introduce the new “Star 800 freephone service” in March 2004. This has proved to be very popular. Now that Patientline has staff based on-site at the General Hospital we have worked to develop a close relationship and hold regular formal and informal meetings with the Manager and members of the team. Patientline staff have also been very co-operative with providing training for our regular ward visitors on how to use the system. We also receive periodic listening figures from Patientline detailing the number of people tuning in. Throughout the year HRC has maintained a relatively consistent performance of being the 3rd or 4th most listened to radio station (out of 6) with a daily average of approx. 115 hours. This figure improves dramatically with live programmes from the wards / hospital and reduces when we are not able to visit the wards.
e. Hospital Trust / CGH Accommodation:
Relationships with the Management at the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust continued to prosper during 2004 with regular review meetings being held with Elizabeth Stalley, Head of Facilities at the Trust. Elizabeth and her staff have been championing our cause within the Trust, which has resulted in HRC continuing to have a very high profile within the Trust. The Essex Rivers NHS Trust PFI project to centralise all acute services onto one site (Colchester General) made significant progress during 2004, culminating with the selection of AMEC as the preferred bidder for the contract. Building work is expected to start in the summer of 2005 with a staged implementation starting in 2007. HRC’s request for accommodation at the CGH site has been fully included in the new plans with an area of approx. 60sqM set aside for our new studio complex. The accommodation will be in a prominent position on the main entrance corridor and will include a large glass window looking into the main studio. We will continue to work as part of the Trust’s implementation team to define the final design. The Management Committee believe that being located on the main hospital site will bring significant benefits to the service
and are committed to making it happen as soon as possible. The amount set aside towards relocation costs has been increased to £12000.
f. Public Relations:
A major milestone during 2004 was the agreement of a new contract with Smile! Publishing to produce our annual patient’s handbook. With increased regulations and general guidance from the Charity Commission our relationship with external companies like Smile needed to be put on more formal basis. Following detailed negotiations HRC has now agreed a contract that covers all aspects of our relationship and is probably one of the first contracts agreed in the UK between a Hospital Radio station and publisher.
To coincide with Patientline going live new posters advertising HRC have been put up in all wards and public areas as well as a permanent advert on the Patientline screens at the bedsides and by vending machines. HRC’s web site (www.hrcolchester.co.uk) continues to be a popular way for people to get in touch and to request for a record to be played for a friend or relative whilst in hospital. We have received requests from as far away as America and Australia
g. Organisation Structure:
The Management Committee introduced a revised meeting structure during the year in an effort to streamline our meetings and spend more time focussing on our core activities and strategies. This has worked well and will continue in the future. We have also started to review the overall structure as well as the roles and responsibilities of the Management Committee to ensure it remains effective.
9. Financial Review
The audited statement of accounts and the auditor’s formal report for the year ending 31st December 2004 is attached at the end of this report. Salient features of the accounts are as follows.
9.1 General Appraisal
Cash balances held by Hospital Radio Colchester decreased to £25,360.28 at the end of 2004. This was due to a deficit of £534.63 on Income over Expenditure for the year. The purchase of the new Radio Link equipment contributed to an increase in equipment assets of £4,926.91, which together
with equipment depreciation costs for 2004 of £3,177.40 saw the considered value of our equipment assets rise by £1,749.52 to £9,532.19. The overall effect of the cash deficit and the increase in equipment assets is an increase of £1,214.89 in our net worth. Net Assets of Hospital Radio Colchester (monetary and equipment) is £34,879.67.
9.2 Income
Donations during 2004 were £2,545.00, a significant decrease on the £5,120.32 generated in 2003. A contribution of £1,650 was received from the Smile! Magazine, down from £2,100 in 2003. The other major donations received in 2004 were £400 from the Prudential Timegivers award scheme, £250 received from M&G and £150 from King Coel Kittens. Fund-raising. Net Income from internal fund-raising activities during 2004 raised a total of £5,968.72 compared to £7,248.60 the previous year. Our main event, the HRC Fun Day on May 31st, raised £4,006.19, a decrease from £4,676.04 in 2003 due mainly due to increased spending on entertainment. Bonfire night catering on November 5th raised £928.31, a small increase
on the £836.52 raised in 2003. Income from Roadshows was £1,034.22; a decrease from the £1736.04 accounted for in 2003 which is reflected by a drop in the number of events attended and £200 included in the 2003 accounts from the 2002 season. Bank Interest in 2004 of £633.61 showed an increase on the figure of £443.85 from the previous year and reflects the upward trend of bank interest rates during the early part of the year. Sundry Income and Membership Fees brought the total income for 2004 to £11,516.42 compared to £15,247.86 in 2003.
9.3 Expenditure
Total expenditure for 2004 was £12,051.05, an increase of £2,434.87 on the total spent in 2003 of £9,616.18. This included BT line rental of £1,704.92, accommodation costs of £1,410.76 and total fund-raising expenses of £1,892.99. Studio maintenance costs for 2004 increased to £948.31 from £166.71 in 2003. This included the cost of repairs to the Roadshow caravan of £744.17 and the installation of a new satellite dish for £65. A total of £5,004.73 was spent on studio and general studio items and equipment, compared to £2,060.58 in 2003. The majority of this amount was spent on the purchase of the new Radio Link equipment for a cost of £4,784.66 and as previously stated this meant that £4,926.91 was added to the value of equipment assets. Licence fees of £377.50 includes the cost of a TV licence of £116, a licence fee paid to IRN of £117.50 and the sum of £144 for a JFMG – Radio Link licence.
Other expenditure in 2004 included £167.00 for insurance, this amount reflects a premium for a six-month period only, £63.18 on new CD’s, £247.31 for the studio phone (which includes the cost of the freephone service of £17.36) and £134.45 on administration.
10. Prospects for 2005
The Trustees feel that after another successful year Hospital Radio Colchester remains in a very strong financial position for the year 2005 and beyond. However we believe we still have some challenges ahead in ensuring we provide a beneficial service for patients. 2005 will be a year of stabilisation with focus on making sure we operate consistently and in accordance with the policies which have been agreed and implemented over the past year or so. We need to ensure that we provide a unique service to
our listeners, one that they want to listen to and take part in. To this end extending patient request shows and patient-interactive programmes will remain a primary objective of the service.
To support the growth in patient focused programmes extra focus will be put into recruiting new members onto the service with hospital visiting being a core responsibility of all new members. We will also be looking to route out the various skills that already exist within our membership and put them to good use in supporting the running of the organisation. We intend to fully implement the 24-hour schedule with focus on adding more locally produced content throughout the year and providing full schedule information for all of our programme output. In addition we will continually monitor the results of both patient surveys and listening statistics from Patientline to ensure we are providing a “complete” service to our listeners.
Another key area of focus for 2005 will be the detailed planning of our move to accommodation at the Colchester General Hospital. This will include areas such as the specific design and layout of the new studio’s, equipment requirements and moving costs etc. Although we are unlikely to move before 2007 it is imperative that we plan the move well and ensure we have adequate funds available.
We will continue to work closely with the hospital authorities to ensure that Hospital Radio Colchester is recognised as an integral part of the hospitals services.
11. Approval by Management Committee
This report was submitted to and approved by the Management Committee (the Trustees) on Tuesday 22nd March 2005 for submission to the Annual General Meeting of Hospital Radio Colchester on Tuesday 29th March 2005.
Signed on behalf of the Management Committee:
C. Bennett (Chairman)
M. Roberts (Vice Chairman / Station Manager)
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