BFM Bubbles
Hello Folks,
Just wanted to say a quick thank you for attending the Volunteer meeting on Tuesday evening, it was lovely to see everyone and I thought the conversation was incredibly valuable and it was great to see so much passion and enthusiasm for the station and the work we do. If you weren’t able to attend, here is a very quick round up of the conversation…..
There was a general discussion around some of the more important tasks that we need to do in 2025, including:
- Improve our visibility within our target community
- Be clearer about our brand messaging and take every possible opportunity to make ourselves heard
- Be better co-ordinated about our coverage of events and news stories and making the most of every interview and story, sharing (audio, video and narrative) content widely in as many different ways as possible
- Recruit more volunteers to both fill up daytime slots but also to gather news and special interest stories to share across the schedule
- Improve the studio environment and equipment to encourage people to use it again
- Funding, funding, funding…and looking at a number of different funding opportunities
Alan also asked for volunteers to step up and help with running the station by joining one of the following four working groups (Bubbles) that we will be creating:
Bubble | Chaired by | Meets |
Programming | Alan | 2nd Tuesday of each month (online) |
Finance & Fundraising | Ian | 3rd Tuesday of each month (online) |
Technical | Vespa | 4th Tuesday of each month (online) |
Volunteering | Gillian | Last Thursday of each month (online) |
The Board will continue to meet on the 1st Tuesday of each month and will remain responsible for setting strategic direction, establishing station character and purpose and making key decisions in line with our governing documents.
The Bubbles are a way of coordinating the day-to-day running of the station and will give volunteers an opportunity to be more involved, contributing ideas and suggestions to help the station thrive.
We do hope that you will consider joining one (or more) of the bubbles to have your say in how the station develops throughout 2025. You can let me know which Bubble(s) you would like to join by completing this form and I will send you the meeting details.
Best wishes,
Gillian.