Harika Nimmala and Cherie from Brahma Kumaris Harrow talked with Radio Harrow’s Breakfast Show about the benefits of meditation.
They described why people should meditate and how it can benefit both physical and mental health. Harika and Cherie talked about their personal experiences, explaining the inner feelings and connections that they have felt through practicing meditation.
Whether on a train or listening to music, Harika and Cherie explained how meditation can be practiced in many different forms as a way of calming the mind and giving an ‘inner place of silence’.
Brahma Kumaris Harrow are a local charity which are offering free courses on meditation. Find out more on their website.
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Chris Walker is the Manager of a new women’s football club for residents based in Edgware. Edgware Town Ladies Football Club is open to women of all ages and skills living in Harrow, Brent and Edgware.
Chris joined the Radio Harrow breakfast show ahead of the club’s first ever league friendly. The club are still looking for players and members to join and in particular they are in need of coaches. If you are interested or want to find out more about joining, email secretary@edgwaretownfc.co.uk
Chris shared his thoughts on women in sport and discussed the need to get more women involved in sports. He described the great progress that has been made in women’s football and by women in general in the sporting world. Chris showcased a great passion for encouraging sporting opportunities for women in the area.
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Rina Pattani, a volunteer at Arthritis Care UK, joined the Radio Harrow Breakfast Show to talk about the launch of a new Harrow based arthritis support group.
Rina has suffered from arthritis from a young age and knows what living with the illness is like. She spoke to host Gary Walker about how the illness affects people, why they need support and what types of support are on offer.
Rina has helped to form a new arthritis support group which is meeting for the first time at Northwick Park Hospital on Wednesday 8th June at 7pm. The event will feature a Q&A session with Rheumatology Consultant Dr Penn and his team.
Find out more about the event here and head to the Arthritis Care UK website for more information about their services.
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Amongst the hustle and bustle of one of London’s busiest stations, 25 cyclists culminated the end of an epic 280-mile journey as part of the Colon Challenge 2016. A mini-festival was set-up outside Kings Cross Station to welcome the riders after their long journey. Radio Harrow broadcast live from the finish line to bring listeners all the action from the St Mark’s Hospital Foundation event.
The Colon Challenge is the St Mark’s Hospital Foundation’s largest event in the year. The challenge involves 25 cyclists embarking on a 280-mile long journey along a colon shaped route. The journey takes four days and each cyclist raises sponsorship to raise money for the St Mark’s Hospital Foundation.
The Foundation supports the research and development of treatment for Bowel Cancer. The Colon Challenge was originally organised by Paul Bouscarle, a bowel cancer patient at St Mark’s Hospital. 2016 marks St Mark’s Hospital Foundation’s 180th Anniversary Year.
You can donate to St Mark’s Hospital Foundation and the riders of the Colon Challenge on their JustGiving page.
Radio Harrow broadcast the Saturday morning Patient’s Hour live from Kings Cross. Listen to the show on our Mixcloud below:
Take a look at pictures from the event in our gallery below:
Local Radio Day, founded by UK Radio Developments (UKRD) will see radio stations up and down the country participate by hosting a wide array of special programming.
Author David P Perlmutter joined the Radio Harrow Breakfast Show to talk about his new book ‘My Way Five About LIFE’, a book that tackles the topic of mental health in an innovative process. The book is the fifth instalment of David’s ‘My Way’ series.
David P Perlmutter is a successful, Amazon best-selling self-published author who began the ‘My Way’ series to help fellow indie authors with tips on how to self-publish and get their books to Number 1. Books 1-3 in the ‘My Way’ series focused purely on book marketing, but as David’s fan-base increased he decided to not only give some background into how authors got started on their own writing journeys but also give some samples of their work with links to their books.
Deciding to fit the genres to the book numbers, for example, ‘May the Fourth Be With You’, features sci-fi authors and was published to coincide with Star Wars Day. ‘My Way Five’ was always going to be about Life with authors and bloggers who write about life issues which has turned out to be predominantly mental health related.
‘My Way Five’ features a foreword by mental health charity SANE with a percentage of the proceeds from the book also going towards the charity. It was released to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week.
In his interview David talks about the brave contributors to his book who have opened their hearts to write, speak or blog about their own life experiences, which include stories of depression, anxiety, child abuse, addiction, domestic violence and much more. He also shared his views on social media.
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Radio Harrow received a certificate of recognition from the outgoing Mayor of Harrow. On his final day as Mayor, Krishna Suresh invited Radio Harrow’s Programming Manager, Gary Walker to his office to present him with a certificate of recognition of the station’s services to the people of Harrow.
Upon receiving the certificate Gary Walker said he felt “honoured for Radio Harrow to be recognised for its commitment to providing a health and well-being service to the Borough”. He said “the certificate is also recognition for all the hard work and dedication of each of our volunteers who give so much of their time to the charity”.
Krishna Suresh was elected as a Labour councillor in 2010 and has been serving the Rayners Lane ward of Harrow. Before he became Mayor he was Deputy Mayor and sat on the Licensing Committee.
He is also the ethnic minority officer for the Harrow West branch of the Labour Party. As an active member of the community he was a Community Champion and worked closely with the Safer Neighbourhood Team.
The outgoing Mayor praised the volunteer organisations in the borough and described his most enjoyable parts of being Mayor in the interview.
Greek born singer/songwriter Héllena joined the Radio Harrow Breakfast Show to talk about the release of her latest single “Now I See”.
Héllena (formerly Helena Micy) decided to take a leap of faith and moved to the UK in 2011 to work with MTV award-winning producer Stereo Mike. Héllena made it into the MTV Unsigned Top 20 and gained 6 Gold awards on BEAT100 for “Don’t Change” and “Dream Big”.
In March 2013 she performed at SXSW festival and by early 2014 she reached No1 in ReverbNation’s Soul/R’N’B UK charts. She also appeared on Simon Lederman’s BBC London 94.9 FM show in 2014. Héllena is building a strong online fanbase and performing live with her band across the UK.
The now Harrow based singer/songwriter talked with Gary Walker about her music, her career and her life and played three of her songs including her latest single “Now I see” which was released in May 13th, 2016.
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Author Mark Brookes joined Ben Felton on the ‘Freedom Friday’ show to talk about his upcoming play ‘POETS Day’.
Mark Brookes was accompanied by his son Archie, who stars in the play. Mark, a former electrician, originally wrote the play as a short story to give his teenage son, Archie, some fatherly advice regarding alcohol and drug abuse.
‘POETS Day’ is a cautionary tale that centres on what can go wrong when a youngster doesn’t have the right support, love and influences around them from an early age. Barnardo’s, the charity has partnered with the play so that 100% of the net profit from tickets will go to support the charity.
Alongside Archie Brookes, the play also stars Lee Barnett, an actor from the award winning children’s TV Show ‘The Slammer’. Lee will play the lead character, a middle-aged drunken bully whose life is still haunted by a tragic event.
To find out more about ‘POETS Day’, including the cast, story and how to get tickets for the performances at the Compass Theatre, Ickenham in August 2016 go to http://poetsday.org.uk/
We hosted a live broadcast from the annual Pinner Wheelbarrow Race on Sunday 24th April. Each year, The Rotary Club of Pinner host a traditional St. George’s Day celebration around Pinner High Street. The centrepiece of the celebrations is the annual Ye Olde Wheelbarrow Race.
The race is a unique event in which teams of two take it turns to push their partner in a wheelbarrow, drink beer and race from Little Common to the High Street and into Church Green. Two of Radio Harrow’s volunteers, Jon Hart and Ant Sunney took part in the wheelbarrow race and came 8th out of 15.
Not content without a win, Jon and Ant also immersed themselves in the other activities throughout the day – and they came up with a win in the jousting. There was plenty for spectators to enjoy with entertainment from singer Gemma Turner, the Merrydowners Morris Men, the Herga Mummers and Punch and Judy. Plus there was a bouncy castle, a number of other stalls and a special addition this year, a petting farm.
A hugely fun day for the whole family, the celebrations also involved several local businesses on the High Street, with the Queens Head pub holding a hugely successful beer festival and the Friends Restaurant providing a hog roast.
Take a look back at all of our pictures from the day:
On Monday 18th April, Radio Harrow featured on the Community Channel. A segment about the charity was broadcast on the London360 programme – a show which tells stories from within the London community.
The package featured several interviews with members of Radio Harrow. Co-Founder Matt Blank, described how the station formed and how volunteers have been transitioning from hospital radio to community radio. Volunteers Manager, Miles Otway and Thursday Night Studio Manager, Amit Pall talked about their roles at Radio Harrow and why they enjoy volunteering at the charity.
The video also features Roger Cutsforth, Managing Director of The Radio Academy who talks about the importance of community radio stations and why they serve to function. The segment was produced by Savan Gandecha an alumni member of Radio Northwick Park (Radio Harrow’s former organisation), who also presented the episode of the London360 show.
With lots of anecdotes and comments from other volunteers at the station, the package highlighted the benefits of volunteering at Radio Harrow and showcased the charity.
Watch the full interview with Roger Cutsforth from The Radio Academy to find out what he says about Radio Harrow and other local radio stations:
On Saturday 16th April, Radio Harrow celebrated its first anniversary as a community radio station. As part of the celebrations the charity, which officially formed on the 19th April 2015, also paid homage to its late co-founder, Keith Chilvers by renaming the main studio, ‘The Keith Chilvers Studio’.
The charity formed a year ago, when Radio Northwick Park and Harrow Community Radio merged together to form a new community radio station. The charity, which has more than 100 volunteers, serves to promote health and wellbeing in the Harrow community and continues to run a daily befriending service in Northwick Park Hospital. The past year has seen many highlights for the charity, including a summer of events across the Borough, a campaign supporting local charities across the 12 days of Christmas and two nominations at the 2016 Hospital Broadcasting Awards.
Keith Chilvers, one of the co-founders of Radio Harrow, lost his battle to bowel cancer in November 2015. Not only did Keith play a huge part in the creation of Radio Harrow, he was also a Trustee at Radio Northwick Park and helped to shape the formation of the main studio during its development. That studio now forms part of the Radio Harrow premises.
Trustee Claire Knight, introduced the renaming ceremony and spoke of Keith Chilvers’ influence at the charity, “it is without question, that none of us would be standing here at Radio Harrow today had it not been for Keith. He was a great inspiration to all of us and we hope by naming the studio after him, his story will continue to inspire current and future volunteers at the station.”
Keith’s wife and daughters unveiled the new plaque renaming the studio. Upon seeing the plaque, Kim Chilvers said “Keith would have been proud as punch to receive this honour at the station. He truly loved Radio Harrow and he would have been so excited and honoured to receive this”.
The emotional ceremony was attended by current members of the station, as well as alumni members of Radio Northwick Park and Harrow Community Radio.
Take a look at our pictures from the day:
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