Got any old small appliances or unused mobile phones lying about the house? Harrow is piloting an exciting new recycling programme for waste electrical and electronics across the borough. Wendy Sherer got all the details when she sat down with Daniel Lester (Harrow Council), Emma Hall and Maninder Khunkhun (West London Waste Authority).
Radio Harrow’s David Reece met with Emma Cooper, who leads the Carers Project at Harrow Mencap, during Carers Week (June 2018). Emma explains to Radio Harrow about what caring for others involves and the effectiveness of ‘Fruitful Tuesday’s,’ (involving sessions on Mindfulness for Carers on the third Tuesday of each month), among much more. Harrow Mencap is a seventy-year-old local charity which helps people with disabilities and their direct carers. Listen to the interview here!
RH’s Anna Trevers Speaks to Neil Parker from The Bridge working in partnership with Rethink Mental Illness. Discussing the service and focused on their new work engaging clients through board games and building their skills to cope with mental illness. Neil assisted with setting up The Bridge, helping people to gain confidence interacting with others through learning how to play board games. Here their interview below. Neil’s advise is to find out what counselling and therapy might be available if needed.
Radio Harrow marked the third Local Radio Day with a special day of shows ahead of the Bank Holiday Weekend. With programming from the studios, and out in the community, the station joined stations up and down the country in celebrating Proper Local Radio, on a day which is now a firm fixture in the Radio Harrow calendar.
Thanks to @DJReece82 @wendysuesherer for breakfast this morning! Missed any of it? Catch up online and we’ll have a podcast out soon! #localradioday @localradioday pic.twitter.com/mlUB6Fyg86
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) May 25, 2018
David Reece and Wendy Sherer served up breakfast, the radio show variant, from 8am from studios in Northwick Park, with an exclusive interview with the new Mayor of Harrow, Kareema Kairul, who began her term in office the previous day.
During the morning, presenters Nick Edwards, and Shrey Puranik went on a ‘bus tour’ in the locality, checking in with the studio team at regular intervals.
@shreypuranik and @MrNickDJ are off touring #Harrow for @localradioday! @WendySueSherer says they look like they are off for the first day at school! Lol! @radioharrow pic.twitter.com/TUELVCsG3Q
— David Reece (@DJReece82) May 25, 2018
At midday, Brian Rose celebrated Heroes from Harrow in a special hour long show.
Celebrate the Heroes from Harrow with Brian Rose in a #localradioday special! pic.twitter.com/LscaLTXssv
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) May 25, 2018
This was followed by a special Walking Tour, curated by Kaye Holland and Sarika Unadkat, which was made especially for Local Radio Day. You can listen back to the Walking Tour in our podcast below:
Following Walk This Way, Charles Biggie was on air with Harrow Goes Pop!
Charles is on air with Harrow Goes Pop! Listen in via https://t.co/MCXY2eQGL0 pic.twitter.com/Z2r0gDqGlS
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) May 25, 2018
It wouldn’t be Local Radio without local sports, and Noah Abrahams from the Sports Show went on an exclusive behind the scenes tour of The Vale, the home of Wealdstone FC:
Nick and Shrey, fresh from their adventures in Harrow, then took over the reigns at drive, with a special interview with the Heath Robinson Museum ahead of a new exhibition opening at the Museum.
At 7pm, Anna Trevers broadcast a special edition of The Basement Tapes, with the show being made especially for Local Radio Day!
The brilliant @AnnaTrevers has a special #localradioday edition of the Basement Tapes right now! pic.twitter.com/3NYn4TGrrv
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) May 25, 2018
Missed any of our @localradioday fun yesterday? You can listen back online at https://t.co/MCXY2eQGL0 #localradioday pic.twitter.com/EVeqMxzbNp
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) May 26, 2018
Keep checking this page for more highlights over the coming days!
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For the third consecutive year, Radio Harrow will be joining radio stations across the country on Friday 25th May 2018 and celebrating Local Radio Day with a special day of programming.
Launched in 2016 by the UKRD, Local Radio Day is a national event, involving radio stations from across the UK, aimed at undertaking events, tours and community activities all focussed on representing the unique nature of “proper local radio” and the impact it has within the communities it serves.
Founded in April 2015, Radio Harrow has been at the heart of activity in Harrow, with live outside broadcasts, specialist programming, in-studio guests, as well as being a constant presence in the community. Run and led by volunteers, with live shows every day of the week, the radio station recently celebrated its third birthday.
Join David Reece & Wendy Sherer for a special Radio Harrow Breakfast Show and get your Friday off to the perfect start at 8am. The duo will be joined in the studio by the Mayor of Harrow from 9am, and will also be checking in with Harrow at various points during the morning. The fun continues into the afternoon, with shows from across the Borough.
During the day, we’ll be checking in with some of Harrow’s most well known and well loved places. A special walking tour will air in the afternoon, covering famous locations across the borough.
As part of the on air programming, the first hour of the Radio Harrow Roadshow will be broadcast live from Northwick Park Hospital Social Club at 6pm. Later on in the evening, the radio station’s very own House Band, The Volunteers, will be playing at the event, along with a DJ set from Steve Pinchen.
| Time | Show |
| 8:00 | Breakfast with David Reece & Wendy Sherer |
| 12:00 | Harrow Heroes with Brian Rose |
| 13:00 | Walk This Way! With Sarika Unadkat & Kaye Holland |
| 14:00 | Charles Biggie |
| 15:00 | Sports Show special with Noah Abrahams |
| 16:00 | Live at Drive with Nick Edwards & Shrey Puranik | 18:00 | Radio Harrow Roadshow Live from Northwick Park Hospital |
| 19:00 | The Basement Tapes with Anna Trevers |
You can get in touch with the Radio Harrow team during Local Radio Day by any of the following ways:
Radio Harrow are proud to promote volunteer Biba’s recent interview with Neil Gore, from Townsend productions, about a play coming to town – We Are The Lions Mr Manager. The play about an industrial dispute that happened in Willesden in 1976; it made history, and the strike leader Jayaben Desai was named one of the 100 most influential women of the last 100 years.
The show can be viewed on May 7th, 2018 at the Tara Theatre, Earlsfield, and May 9th, 2018 at Waterman’s Theatre, Brentford.
Radio Harrow is proud to announce that Thursday, 19th April was our third birthday.
As a charity aimed at producing health and wellbeing content which is broadcast to the community, Radio Harrow have achieved a lot, following the merger of Radio Northwick Park with Harrow Community Radio.
We’ve been nominated for around ten awards at the Hospital Broadcasting Association (HBA) awards ceremony, and won one. We’ve had 3,500 song requests from patients within Northwick Park Hospital, around 11,000 web listeners per year, and 270 hours of content has been streamed from our Mixcloud Page. Many of our circa seventy-five volunteers are enthused by the station’s new image, producing topical content covering a range of topics such as healthy living, patient stories and dedications on our new weekly team shows, The Saturday Brunch and Harrow Today.
The charity also has much to boast about going forward; aside from hosting another Brains of the Borough Quiz, we broadcast live from the Pinner Wheelbarrow Race on St George’s Day in April 2018. We’re also frequently involved in numerous community events and would love to get stuck in with your next event whenever you would like.
We’ve added some podcasts in which we’ve reflected on our successes over the last three years!
Our 2017 highlights:
Our 2016 highlights:
Our 2015 highlights:
For the 4th consecutive year, Radio Harrow were present at the annual Wheelbarrow Race in Pinner. The day, which featured on 22nd April 2018, was held as part of the annual St. George’s Day celebrations. With the sun shining across North West London, the day featured campanologists, a great 50’s and 60’s performance from Simply Grey, and the infamous wheelbarrow race. Costume-clad wheelbarrow custodians raced each other down the High Street.
Scouts and Guides about to undertake their renewals of the vows. Listen in on https://t.co/MCXY2eQGL0 #StGeorgesDay2018 pic.twitter.com/bZ7kM6mL5J
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) April 22, 2018
Getting underway at midday, the first part of the day featured live music from Simply Gray, as well as the annual renewal of the vows for the local Scouts and Guides.
Simply Gray entertaining Pinner right now in the glorious sunshine! #StGeorgesDay2018 pic.twitter.com/dpNZy5cqJk
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) April 22, 2018
Ahead of the famous Wheelbarrow Race at 3pm, there was a parade of the competing teams, with all contestants and their wheelbarrows walking down the high street. The race itself was broadcast live on Radio Harrow, with various commentary teams situated across the race track.
Our @mcnab_ is standing by to bring you live commentary from the bottom of Pinner High Street. Listen live at https://t.co/MCXY2eQGL0 #StGeorgesDay2018 pic.twitter.com/3psz20SoZG
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) April 22, 2018
Radio Harrow’s David Reece was at the finish line keeping listeners and members of the spectating public informed as the competing teams completed the race. The winning team were Carbos, and the team with the best costume, were ‘The Things’, who received their awards from the Mayor of Harrow, and boxing superstar, Elliot Matthews respectively.
Radio Harrow’s Events Coordinator Brian Rose described the day as a real success. We’ve captured the highlights, including the speech from Harrow’s current Mayor Margaret Davine, in our video below:
You can listen back to our live commentary of the day on Radio Harrow’s Listen Again. We’ll be adding more photos to this page over the next few days!
With thanks to: Ben P, David R, Steve J, Steve P, Nick E, Sarika U, Tony M, Stuart K, Brian R,
John S, Hansa V, Shrey P, Malcolm C, Mike L, and Atul R.
Led and run entirely by volunteers, Radio Harrow are always on the lookout for new volunteers. Whether the broadcasting side of a radio station appeals to you, or if you want to contribute to the patient befriending services that the charity provides, you can find out more here.
Charles was in Amersham for Record Store Day 2018, an international event when people get together in record shops and purchase both old and new releases. Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 to celebrate independent record shops. Five hundred special releases have been issued this year, primarily aimed at music enthusiasts and mainstream music listeners alike.
He joins Graham Campbell of The Record Shop in Amersham. Graham’s partaken in the day for seven years and identifies that the day has got bigger by the year.
Listen to Charles’ full interview with Graham below:
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World TB Day helped to raise public awareness on the serious impact that tuberculosis (TB) can have on a person’s health on Saturday 24 March.
Harrow has one of the highest numbers of people with TB in London reflecting a large migrant community from countries with a high risk of the condition. In our borough, over 200 people have been tested for latent TB since 2016, a form of TB where the immune system can’t kill the bacteria, but manages to prevent it spreading in the body.
TB is spread by breathing in tiny droplets from the coughs or sneezes of someone already infected by the disease. It mainly affects the lungs, but it can affect any part of the body, including the stomach glands, bones and nervous system. Symptoms of active TB include a persistent cough that lasts more than three weeks, coughing up blood, a high temperature and night sweats. If you experience these symptoms you should see your GP immediately; TB is a serious condition but can be cured if it’s treated with the right antibiotics.
Dr Amol Kelshiker, Chair of NHS Harrow CCG, said:
“World TB Day is an important opportunity to highlight the devastating effects of the disease if left untreated.
“The number of people affected has dropped in recent years but London still has the highest TB rate of any city in Western Europe. Here at NHS Harrow CCG we are determined that our local population receives the best possible prevention and treatment for the condition.
“There is still a lot of stigma around TB but it is treatable with antibiotics and importantly is a free service.”
Latent TB doesn’t have any symptoms it could develop into active TB at a later stage. Regions with high rates of TB include Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa and Southeast Asia, so people coming to the UK from these areas should consider testing for latent TB, especially if they have not been screened for TB in the past. A screening service for latent TB is available to patients visiting GP surgeries in the borough. Take a look at the World TB poster here to find out if you should contact your GP for a free TB screening. Posters in Arabic, Gujarati, Hindi, Somali, Tamil and Urdu languages.
For further information about the symptoms, causes and treatment for TB, please visit the NHS Choices website at www.nhs.uk/conditions/tuberculosis-tb/. You can also find information about latent TB on The Truth About TB website at www.thetruthabouttb.org/latent-tb/
Anna, Andrew and Anish – “the three musketeers” of anxiety on Radio Harrow’s Thursday Harrow Team – bravely talk about anxiety on air.
Anish defines anxiety as a feeling of unease and a fear of worry, which can be mild or severe and which can start at any time and which can be temporary or permanent.
Andrew and Anish share the factors which have triggered their anxiety, such as uncertainty about the future, and remind us of some of the typical symptoms – a feeling of dizziness, unease and/or light-headedness, experiencing a shortness of breath or chest pains, and/or losing circulation in less essential areas such as the legs.
Panic attacks are one physical manifestation of anxiety and are a symptom with which Andrew and Anish are both familiar. They indicated that at first, panic attack sufferers might not be able to understand the symptoms and may feel as though they are suffocating or dying.
Both Andrew and Anish have seen therapist. Therapy is available both on the National Health Service (NHS) and privately. Therapy can either take the form of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) or Counselling. CBT assists individuals in dealing with overwhelming problems in a positive way, by breaking them down into smaller parts and identifying ways to improve state of mind. However, Counselling enables patients to express their feelings and emotions. They will then assist in the process of finding solutions to the patients own problems. Prescription medications such as antidepressants are also available from Psychiatrists or General Practioniers (GPs) which can relieve the symptoms of anxiety.
However, both men identified other methods which they’ve used to control their anxiety. Andrew and Anish offered some helpful advice to sufferers to try for themselves. These include meditation, to assist in externalising fears about the future and internalising recognition of the here-and-now; listening to music; having a massage; distracting themselves with other things; and taking note of methods referenced within self-help guides.
Radio Harrow advise you talk to trusted ones and/or medical professionals should you begin to experience the symptoms of any mental health issue. Further information on typical symptoms of anxiety and depression are available on the NHS website.
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