We now broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide entertainment and comfort to patients outside our live broadcasting times, which now total more than 40 hours a week.

We provide music programmes for patients which include a high emphasis on requests via our team of volunteers who visit the Wards on most days. We also aim otherwise to play music which fits the age profile of our listeners.

We also work closely with Hospital management and staff and the wider community in Harrogate to broadcast other programmes of direct interest to patients. These include weekly Sunday Services by the Chaplaincy Team and the local Talking Newspaper. For the last three years we have also broadcast live on the Trust Open Day, enabling patients not capable of attending to gain a real flavour of the extent of the care and other services provided by our Hospital. Over the same period we have also covered in depth the Great Yorkshire Show and Countryside Live.

Evidence of our success in appealing to patients and giving them comforting entertainment during their stay in Hospital is that ours is regularly the most listened to radio station available to them. This is against competition from the four main BBC channels plus local radio. We also receive regular commendations from patients when our volunteers are visiting the Wards. In addition our efforts have received recognition from our parent body, the Hospital Broadcasting Association, via several awards for the quality of our programmes including, in March 2008, being voted as the number two Hospital Radio Station in the UK.

In common with most other Hospital Radio stations, we are a Registered Charity (No. 507137) and therefore rely only on donations to be able to continue our work. Therefore please consider making a donation; either monetary or by giving us some of your free time by volunteering We are also a member of the Hospital Broadcasting Association

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