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What is hospital radio? What songs are played? Top 40 requests
We are pleased to announce that we have several new volunteers who are currently being trained by our team of Trustees. Hopefully there'll be some new voices on the airwaves in 2020, and new faces visiting patients around the hospital...  Recent Events: 2019 DECEMBER
Thank you to everyone for popping by and saying hello at our Christmas Awareness Stall, and the Tombola raised £134 to help keep the station running. We even had a visit from Ron Corn, who was let out by Runcorn Linnets FC! In August, Radio Halton were at The Danny outside Frodsham on the banks of the Weaver spreading the word at our awareness stall.
Thank you to everyone who popped by during our Summer Tombola on 25 July. We raised just under £50!  Thank you if you shopped at ASDA in Runcorn and posted little Green counters in our pile. Sadly we did not win, but we came an honourable equal 2nd! Here is our volunteer mark Thomas receiving our cheque from Dee. 2018  Our annual Christmas Awareness Stall took place on Thursday 13 December. Thank you to everyone who popped by to say hello, and many thanks to everyone who donated money and entered our tombola. ADIOS PAM Summer fete 2018
... we had a stall there in the tea room, here are Paula and Mark ready to chat to people If you didn't get a chance to chat to us to find out how we help patients in Halton Hospital ... or ask about how you can join our team of volunteers? We only ask for 2 hours per week... .. then please give us a call and leave your details on our answerphone on 01928 753417... we'll get back to you as soon as we can (being volunteers, we're not in all the time)...or you can email us at info@radiohalton.org or send us a message via our facebook page.. just search for Radio Halton News  Derek,
one of our Trustees, was recently appointed as Station Manager here at
Radio Halton; basically, if something goes wrong, Derek is our 'go to'!If you'd like to contact us via Email, our new address is radio.halton@nhs.net If you want to speak to one of our volunteers in the studio, the NEW phone number is 01928 890405. Otherwise leave a message on our office line which is still 01928 753417  Think Wellbeing in Halton offers free NHS therapy for people age 18 and over to help you change the way you feel by changing the way you think you can refer yourself by clicking www.nwbh.nhs.uk/think-wellbeing-halton New locations for our collection boxes  Thanks to the help of Widnes Wild Ice Hockey club, one of our blue collection boxes is now located in the reception area of Planet Ice at The Hive at Widnes Waterfront Find out more about how you can help raise funds to keep the radio service going for patients to benefit from it on the Donations section of our About Us page - and see where all our collection boxes are! New studio computer Our new computer has been built, delivered and installed in early 2018 ... thanks to a grant from the WHH Charity You can now hear music & chat from our team of volunteers every hour of every day that you're here in Halton Hospital! Grateful thanks to our sister station, Radio General, from Warrington Hospital, who allowed us to use their output as a sustaining service whilst we were out of normal action Thanks
are also due to Stephen Reynolds, a local computer expert who in mid
March 2018, restored our network between the studio and office
computers. Having done that, we were then able, with help from P
Squared tech guys, to get the updated software onto the office
computer, which means we can now carry out production work such as
adding new songs and recording items like Thought for the Day again Some songs we'd been asked for but didn't have were added recently are:
Derry has moved on  We were sad in November 2017 to accept the resignation of our longest service volunteer, Derry Griffiths, who's left the Halton area to move to an independent living flat in Cheshire Derry started at Radio Halton in its inaugural year, 1986, and has always been a great favourite among patients and staff With his extensive musical knowledge and love of country music, Mondays and Wednesdays simply won't be the same without him He was given a commemorative framed photo as a memento and we all wish him the very best for the future Two easy ways of giving to Radio Halton:
1 - Virgin Money Giving Radio Halton has a page on Virgin Money Giving. You can make a donation using Virgin Money Giving Just click the link or the logo 2 - Collection boxes in the local area around Runcorn -we've got some new locations for them in the past few months, the latest one is in Planet Ice, on Widnes Waterfront Find out where the others are by clicking Donations
Get Active Awards
John is a health walks leader, who supports people to improve their health and wellbeing. He helped Murdishaw Health Centre put into practice a GP health walk referral scheme He
assessed suitable walk routes and now leads walks, taking time to sit
and have a cuppa and chat with patients in the health centre
Throughout the Super League season, we bring you commentary of Widnes Vikings home games in partnership with our fellow volunteers at Radio General in Warrington Hospital This is thanks to the IT team at Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, who enable us to relay Radio General's commentary via the Trust's intranet
- Streaming - new URL address http://D-5Q19RG2:8080 plug in your earphones or a set of computer speakers and we're with you all day
When do Radio Halton broadcast?
The hard-wired system feeds to the bedside and the speakers. We also broadcast within the hospital via streaming on the Trust intranet, so staff in departments can access the service on their workstation computers Currently, 11
people volunteer their time to provide the service to patients,
visitors and staff
In between volunteer visits, patients can can call us on 01928 890405 (studio) or 01928 753417 (office/answer machine) to request a mention or a song to help the time pass more easily
Volunteer
Rob chats to a patient
Patients can settle back into bed or an easy chair and relax to favourite music through ...
There are loudspeakers in the outpatient clinic waiting areas and also in Entrance 1 - nearest the busway - to help people relax whilst sitting there Medics agree  Music really helps people - - and medical professionals agree - - see this article from a daily newspaper Do you know someone in hospital? You can find the station that serves their hospital and request a song or send them a message. Just click on the HBA logo below to go to the site of the organisation for hospital radio in the whole of the UK
The benefits of music in hospital Find out more here... Why do we provide music?
"Music helps – during the times I’ve been really ill, I’ve listened to a lot of music and I find music incredibly therapeutic. There were days particularly when I was having the radiotherapy treatment and when I felt really down, and it’d give me a little bit of a lift and a buzz inside"
Book reviews Paula McCabe has been busy reading in order to review a new book published in January 2018  It's called "Menopause matters: how to master the menopause.. survive, thrive and feel alive" by Shelley Chapman You can find out more about it here http://amzn.eu/55VFZGF Paula presented her review in her Thursday evening show and Friday afternoon show in April 2018
Graham Tarry chatted to Mikey Gilbert of Widnes Wild ice hockey team It was on Wed 11 April 2018, on Graham's morning show between 10 and 12
Paula McCabe chatted to Anne Dooley in March 2018. Anne
is keen on public speaking and is a member of Toastmasters in
Warrington. It's a non-profit organisation with clubs all over the
world. Anne also volunteered with Radio Halton for a time a few years ago, so it was good to welcome her back, if only briefly
Our presenter Eileen Kelly had a long in-depth conversation with him on air about the show on Monday afternoon 6 November 2017 - and she's as passionate about Billy Joel's music as Elio! Make
sure of your ticket for his 10 date tour - with David Brown, original
guitarist from Billy Joel's band - in May 2018 where the nearest he
comes to us is Liverpool's Epstein Theatre (formerly known as The Neptune) in Hanover Street
Find
out more about how ice hockey is developing in Halton, since the
opening of the Silver Blades in Widnes, now known as Planet Ice
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Recent Donations
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Radio Halton volunteers took part in The Sandymoor community summer fete on Saturday 
You can hear Radio Halton 
Our volunteers visit patients on the
wards and chat with them to help them relax. We find out what music
they
like, then play it for them when we get back to the studio 
...the bedside headset - it's all technology
from more than 40 years ago - no wires involved here, just a pipe into
the console on the wall with a volume knob and a channel knob - so it
is literally piped music! 
Russell
Watson also told how music helped him through illness, when
chatting to Ken Bruce in Dec 2010:
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February 2020