About Sunny Govan Community Radio
- Providing access to the airwaves to underrepresented voices.
- Being based at grassroots level and being established and run primarily by volunteers and activists.
- Community development rather than profit.
- Community radio aims not only to participate in the life of the community but also to enable the community to participate in the life of the station. We aim to be a successful community medium we are right where we should be to do our work more effectively we are not public service media we are a small accessible social cultural tool to be used by our community for personal and communal empowerment.
Community radio training for individuals and community groups, DJ workshops, community works skills, IT skills, personal development, music workshops.
In becoming a community radio volunteer you will have joined a global movement which is emerging on every continent. Community radio is 90% community 10% radio.
Journalism, Admin, Web design, Radio production, Marketing, Working with Community Groups, Technical, Research (training for all these places is available).
Sunny Govan Community Radio
249 Govan Road
Govan
Glasgow
G51 1HJ
Phone: 0141 419 0040
Email : sunnygovanradio@hotmail.com
To provide access to training, development and volunteering opportunities to encourage local creative talent; to foster local traditions and to provide services for the benefit of our community. To provide a right of access to minority and marginalised groups and to promote and protect cultural and linguistic diversity. To promote the right to communicate; to assist the free flow of information and opinions, to encourage creative expression and to contribute to the democratic process and a plural society.
To seek to have ownership representative of local geographically recognisable communities or of communities of common interest. To be editorially independent of government commercial religious institutions and political parties in determining programming policy. To honestly inform our audience on the basis of information drawn for a variety of sources and to provide a right to reply to any person or organisation subject to serious misrepresentation.
To be established as an organisation which is not run with a view to profit and to ensure independence by being financed from a variety of sources. To recognise and respect the contribution of volunteers.
To operate management programming and practice which oppose discrimination and which are open and accountable to all supporters and volunteers.
To foster exchange between community media practitioners using communications to develop greater understanding in support of peace tolerance democracy and development.
Sunny Govan community radio is a dynamic bustling effective and valuable neighbourhood resource.
We are actively involved in changing lives and improving our communities forever.
Communities Scotland
South West Community Planning
Greater Glasgow Health Promotions
The Key Fund
