Verulam Radio
Community Radio for West Herts
About Us
Radio Verulam is provided by Verulam Community Radio, a non-profit company. We rely on the loyalty of our audience, our supporters and sponsors. If you think we are a good service, if you can, please help; your local radio station to grow.
To donate via cheque, please make the cheque payable to Radio Verulam, PO Box 396, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3 6NE.
If you would like to work as volunteer contact us at 01727 839926 or by email
Our Aims
VCRL provides a Community Radio service of music and speech for people living, working, being educated or visiting West Hertfordshire. Our programmes are all produced and introduced by our trained volunteers and can be heard on 92.6 FM in and around St Albans and on the Internet at www.radioverulam.comWe aim
1 To provide services highly relevant to people in West Hertfordshire, informing them what is happening in their locality and how they can participate, especially as volunteers;
2 To work in partnership with local voluntary organisations to help them achieve their own objectives by publicising their activities and encouraging listeners to join them or support them in other ways;
3 To open up the local airwaves to new and creative talent by training local people in radio broadcasting skills;
4 To enable vulnerable and disadvantaged people in the area to find out about services and support which they can access;
5 To feature voluntary activities which are popular but get little coverage in other radio services, such as Scouts/Guides, local sports, gardening or cycling.
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Our Directors
We currently have seven Directors who all provide their services to us as volunteers. Directors are elected at our Annual General Meetings by our members and serve for two years.
How We Started
How We Are Founded
As a Community Radio station, Radio Verulam's broadcasting licence requires it to raise funding from a variety of sources. In addition to commercial funding through advertising and sponsorship, this includes non-commercial sources such as grants from local authorities, national government schemes, charitable foundations or funders such as the Big Lottery. Radio Verulam has received a number of grants over the past twelve years and is confident of its ability to continue to attract such funders.