ANNUAL REPORT Ending December 2025 Registered Charity 510972 www.hhr.org.uk
Contents
1. Chairman’s Report
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Treasurer’s Report
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Broadcast Report
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Personnel Report
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Fundraising Report
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Press and Publicity Report
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Technical Report
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Minutes of AGM 30[th] March 2025
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Chairman’s Report
This last year has been a positive year for the future of Hospital Radio. Through the guidance of your committee, we have looked to change the focus of the Charity to be a Health and Well Being Broadcasting Service for Herefordshire.
We have structured the Station to have improved Health Care and Well-Being messaging, but also working directly with the Trust been able to support the work of the hospital when they are in a heightened status, where the ER department is in need to support of the community
The committee met at regular intervals during the year, in line with the constitution, and over the year managed activities of the charity
Our audience in improving both at the Hospital and online, and our new website has provided some potential leads for the income in 2025
Our relationship with our trust remains positive to that end Hospital Radio were asked to host the Christmas Meal for all the Hospitals volunteers. Thanks to Andy who also attended.
One of the Grant providers raised their concern that we did not have the number of Trustees as per our constitution and we do need to look to ensure we have the correct Governance in place.
I need to extend my thanks to the committee of Trustees who have supported your charity for the last year, Thank you Peter & Danny. Without your guidance and candor, we would not got thro the year.
Chris Hughes Chairman
Treasurer’s Report
The accounts for 2025 can be found on the next 4 pages, and I hope that they can provide some detail into how the Charity has performed financially over the twelve months.
You will note we have had an income of £37085. (Provided by an Eveson Grant of £14406 and a Lottery Grant of £20000. As a organisation we raised £2.6K in these challenging times (a net increase of £200 compared to 2024.)
The two Grants are for a specific project to support upgrades on equipment (Window 10) and the new Health Care and Wellbeing radio (Wye Valley Radio)
We as an organisation need to be mindful of the running costs of our operation and now start to seek other ways to generate our income, to offset these costs.
On behalf of the Trustees
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Broadcast Report
The post of Broadcast Manager has been managed by the Trustees.
We have continued to ensure we have 40+ new tracks of music added each month, so we stay current. WE have upgraded our online messaging to move to WhatsApp 01432 621211; these can be used for messaging and voice notes.
We are now taking the Word on Health programming this is provided by Paul Pennington, and this is weekly topical health report. It compliments our existing Dr Hilary Jones Material
We are pleased to welcome new members to the organisation and hope they will be on air soon.
On behalf of the Trustees
Personnel Report
The process of onboarding has significantly improved at the Trust, and the team have worked well with us to onboard new members. This has been a positive step
Members need to be mindful that when the Trust requests us to undertake training this is that they are bound with specific procedures. Please help them.
Danny Lister Personnel Manager
Fund Raising Report
We have had several sponsorship opportunities that have provided some income (Platform Housing – Cathedral Park) and (Shaw - Ledbury Nursing Home). We attended Ross Lions Firework event and the Ledbury Carnival. We also raised some funds from NHS England from some promotions that were broadcast in December.
On behalf of the Trustees
Press & Publicity Report
We have continued to use our Socials (Facebook/Instagram) to share our news across the Internet. We are planning to purchase a new Popup that can be used to support the work of the station. We are keen to get more volunteers involved in supporting us with this for the coming year.
On behalf of the Trustees
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Technical Report
There has been a number of threads for the Technical area of HHR .
Technical Issues
These have been addressed where we can, but please continue to report
New Project Work
WE are finalising the plans for the new equipment funded by the Eveson and Lottery Grants, these will be shared soon.
Remote Programming
We now have a USB Headset and Microphone to enable us to cover live events. These have been tested with the Clean Feed and WhatsApp PC . We are looking to purchase a number of these for presenters to use.
Chris Hughes On behalf of the Trustees
Annual General Meeting Minutes Sunday 30[th] March 2025
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Present - Chris Hughes, Andy Williams, Danny Lister, Kelly Richards
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Apologies for absence Pete Trigg, Sheldon Donovan, James Gethin-Lewis, Patrick GethinLewis, Ben Coleman, Peter Orme, Sarah Orme, Jesse Norman, Niki Andrews.
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Minutes of the last meeting.
Proposed by Andy Williams Seconded by Danny Lister
These were approved by all Members
4. Chairman’s Report:
Nothing further to add
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5. Treasurer’s Report
Nothing further to add
The Accounts were
Proposed by Andy Williams, Seconded by Danny Lister These were approved by all members
6. Broadcast Manager’s Report
Nothing further to add
7. Personnel Manager’s Report
Nothing further to add
- Fundraising Manager’s Report:
Danny L - Consideration should be made for online fund raising - using social media. To be added to agenda for next year.
- Technical Manager’s Report:
Alexa Radio Skill – This now works on all Alexa decides by calling Alexa Hereford Hospital Radio
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Formal vote for all the Reports
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Proposed by Kelly Richards
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Seconded by Danny Lister
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These were approved by all Members.
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11 Long Service Awards
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The following were presented with Long Service Awards by the HBA .
Andy Williams 40 years, Chris Hughes 35 years, Peter Orme 30 years, Sarah Orme 30 years, Ben Coleman 25 years, Pete Trigg 15 years, Niki Andrews 15 years, Kelly Richards 10 years, James Gething Lewis 5 years. Congratulations One and all!
12. Annual Review of Membership Fees
The outgoing Committee proposed that the membership fees should remain unchanged at £30 for broadcast members and £10 for non-broadcast members. No further suggestion was forthcoming and the members agreed to the fees remaining unchanged.
- 13 Nominations for forthcoming Committee for 2025
Chairman - Chris Hughes Secretary - Peter Orme Personnel Manager - Danny Lister
Treasurer – None Broadcast Manager – None, Fundraising Manager - None Press and Publicity Manager – None, Technical Manager – None
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14 Results of the Election
As none of the positions were contested a vote was not required and those nominated will form the new committee and Trustees of HHR. The incoming Committee would welcome help from others who, if appropriate, could be co-opted onto the committee.
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AOB/General Discussion Items
Chris Hughes – New project to update all the Windows 10 computers at the Studio, will also include enabling a split service for Wye Valley Radio. Operating costs for 3 years for Myriad Licensing is also included. This has been submitted to the Eveson Trust,
Chris Hughes – James Newby CEO of NMITE is keen to support his university students in volunteering at HHR. We need to plan this well, and understand any concerns the WVT may have.
Andy Williams – Mouse studio is not well, looks like its lateral movement is no longer functioning. Kelly will investigate option here.
Kelly Richards – Some tracks are a little loud, Kelly to advise Chris so this can be addressed. Kelly Richards – Can we get some more 80/90s as we need some more please (Kelly will look at Amazon music to scope out what artists are missing)
Kelly Richards – Happy to help creation of promo material for HHR
Chris Hughes – Platform Housing has started a Sponsorship package with us, this is for £500 for the year and they paid separately for the professional recording. Danny suggest we can share this on our socials
15. Meeting ended at 15.57
Hereford Hospital Radio Registered Charity Number 510972 President Jesse Norman MP www.hhr.org.uk © Hereford Hospital Radio 2025
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