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3TFM Community Radio For Health

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC038383
Status
Active
Registered
June 21, 2007
Legal form
Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Address
The Frank Sweeney Centre for Enterprise
82 - 84 Glasgow Street
Ardrossan
Ayrshire
KA22 8EH

Contact

Website
3tfm.org.uk
Website screenshot

Activities

'It carries out activities or services itself'

'the prevention or relief of poverty','the advancement of education','the advancement of health','the advancement of citizenship or community development'

Our Charity is Community Radio Station broadcasting to the area of Scotland known as the 3 Towns in North Ayrshire. The towns are Ardrossan, Saltcoats, and Stevenston. We are broadcasting one of the most deprived areas of Scotland with high levels of deprivation, unemployment, long term illness, and under age pregnancies, along with drugs and alcohol misuse.

Objectives: (1) To advance health, to advance education, to relieve poverty, and to advance citizenship and community development principally for the benefit of the residents of Stevenston, Saltcoats and Ardrossan ('the Community') through: (a) Providing training and to engage with the residents of the Community in the design and production of local radio programmes which provide access to healthy lifestyle information, uplifting and educational speech, music of relevance to the Community, and which provide entertainment. (b) Providing public health information and general advice and guidance on health and wellbeing through the medium of a community radio service. (c) Providing training, particularly to unemployed people, and to provide unemployed people with volunteering opportunities, work experience and access to childcare facilities. (d) Providing opportunities for individuals and groups from the Community to broadcast, with an emphasis on young people and adults affected by social exclusion. (e) Providing guidance on the availability of support and advice from statutory bodies, agencies and charities within the Community and to do so without distinction of race, sex or political, religious or other opinions.

Areas of operation

Main operating location
North Ayrshire
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
May 31, 2025 £3,538 £4,962
May 31, 2024 £7,537 £6,682
May 31, 2023 £1,247 £7,072
May 31, 2022 £5,962 £8,290
May 31, 2021 £14,062 £9,156