Suite 444
Baltic Chambers
50 Wellington Street
Glasgow
G2 6HJ
Tel No: 0141 221 4043
Email:studio@hbs.org.uk
About Us
Here is some information about our members. If you would like to get involved, please contact us.
Fundraising
As we are a charitable organisation and depend entirely on money generated through donations, we expect all of our members to be involved in fundraising events throughout the year. These events are always fun and have involved can collections at major retail outlets, outside broadcasts at various events and galas, local band nights - and we have even had a sponsored abseil from the top of Gartnavel Hospital!
Supervisor
Each night of broadcasting requires the co-ordination of a team of people and so our supervisors are in charge of this. They ensure everything runs smoothly, that any outstanding tasks are completed and they also solve problems when needed. This role is not only essential to HBS but it also provides our supervisors with skills they can use in other areas of their lives.
Presenter
The Hospital Broadcasting Service’s training programme is well known for its quality and professionalism and as a result has been the starting point of the fledgling careers of many illustrious figures in broadcasting today. However volunteers don’t start training to be part of the presenting team until they have been a member of the organisation for some time and have shown their commitment through their participation in other roles. After presenters are trained they are monitored and given feedback so they can improve on their skills. This ensures HBS consistently broadcasts programmes that are of a high standard.
Request Collector
This is one of the most important and rewarding roles we have in HBS and is the task that most volunteers start off with. In order to get requests for our Open Line programmes our volunteers visit the hospitals we serve to meet our listeners, take requests of music they’d like to hear and tune in their radios. This role is not only essential to gathering requests and raising awareness of the station, but this benefits the listener too, as being in hospital can be a tiresome and monotonous experience for the patient, so our request collectors give them a new friendly face to talk to.
Library Volunteers
This is an essential role within our organisation as our databases have to be constantly updated as this is where we catalogue all the music we play. Some volunteers have been specifically recruited for this task and in some cases can be an alternative for volunteers who are unable to take on request collecting. Volunteers in our record library also assist with compiling the requests that have been collected for the evening’s broadcast.
The Executive Committee
This is a team of HBS’s volunteers who have the responsibility of making all the main decisions on behalf of the organisation. This group are elected by the membership at the station’s AGM and four of the positions including Chairman and Programme Director are up for renewal every three years, while the remaining places are annual positions.
Niall Anderson
Chairman and Acting Programme Director
David Bannerman
Technical Director
Steve Boardman
Treasurer
Peggy Mack
Annually Elected Member
Eileen Heuston
Annually Elected Member
Isabel Vincent
Annually Elected Member
Cheryl Ward
Annually Elected Member
Charlie Murphy
Co-opted Committee Member and Training Supervisor