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Christmas Fun At Radio Warneford
Radio Warneford entertained patients and staff throughout Christmas and the New Year with more than 65 hours of special programmes.
Our live Christmas Day programme included calls from Radio Warneford's patrons, the Mayors of Warwick, Leamington and Kenilworth. The Chief Executive of Warwick Hospital, Glen Burley, visited the studio with his wife to broadcast a Christmas message to patients.
The Radio Warneford Grand Draw
Radio Warneford's Grand Raffle Draw took place in the Market Square in Warwick on Saturday 5th September. The event was an overwhelming success raising a whopping £1,948.48.
Here is a list of the lucky winning tickets.
Radio Warneford would like to thank all those who donated prizes for our raffle and everyone who supported us by buying a ticket. Congratulations to all of our lucky winners!
Mayor Of Warwick Visits Radio Warneford The Mayor of Warwick, Councillor Mrs Peggy Bennett, has paid a visit to the Radio Warneford studio complex at Warwick Hospital.
The Mayor, one of Radio Warneford's Joint Patrons, joined the Wednesday team for a tour of the studio. A special version of the Track Attack programme featured four of the Mayor's favourite songs:
Sainsbury's Staff Raise £300 for Radio Warneford The staff at the Leamington Spa Sainsbury's have so far raised £1,500 to help local charities.
Lucy Vernon and Berkeley Bugg from Sainsbury's Colleague Council at the Leamington Store came to Radio Warneford's studios on 7th August to present the station with a cheque for £300. Radio Warneford is going to use the money to purchase a digital camera as one of the big prizes for the 2009 Grand Raffle Draw.
Read the News Release.
Warwickshire Bids Farewell To The Royal Show For 160 years, The Royal Show has been championing the best in farming, food and rural life, but all that came to an end at Stoneleigh in July.
Radio Warneford's Sarah Lewis attended the closing day of The Royal Show on behalf of the station and in doing so took part in an important slice of the county's history.
Read Sarah's report (PDF - 21Kb).
Volunteers Week "Extra Mile" Awards Some of Radio Warneford's members were presented with Volunteers Week "Extra Mile" Awards at the recent Annual General Meeting in recognition of the work they do behind the scenes at the station.
From left to right: Doreen Chand (for arranging lots of prizes and donations for fundraising events); Andrew Barker (for responding quickly to engineering faults); Louise Drinkhall (for all of her work on revising the Constitution and Policies); Clare Spiers (for all of her work on revising the Constitution and Policies); Margaret Legge (for her "Talking On Air" workshop and for giving talks to local organisations); Paul Chand (for taking on the role of Membership Secretary and for his donation of computer equipment); Sara Lister, Radio Warneford's Chairman, who presented the Awards. Other members who received Awards but were not present: Viv Lambert (for raising lots of funds by selling unwanted items at car boot sales); Adrian Newell (for his excellent PA work at Snitterfield and our Acoustic Nights); Denzil McClean (for visiting the patients every week to chat about our service and hand out our special schedules); Judith Ratcliffe (for her interviews with celebrities and dignitaries); Nivi Morales (for single-handedly arranging our two Acoustic Nights).
Charity Acoustic Night Radio Warneford's second Charity Acoustic Night took place on a very muggy evening at Dockers Diner in The Assembly, Leamington Spa.
Once again, we enjoyed a night of fantastic music with Ben Clempson, The Session and Men In Caves each performing sets during the evening.
Radio Warneford would like to thank Dockers Diner for staging the Acoustic Night for us and to all of the acts who came along and supported us on the night.
Snitterfield Village Fête Despite a 15 minute rain shower, this year's Snitterfield Village Fête was fun from start to finish.
Radio Warneford arrived at 10.30ish and we had central place in the Marquee next to the Arena. Andrew, our engineer, set up his gear and four speakers were placed around the field. At 12.30 Clare Spiers rang from the station and a chat took place about what was going on live on air to the patients at Warwick Hospital.
Adrian Newell was in his element, especially when it came to compering the Tug of War, where he got the crowd going with Dads versus Sons! He also gave a spontaneous cabaret singing along to the keyboard and sax of the live band we had next to us in the marquee. Chairman Sara Lister also got some laughs when she was talking up the forthcoming Agility Dog Training event by saying "You'll have fun watching them go up the ramps and through tunnels, and that's just the dog owners!"
Gaye Hillier, one of the organisers, said "Thank you for coming along. You have a fab team. What a great day" Here's to 2010!
Radio Warneford Quiz & Awards Night Radio Warneford's 2009 Awards & Quiz Night took place at The Kenilworth Wardens Cricket Club on Saturday 30th May.
Seventeen teams took part in a competitive battle for the coveted Meanley Trophy, won eventually by the Wednesday Wizards.
Radio Warneford's new Trustees were on hand to present awards to some of our lucky members for the best programmes of 2008.
2009 Hospital Radio Awards 
Radio Warneford's shortlisted entry in the Special Event category at the 2009 Hospital Radio Awards has received a Commendation. The entry consisted of a 15-minute compilation of highlights from the stations' 35 Hour Marathon Broadcast in November last year, the climax of celebrations for Radio Warneford's 35th birthday. A certificate was presented to Chairman, Sara Lister, and Station Manager, Ley Bricknell, at the Awards Ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in Blackpool on 28th March. Listen to our 15 minute compilation (6.9MB MP3):
Easter Egg Tombola Radio Warneford's Easter Egg Tombola took place at the Royal Priors in Leamington Spa on Saturday 28th March.
The event was a fantastic success, raising over £640.
Radio Warneford would like to thank Sainsbury's in Leamington Spa for sponsoring the Tombola this year and everyone who came along on the day to support us.
Cliff Proctor on BBC local radio Monday night team member Cliff Proctor rang BBC local radio to add his comments to a discussion about misheard lyrics and found himself talking about Radio Warneford. Listen to the broadcast... (3.93MB)
New Furniture For Our Studio Complex Some of the money raised during our 35-Hour Marathon Broadcast in November 2008 was specifically donated to enable us to purchase some much-needed furniture for our studio complex.
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