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Pendle children given chance to become radio stars
10:06pm Wednesday 23rd April 2008
DEPRIVED children are being given the chance to host their own radio shows.
A scheme has been set up by East Lancashire Community Action Projects to teach children and teenagers from poor wards in Pendle how to run their own radio show.
The group will be going into schools in the borough and searching out children who they think will benefit from the scheme.
They will mainly be targeting children aged 10 years to 18 years, primarily from Whitefield, Walverden, Bradley and Brierfield wards.
Chosen children will have the chance to learn the skills they need to present a show, including preparation for a show, and pres-enting skills, during a six-week course. At the end of the course there will be the chance for children to get their own slot on Pendle Community Radio Station, where the scheme is being run.
The scheme, which is due to begin in June, has received £29,000 funding from Children in Need, which will go towards hiring someone to run the course to give 300 children the chance to learn about the world of radio broad-casting.
Sagheer Akhtar, manager for East Lancashire Community Action Projects, said: "We have been working with young people in the Pendle area for a number of years.
"We run Pendle Community Radio Station and last year we asked the children we were working with what kind of projects they would like to take part in, and they suggested this.
"We will be going into schools in the area and talking to children about what radio broadcasting involves, and seeking out people to get involved.
"There will be a number of six- week courses, which will comprise 45-minute slots in the evenings and weekends.
"The aim is to give children who would not normally get the oppor-tunity to experience life as a radio presenter, a taste of what it is like.
"It will hopefully improve their self-esteem and teach them new skills with the chance of them getting their own slot on the station at the end of the course."
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EMBARASSED, Pendle says...
5:19pm Fri 25 Apr 08
This is just another airy fairy scheme set up by an agency which by the way is totally controlled by Minhaj Ul Quran Mosque in Nelson, it states it on their website, which will provide skills for these young people to gain radio skills, and then??? Nothing!!! Start again from the bottom of the pile and wait for more funding and start again! I am Muslim and live in the area and to be honest I have had enough of these organisations so called tackling issues that affect our communities. If you have bottle ELCAP then please inform your masters that when they are delivering Friday congregation to inform the audience that claiming benefits that you are not entitled to is a form of theft!!! Inform your listeners the problems that are currently going on in the Muslim Community with regards to drugs, alcohol and other criminal behaviour that is being carried out by the Muslim younger generation and which no one speaks out against. Pendle is worse now than it has ever been and somebody in authority needs to hold these agencies accountable as well as the council!!!