Welcome
Broadcasting For 70 Years
Located in the City of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, Radio
Sunderland for Hospitals is a registered charity staffed
entirely by volunteers.
Established in 1953 we provide a free personal hospital
radio service to the bedside of patients in the Sunderland Royal Hospital.
We broadcast our programmes of music, news and information direct to
the patients 24 hours- a-day on the hospital network via bedside media units. The programmes are also
available via our online stream using the hospital WiFi. We produce a number of specialised
programmes including the patients music request programme Ward
Call and of course, we provide full football
match commentary of every Sunderland
A.F.C. home game.
If you have any comments or queries regarding Radio Sunderland
for Hospitals please feel free to get in touch via the contact
page.
You can use our online Radio
Player to listen to Radio Sunderland and use the contact form
to send a message straight to the studio!
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Join Us
We are a registered charity run by a small team of
enthusiastic, unpaid volunteers.
If you have just a couple of hours a week to spare, then come
and join our team.
We would love to hear from you.
Support Us
Running any radio station, even a hospital service like ours, is an expensive business!
There are many ways in which you could help and support Radio
Sunderland.
Who we are
Mission statement.
Our aim is to aid in the relief of sickness and infirmity.
Deliver health and well being information.
Radio Sunderland provides a hospital ward visiting and free
radio service for patients in hospital and similar institutions.
Friendly.
Radio is the original one-to-one medium, it is intimate and friendly but Hospital Radio aims to have even more of a personal touch.
Personal.
Radio Sunderland for Hospitals is a registered charity that broadcasts specialist and personalised programme's to the patients of the Sunderland Royal Hospital.
We Do A Lot To Make The Patients Happy
There are a variety of tasks involved in running Radio Sunderland and we are always looking for new volunteers to help keep us "on-air".
What We Do
This video shows the work of a typical Hospital Radio station.
- programme presenters
- football commentators
- technical operators
- programme producers
- ward visitors
- fundraisers
Anyone aged 16 or over can be a volunteer at Radio Sunderland -
there is no upper limit!
No experience is required as full training is given.
News & Events
Donation
April 2023
A donation was received from Thornholme Residents Association following a request for suggestions of charities to make a donation to.
A cheque for £175 was presented to Radio Sunderland at an association meeting.
Something to Shout About
November 2023
It’s back on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday at 8pm!
We are please to announce more editions of our ever-popular "Ward Call".
An hour of patients record requests and dedications.
To make a request, simply fill in the details on our bespoke form.
We are a bunch of enthusiastic, unpaid volunteers
and running a free hospital service is expensive!
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