Radio Free Brighton

Thanks to the Brit­ish Coun­cil and Novas Scar­man Trust Radio Free Brighton was able to wel­come a group of ten com­munity volun­teers: Act­ive Cit­izens from South Africa to our stu­dio where they learnt how to estab­lish their own com­munity radio. They par­ti­cip­ated in many work­shops and lec­tures here and across the city learn­ing about com­munity pro­jects in the areas of HIV issues, lit­er­acy, grow­ing veget­ables and fundraising.

We all learnt a lot — both the Act­ive Cit­izens from com­munity groups in Brighton and their South African counterparts

In cel­eb­ra­tion of this we will be shar­ing parts of their pro­gramme as Spe­cial Interest Stor­ies for the rest of the month of May and acknow­ledging the work of the other Brighton Act­ive Cit­izen mem­bers as we go along.

We look for­ward to pro­grammes made by our South African col­leagues on the views and exper­i­ences of people in their town­ships on Radio Free Brighton in the com­ing months.