Funded by donations.
Bedrock Radio is a registered charity No. 1180476.
Run entirely by local volunteers who give their time generously.
We are funded by donations from the public and local companies, we achieve this by hosting local events, or arranging collections in the local area.
Supporting Bedrock Radio
It costs over £6,000 every year to keep Bedrock Radio broadcasting. As a volunteer-led charity, we rely on public donations, fundraising, and local business support to stay on-air across four hosptials, providing comfort, connection and companionship to patients and staff, Your local radio service on DAB Digital Radio, with local voices and information from East London and South Essex.
We receive no funding whatsoever from the NHS, so every donation, sponsorship and act of support is vital to keeping us on-air.
The money we raise goes straight into keeping the station alive: paying for essential music licences, internet and software, equipment repairs, transmission services, national news bulletins, music resources and the training that helps our volunteers deliver high-quality programmes. Your support also helps us provide new bedside radios to hospital wards, ensuring patients can listen easily — day or night — at moments when comfort matters most.
Our volunteers are at the heart of everything. They present shows, maintain our studios, fundraise, visit the wards talking to patients and keep the station running 24 hours a day.
They give their time freely because they want to give back to their community and believe in what Bedrock Radio delivered: relief from sickness, promote health and well being and most of all provide a human voice and a friend on the radio, when someone may desperately need one.
People listen to Bedrock Radio everywhere — in hospital beds, waiting rooms, living rooms, workplaces and on the move. You can hear us online, through smart speakers and on the Bedrock Radio App.
And on DAB+ Digital Radio from December 2025, reaching thousands more people across North East London and South West Essex tunein into a new local radio station dedicated to their health and wellbeing.
As an independent charity, we stand apart from hospital fundraising bodies and the NHS.
While they support the Hospital running in funding equipment, major projects and other wellbeing initiatives, patient entertainment (Hospital Radio) is not part of their remit and receives no funding as a result.
That’s why we rely entirely on our community to keep us going.
When you support Bedrock Radio, you’re not just funding a radio station —
you’re supporting local people, easing loneliness and spreading comfort when it’s needed most.
Get Involved.
Let’s put the FUN into fundraising.
Host your own event, take on a challenge, or turn your interests into funds for the Bedrock Radio.
Have our collection tin at your premises.
Ideal for shops, bars, pubs, cafés and coffee shops!
Our branded collection tins are sealed and come with chains, allowing them to be secured somewhere convenient in your premises.
Having a collection tin visibly shows your customers that you’re supporting a local charity.
(We also give you a mention on air as a location supporting us).
Our agreement with you is simple and straightforward.
Recent locations include:
Ma Bakers | The Fruit Hut | Wheatsheaf Pub
Interested? – Contact Us
Run, Walk or Jog
Enjoy the great outdoors!
An activity for all ages children, adults – and even dogs!
A sponsored run, walk or job is a healthy way to enjoy the open spaces of East London & Essex, while boosting your mental health and raising funds for Bedrock Radio!
We can help provide you with sponsorship forms, or get set up on platforms like JustGiving – We’ll even promote your Run, Walk, Jog on-air!
If it’s an organised event?
Then why not have the Bedrock Roadshow provide the soundtrack,
Interested? – Contact Us
Become an icon.
Forget formal – dress down day! or dress up as your favourite artists, actors, idols, superheros or mascot!
Dress up as famous icons and raise funds for Bedrock Radio – and spread a little joy with colleagues and friends.
Don’t fancy wearing your Superman outfit (We get it Clark, your real identity is safe with us),
Then a dress down day, with a donation to Bedrock Radio is absolutely fine too.
Local schools can even get involved with a non-uniform day too!
We can help provide you with sponsorship forms, or get set up on platforms like JustGiving
Send us photos and we’ll get them on our socials too!
If it’s an organised event?
Then why not have the Bedrock Roadshow provide the soundtrack,
Interested? – Contact Us
Brew with Bedrock!
Flick the kettle on, get the cakes out and make it a coffee morning, afternoon tea or a bake sale.
& Get Bedrock Radio or Bedrock GOLD playing in the background!
With fabulous fairy cakes, beautiful brownies or get creative with the carrot cake!
Sell some naughty, nice and creative treats sold for a donation to Bedrock Radio.
Tell us about your Brew With Bedrock and we’ll send you some goodies to get you started.
Tell us you’re fundraising – Contact Us
For the sporty.
Challenge your management or your rivals to a friendly football match, Game of Ultimate Frisbee – or a sport of your choice
Raise funds by selling tickets for the day, or perhaps an office sweepstake that makes a donation to Bedrock Radio!
We’d love to get involved with you and have our sports team provide commentary back to the studio.
Tell us you’re fundraising – Contact Us
Help us fund new ward radio’s for patients at Queen’s Hosptial, Romford.
Get your name, or personal message on the side of our wards radios.
Which are enjoyed by patients and staff for hours each day!
Get started: https://www.bedrockradio.org.uk/sponsor-a-radio/
Mobile & Website Banners.
- Banner Advert 600 x 100 banner £10 Per Month.
- Mobile App Pre-Roll 640 X 1136 Splash Screen with short audio (10 seconds ideal) £30 Per Month
Sponsored Blog / News Post
- Website & App
A single Blog / News article features on our website, mobile app & our monthly newsletter. - You provide the article & any associated branding artwork advertising.
- Must comply with our standards.
- Content must not be misleading, harmful, or phishing related.
- Content will be published on Bedrock Radio, Bedrock GOLD & Mobile App.
- £75 per posting.
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We are a Community Health & Hospital Radio Broadcaster.
Broadcasting to patients of Queen’s, King George, Goodmayes and Whipps Cross Hospitals. -
We aim to make patients stay in hospital better, by broadcasting dedicated hospital focused radio programmes and visiting patients on the wards.
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We receive no income from the Government or NHS.
Bedrock Radio is totally independent & self-funding charity, supported by your donations, sponsorship & occasionally grants.
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We are run entirely by a team of volunteers, who give their time generously to visit patients, produce shows, fundraise and promote our service.
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The funds raised from your support enables us to keep on-air, entertaining patients across our local hospitals, plus continue outreaching to our community about benefits of a healthy lifestyle.
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You will be supporting our volunteers who are from the local community, helping boost their communication skills and making them feel part of a fantastic team, boosting their social skills & confidence.
- You are supporting a small independent local charity. We invest all fundraising back into running our charity. None of our volunteers are paid, so you are not funding some CEOs or department heads pockets.
- Are you a business? Supporting a charity boosts your Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by embracing a positive impact through the community. Our listeners will learn about your business through your support of Bedrock Radio.
Advertising and Sponsorship
Bedrock Radio launches on DAB+ Digital Radio in 2025
We have been awarded a licence by Ofcom, now we are waiting for the transmitter operator
to install & test their equipment, we expect to launch in Autumn 2025.
DAB Digital Radio locally is expected to reach a potential audience of over 959,000 listeners across North East London and South West Essex.
Bedrock Radio will be launching a new range of sponsorship and advertising packages.
For The Community, By The Community.
Bedrock Radio is a small charity run radio station, our objective include; providing relief of sickness, poor health and old age and advancement of health through the promotion of the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle & having good personal mental and physical health for the public benefit. Unlike local & national broadcaster we're run by volunteers, all who come from the local area, helping to run the charity & provide radio programmes for people in the local area. We really do appreciate any support we receive from individuals and the companies in the community.
