Planning hand in hand – Eden FM & Eden Local

by Lee Quinn

In some ways it’s been like starting again! As you work through this Eden Local publication, it is evident that things are coming back. Do you sense things are getting more organised? I look at my wall chart planner that takes the Eden Local as far as the March 2024 delivery which starts in early February.

With June arriving, the new 18-month Academic Diary from July 2023 to December 2024 is already sitting underneath my current diary, which is due to finish this December, but won’t make it to September! Yes, a 15-month diary would save a few pages for sure.

On completing this July Eden Local, I am already starting on the August magazine. This will be the ninth publication for 2023. Chris, my designer and I have helped on other projects, so we’ll produce 14 local publications in this year. In 2022 we produced 10 Eden Local publications. In 2024 we anticipate reaching 16.

Helping distribute your Eden Local

Eden Local will keep growing based on the doors increasing that it posts through every month. We need more teams out there if we are going to move from 12,500 doors to potentially over 13,000 in the next 6 months.

You could be in an area that already gets the magazine, but if you would like to help deliver it, please contact us. We currently operate 29 teams. During Lockdown we did lose some teams and over the last six months we have started the process of moving some teams to routes nearer to their base where they live.

Logistics was stretched in both cost and distance, so if you can help deliver your Eden Local or know some who can, please call 01768 862394 today. You could be starting tomorrow!

Eden FM was created through the Eden Local 12 months before it switched on, for those new readers that didn’t know that. The peaks and troughs of the last three years have needed this link in order to make it through.

The Eden FM team is a lot smaller now than when it set out in 2011, and when it switched on full time in 2014. Coming out of 2022 and the relocation of this not-for-profit organisation, run and presented by volunteers, we had a very busy time from October to December.

At the May Day Fair, we had a team of six volunteers broadcasting live from 10am until 4pm, however, due to the constant commitments of the team and the studio build that will complete soon, sadly it is unable to attend the Skelton Show, and it is having a summer focused on preparing for the renewal of its five year Ofcom 107.5 FM licence that takes it up to 2029.

There are other projects to announce.

If you would like to meet some of the team and you would also like to consider joining the team, we will be holding an event in August for potential new volunteers who would like to join. This will be held at the new Eden FM studio. For more details email lee@edenfm.co.uk.

Until next month……

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