About RSAB

We are a not for profit organisation based at Tregorrick Park Sports Club in St Austell. We aim to assist in the ongoing regeneration of the St Austell Bay area by:

• Giving local people the chance to access training in radio and social skills and gain qualifications in radio production leading to higher levels of employability regardless of experience.

• Promoting local services and community groups by providing radio access

• Raising awareness of issues which affect the community, with particular emphasis on the environment, health, the economy and local heritage
  

• Fostering local arts and traditions and protecting cultural diversity
  Encouraging local creative talent
  
  

What is Community or Access radio?

Community radio is a new tier of radio in the UK. It differs from BBC and ILR in several ways:

• It is run on a not for profit basis

• Its aim is to cater for a specific area (up to 5km radius)

• It is run by volunteers who receive training in essential skills

• Individuals and community groups are actively encouraged to take a role in the station to ensure that it is successful

How RSAB is run

RSAB is run by a voluntary management committee, who have extensive experience of management, local radio and community development. Many volunteers are involved of all ages and from a wide variety of backgrounds. All types of music are catered for on air and as well as presenting programmes, volunteers are involved in producing, researching and administration.

Our Aims

Radio St Austell Bay aims to support community development through the medium of radio. Our prime focus is the community of people who live, work, or are being educated in the St Austell Bay area.

We aim to offer individuals and groups the opportunity to be involved in all aspects of running a radio station, producing programming that centres on St Austell Bay’s history, present and future, culture, people and places. We also aim to inform and encourage local responses to national and international issues and tastes.

We do not seek to duplicate any existing service but to support local people to take part in defining their own culture, debating their own issues, and celebrating their own skills and achievements.

Community Radio is as flexible and spontaneous as the human mind - the only limit is your imagination. Community Radio is a part of a global movement which is emerging on every continent. In Latin America is is called 'popular' or 'educational' radio, in Africa 'rural' or 'local' radio and in the UK and Australia 'public' or 'community' radio.

Community Radio aims not only to participate in the life of the community, but also to enable the community to participate in the life of the station. We aim to be a successful community medium, we are right where we should be - to do our work most effectively.
We are not a public service media in a new guise - we are a small, accessible, social and cultural tool to be used by our community for personal and communal empowerment.