Introduction

Welcome to Hayes FM – Film & Media. Welcome to our radio service 91.8

91.8 Hayes FM is a community focused local radio station based in Hayes in Greater West London, England.

We are unlike any other radio station. Our programmes are the most diverse you will hear, so confident are we about the output, that we can say you will not hear another format like ours anywhere in the world..!!

91.8 Hayes FM is different from most other radio stations in that we are non-commercial. We are not obligated to sell advertisements on the air in order to keep the station operational, though we are allowed to. This allows us to be different with our format and accommodate many different musical tastes into our programming.

Our music output encompasses classic hits to the best new music, interspersed with the biggest hits from around the world!!

Summed up, we are the collection of many formats on one station. Similar to the way a TV station is programmed, there are blocks of programming (like a TV show) with different tastes of music. As a result, our format is reflective of the area we serve.

History

The story of Hayes FM is a story of being at the right place at the right time.
In 2002, Hayes and Harlington undertook an extensive public consultation exercise to look at ways local voluntary and community groups could engage more fully with the communities they serve. The public consultations concluded that current mechanisms of dissipating information to the community were not working.

Radio was put forward as one tool that could effectively provide a platform for different communities to engage with each other and for the 300 voluntary groups to engage with the communities and for them to engage with each other.

So Hayes FM was born out of an initiative between our local MP, John McDonnell, and Sutish K Sharma, who at the time was working at the BBC, and a local resident of the area. A Board of Trustees was set up; a company limited by guarantee was formed with charitable status with our own constitution, and a set of values.

Working with our local college, Hayes FM developed accredited training courses and in November 2004, we submitted an application to OFCOM for a local community radio licence. ->