Radio Enfield
| City | London |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Enfield, Hampstead |
| Frequency | Internal 'Hospedia' System |
| First air date | 24 May 1970 |
| Format | Hospital Radio |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | http://www.radioenfield.co.uk/ |
Radio Enfield is a voluntary Hospital Radio broadcasting service for patients in Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London and North Middlesex Hospital, Edmonton, London . It broadcasts programmes of record requests, local news, interviews, quizzes and other items of interest 24 hours a day. There are special request programmes for the patients in Chase Farm, the Royal Free and North Middlesex Hospitals, which are broadcast Sunday to Friday from 8-10pm. The station is operated by volunteers in their spare time, who present programmes, collect requests, manage the record library and keep the equipment working. Radio Enfield is funded by donations and various activities such as fetes, discos and other public events. The station is a member of the Hospital Broadcasting Association and is a Registered UK Charity No. 265915.
The station started broadcasting to Chase Farm on 24 May 1970 from a converted storeroom in the hospital with a 2-hour weekly request programme on Sunday evenings. In November 1971, the station moved to its second home in Block 7 of Chase Farm, a brick built bicycle shed. The service was extended to Highlands Hospital, Winchmore Hill in March 1972 and to North Middlesex Hospital, Edmonton, London in January 1973. The hospitals were linked by landline to enable the same programme to be heard simultaneously.
Programmes were gradually extended to cover Sunday to Friday evenings to cope with the extra requests. Live football commentaries from Enfield F.C. and Tottenham Hotspur F.C. were introduced after the station moved home again in late 1978. The new studios were financed from a major fund-raising campaign, which included a car raffle organised by the Lions Club of Enfield and was formerly used as a teaching classroom. Two studios were built, enabling separate programmes to be transmitted to any of the hospitals in order to cope with the large number of requests received. At that time, programmes could also be heard at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Tottenham.
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