[cma-l] Station raises £80k for floods

[Javed Sattar]

Well done to Jabbar and his team in Radio Asian Fever, fantastic amount, it shows the power of CR stations what can be achieved.

Likewise we had a team of 80+ runners in the Great Scottish Run (from volunteers, community, ministers, councillors etc) and we managed to raise £15K, not as much as RAF. However we tend not to do on-air programs as we would be in undated with too many organisations wanting the same service, also we don’t want to step into Radio Ramadhan area, so we place the sensible big brother :)

It would be nice to know how many CR stations have raised money for the DEC Pakistan Flood Appeal. 

Javed


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Source: http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.6302

An inner-city Leeds community radio station has raised three times its
initial fund-raising target for the Pakistan flood appeal within a
month.

Listeners to Radio Asian Fever (RAF -
http://www.radioasianfever.co.uk/) - in one of the most deprived areas
of the city - donated £80,000 towards the cause.

RAF manager Jabbar Karim, who launched the not-for-profit station
three years ago, told the Yorkshire Evening Post: "Our target was
£30,000 if we were lucky, but the community has been absolutely
fantastic and we want to say a big thank you to everyone who has
donated. It wasn't even big donations on the whole, it was £10 here
and £20 there."

The total of £81,329.32 has now been handed over to Islamic Relief
who've already raised £10m nationally.

Around 20 million people have been affected by the Pakistan floods
with the aftermath now leaving people suffering from malaria.

Zia Salik, northern fund-raiser for Islamic Relief, told the paper:
"It was quite phenomenal. The response we got is a credit to the
listeners of RAF. It's unusual because it's a small community radio
station, not a commercial one, but it just goes to show that the
community trusts RAF and Jabbar a lot."

Source: http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.6302

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