A new community radio station in Cambridge has really brought the community spirit back to its new premises after formally being run in a resident’s home. Cambridge 105 employed a few of the carpentry students from the local Cambridge Regional College to help fully renovate their new studios in an industrial unit in Gwydir Street.

Under the professional and careful supervision of their lecturer the three students – Joe Clements, 18, from Bar Hill, Chris MacFadyen, 18, from Royston, and Dan Wright, 24, from Hardwick, all helped and worked extremely hard on the project which will equip them for the future.
Peter Monaghan, who is an assessor and also a director of the station, said: “We started with just a basic industrial unit with nothing in it, and the first thing the students did was to build two rooms to use as studios so that we could start broadcasting from there in December”.

The station is run by volunteers and broadcasts to the whole local community providing entertainment as well as informative news and local information, and is billed as vital for the locals, and with this in mind it was great that local students had such a vital role in the set up of the new studio, and also the fact that local trade depot company Travis Perkins donated the materials.

Peter Monaghan went on to say “We’re also very grateful to Travis Perkins in Devonshire Road for donating all the materials to make the build possible.”

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Carpentry students hone their skills to build radio studios

A new community radio station is broadcasting from purpose-built studios – thanks to the efforts of carpentry students from Cambridge Regional College.

The students have been putting their skills to good use to help launch radio station Cambridge 105, transforming an industrial unit in Gwydir Street into modern studio premises.

Under the supervision of lecturer Gary Moore, the three students – Joe Clements, 18, from Bar Hill, Chris MacFadyen, 18, from Royston, and Dan Wright, 24, from Hardwick – worked on the site in December and were back this week to finish the job.

Peter Monaghan, a carpentry assessor at the college and one of the directors of Cambridge 105, who has also been supervising the work, said the students’ help had been invaluable to the radio station.

He said: “We started with just a basic industrial unit with nothing in it, and the first thing the students did was to build two rooms to use as studios so that we could start broadcasting from there in December.

“Cambridge 105 is a new community radio station for the city and everything is run by volunteers so we are very grateful for the help from the students – they are doing a great job.

“We’re also very grateful to Travis Perkins in Devonshire Road for donating all the materials to make the build possible.”

He said the students, all in their second year of a full-time Level 2 Diploma in Carpentry, have also benefited from some good hands-on work experience.

The station has been broadcasting since last summer. It was initially based in the home of one of the volunteers, but moved to Gwydir Street in December.

The station will mark the completion of the building work with an official launch and drop-in weekend for anyone in the community interested in radio broadcasting later in the month. For more information, visit www.cambridge105.fm.

This weekend, a free workshop will be held at the studios for members of the public to learn about audio production. It will run from 10am-3pm both days, and is being organised by Cambridge 105 and the Cambridge Time Traveller Group.

Cambridge News, 14th January 2011 (also includes a video interview with Cambridge105′s Pete Monaghan)

CARPENTRY STUDENTS HELP BUILD NEW  CAMBRIDGE RADIO STATION

A new radio station is broadcasting from purpose-built studios thanks to some hard work by carpentry students from Cambridge Regional College.

The students have been putting their skills to good use to help launch community radio station Cambridge 105, transforming an industrial unit in Gwydir Street into modern studio premises.

Under the supervision of lecturer Gary Moore, the three students – Joe Clements, 18, from Bar Hill, Chris McFadyen, 18, from Royston, and 24 year-old Dan Wright from Hardwick – worked on the site in December and were back this week to finish the job.

Hard at work building new studios at Cambridge 105

Peter Monaghan, an NVQ assessor at the College and one of the directors of Cambridge 105, said the students’ help had been invaluable to the radio station.

“We started with just a basic industrial unit with nothing in it, and the first thing the students did was to build two rooms to use as studios so that we could start broadcasting from there in December,” he said.

“Cambridge 105 is a new community radio station for the city and everything is run by volunteers so we are very grateful for the help from the students – they are doing a great job. We’re also very grateful to Travis Perkins in Devonshire Road for donating all the materials to make the build possible.”

The students, all in their second year of a full-time Level 2 Diploma in Carpentry, had also benefited from some good hands-on work experience, he said.

The station will mark the completion of the building work with an official launch and drop-in weekend for anyone in the community interested in radio broadcasting later in the month. You can keep with all the latest news by signing up to the station’s mailing list at www.cambridge105.fm.

Cambridge Regional College, 12th January 2011 (PDF)