Located in the City of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, Radio
Sunderland for Hospitals is a registered charity staffed
entirely by volunteers.
Established in 1953 we provide a free personal hospital
radio service to the bedside of patients in the Sunderland Royal Hospital.
We broadcast our programmes of music, news and information direct to
the patients 24 hours- a-day on the hospital network via Hospedia bedside units and they are also
available via our online stream. We produce a number of specialised
programmes including the patients music request programme Ward
Call and of course, we provide full football
match commentary of every Sunderland
A.F.C. home game.
If you have any comments or queries regarding Radio Sunderland
for Hospitals please feel free to get in touch via the contact
page.
You can use our online Radio
Player to listen to Radio Sunderland and use the contact form
to send a message straight to the studio!
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Click the "play icon" above to launch our pop-out radio player - not working for you?
To find details of other ways you can listen go to our How
To Listen page.
We are a registered charity run by a small team of
enthusiastic, unpaid volunteers.
If you have just a couple of hours a week to spare, then come
and join our team.
We would love to hear from you.
Running any radio station, even a hospital service like ours, is an expensive business!
There are many ways in which you could help and support Radio
Sunderland.
Our aim is to aid in the relief of sickness and infirmity.
Deliver health and well being information.
Radio Sunderland provides a hospital ward visiting and free
radio service for patients in hospital and similar institutions.
Radio is the original one-to-one medium, it is intimate and friendly but Hospital Radio aims to have even more of a personal touch.
Radio Sunderland for Hospitals is a registered charity that broadcasts specialist and personalised programme's to the patients of the Sunderland Royal Hospital.
There are a variety of tasks involved in running Radio Sunderland and we are always looking for new volunteers to help keep us "on-air".
Anyone aged 16 or over can be a volunteer at Radio Sunderland -
there is no upper limit!
No experience is required as full training is given.
Since 1953 we have been involved in many events in and around Sunderland.
Sadly, only a fraction of what we have done over the years has been documented.
Can you add to our archives?
Visit our Archive page for more details.
The Royal Hospital has suspend all visiting except for exceptional circumstances.
At Radio Sunderland we are following advice about non-essential travel and social distancing, so we are unable to broadcast our full programme schedule.
In the meantime, we hope you will continue to enjoy listening to our other programmes.
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