Felixstowe Radio is a community radio

Community radio in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, Community Radio refers to a system of licensing small, micro-local, non-profit radio stations, which started in 2002. In its early days, the pilot scheme was known as Access Radio.-History:...

 station in Felixstowe

Felixstowe

Felixstowe is a seaside town on the North Sea coast of Suffolk, England. The town gives its name to the nearby Port of Felixstowe, which is the largest container port in the United Kingdom and is owned by Hutchinson Ports UK...

, Suffolk

Suffolk

Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

 51.9671°N 1.3523°E. It began as an internet radio station in 2006, applied for a Community Radio License in late 2008 and was awarded a full license in February 2009.

Full Time licence

In 2009, Felixstowe Radio was awarded a Community Radio Licence, which has allowed the station to broadcast in FM Stereo on 107.5 MHz, seven days a week. Transmissions began in November 2009 from the studio housed in Great Eastern Square beside East of England Co-Operative Society premises in Felixstowe.

Organisation

Felixstowe Radio is a Community Interest Company

Community interest company

A community interest company is a new type of company introduced by the United Kingdom government in 2005 under the Companies Act 2004, designed for social enterprises that want to use their profits and assets for the public good...

. A team of volunteers look after the premises, serve in the shop, plan shows and many other things required to keep a radio station on air.

External links

• Felixstowe Radio Homepage—The website of Felixstowe Community Radio.