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October 2011
Could community radio help people to find skills and jobs?
An innovative new radio show aiming to help those affected by redundancy has been tested at a local radio station in Redruth as part of our bigger project to tackle the issues surrounding redundancy in Cornwall.
The show is just one of seven potential services conceived from New Work Cornwall, the Skills Funding Agency sponsored project we have been leading for the past 18 months.
Listen to the radio show
Duration: 25 minutes
The radio show that aims to give listeners access to support, employment information and advice was conceived from a series of workshops with people facing redundancy or recently made redundant.
At our co-design workshops we asked local people what their employment issues were and discussed potential ways to solve these problems. Many people felt they needed more information about how to set new goals and access employment opportunities in Cornwall. They suggested that a radio show would be a really accessible way of providing that information.
The pilot show, nicknamed "Headhunted", was broadcasted on Redruth radio in September featured Ed with presenter Nick and Lizzie Larbalestier - a professional NLP coach (Neuro-Linguistic Programing) who specializes in confidence building - to look at people's behaviour and how they perceive their life and employment situations.
In a workshop after the show, listeners said that the show offered something useful and was different to that of traditional support and information channels. They suggested that each radio show could offer something different for different areas and that they should be made available to download as a podcast.
Clare Pawley from Truro said, "Discussions about values and confidence building offers me information which I couldn't have got elsewhere."
The feedback from the pilot radio show has been incredibly positive and we envisage that regular podcasts such as these could be made available for the public to download via a website. We'd love to hear from organisations or budding entrepreneurs wishing to work with community radio stations across Cornwall and develop this service as a social enterprise.
