Weekend Wakeup with Gary Walker

Start your weekend with an eclectic variety of great music spanning 6 decades and several genres.  We’ll also keep you up to date with what’s happening around Harrow, help you get there with travel updates and weather updates, preview the weekend sports and much more.  7:00 to 10:00 AM Saturday Mornings on HCRFM.

Born and brought up in New England in the USA, I worked in a number of radio stations as morning and weekend presenter or as we called it “Dee-Jay”.  During that time, I amassed a substantial CD collection.  In 1989, I packed my bags and my CDs and started a new life in Tanzania, Africa.  In between managing safari companies in Tanzania and Kenya, I hired myself and my music out to parties and events including a millennium eve party for 60 VIPS in the middle of Serengeti National Park.

Having grown up in New England, when the opportunity came up to move to the original England, returning to my ancestral roots, I decided it was time to take a break from life in Africa – but I know I will someday return.

Every Saturday we’ll be bring you live commentary from either Harrow Boroughs, Wealdstone or Rayners Lane homes games as well as updates from there away and also Barnet FC. We’ll also have an exclusive interviews with all of Harrow’s sports associations. Plus all the latest scores from our local teams divisions  and keeping you up to date with the national scene.

We also aim to promote local sports teams who need your support, and local sports clubs who want you to participate. If you’re involved in sport locally, please get in touch and I’ll be delighted to get you on the radio, just email us on sport@hcrfm.org.

HCR Breakfast is the all-new radio show coming to your local station. Join Adam Allinson every weekday morning from 7am for two hours of great music, the latest news and some really great chat. It’s an all request wake up, book an alarm call, and there are some great give aways! Contact the studio on studio@hcrfm.org or drop us a text on 07950 081296.

Born in the North East, Adam’s northern accent is infectious on air. After spending the last four years in Harrow, he enjoys exploring the local turf and discovering people’s stories. He has been working in radio for the last six years, and in particular enjoys the ‘live’ side of presenting! Adam is also an independent   radio documentary maker, there is no subject which is off limits.

Adam can’t do this alone so if your good in the mornings and fancy being a volunteer Producer or Broadcast Assistant then check out our volunteer page on the website www.hcrfm.org and click on volunteering.  All the details on what the rolls entail are there plus you can download an application form.

HCR is also looking for a sponsorship partner for the show. If you are a Harrow based business and want to target a local audience then HCR Breakfast is right for you. We are offering excellent introductory rates for our breakfast package across our on air live show, listen again service and website. Please contact Keith on admin@hcrfm.org for more details.

Don’t forget HCR Breakfast with Adam Allinson starting Monday the 19^th November from 7am

Harrow Community Radio has teamed up with radiostationapps.co.uk to create a custom streaming iPhone App with our own stations own branding. The new app carries our:

1.Dedicated audio stream, listen wherever you are
2.Access to all our Social media including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
3.Text the studio direct from the App
4.Email the studio direct from the App.

All you need to do is search for Harrow Community Radio in the App Store on your iPhone. It’s completely free to download and install. The App will also run on iPhone 3GS*, iPhone 4* and iPhone 4S models as well as 3rd Gen iPod Touch+* and iPad. Over the next few weeks we’ll be adding our listen again and podcast service so even if you’ve missed a show you can catch up when ever you want too. If you don’t have an iPhone don’t worry.

Our App for Android phones is available now please follow the link below.

*Running iOS 4.3 and above and Wi-Fi connection

Download our iPhone App – Harrow Community Radio

Download Android App – Harrow Community Radio

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HCR has teamed up with Uhuru Productions to bring you this national weekly business magazine “Lets Talk Business”. The programme gives brilliant advise to local business owners and future entrepreneurs as well interviewing business leaders and managers. The show also looks at innovative ways social and new media can help new and established business.

The show is aired every Friday starting on the 9^th November from 1.30pm and repeated again on Mondays also at 1.30pm. You can also catch all the shows in the series on our listen again service at www.hcrfm.org

Lets Talk Business, this and every Friday at 1.30pm

The Paralympic Torch Relay will be visiting the London Borough of Harrow, including a 20 minute stop at the Aspire Centre in Stanmore – renowned for its support to the Paralympics and its athletes.

Due to the nature of the overnight Paralympic Torch Relay the stop will be at 3.55am on the morning of Wed 29 August.

The Aspire Centre together with the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Harrow Council are organising a welcoming committee for the torch and everyone is invited to attend this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Parking will be available in the RNOH car park but we recommend arriving an hour before the Torch is expected. There will be no access to the Aspire Centre via Wood Lane. Entry must be made via the Brockley Hill entrance.

After the stop at Aspire the Paralympic Torch Relay will continue onto:

Wood Lane – Stanmore Hill – The Broadway – Marsh Lane – Honeypot Lane – Kingsbury Road into Brent at 5.22am.

We welcome you to line the route, if you are not able to attend the stop at Aspire. A link to the map is here

ORGANISERS of an exciting fundraising event in Harrow are urging local people to get involved.

Cancer Research UK’s Relay For Life is a unique celebration of life and hope which unites communities to help beat cancer and culminates in a fantastic family and team event.

Teams of between eight to 15 people – of all ages, levels of fitness and from all walks of life – are needed to take part in the overnight fundraising festival at the Bannister Stadium over the weekend of 8th-9th September 2012.  During the Relay itself, team members take it in turns to walk round a track while everyone else enjoys a wide range of fun activities on offer.

As dusk falls, the atmosphere quietens as the Candle of Hope ceremony begins. The event is the most poignant part of Relay For Life when specially made Candle of Hope bags – decorated with touching messages in memory or in celebration of loved ones – are filled with sand and lit up with candles around the track.

This is the sixth time Relay For Life has taken place in Harrow. Now the committee of volunteers staging Relay For Life is looking for even more local support to help make it a tremendous success.

As well as recruiting teams, they are searching for motivated people who want to help organise the event itself and get the whole community involved.

Tony Selman, volunteer Chair of Cancer Research UK’s Relay For Life in Harrow, said: “We would love to hear from anyone who wants to find out more about Relay For Life and how they can help.

“Relay For Life is a great way to spend time with your friends, family and colleagues while raising money for a seriously worth-while cause. Everyone knows someone who has been touched by cancer. Taking part in Relay For Life is a positive way to be part of your local community and help make a real difference.”

Cancer Research UK funds the work of thousands of scientists, doctors and nurses who are dedicated to beating cancer by understanding its causes and investigating how best to prevent, diagnose and treat it.

Thanks to Cancer Research UK’s work, more people are surviving cancer than ever before. Survival rates have doubled over the last 40 years and the charity’s work has been at the heart of that progress.

But despite improvements in treatment, cancer causes more than one in four of all deaths in the UK. Cancer Research UK wants to change that and needs the help of people in Harrow to help save many more lives.

More information on Relay For Life Harrow can be found at the event’s website www.RFL-Harrow.org.uk or call 08716 41 26 02.

We’ll be live this Wednesday morning to bring you all the coverage of the Olympic Torch Relay Through Harrow. From 8am we will bring you the build up to this one in a lifetime event and then at 9am we come live from the town centre plus we’ll have reporters at the key points on the route as the torch passes through our borough.

All the information on how to tune in to our broadcast plus check out our webcam to see the dancers and the build up to the event. If you are looking to come and see the torch then we have all the spectator information below.

Live video by Ustream

Ways to Listen
On any PC or MAC via our website www.hcrfm.org. On the home or any page on the right hand side is our radio play, simply click on the green play button and it will connect to our stream. If people system is set up for different plays them underneath the play are individual options for mp3s, Window media player, Winamp and Itunes.

Dedicated IPhone App
Iphone users can download our dedicated App. All you need to do is search for Harrow Community Radio in the App Store on your iPhone. It’s completely free to download and install. The App will also run on iPhone 3GS*, iPhone 4* and iPhone 4S models as well as 3rd Gen iPod Touch+* and iPad. The App has the following functions:

1.Dedicated audio stream, listen wherever you are
2.Access to all our Social media including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
3.Text the studio direct from the App
4.Email the studio direct from the App.

Android phone users:
Can down the TuneIn Radio or TuneIn Radio Pro App available for your Android phones. Just search for “TuneIn” in the Android Market.  For more information visit www.tunein.com/mobile/android/. Once is downloaded search for Harrow Community Radio and save it in My Presets.

The Olympic flame starts its journey at the historic Headstone Manor before traveling through Wealdstone, Harrow Town Centre and over Harrow-on-the-Hill.

Headstone Manor – 09.17am – The flame is lit and starts from Headstone Manor to the sound of a trumpet fanfare. Vaughan school are performing a specially created dance piece, and there will be medieval combat demonstrations. Access to Headstone Manor is strictly by invitation only. Once out of the museum the flame will do a lap of the Bessborough cricket ground before setting off down Pinner View and along Headstone Drive.

10.00am – Once the flame departs Headstone Manor & Museum opens its doors to all for a family fun day with workshops, displays and demonstrations continuing until 2pm.

Bessborough Cricket Ground -08.30am – A demonstration cricket match will be taking place before the flame takes a lap of the boundary at around 9.19am

Palmerston Road/ Siddhashram International Centre – 09.00am – Dancers and dohl drummers will perform in advance of the flame’s arrival

09.41am – The flame reaches Palmerston Road

Civic Centre, Station Road – 09.00am – Cheerleaders will be getting the celebrations started here

09.45am – The flames passes the Civic Centre

Katie’s Statue, Harrow Town Centre -09.00am – Harrow Community Radio will be delivering a live broadcast, and the crowds can enjoy performances by Elevate Street Dance and the Merrydowners Morris Dancers

09.54am – The flame goes through the Town Centre

Harrow School, Harrow-on-the-Hill – 09.00am – The Glen Trew Pipe Band and St Mary’s Church children’s choir provide a musical accompaniment to celebrations on the Hill. The church bells will also be rung to mark this historic moment.

10.08am – The flame goes over the top of the hill

St George’s Primary School – 10.00am – Children from the school have been making flags and banners and will be lining the route to see the flame cross the border into Brent

10.18am – The flame heads down Sudbury Hill and out of the borough

Do’s & Don’ts

DON’T bring your car – all the roads in Harrow will be extremely busy on the day and there is very little parking available at any of the event sites other than the town centre.

DON’T come to Headstone Manor for the start of the relay unless you have an invitation

DO come along to Headstone Manor after 10am for the family fun day

DO keep yourselves and your children safe by staying out of the road

DO bring some water to drink

DO check the weather forecast and dress accordingly

DO take your litter home with you

DO bring flags to wave and have a wonderful time!

Best Places to View

Headstone Drive – between Harrow View and the Crown Court

Harrow Town Centre – between Debenhams and Barclays Bank

Peterborough Road – between Lowlands Road and Garlands Lane

Sudbury Hill – between Chasewood Park and St George’s School

For disabled people – Opposite Katie’s Statue in the Town Centre

On Saturday June 23rd we launched a new monthly feature with local Counsellor Marion Leslie.  Marion has over 10 years of professional experience in many fields of counselling and aims to pass on her experience to our listeners

We discussed the various issues that clients bring to counselling plus some of the difficulties that people experience in making the decision to actually have counselling and ask for help in a society where needing help can sometimes been seen as a ‘weakness’. Our aim is to be able to provide awareness as to how ‘creative counselling’ can help in terms of finding a way forward.

We also looked at other very important aspects of Marion’s work, which is supporting people who have, or have had cancer; including support for carers of those with cancer.

This feature will run monthly on the 4^th Saturday of every month. If there is a subject you would like us to feature please email us at admin@hcrfm.org

Harrow Community Beat is a brand new monthly magazine  show looking at how our local police are tackling crime in the borough.

Presented by Detective Constable Nadia Ali, an officer with over seven years experience in both uniform and plain clothes the show will focus on the latest news and initiatives being carried out by the police. There will also be up to date crime prevention advice and information on how you can help to make a safer Harrow.

The show is broadcast on every 1st Friday of the month starting the 6th July 2012 from 2pm. If there is any particular initiative you would like mentioned or you wish Nadia to discuss then you can email the show on studio@hcrfm.org or text on  07950 081 296.