All About Frome - Frome FM

05/02/2025

On All About Frome this week, Rupert Kirkham talks to Damon Moore, Director and Holly Lawton, Communications Manager for Mayday Saxonvale. Now they’ve got the contract to develop the site, where does the project go from here?
Alex Lawrie Chair of Go-op, the new rail franchise for parts of Wiltshire and Somerset that other rail companies can’t reach just got the go-ahead to set up the franchise so long as they can fund it; and Esther Maughan McLachlan from Edventure’s senior management team talks about a new community venture – a re-use DIY store to help keep unused DIY materials out of landfill so we can purchase them at lower cost and put them back into the community.
With music from The Beatles and Patti Smith.
Mayday Saxonvale
Edventure: Frome
Frome FM
GO-OP Co-operative Limited

https://www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/325-all-about-frome-040225-go-op-saxonvale-diy/

All About Frome - FM Frome FM 96.6, www.frome.fm and smartspeaker,
6pm Tuesday, 7 am Wednesday and 1pm Saturday

23/01/2025

Council decided to award contract to Mayday Saxonvale consortium.
Saxonvale Director Damien Moore on fromefm at 5pm in our Workex show. 96.6 and Frome.fm
At the end of this fabulous show from our emerging talent is the interview
Frome FM
https://www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/work-experience-show-230125/

23/01/2025

https://www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/324-all-about-frome-210125-openstorytellers-child-ed-march-for-children/

This week on All About Frome Simon Blakeman and Ellie Burton from OpenStorytellers
tell us about their new production Through the Front Door
which opens at the Memorial Theatre on 31st January at 7pm
T*****s from the Frome Memorial Theatre box office
Openstorytellers Frome

Neurocoach Julia Black talks about her new book Lights On
Learning about encouraging children to unlock their creativity
and fulfil their potential
Julia Black - The Lights On Mum

Daniela Scott talks about the Million Women March for Children
which takes place on 17th February at 12 calling for changes
to the law to increase children’s protection from abuse
Million Women march Frome 17th February
London March: 12 noon by Boudicca Statue
Frome March: 12 noon Memorial Garden, Memorial Theatre

23/01/2025

**** Frome FM work experience students break Saxonvale decision live on air TONIGHT ******
LISTEN LIVE TONIGHT 5PM 96.6FM
Students from Frome College involved in a work experience project this week in the studios of Frome FM at the town hall will be able to break the news of the Saxonvale development decision live on air during the ‘end of experience’ radio show at 5 o’clock on Thursday. Damon Moore one of the directors of Mayday Saxonvale who are hoping the project will be awarded to them will be in the studio to be interviewed by work experience students Rosabelle Hartley, Robyn Joseph, Sylvan Ayliffe and Charli Witt.

They also have interviews about local independent fashion houses Deadly is the Female and Hung Drawn Quoted and their passion for photography.
Mayday Saxonvale
Frome FM
https://www.frome.fm/

21/01/2025

Tune in to All About Frome - Frome FM today at Midday to hear us chat with them all about our upcoming heritage show 'Through the Front Door'😃 Frome FM The National Lottery Heritage Fund

18/01/2025

Live Music Recorded in Frome
by Frome FM
PERFORMANCE (3rd Sunday of the Month at 1300) and
STOLEN MOMENTS, (4th Sunday of the month at 2300) - live jazz recorded in Christchurch. Last year's concert highlights now available on a double CD.

Many of these concerts are also filmed and highlights can be found on YouTube. All shows can be found on mixcloud/fromefm/*programme name*

If you have a live gig coming up that you'd like recorded, let us know. PM me.

15/01/2025

https://www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/323-all-about-frome-140125-town-plan-2025/
This week on All About Frome we have Steve Tanner, Leader of Frome Town Council and Councillor Fiona Barrows talking us through the new Town Plan, aimed at building economic, social and environmental resilience to meet the town’s needs and creating a community that works for everyone. Copies of the annual Community Guide will also be coming through your door with the Frome Times, or collect from the town hall or library.
A meeting to set the budget will take place on Wednesday 15th January at the town hall at 7pm. All are welcome.
Frome Town Council
Meeting of Frome Town Council
Wednesday 15 January 2025, 7pm
Frome Town Hall and Zoom. Join here: https://bit.ly/4fOf7qm

29/12/2024

Please help!

12/12/2024

This week on All About Frome:
Inspector Rachel Clark talks about community policing in Somerset and updates us on her mile-a-day fundraising challenge for We Hear You.
We Hear You
https://www.police.uk/pu/your-area/avon-somerset-constabulary/frome-town/?yourlocalpolicingteam=about-us
Julia visited three of Frome’s bookshops for recommendations for Christmas reading and gifts. In order were Tina Gaisford-Waller from Hunting Raven, Luke Sherlock from Sherlock and Pages and Peter Foster from the Frome Bookshop
Hunting Raven Books
Sherlock & Pages
The Frome Bookshop
Julia talked to Hannah Smith, Manager Barnardo’s on Stonebridge Road who urged people to donate toys before Christmas and gave a tour of all they have in the shop
Barnardo's Frome 2
In the studio, Lenka Grimes from Fair Frome talked about what they’re offering for people who are struggling and about what they need from food to volunteers
Fair Frome
Then James Godman, Director of the Frome International Climate Film Festival talks about the next festival and how to enter films via filmfreeway.
The Climates
https://www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/321-all-about-frome-101224-insclark-christmas-books-fair-frome-climate-film/

28/11/2024

27/11/2024

This week on All About Frome we have :
Kelly Hall from the Somerset Community Foundation talking about Surviving Winter, help with winter fuel payments and how to give if you want to donate your own payment
somersetcf.org.uk/winter
Somerset Community Foundation
Susann Savidge from Somerset African Caribbean Network talking about an exhibition about the Windrush Generation at Rook Lane which highlights their contribution to British life
https://somersetafricancaribbean.network/
Somerset African Caribbean
Rook Lane Chapel until 17th December, 10-4, free
Rupert talking to Andrew Bourn about his career, his appearance at Frome’s Christmas lights switch on and his show, Born to Swing, at the Memorial Theatre
Frome Memorial Theatre 29th December 7.30 £25
https://fromememorialtheatre.org.uk/shows/born-to-swing-christmas-spectacular/
Toby Buckland, celebrity gardener and patron of Ripple Effect, talking about gifts helping farmers in rural Africa to work in sustainable agriculture to combat the climate crisis
https://rippleeffect.org/
Ripple Effect

https://www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/320-all-about-frome-261124-ripple-effect/
Frome FM

23/11/2024

From the balcony - last night’s highlights!

20/11/2024

What could make your Christmassy glow even better this Friday? How about paying it forward and helping someone you may never meet enjoy their Christmas?

Once again this year, volunteers from Frome Town Rotary and Fair Frome will be at the lantern parade and Christmas lights switch on with collection buckets, contactless devices and a text-to-donate option. They're raising funds for The Frome Christmas Get-Together and Fair Frome's Christmas projects. Please give generously and help support their brilliant work 🙏💙

13/11/2024

This week on All about Frome we have Diana Finch, author of Value Beyond Money talking about alternative economics ahead of her talk at the town hall on 12th November
Diana Finch

Jon I’Loughlin., Vice Chairman of Frome Musical Theatre Company talks about putting on a panto
Frome Memorial Theatre

Sleeping Beauty, Memorial Theatre, 28-31st December and morning of 4th January

Frome FM youth trainee Elle interviews families taking part in Adventure at…the town hall at a games design event
Frome Town Council

Julia speaks to young architects from London Metropolitan University on a trip to look at community housing in Frome

Rupert shares his recordings of the Remembrance Service last Sunday including a poignant letter from a young soldier.
https://www.mixcloud.com/FromeFM/319-all-about-frome-121124-fmtc-alt-economics-remembrance/

08/11/2024

So sorry to hear the sad news of the passing of Alan Burston in Swindon recently. Alan always had a smile for you- gentle and modest, but his encyclopaedic knowledge of rock and roll made him the nicest kind of star!
I knew Alan back in the pioneering days of local broadcasting (the seventies!) when he was always a welcome figure in the tv studios of Swindon Viewpoint at the bottom of Victoria Road. A true legend.