Join us to Save Radio Adelaide!
Radio Adelaide helps us find our community. It’s an independent voice for local arts, music and ideas, building a more informed, inclusive and culturally engaged Adelaide. It's our voice and our community. But this is currently endangered.
WHY NOW
Without your support, Radio Adelaide will close its doors permanently in January 2020.
We need an urgent $50,000 to fill a funding shortfall and to invest in a thriving, independent Radio Adelaide. With your support, we’ll update and focus our programming and grow sponsor support. We'll expand our industry-leading training into schools to give students the communication and production skills needed to thrive in a multimedia world. And we'll expand our Podcast Works initiative to tell even more South Australian stories.
Over the past 47 years, we’ve supported countless South Australians to tell their stories. Now, we need your support to continue giving a voice to our unique local arts, music and ideas. Join us to secure the future of Radio Adelaide!
Join the team to save Radio Adelaide and get your hands on some great rewards, including events, t-shirts and unique experiences.
Tara, Arts Breakfast
WHAT WE STAND FOR
Radio Adelaide makes a stronger community by providing an independent voice for local arts, music and ideas. We produce over 120 hours of radio every week, telling South Australian stories. This creates a more connected, informed and inspired Adelaide, which ultimately makes us more dynamic, engaged and unified.
Radio Adelaide develops communities and individuals through media. We’re South Australia’s leading source of new media talent, providing training and industry experience to over 200 aspiring radio and podcast producers every year.
Radio Adelaide helps us find our community. It’s provides media diversity and builds a more informed, inclusive and culturally engaged Adelaide. It's our voice. Our community. Our Radio Adelaide.
We need Adelaide and everyone around Australia who cares about media diversity and community ownership to support us now.
Christina, Travelling Life
Tom and Zoe, Breakfast
OUR HISTORY
We are Australia's first community radio station, established in 1972 by the University of Adelaide, following a $100,000 grant from benefactor Kenneth Stirling. It was Stirling’s vision and generosity that created Radio Adelaide and pioneered Australia’s world-renowned community radio sector. It’s your generosity that will help us to continue now.
In 2018, we became a completely independent, not for profit organisation with new management, community membership and a new community-elected board committed to the values and purpose of Radio Adelaide.
You can listen across Adelaide and beyond, on 101.5 FM, DAB+, on iHeart Radio, TuneIn, online via live or on-demand streaming and on your favourite podcast app.
Find out more about Radio Adelaide and the people involved by watching our great documentary thanks to Channel 44.
Acting Chairperson, PJ with Graham from Classical
HELP US SURVIVE AND THRIVE
Keep Us ON AIR: This fundraising drive will keep the doors open and on-air. Without these funds we won’t be able to continue past January 2020. We won’t have the time we need to secure additional sponsorship and funding to get on a more sustainable footing.
Investing in Sustainability: To build a sustainable Radio Adelaide, we are diversifying our income streams. We already have numerous partnerships in place but they don’t start until mid-2020. We need to fill the financial shortfall between now and then.
In partnership with the Community Media Training Organisation, in 2020 Radio Adelaide will expand its industry-leading training to deliver accredited media courses for secondary students in South Australian high schools.
In partnership with SA Community Broadcasting Association, in 2020 Radio Adelaide will train and equip students in local and regional schools to make their own radio programs and tell their stories.
We’ve established a podcast-production service called Podcast Works, which already boasts clients including the City of Adelaide, UniSA, Kelly Services, Adelaide Central Market and the University of Adelaide, and presents substantial opportunity for further growth and more South Australian stories.
Investing in Growth: We don’t just want to survive, we plan to thrive! We want to build on our strengths in podcasting and broadcast training to increase community storytelling capacity and grow our revenue. We want to build a stronger, more connected supporter base and reward them with unique experiences and events. That starts now, with this campaign, which we need you to be part of.
We have recently achieved charitable status which will allow us to pursue more grants and philanthropic support to help us grow. But to make that possible we first need to fill the current gap.
Uncle Eddie, Matt and Charlotte from Nunga Wangga at the Royal Adelaide Show
OUR PROGRAMS
The diversity of our programming reflects the diversity of the Adelaide community.
We celebrate our local musicians, artists, activists and thinkers. We have dedicated programs for Indigenous, LGBTQ, student and multicultural communities, as well as local politics and social justice.
Chris and Eliza from Access to Arts at Tindo Utpurndee Fringe Opening with Lisa and Suzanne
Programs include:
Local Noise, three solid hours of all-Aussie music every weekday morning
The Range, Adelaide’s alternative drive time
HER. with Zoe Kounadis, an unapologetically ‘girls to the front’ music show featuring all female, non-binary and trans-gender artists and bands
Pride and Prejudice, where a diverse cast of Adelaide’s LGBT community comes together to bring you a weekly variety show
Small Change presents local politics by the South Australian Council of Social Service, telling us what’s really happening to our community on the ground
Adelaide’s Heaps Good, sharing thoughts and experiences about Adelaide from a local’s perspective, dispelling the myth that “there’s nothing to do in Adelaide”
Nganampa Wangka is about South Australian Aboriginal languages and what we’re doing to maintain, revive and reclaim them
Yarnin’ Country connects Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people together
Service Voices tells the often forgotten stories of our service communities
Travelling Life looks at the benefits of travel for positive ageing
And so much more! See the full line-up on our Radio Adelaide programs page
HOW YOU CAN HELP – JOIN THE CAMPAIGN AND SPREAD THE WORD
Give the gift of Radio Adelaide this Christmas.
By supporting us, you’ll not only be giving the gift of a community voice for local music, arts and ideas but you can also receive some fantastic rewards. Become a radio star for a night. Learn the craft of podcasting. Treat yourself to a gin tasting at Adelaide’s premier gin den, the Howling Owl. There are lots of opportunities to choose a meaningful Christmas or New Years gift for yourself, your friends and your family. Check out our full list of rewards.
If you don’t want a reward just pick the "no reward" option at the top of the rewards page. You can add any amount to any of our rewards too.
SPREAD THE WORD!
Share our campaign with all your friends, family and anyone else you know who has been a volunteer, guest speaker, staff, listener, performer or storyteller on Radio Adelaide. In Adelaide there’s only two degrees of separation from Radio Adelaide and we need you to be our bridge to the thousands of people who've found their voice at Radio Adelaide.
Thank you for supporting us and being part of our community to save Radio Adelaide.
Radiothon Special with presenters and guests from Her, Pride and Prejudice and Pink Rabbit
