Kia ora from Eastbourne

I am sending you this to let you know of an up-coming opportunity to get in front of our community (again). You are receiving this as either a participant in the Expo earlier this year or a local business.

The BIG PLAY DAY is being organised by our local Community Hub / Library for Saturday 14th of December. This is opportunity for you to get in front of the community with your services, ideas, products etc. As noted the focus is on play and physical health so if you can bring those components to play in some way that would be great.

* I've also included a request for indications of interest in another community resilience project I've been working on, a community radio station - just in case you are interested. (This info was in the community newsletter I have just sent out and I edited it down for this post, so thought I'd leave it in.)

Call for Registrations of Interest By Eastbourne Neighbourhood Hub

(an opportunity to promote any group or activity, including your business)

The Big Play Day 2024

We are looking for registrations of interest from local clubs, sports groups, businesses, and volunteers who would like to get involved in the Big Play Day, Saturday 14th December at Bishop Park in Eastbourne. This is a family friendly event, with a focus on play and physical health.
We need local clubs, sports groups, and/or businesses who would like an opportunity to showcase who they are and what they offer. Ideally this would be in the form of running drop-in taster sessions, minigames, competitions (or a similar contribution). We are also looking for volunteers on the day that would be able to donate their time to help with the barbeque and food distribution.
We are looking for respondents who have a focus on sports, play, physical activity/health for Tamariki and whanau, preferably locally based. This is an opportunity for you to showcase how your services can benefit the community and directly engage with them in a fun and low-pressure environment.

ROI released: 28/10/24
Deadline for questions: 15/11/24
Deadline for ROI: 17/11/24 - (just noticed the deadline has passed, but if you are interested check anyway)

Find out more here 

Request for indications of interest

Eastbourne FM is a project which incudes and online streaming channel and a future FM broadcast (low power and local) station.

The project came about following the Kaikoura earthquake when it was identified that local information could be difficult to share with the community, especially if power, mobile networks and internet access breaks down (as happened recently with Cyclone Gabrielle) and we are dependent on national radio stations for information.

It was quickly identified that:

• It needs to be resilient, so making it independent of other infrastructure is important (i.e solar/battery powered, remotely controllable and more).
• Once you have a station it makes sense to have it operating all the time, not just when there's an emergency.
• Many people don't normally listen to broadcast radio, so streaming it on the internet (while it's working) also makes sense, with broadcast as a fall back option.
• Everyone is busy, so having a station that runs itself most of the time is preferred.

There are numerous other considerations and features - but the main point of this post is to let you know that a streaming channel is running here, and I'm keen to find people or groups who would be interested in getting involved in any way, with content or programming 

This could be by contributing audio content or programming:

• Local music and audio performances
• Information, interviews, events, talks ...
• Programme creation

With a relatively cheap Radio Licence (~$300 p.a.) we could also  broadcast commercial music.

Clubs, music groups, individuals or school groups, businesses - I'm keen to discuss opportunities and ideas with anyone who is interested. 

Ngā mihi - Bruce Spedding

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