Arts and Culture United Kingdom Project #73973

Independent, Artist-Led Radio Broadcasting

by London Musicians' Collective Limited

Project Report | Sep 14, 2026
Resonance's Summer and The New Season

By Inaki Ramirez Romero | Development Coordinator

Picture of our volunteer engineers

Thank you for continuing to support Resonance through GlobalGiving. Over the past three months, your donations have helped us maintain the studios, broadcasting infrastructure and volunteer community that allow independent artists and programme-makers to experiment, learn and reach audiences freely. This has been an especially active summer for Resonance.

In June, Resonance was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 Archive on 4 documentary, Resonance FM: The Art of Listening, presented by Stewart Lee. Drawing on nearly three decades of broadcasting and our extensive archive, the programme explored Resonance’s history and the ideas behind our distinctive approach to radio. It was an important moment of national recognition for a project that has grown from an experimental broadcast in 1998 into a permanent cultural platform.

July saw the launch of A Week in Air, our new radio-art residency programme. Four artists: Angela Wai Nok Hui, Dora Maludi, William Joys and Neil Luck, were each given a week of dedicated access to our project space, studios and Resonance Extra. They were encouraged to broadcast whenever they wished while developing new work around transmission, radio and the possibilities of sound. The month concluded with a public performance at IKLECTIK featuring the residents and guest artist Agnès Pe.

Throughout August, our summer schedule created further space for experimentation and open access. A Year in the Clear revisited a year of Clear Spots and Micro Clear Spots, our open slots where artists and first-time contributors can propose one-off broadcasts. We also carried Elemental Foley, a daily live transmission from a solar-powered listening station at a glacier in the Italian Alps, bringing the changing sounds of meltwater, weather, wildlife and the surrounding environment directly to listeners.

September has now brought the return of our full autumn season, with more than 100 regular series spanning experimental music, disability-led programming, international culture, environmental broadcasting, discussion, literature and community-produced radio.

Thank you for helping us keep this space independent, experimental and open. Your support allows Resonance not simply to broadcast programmes, but to provide the facilities, skills and freedom for people to make radio that might otherwise have nowhere to exist.

Gina Birch in The Hello Goodbye Show

A Week In Air - performance at Iklectik

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Link to BBC 4 Resonance FM documentary

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May 20, 2026
Independent, Artist-Led Radio Broadcasting - Resonance

By Peter Lanceley | CEO Resonance

Resonance Logo

First quarterly update for GlobalGiving supporters:

Thank you for supporting Resonance through GlobalGiving. This is our first quarterly update, and we are grateful to the first donors helping us build this new source of support — including our first monthly donor.

Over the last quarter, Resonance has continued to provide a platform for independent, artist-led and community-led radio. Alongside early support through GlobalGiving, our wider annual fundraiser raised £30,000, helping us keep our studios active, support volunteers, and sustain free and low-cost access to broadcasting.

This quarter we have brought a new Development Coordinator into the organisation, trained and onboarded 18 new volunteer engineers, and launched a new introductory session scheme for people interested in getting involved. Your support has enabled us to expand our studio including Studio 2, and a new control room dedicated to our engineers and to support different audio production work streams. We have also broadcast over 1,100 original art radio programmes, including around 250 live broadcasts, and presented special broadcasts linked to REVEIL / International Dawn Chorus Day, Liverpool Biennial / Roy Claire Potter, and Colour Out of Space.

One new volunteer engineer described the induction as a welcoming, hands-on route into the station:

“I had a great induction at Resonance FM, where Milo and James taught us how to work the studio desk and use the Airtime software. I especially enjoyed getting hands-on practice in the studio, and the tutors made us feel as if we were already part of the engineering team. Since then, I have continued volunteering at Resonance, which has given me the opportunity to keep developing my radio broadcasting skills.”

This is exactly what Resonance exists to do: give people the skills, space and confidence to participate in cultural life, while keeping independent community radio open to artists, volunteers and underrepresented voices.In the next quarter, we will continue strengthening our volunteer training, supporting new and existing broadcasters, and developing our fundraising and impact reporting through the new Development Coordinator role.

Thank you for being part of this work at an early stage on GlobalGiving. Every donation helps keep Resonance open as a space for creative risk, public expression and cultural participation.

New Studio 2

First broadcast from studio 2 - Listening with

New Engineer's Control Room

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