About Us

Radio Heatherwood

When How Did We Start Broadcasting ?

The first discs spun at Heatherwood were by the then works foreman Bill Berry.

The first record request service was broadcast from a room in the main administration building. The league of friends provided the first equipment so the service could get off the ground. Records show that this can be traced back to 1969.

Radio Heatherwood was established as a full working hospital radio service in 1976.

Over the next forty years the station provided musical entertainment for patients and staff and assisted with fundraising for departments and provided the means to listen to the radio through various methods, culminating in the provision of the service via the internet.

In 2016 Frimley Health Trust did not renew the lease for the radio station and after forty years and more the station, was forced to close.

We have put together a more detailed history on our history web site. Stories videos and image memories, all tell the story.

Visit our archives and read all about our past.

The hospital radio service stopped broadcasting in December 2016.