Bay Trust Radio

Bay Trust Radio is a volunteer-led charity broadcasting from Westmorland General Hospital in Kendal. Established in 1977, it provides music, entertainment and information for hospital listeners and the wider community across South Cumbria, North Lancashire and the Fylde Coast. Its hospital setting remains central to the service even as its audience extends beyond the wards.

Presenter-led programmes, requested songs and themed music shows give listeners opportunities to participate. The broadcaster's information services include weather, tide times, flood updates and a fell-top forecast, reflecting the coastal and upland landscapes around its audience. Health and wellbeing subjects sit alongside these practical local interests and the music programme.

Richard Smith's A to Z of Pop selects songs or artists around a letter of the alphabet. Lorna Hewson explores the 1990s, while Graham Curry presents separate strands devoted to the sixties and seventies. Keith Wright's Friday evening programme turns towards dance anthems, and Jon Vernon follows jazz from older big bands to newer recordings. These individual selections complement the service's requests, giving hospital and community listeners several different musical appointments.

There are no paid staff: volunteers contribute on air, in engineering and through the organisation's day-to-day work. Donations, sponsorship and fundraising support the service and its community projects. Bay Trust Radio brings that charitable purpose into an accessible listening experience, offering familiar voices and entertainment to people at home as well as those receiving hospital care.