We’re nearly there! 95% of the way to target.
Thank you SO much for your support!
*LIVE TOTALS as at 8.35pm on Wednesday 19 February 2025
AUCTION: £1235.05
DONATIONS: £14,879.69
EVENT SALES: £3,090.58
A £15 monthly donation (with Gift Aid) is enough to pay for 6 whole hours of incredible broadcasting on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra - via FM, DAB and online!
A £25 monthly donation (with Gift Aid) is enough to support Resonance EXTRA’s broadcasting for more than 24 hours!
By making a £40 monthly donation (with Gift Aid) you’ll be supporting just shy of an entire day of Resonance’s existence - every single year. We honestly couldn’t thank you enough!
Welcome to Resonance FM’s 2025 Fundraiser.
This February, we’re aiming to raise £20,000 from you, our listeners and supporters, through donations (here), a fundraising auction (here) and live events all over London (tickets here). Please consider if you are able to donate directly, attend one of our events, or bid in our auction, or help in some other way.
Resonance (registered charity 290236) is a non-profit, ad-free community radio station, licenced by Ofcom to operate two 24/7 radio stations, Resonance FM and Resonance EXTRA. We also run a modest studio in Southwark, SE1 and pay for our own infrastructure to broadcast from our own dedicated FM transmitter (currently atop Guys’ Hospital, SE1) to London and DAB to Greater London, Brighton & Hove, Cambridge & King’s Lynn, Peterborough and Norwich via Resonance Extra.
Last year our 150+ regular volunteer contributors produced more than 4000 original programmes, covering topics as diverse as: pensioners’ rights, video games, local and international musical subcultures, the environment, free improvisation, the right to repair, sound arts and design, theatre, disability rights, neurodivergence, independent music, journalism, international finance, literature and so much more.
We also train our 40+ volunteer engineers in audio and live broadcast production through workshops and informal training - helping enthusiastic and knowledgeable people to broadcast their ideas and expertise even if they have no background in radio broadcasting. Our mission is to put people and ideas on-air that may never make it onto, or indeed anywhere near, mainstream radio - and to provide a broadcast platform through which as many people as possible can exercise “the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community and to enjoy the arts” (Article 27, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights).
Since we launched Resonance FM in 2002 and Resonance EXTRA in 2015, our two stations have collectively, non-stop, broadcast more than 30 years of material. As a result there are now more than 35,000 broadcasts available to listen for free on our Mixcloud page, and years more in our archive which we hope one day to be able to uncover and share more widely.
If we can raise - through donations, events and our auction - the £20,000 we need to finish this year in a positive place - we want to add a second studio to our modest HQ in Southwark (near Waterloo) to theoretically double our in-house capacity for broadcasting and training; we want to continue making improvements to our website to impact the listener experience of our more than 1.8 million listeners (and growing); and to continue to support Resonance EXTRA’s growth on DAB through provision of our services to more towns & cities around the UK.
Please consider helping us stand on a more secure footing in 2025 by setting up a small regular donation, bidding in our auction or coming to one of our events. Regular support makes a palpable difference to our ability to plan, budget and survive as an independent radio station in today’s world and help build our resilience as a fiercely independent, 24/7, ad-free, community-powered media platform, free of outside influence and here to support and represent as best we can the cultural life of London and its artists.
Please set up a regular donation today at resonancefm.com/donate
Resonance is a broadcaster like no other.
Every day of the year our two extraordinary stations - Resonance FM and Resonance EXTRA - each broadcast 24 hours of original programming, entirely free of commercial influence. Our pioneering, award-winning and ever-evolving schedule of extraordinary broadcasts covers all kinds of topics. Not just music - from ambient to zydeco, grime to improv, folk to feedback - but literature, fine art, theatre, film, video-games, field recordings, climate change, social justice, finance, international development, civil rights, technology, radio-art, and so much more.
Our live shows are all archived, with more than 35,000 programmes currently available to listen again on Mixcloud - free and ad-free, forever.
Resonance is not just a broadcaster.
It is an invaluable cultural resource that directly and indirectly impacts on people’s lives. Over twenty two years, hundreds of people every week, and thousands each year, have volunteered their time to feature on our airwaves, visit our studios, produce programmes, engineer live bands, create jingles, perform live music and poetry, host and co-host programmes, conduct interviews, appear as guests - and, of course, listen live!
Resonance’s impact was recently recognised by the broadcast industry when - for the third year running - we won Gold as “Network of the Year” at the 2024 Audio Production Awards, ahead of Stak, Rusty Quill, BBC Asian Network, Black Library and Sky News. The judges’ verdict:
“This year's winner was a standout submission. They not only work hard at knowing who their audience is but tirelessly work to reflect and speak to the community. They use their impressive network to ask questions, bring a listener real stories and evoke memories through honest innovative creations; painting pictures and telling stories with their close attention to effective sound design.”
“Resonance’s Gate Kicks series has been a marvellous journey full of wonderful surprises which has taken disabled musicians from an almost completely unknown music scene to receive dozens of invitations to play in great music venues and prestigious music festivals.
These experiences have empowered people to create new and more ambitious projects. This kind of inclusive community media project is now more needed than ever before.”
Javier Chandia, producer Gate Kicks
Resonance is not just a radio station. It’s a passionately engaged community of listeners as well. Here’s the kind of thing they say about our programmes:
“The vibes, the energy, the songs, the insight, the metal chimes, the hosting. It’s so perfect and powerful.” - “We need you more than ever.” - “Many thanks for the music during these trying times.” - “A voice of sanity in the gale of the world!” - “Thank you for sending antidepressants down the radio waves every weekend.” - “It’s wonderful to see this kind of excitement!” - “You just don’t get this in the dross of most other radio.” - “I love Resonance because it gives artists space to be creative and be themselves in a crazy time like this!” - “A truly unique outlet.”
Resonance is not just a broadcaster. It's by turns a lifeline, a toolkit, a toy, and a utopia.
“It's such a privilege to have this opportunity to play the finest music from all over the globe to people all over the globe. They deserve it.” Ivor Kallin The Ambrosia Rasputin Show
“My show has become a personal odyssey.” Jude Montague The News Agents
“What a dream endeavour!” Nick Brown Intoxica Radio Hour
“My life has been unfathomably enhanced via my 20+ year involvement with Resonance.” deXter Bentley The Hello GoodBye Show
“Creating radio shows is thrilling and nothing beats live radio!” Anna Crockatt The Relatively Good Radio Show
“Resonance stands a proud and strong figure against the tides of banality.” Cameron Dodds Haunted Network Research Initiative
“It means the freedom to play anything and everything on the air.” Ed Pinsent The Sound Projector Radio Show
“I am still amazed at the great support, the range of people I've met and the range of music and other arts programming to which I have had access.” Kevin Sheils The Traditional Music Hour
“My show has brought me new ideas and new friendships. I love it!” Josh Thorpe Unusual Music Exchange
“Before I had heard of Resonance FM, I was lost at sea. My dreams of becoming a fully-fledged filmmaker were being placed on a raft to be sent to drift out into the beyond, as the doors into the industry slowly closed and responsibilities of fatherhood and husband-hood began to take hold. While I was still happy to focus on providing for my family, a part of me I never thought I showed even to my wife slowly died inside (though she would later go on to tell me she saw it in my sad smile everyday). Then in July 2017, fate intervened. Arriving earlier than usual to catch a flight overseas for my day job led to me having a conversation with a lady who was sat next to me. We talked films, tv shows and everything in between, whereupon she told me she was a volunteer sound engineer at Resonance FM and thought I would fit in as a radio presenter talking about films and tv shows.
“Shoot The Breeze is our weekly one-hour talk radio show where we shoot the breeze with personalities from the film and tv world about their projects and their favourite films and tv shows.
“Had I not sat next to Laura that day, I wouldn’t have heard of Resonance FM. I wouldn’t have met the wonderful people that run the station and keep the shows running. I wouldn’t have had any of the opportunities afforded to me since which have led to me developing two feature films which will shortly be in production.
“A couple of years ago, my wife told me how glad she was that Resonance FM came into my life, because she feared the downward spiral for which I appeared to be heading. I can comfortably say - for me - Resonance FM saved my life, and I will forever be grateful to all involved for doing so.”
Marcus Ako, filmmaker and host of Shoot The Breeze
Resonance is not just about live radio.
It also offers a fluid and unbroken 22 year audio documentary of the world’s arts and a diary of our cultural history. It offers unparalleled insight - like no other radio station ever could - into how the UK’s creative and cultural life has evolved, how people live and create. And it underlines the essential and under-appreciated importance of the arts to public life.
Our goal is to keep Resonance’s output available and make it as accessible as we can, for all. That is why we’ve made available more than 35,000 broadcasts on our Mixcloud - totally free and ad-free, forever.
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With Arts Council England funding secure until 2027, Resonance still needs to build on this support to maintain and extend our activities over the next three years.
To achieve that, monthly donations are critical. Not only can monthly giving be more convenient for supporters, it also eases our cash flow, allows us to budget more accurately and, critically, allows us to do better work overall, over a longer period, to support the Resonance community of makers and listeners.
Resonance FM and Resonance Extra are projects of London Musicians Collective Limited. Registered charity number 290236. Company Number 01557490 (England and Wales) at 7 Risborough Street, London SE1 0HF.