As you are aware initially the pandemic almost closed down life as we knew it and for us that presented the challenge of staying on-air and protecting our volunteers in keeping with the guidelines that were issued at the time.

Everyone involved with Susy Radio, which is a Community Radio Station, are volunteers, there are no paid staff and several of our presenting team were considered to be in the ‘vulnerable’ category.

Through the use of technology we were able to get some of our presenters to broadcast from their homes, so keeping to our policy of “live” broadcasting, keeping people up to date with the latest information or news.

As we are all aware, during these times a number of help groups were formed in our communities which sought to give support to those who lived on their own, were in clinical need or needed to know they were not alone. Susy Radio encouraged many of these groups to provide us with their details so we were able to broadcast, on a regular basis, the people and locations of these groups to our listeners. This information was also published on our website. We know from some of the responses we received that this was of great help and assistance to those who heard this information being broadcast. This was also backed up by telephone interviews to bring this information to those in our communities who needed it.