As Black Cat Radio works alongside the Newsquest titles in Cambridgeshire (including (The Hunts Post) our new weekday magazine programme Your Voice will cover everything from alerting listeners to the various schemes open to them, and where the warm spaces are, across the district, to subjects to help take people's minds away from bad news and into what we are calling “happy spaces”.
To some people, a happy space will be getting lost in a good book or visiting and an art gallery or museum. Some like the mental space that a particular type of music takes them back to.
Initiatives, such as the St Neots Man Cave situated in Cemetery Road, St Neots at the former Red Cross building has had a new lease of life.
It will then be open to men from all walks of life on Tuesday mornings from 9am-1pm and Thursday afternoons from 1pm-4pm. Activities at the man cave will include woodworking, bicycle maintenance and upcycling, and computer surgery.
As time progresses, the radio station will feature conversations with community figures from the area, not just to provide information for the immediate area, but in the hope of persuading other groups to form across Huntingdonshire and beyond.
On the Saturday Hangover show last Saturday, presented by Dave Thomas, the feature 'Ask Ang' looked at 'taking small steps to increase confidence'.
There can be few happier spaces than the Paxton Pits Nature Reserve, and Brian Dobson went there to join Stuart Buckminster to discuss photography, specifically, capturing images of Kingfishers.
In the coming weeks, we will be looking for guests to talk with us about their happy space; maybe talking about their favourite five books, five films or five pieces of music. And the shows are open to anyone who wants to talk.
Just send us some details in an email to: studio@blackcatradio.org. Our newest presenter, farmer’s wife Jenny Jefferies, will talk about favourite foods but also how to create delicious meals at relatively little cost.
It isn’t very long ago, when Covid 19 had the country in lockdown, that we saw a tremendous community spirit emerge, and as we head into what looks to be a very tough few winter months, we look forward to engaging people so we can all really help each other.
The radio station and the newspapers can’t do it on their own. But we can all do it together. We can be there with you this winter. But remember...none of us is as smart as all of us
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