About Us
Our Trustees
Sue
Hull
Trustee since 2015. Ex Town Councillor. Bingham resident since 1977.
Lesley
Lyon
Andrew Charlett
Dave
Bleackley
Jennifer Beevers
Trustee since 2024. Juggles work and charity commitments.
Friends Of BDAM
The “Friends of Bingham & District Audio Magazine” was set up in 2015. Its purpose is to raise funds to cover the overheads of the charity. The Friends hold several events throughout the year in order to help meet the overheads of the charity which are around £3,000 per year.
We also receive financial support from a number of people who are not able to be actively involved but instead offer financial support by making an annual donation by standing order. This can be as small as £15 per year or any larger amounts as one off payments.
Where appropriate, donations can be Gift Aided which brings in an additional income. The charity has many supporters in this district for which we are extremely grateful.
We welcome any volunteers who may be able to help with our fund-raising events, in any capacity at all, either baking cakes or helping out on the stand at Bingham Fair.
If you would like to get involved please get in touch with us by clicking here>
Our Visitors
If a listener is housebound or finds it difficult to get out regularly, a CD might be delivered to them by a Visitor.
Visitors are often known to the listener already. If the listener does not know anyone who can deliver the CD to them, then a volunteer will be assigned to make the delivery. It will be the same person each month.
New friendships are often formed between Visitors and Listeners.
If you would like to become a Visitor please contact us by clicking here>
The History Of BDAM
In September 2025 Bingham & District Audio Magazine (BDAM) will be celebrating its 40th anniversary.
The first group of volunteers got together in 1984 and decided that a newsletter delivered to housebound residents was a good idea. The volunteers decided that a cassette tape would be the best distribution method and that news, interviews, poems and talks would interest listeners who could no longer get about and engage with their community as they had done previously.
One of the initial targets was to raise some money to buy the equipment they would need to record and replicate the cassettes for 100 listeners. It took a year to gather all that they needed and in September 1985 the first of the cassettes were delivered.
Moving with the times CDs replaced the cassettes tapes in November 2008. Few of the listeners had a CD player at that time so funding was undertaken to supply them where needed to many of the listeners.
In 2011 BDAM became a registered charity (#1098306) Also that same year, we were given the Queen’s Award for voluntary service – which is the MBE for charities.
In 2023/4 the Trustees embarked on a recruitment campaign to develop and reinvigorate the board and appointed two new Trustees from the local area to strengthen our technology skills, creativity and help with production. One of the subsequent initiatives has placed BDAM on the digital map. At the end of 2024 we added a Podcast version of our monthly magazine with the aim of increasing our audience. We also undertook a project to make some major changes to update our website – to what you see here.
Some of the original production team making a tape recording. From Left to Right; Alan Howe, Alan Cotton (deceased), Hazel Wallis, Hilda Smith, Jim Wallis (deceased).
Listener Dorothy – celebrating receiving one of the first CDs.
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To view a copy of our Constitution please click here>
To view a copy of our Code of behaviour for Volunteers & Trustees please click here>
To view a copy of our Safeguarding Policy please click here>