Please! Really important ...

Please, please, please ... read this, it's really important.

Straight to the point -- Stroud FM needs to know how many people are tuning in and listening ... I'm sure you realise how important this is to a local community radio station like ours which relies so totally on a mix of income.

And all we are asking is that you spend a few moments on a short online questionnaire.

It's on our web page at stroudfm.co.uk and at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2C2ZBY5.   

There is even -- though, heaven forbid, I'm sure you Art Lot listeners don't need a carrot -- a prize draw incentive: shopping vouchers worth £25; free tickets for a Forest Green Rovers match; or a bottle of best Stroud FM wine. 

What we want to know is who listens in to what …

What do you like to listen to? Don’t like? And, what you would like to hear on your local airwaves that isn't there already.

Like I said, it's on our web page at stroudfm.co.uk and at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2C2ZBY5.   

Did you know that all of Stroud FM’s presenters are volunteers…members of Joe and Josephine Public just like you? The brilliant yet small Stroud FM team trained us up and keeps a weather eye on our programmes .

The team also goes into schools and community venues delivering tailor-made radio-skills courses. And the station also offers work experience to school-pupils as well as work placements to people who are long-term unemployed.

Haven't you clicked on yet? It's on our web page at stroudfm.co.uk and at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2C2ZBY5.   

All this and with no fixed funding. How do we do it? Well, we rely on a mixture of grants, advertisements from local business and income from the courses we run.

Which is why it's so important to know who our listeners are.

Come on! Do it! Please! It's on our web page at stroudfm.co.uk and at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2C2ZBY5.   

By the way, while you are at it, take a look at the courses which Stroud FM offers ... you might fancy one yourself, or you might know someone who would really enjoy learning about how to present a radio programme.

For info on how to join a course, e-mail radio@stroudfm.co.uk .

Thank you to reading this ... and thank you, in anticipation, for doing the survey -- oh, and while I'm asking, can you think of three friends you could e-mail this on to? Please!