Sunny Sessions

Sunnybank's inclusive radio show

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Monday at 10am on Surrey Hills Community Radio

Thursday at 10am on Surrey Hills Community Radio

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of the month at 9pm on Surrey Hills Community radio.

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21st November

Shay chats with Dave from Redhill, who helped create a guide for visually impaired people to learn train layouts on Southern and Thameslink Railway. They also explore other accessibility features and a smart app that uses a phone camera to guide someone with sight loss through the station.

18th November

We ask is it too early to get in the Christmas Spirit? Matthew picks his favourite song on Monday Music.

14th November

We meet Tilly Hawkes and her 6 year old daughter Ada. Tilly tells us all about Ada, who is deaf. We find out how, through the kindness of most of her neighbours learning BSL, Ada was able to go Tricking and Treating this year for the very first time. A real heart warming story! We also have our Throwback Thursday memory from our coffee and chat club, taking you back to July 2021 and a conversation about sweets.

11th November

Alex speaks to Julia Dickinson from the AMC wellbeing cafe in Aldershot. We hear about their art installation which can be seen over the Princes Hall Theatre building in the town.

We will have music that got us through the dark days of The Second World War, and still has an uplifting message for us today. All leading up to the two min silence at 11am

4th November EXTRA

October SS Highlights brought to you by our Sunnybank team. Sally from Good Cooks talking about traditional roast dinners.

4th November

We chat to Tracey at the Sunny Afternoon Club and Billy picks a song on this week's Monday Music.
We also discuss fireworks and how we feel about them, and on National Roast Dinner Day we discuss the best bit of the roast and what we would remove from our plate.

21st October

Looking at cooking as we hear from partners at a recent cooking session in Woking, and we discuss our favourite celeb chefs. As It is Back to the Future Day we discuss where we would travel if we had a time machine.
We also have our cooking play list - Songs that however loosely are connected to food and cooking!

17th October

Lydia catches up with Belle Kumble Rose, daughter of her fave pop star Lolly. Our partners discuss the dream jobs we wanted to do when we were younger .

14th October

Lydia, at her birthday party catches up with musician Carley Varley who sang at the party. Lydia also has a conversation with her dad about his showbiz life
We look ahead and preview Lydia's conversation with Belle Kumble Rose (which is on Thurs 17th SS)
Marcus and Maria pick a favourite song for this weeks Monday Music.

10th October

Martin and James have an open chat about Mental Health and why its important.

We also hear from Andy from Andy's Man Club. Andy is a member and a lead facilitator at the Aldershot group and tells us all about AMC and shares some of his own experiences of life leaving the army and trying to return to normal life, and how that has impacted his mental health. Andy chats to our reporter Alex

7th Oct

This live show features our SS highlights for September and conversation around National Curry Week

7th October

Lydia joins us for this months news review, looking at some news stories she has picked out over the last month.

Annie from the Sunnybank Advocacy team talks to our partners about Hospital Passports and why they are important.

30th September

We reflect on Second Hand September and discuss the idea of charity shops and buying second hand. Alex meets Lynn who is the manager of the Cancer Research UK shop in Epsom where some of our partners volunteer.

26th September

23rd September

School Assembly Memories

19th September

Our partners share their best pirate impressions for Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Carinder joins us to discuss the associability improvements at Walton-on-Thames train station.

16th September

Marcus tells his Sunnybank friends all about his recent move into his first supported living home.

As its National Choose Your Chocolate Day we discuss our chocolate of choice.

12th September

We meet Kush who is 15 from Puttenham near Guildford. Kush, who has Autism is making and selling a range of scented candles as he fundraises for a trip to Tanzania set up through his school. Kush has ambitions to work in the business world so is also learning valuable skills through this.

9th September

Reporter Shay finds out all about the work of British Wireless for the Blind and how they support people with visual impairment by giving them free radios and other equipment so they can stay connected and informed with the world around them.

5th September

We meet Allan and Helen Thornhill from Surrey who tell reporter Marcus all about their challenge to visit all 238 lifeboat stations in the UK, raising money and awareness for RNLI.

2nd September EXTRA

Live show with Matt Marcus and Simon in the studio with me

2nd September

Lydia joins us for her monthly news review and partners discuss what comes to mind when we think of autumn.

29th August

We meet Anne Corrigan from London who tells us about her work and her love of singing

26th August

Bank Holiday chat with Sue from Link Able in Woking about their Paralympic fun day

22nd August

We visit some of the care homes we work with and chat to the residents.

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