Sanctuary Diaries Radio – Special Refugee Week Live Show
Thu 18th June, 5:00pm
A collection of voices and experiences from people seeking sanctuary, sharing stories of hope, resilience, belonging, and courage.
Welcome to Chapel FM
Chapel FM Arts Centre is a house of creativity, art, music, writing & more with radio at the core. Listen live or any time on our website. Based in Seacroft, East Leeds.
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Chapel FM Arts Centre brings radio, writing, music, theatre, activism and so much more to our community of Seacroft, our city of Leeds and the wider world! They also run East Leeds Community Radio. Please consider donating before the end of 2024 to support our work in the new year.
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Sanctuary Diaries: The Role of Hope When Seeking Asylum
Wed 3rd Jun '26, 11:00am
This episode we talk all about the part that hope plays when going through the asylum process.
Saturday Social – A new hangout time for teenagers
16th May '26 - 12th Dec '26
Come and Join our space dedicated to young people to hang out and connect through games, food, music, chat, radio, art and more. Just turn up!
Centre Volunteer Team
3rd Nov '25 - 31st Dec '26
CHAPEL FM NEEDS YOU!!!! Come join our existing volunteer group. Come be that important part of Chapel FM and explore the world of Community Arts.
THE CHAPEL FM OPEN MIC NIGHT, LIVE!
Fri 26th June, 7:30pm
Come show East Leeds what you have got! Poetry, music or even juggling? Live on the Radio and Youtube. For full details, Check out the information below.
CZECH POETS AT THE CHAPEL
Fri 17th July, 7:30pm
As well as being vigorously local to East Leeds, Chapel FM takes great pride in its international connections, in particular with Leeds’s twin cities, including our sister city in The Czech Republic: Brno.
Documentary Film & Music Video about Chapel FM & LS14 Trust youth trip to Lille, France
Watch our film about a group of Chapel FM and LS14 Trust teenagers travelling travelling to our twin city of Lille, France for five days in February 2026 to create a “Radio Cabaret” with our friends at La Compagnie du Tire Laine. Check out the Documentary made by Evie...
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Story Explorers radio feature from the British Library
Photo: David Lindsay British Library https://www.chapelfm.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/British-Library-Story-Explorers-Final-April.mp3 Created with the British Library, a radio documentary from the launch celebration for their Story Explorers exhibition at Leeds Central Library until 29 August 2026. Story Explorers invites families to take a fantastical trip to the far reaches of outer space, the...
Sometimes this creative journey can feel quite lonely and misunderstood. Last weekend, I found people in similar situations trying to get projects off the ground for the communities we work for and in. I learnt a heck of a lot about community engagement, the types of community engagement and, at last, acquired vocabulary (and validation) to frame the work I do as a practitioner.
Finding Safety: Life in Refuge Episode 1
Yesterday, 3:00pm
Having lived in refuge herself 30 years ago and now a Team Leader at that very same refuge, Clare Sanderson from Leeds Women's Aid joins us to discuss her journey.
The Irish Hour: Finding Home Away from Home
Mon 1st Jun '26, 8:00pm
Join us for a warm, lively chat about home, identity and the unspoken ways Irish people recognise one another, wherever they end up.
Love The Words 347: A Bright Room Called Day
Tue 2nd Jun '26, 4:00pm
A Bright Room Called Day is a rarely staged play by Tony Kushner. Produced by Leeds Arts Centre, it follows a group of friends in 1930's Berlin navigating the rise of fascism.
Tech Volunteering & Training
15th Sep '25 - 21st Dec '26
Want to learn and volunteer at a fantastic community radio studio? We have some great opportunities to help out on a wide variety of radio broadcasts, live gigs, radio theatre and much more, no prior knowledge required as all training is provided.
The show is descended from a lineage of political theatre-makers from Andrea Dunbar to Cardboard Citizens, dramatising a social issue and revealing the structural forces at play.
Radio Maker Festival
Fri 23rd October - Sun 25th October
An international festival of Radio Arts at Chapel FM Radio & Arts Centre Seacroft, Leeds.
Last year 17,942 visitors came to Chapel FM (a massive 78% increase on the previous year).
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