Education & Training

Chapel FM believes in offering people as many opportunities as possible to get involved and get creative. Have a go, then have a look at the range of courses we have on offer for people of all ages and abilities.

We also run special training projects for all kinds of groups—from school groups to day centres to creative professionals. Have a look at our training pages for ideas of the kind of things we do...

Courses coming up...

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Have A Go: Wireless Wednesdays Drop-In

20th Oct '21 - 15th Dec '21

Keen to learn more about what we do at Chapel FM Arts Centre? Have you ever fancied yourself a radio DJ? Do you have something to say or a story to tell? Want to work behind-the-scenes and gain some technical skills?
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Chat At The Chapel radio show

15th Oct '21 - 18th Dec '21

ELFM’s monthly show for anyone living locally to pop down and have a chat!
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Chapel FM Writing Group

20th Oct '21 - 1st Jun '22

Poetry, stories, scripts, lyrics - Chapel FM Writing Group is a weekly session for creative writers of all ages and experience. Peter Spafford, Chapel FM Director of Words: ‘The Writing Group's an informal, supportive group for anyone wants to get playful with words.’
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Chapel FM’s Associate Writers

20th Oct '21 - 1st Jun '22

Poetry, script, fiction - Chapel FM Associate Writers is a weekly creative writing group for anyone aged 13-26. Peter Spafford, Chapel FM Director of Words: ‘Chapel FM has a fantastic tradition of working with young writers. In these sessions, we’ll be looking at other people’s work but mainly developing our own through writing in the moment, discussion, trying stuff out.'
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Next Generation Youth Groups

4th Nov '21 - 9th Jun '22

Next Generation programme is Chapel FM Arts Centre’s weekly sessions. It's for young people to get involved with all aspects of our vibrant building, open to anyone from East Leeds aged 11-14 and 15-18. No previous experience is required, anyone is welcome to sign-up!
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Find Your Frequency / Adult Radio Course

20th Oct '21 - 15th Jun '22

At a time that suits you, this course for adults is a friendly and detailed look at all aspects of radio production.
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Have A Go: Make a radio show in a day!

12th Nov '21 - 20th Jun '22

Calling adults of East Leeds! Here's your chance to make a one-off, special, unique radio show all in a single day!
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Tech Volunteering & Training

4th Oct '21 - 1st Jul '22

Want to learn how to 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.

What people said about training at Chapel FM...

Age is irrelevant here. You could quite easily find high school students and pensioners collaborating on a show!

Nigel

Find Your Frequency participant
I just wanted to say thank you for all the work you have done to help me put together the film screening. I came alive on Friday Night. And thanks for your interest in me and my passion for Disability Rights.

D.B.

Find Your Frequency

24/11/2017
I signed up on Open Day. I’d never done anything like it before but I got hooked to radio. It’s been the best year of my life. I’ve met so many brilliant people and it’s changed my idea of what I want to do in my life. I do everything I can at Chapel FM.

Shauna Spensley

Next Generation—Broadcasting

07/10/2017
My daughter came along to ELFM first. When I realised what a good time she was having I thought I want a bit of that so I joined up too. Now I’ve got my own music show with loads of guests and live sessions. It’s a real buzz.

John Toolan
I just wanted to say thank you for having Elliot today. He absolutely loved it and is looking forward to next week already.

Suzanne Harbourne (parent of participant)

Next Generation Course

22/11/2017

Training Information

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Broadcast Training Resources

Training Resources available from Chapel FM—click on image to view full-sized pdf. Some of these files are interactive so can be downloaded and edited