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The Southport and District Amateur Radio Club is happy to visit schools, colleges and youth groups throughout Merseyside, West Lancashire and Sefton in Southport, Formby, Ormskirk, Tarleton, Skelmersdale, Bootle, Burscough, Maghull, Crosby and Liverpool.
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School & Youth Group Visits
Don (M1BUL) shows pupils how to tune a radio
Communications is an everday activity that we are all involved in, be it face-to-face or using some form of electronic device. Radio communications are used by the vast majority of us, without even realising it some of the time; radio, television and satellite receivers, mobile phones, handheld computing devices and wireless networking all use radio communications of one form or another.
School visits
We can visit your school or college and provide a fun-packed day full of interesting activities that will introduce your students to radio communications and explain how they work and how to use them. Most of the activities are hands-on and suitable for Key Stage 2 (KS2) and Key Stage 3 (KS3) students. We can also tailor our visit to fit in with particular areas of the curriculum that your students are currently studying, or run a National Science & Engineering Week event for you.
If you would like to book us to visit your school, contact us now for further information.
Youth group visits
Over the years we have supported local Scout groups and run six week courses that have enabled members to gain their Communication Badge, we've also taken several a step further to gain their Amateur Radio Foundation License.
If we can help your youth group in any way contact us now for further information.
A Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) station
Special events
In addition to making educational visits we can also attend your special events and run live radio communications demonstrations, enabling your students/members and visitors to get real hands-on experience in communicating using radios and computers. We are able to run special event stations for the Scouts Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) and Girl Guide's Thinking Day on the Air (TDOA).
For further details, please contact us now .
Insurance, health and safety and child protection
The club is fully insured for accidents relating to the running of Amateur Radio based activities. You can view a copy of our insurance certificate and insurance policy.
We take the health and safety or our members, and visitors to our events, very seriously and have produced a Health and safety Policy and Risk Assessment which is available for downloading.
As a special interest club we do get involve in training children about radio communications and demonstrating the hobby of Amateur Radio to them. Their safety and security is utmost in our thoughts during the planning and execution of such events. We have members of the club who hold Enhanced Criminal Record Certificates (Enhanced Disclosures) and we adopt a strict policy over the publication of photographs on our web site containing children. We will soon have a Child Protection Policy in place which you will be able to download from this web site.