To Anish, meditation is the means of transforming the mind; it involves techniques that develop and encourage concentration, clarity, emotional positivity and learning to understand the true nature of being. Anish says that you can learn how to understand your mind, which enables you to become a more positive being. With regular work, this can lead to an individual entering a deeply peaceful and energised state. The experiences can be transformational and can lead to help people to understand their life.
Andrew started meditation in 2014 to assist with dealing with regular panic attacks and Andrew finds that it helps him to escape negative automated thoughts, by turning them into positive ones. The subconscious mind does not like changes to routine, but meditation allows for this area of the mind to be accessed to achieve serenity.
Feet on the floor, back straight, head up, and go!
Exciting children’s show, The Selfish Giant comes to Harrow Arts centre on Friday 1st June. Radio Harrow’s Brian Rose speaks with artistic director Elvi Piper from Wrongsemble about what is going to be an exciting show for all the family.
Radio Harrow were proud to be the outside broadcaster and live entertainers alongside More than Just a Choir at The Musical Party in the Park, at Kenton Recreation Ground, at Carlton Avenue, Harrow on Saturday, 21st July. The Musical Party in the Park was an event organised by Harrow Parks in order to promote the social and economic importance of maintaining green spaces.
More than Just a Choir gave an excellent performance at the event, which was also attended by the Harrow Association of Disabled People, Rethink Mental Illness, Mind in Harrow, North Harrow Stroke Group, Harrow Mencap, #FixitHarrow, the Friends Groups across Harrow Parks, Voluntary Action Harrow Co-operative, Harrow Youth Parliament and the local branch of the London Fire Brigade.
Listen to the day’s events below!
Got any old small appliances or unused mobile phones lying about the house? Harrow is piloting an exciting new recycling programme for waste electrical and electronics across the borough. Wendy Sherer got all the details when she sat down with Daniel Lester (Harrow Council), Emma Hall and Maninder Khunkhun (West London Waste Authority).
Radio Harrow’s David Reece met with Emma Cooper, who leads the Carers Project at Harrow Mencap, during Carers Week (June 2018). Emma explains to Radio Harrow about what caring for others involves and the effectiveness of ‘Fruitful Tuesday’s,’ (involving sessions on Mindfulness for Carers on the third Tuesday of each month), among much more. Harrow Mencap is a seventy-year-old local charity which helps people with disabilities and their direct carers. Listen to the interview here!
RH’s Anna Trevers Speaks to Neil Parker from The Bridge working in partnership with Rethink Mental Illness. Discussing the service and focused on their new work engaging clients through board games and building their skills to cope with mental illness. Neil assisted with setting up The Bridge, helping people to gain confidence interacting with others through learning how to play board games. Here their interview below. Neil’s advise is to find out what counselling and therapy might be available if needed.
Radio Harrow are proud to promote volunteer Biba’s recent interview with Neil Gore, from Townsend productions, about a play coming to town – We Are The Lions Mr Manager. The play about an industrial dispute that happened in Willesden in 1976; it made history, and the strike leader Jayaben Desai was named one of the 100 most influential women of the last 100 years.
The show can be viewed on May 7th, 2018 at the Tara Theatre, Earlsfield, and May 9th, 2018 at Waterman’s Theatre, Brentford.
Radio Harrow is proud to announce that Thursday, 19th April was our third birthday.
As a charity aimed at producing health and wellbeing content which is broadcast to the community, Radio Harrow have achieved a lot, following the merger of Radio Northwick Park with Harrow Community Radio.
We’ve been nominated for around ten awards at the Hospital Broadcasting Association (HBA) awards ceremony, and won one. We’ve had 3,500 song requests from patients within Northwick Park Hospital, around 11,000 web listeners per year, and 270 hours of content has been streamed from our Mixcloud Page. Many of our circa seventy-five volunteers are enthused by the station’s new image, producing topical content covering a range of topics such as healthy living, patient stories and dedications on our new weekly team shows, The Saturday Brunch and Harrow Today.
The charity also has much to boast about going forward; aside from hosting another Brains of the Borough Quiz, we broadcast live from the Pinner Wheelbarrow Race on St George’s Day in April 2018. We’re also frequently involved in numerous community events and would love to get stuck in with your next event whenever you would like.
We’ve added some podcasts in which we’ve reflected on our successes over the last three years!
Our 2017 highlights:
Our 2016 highlights:
Our 2015 highlights:
Charles was in Amersham for Record Store Day 2018, an international event when people get together in record shops and purchase both old and new releases. Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 to celebrate independent record shops. Five hundred special releases have been issued this year, primarily aimed at music enthusiasts and mainstream music listeners alike.
He joins Graham Campbell of The Record Shop in Amersham. Graham’s partaken in the day for seven years and identifies that the day has got bigger by the year.
Listen to Charles’ full interview with Graham below:
Radio Harrow have published the message below on behalf of the NHS Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group. Radio Harrow cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies or omissions in third party content.
World TB Day helped to raise public awareness on the serious impact that tuberculosis (TB) can have on a person’s health on Saturday 24 March.
Harrow has one of the highest numbers of people with TB in London reflecting a large migrant community from countries with a high risk of the condition. In our borough, over 200 people have been tested for latent TB since 2016, a form of TB where the immune system can’t kill the bacteria, but manages to prevent it spreading in the body.
TB is spread by breathing in tiny droplets from the coughs or sneezes of someone already infected by the disease. It mainly affects the lungs, but it can affect any part of the body, including the stomach glands, bones and nervous system. Symptoms of active TB include a persistent cough that lasts more than three weeks, coughing up blood, a high temperature and night sweats. If you experience these symptoms you should see your GP immediately; TB is a serious condition but can be cured if it’s treated with the right antibiotics.
Dr Amol Kelshiker, Chair of NHS Harrow CCG, said:
“World TB Day is an important opportunity to highlight the devastating effects of the disease if left untreated.
“The number of people affected has dropped in recent years but London still has the highest TB rate of any city in Western Europe. Here at NHS Harrow CCG we are determined that our local population receives the best possible prevention and treatment for the condition.
“There is still a lot of stigma around TB but it is treatable with antibiotics and importantly is a free service.”
Latent TB doesn’t have any symptoms it could develop into active TB at a later stage. Regions with high rates of TB include Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa and Southeast Asia, so people coming to the UK from these areas should consider testing for latent TB, especially if they have not been screened for TB in the past. A screening service for latent TB is available to patients visiting GP surgeries in the borough. Take a look at the World TB poster here to find out if you should contact your GP for a free TB screening. Posters in Arabic, Gujarati, Hindi, Somali, Tamil and Urdu languages.
For further information about the symptoms, causes and treatment for TB, please visit the NHS Choices website at www.nhs.uk/conditions/tuberculosis-tb/. You can also find information about latent TB on The Truth About TB website at www.thetruthabouttb.org/latent-tb/
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