Siren Radio provides a service to four groups of people in Lincoln and the surrounding area. 1) The listeners who range from students at the university to the elderly in the local community. 2) The students on media courses at the university. 3) Local educationalists and 4) Local charities, organisations and the wider community groups for whom Siren is platform from which to raise their activities 

Closing Siren Radio will cut local radio in the city and leave many local organisation with no where to go to inform the local community of their activity.

The University’s Senior Leadership Team plan on telling OFCOM they are returning the licence at the end of the summer term, which would result in the community radio station closing.

Therefore, we the undersigned call upon the Board of Governors to reverse the decision of University’s Senior Leadership Team to close Siren Radio.  We argue this on the grounds that Siren Radio provides several benefits to both the university and the City of Lincoln that cannot be provided through a digital audio production platform.  Over 88%[1] of the United Kingdom population listen to radio broadcasts weekly for an average of 20½ hours.  The arrival of new radio stations is evidence of the need for local communities to have local radio to fill the void caused by globalisation of radio.  Closing Siren Radio will take away a learning facility for students, a local link with the city and deprive local people of community radio.

[1]https://www.rajar.co.uk/docs/news/RAJAR_DataRelease_InfographicQ42023.pdf - accessed Feb 2024