Speaker: Miranda Rae - Ujima Radio

Ujima Radio: More than just a radio station.

Since launching in 2008, Ujima has built an audience of 30,000 listeners daily on FM, with just over 800,000 live streams a month worldwide online reaching 169 countries including 10,000 live streams a day from USA and Hungary and the same again on our Listen Again service! Plus in 2023 we launched onto DAB. Ujima is volunteer led and run by a team of over 100volunteers. We have promoted and worked on cultural events including Bristol Harbour Festival, St Pauls Carnival, Bristol City Council, Watershed, SS Great Britain, Engine Shed, Bristol Sounds, Siren Festival, Love Saves The Day, Downs Festival and Pervasive Media and several other organisations including Bristol Beacon, St George’s Bristol and Arnolfini in the city from our Arts Council England investment.

Ujima Radio CIC is Bristol’s leading African & Caribbean arts and media social enterprise. Providing on-air community broadcasting. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

They are a non-profit organisation supplying Bristol with local news, lively discussions across a range of topics, with art and music from Bristol, the Caribbean, Africa and the rest of the world.

• Broadcast on FM radio, DAB and online.
• Celebrate African and Caribbean cultures through music, projects and informative talk shows
• Provide career pathways into the radio, media and the arts
• Train, support and up skill volunteers
• Act as a consultant for community organisations and businesses
• Provide a platform for showcasing local and international artists
• Work in partnership with the business, public, media communities and academia including our investors UWE Bristol, Bristol City Council, Boomsatsuma, BSWN, African Voices Forum and University of Bristol sector to provide opportunities for collaboration.