Bern Wakefield-Heath

Bern has been a member of the management team since the station went to air full-time during Easter 2008. He was the station’s first presenter of drivetime, doing the job single-handedly five nights a week for the initial months of Stroud FM’s operation.

Bern has a long broadcasting association, first appearing on-air at the tender age of 9. He was also top in the UK when undertaking a broadcasting HNC/D and specialising in news. Among his credits since includes being an advisor to the former BBC board of governors with particular emphasis on impartiality and balance in news and current affairs reporting along with diversity, taste and decency. Bern has additionally had spells working with BBC radio and TV as well as working on presenting topical news chat shows with ITV.

He has trained many of Stroud FM’s broadcasters, and is Stroud College’s Adult Community Learning tutor on Radio Skils.

Bern professionally trains executives and organisations on media management and how to present themselves to both broadcast and print media, and is a seasoned public relations practitioner and business advisor with over 30 years’ experience. He also lectures at university level and holds qualifications in public relations while achieving Masters level in management .

Clare Jackson

Clare Jackson, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors,  is a woman of many talents. Not only does she present as classical music show in dulcet tones, which has guaranteed her a firm following, she also edits books for a living.

She's built a boat, parachuted off an Austrian mountain, sung for her supper at the Cheltenham Festival (she's a classically trained singer) and was the Wicked Witch of the West for the Cotswold Players.

She has been at Stroud FM since before it went full time - she was one of the writers and actors in Stroud FM's very own soap for one of our short four-day broadcasts during the Fringe Festival.

Neil Munro

Neil Munro’s background in broadcasting is as a volunteer and includes the University of Kent Radio Station, The Bromley Cassette Talking Newspaper for the Blind, Hospital Radio based at St Mary’s Praed Street in London and assisting in the launch of The Falcon radio station in Stroud. Neil also does voluntary local charity work.

Neil made his national radio debut as a teenager on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme discussing the benefits of bathing with a friend – it was during a water shortage. He has written articles for various magazines and has, for example, contributed to BBC Radio 4’s Weekending programme. He is a past winner of the Gillian Pearkes Memorial Trophy for his wine writing. He has written radio drama which has been broadcast on Stroud FM.

Neil is a Director of Stroud FM and has filled the role of Secretary on the committee since the station’s formation in 2003. He participated in the original Stroud Fringe Festival broadcasts and has presented the Sunday Breakfast Programme since Stroud FM went full-time in 2008. Neil’s was the first voice heard on Stroud FM when it went full-time.

Sandrine France-Baker

Since leaving full time work to pursue a career in radio she has worked for a number of different radio stations and completed a degree in radio production. She is now looking into going back to Uni to do a Masters Degree researching community radio. She has produced & presented a wide variety of content for radio including her Country-Folk Show right here on Stroud FM.

Rich White

Rich is a Director of Stroud FM and has been a member of the Management team since the station first went on air full-time; he was also involved with the stations Fringe Festival broadcasts before its full time status.

He presents the Sunday morning Music Memories programme which he has been doing since Stroud FM went full-time in 2008

Rich Whites background in broadcasting is as a volunteer and includes being Station Manager at Standish Hospital Radio for 5 years looking after the training, staffing and technical side of the station. He was the last presenter to be heard on the station, closing the station down on Christmas Eve 2004 a few days before the hospital closed.

He was also involved in assisting in the launch of The Falcon the first I.L.R radio station in Stroud, and has also been a tour guide on the Radio Caroline ship the Ross Revenge during the 1990's and 2004, and boasts one of the largest collection of radio memorabilia in the area.

At an early age, Rich learnt the techniques of recording and editing from his uncle who was one of the first people in the Stroud area to own a tape recorder, and was a member of the F.B.T.R.C (Federation of British Tape Recordists and Clubs).