Christmas FM returns to the airwaves today
This year, Christmas FM will be raising awareness and funds for homeless charity Focus Ireland, who work with people who are homeless or are at risk of losing their homes.
Christmas FM has raised over €850,000 for charities including ISPCC, Barnardos, Simon, Age Action, and Aware. Last year, Christmas FM exceeded all previous fundraising targets by raising over €265,000 for their charity partner Make-A-Wish Ireland.
Christmas FM is entirely funded through sponsorship and run each year by more than 100 volunteers who participate across the on-air production and promotion of the station, each devoting between 20 and 50 hours of their time.
This year, Christmas FM’s on-air sponsors are An Post, Tesco Ireland and Cadbury. For the fourth year, Christmas FM will broadcast from the Ballsbridge Hotel, Dublin who has given the studio space for free.
Garvan Rigby, co-founder of Christmas FM, says: "We are very excited to be back on air today and delighted to dedicate the 2016 fundraising and awareness drive to Focus Ireland. Our aim is to help Focus Ireland support over 300 families out of homelessness and with our listener’s help we are confident that we can meet this target.
"We’re now in our ninth year and Christmas FM really has become something wonderful, something magical, and something which has become a staple of an Irish Christmas - thank you again to all our loyal listeners for making it such a success!"
The main radio frequencies for Christmas FM are Dublin City and County 105.2FM, Limerick 105.5FM, Galway 87.7FM, Kildare 88.1FM, Kilkenny 104.3FM, North Midlands 101.6FM, Cork 106.7FM, South East103.8 FM, North East 99.4FM, South Wicklow 106.6FM and North Wicklow is 107.3FM.
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