Cleddau Media is a community group based in Pembroke Dock and is run by a committee of volunteers. The primary activity of the group is to run the Cleddau FM community radio station and provide media training programmes targeted towards the local community.

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Cleddau Media make extensive use of ICT in their operations. The community radio station is extremely high tech and is run from 3 rack mounted servers providing live programming, production and Internet streaming.

The group recently received a large grant from Communities@one and have relocated to the old radar station at Llanreath, Pembroke Dock, overlooking the Cleddau.

The building has been refurbished to contain a new studio (left picture) and production suite (right picture), training suite and a server closet housing the servers that run everything. The Circuit Rider project assisted in the relocation by networking the new building and helping with the installation and configuration of the new equipment.

The group also have a number of PC workstations in their production and training suites allowing hands on experience for those attending their community training programmes.

New Studio and Production Suite

Cleddau Media are currently in the process of completely redesigning their website, again with the assistance of the local Circuit Rider and hope to launch the website shortly in time to promote local events they will be covering in the spring and summer, together with their ongoing media training programmes.

Marc Tierney of the group said 'although our grant allowed us to purchase and install kit, without the extra input of the Circuit Rider we would not have been able to fully integrate the networks to give us a convenient and holistic way of working - this was an added bonus. We liked the flexibility and response of the service and felt the Circuit Rider understood our resource situation as a voluntary group, both in time and money.'