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Radio volunteer Ron’s a real role model
WALKING ON AIR ... hospital radio presenter Ron Cameron has been nominated for Role Model of the Year in the Pride of South Tyneside awards.
RON Cameron has volunteered at South Tyneside Hospital Radio for the last 26 years.
Now his fellow volunteers are hoping his efforts will be recognised after he was nominated in this year’s Pride of South Tyneside awards.
The 42-year-old, from Boldon, is up for Role Model of the Year.
He said: “Actually, I was quite flabbergasted with the nomination, because I consider myself to be part of a team at Radio South Tyneside. I’d be nothing without the team working together.”
The volunteer-run station, of which Mr Cameron is chairman, has been broadcasting at South Tyneside District Hospital in Harton Lane, South Shields, and the former Ingham Infirmary, for the past 55 years.
He hopes to branch out into the online world, so people can listen away from the hospital wards.
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Mr Cameron was nominated by fellow presenter David Johnson, who said: “Ron has helped and guided me on the hospital radio for three years, giving me self-confidence and experience in presenting my own show.
“I feel that he is a good role model, as I have also used these skills in my day-to-day experiences.
“Ron does a lot of work in the volunteer sector in South Tyneside, and has shown me that in order to get out of the community you must put into it first.
“If it wasn’t for Ron, I might not have been given some of the chances I have today.”
Mr Cameron added: “It’s an honour to be thought of in this way. I do this on a voluntary basis, and it does take up a lot of time, but I do it because I love it, and it feels very worthwhile.”
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