Betar Bangla 1503AM is a not-for-profit bi-lingual Community Radio Station based in Shadwell, Tower Hamlets. It is dedicated to providing a wide range of programmes for the Bangladeshi community (140,962 - borough statistics) in the whole of the London East End, including Tower Hamlets, Newham, Hackney, Redbridge and Waltham Forest. The organisation was established in May 2000 and we received the full broadcasting licence from OFCOM in 2010. Since then, our listening audience has been growing at a steady rate and is currently estimated to be 80,000+ (based on the OFCOM formula) and over 180,000 people per month visit our website (www.canstream.com). The organisation is entrenched in the Bangladeshi community and has strong links with local residents and voluntary organisations (we have 247 individual and organisation members). We receive hundreds of calls each month about the most diverse issues and some of our activities (training projects and programmes) have come about because of representations made by listeners via the Betar Bangla Listeners’ Forum.