Make a Difference
Every day your BBC radio station where you live is helping to bring communities together to make a difference closer to home.
We launched at the beginning of the Covid pandemic in March 2020, as a virtual notice board for those able to offer help and those needing support.
To date, over ten million people have got involved in Make a Difference across local and national BBC radio stations.
Make A Difference Awards
The Make A Difference Awards celebrate those who make life better for others in our communities.
In September, we hosted special awards ceremonies across the UK, shining a light on those unsung heroes.
For more information and details, please visit our Awards page.
Visit our awards page
The Make A Difference Awards celebrate those who make life better for others in our communities.
Find out who is making a difference where you live
- Berkshire
- Bristol
- Cambridgeshire
- Cornwall
- CWR (Coventry and Warwickshire)
- Cumbria
- Derby
- Devon
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Guernsey
- Hereford & Worcester
- Humberside
- Jersey
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Lincolnshire
- London
- Manchester
- Merseyside
- Norfolk
- North East
- Northampton
- Nottingham
- Oxford
- Sheffield
- Shropshire
- Solent
- Somerset
- Stoke
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Sussex
- Tees
- Three Counties Radio (Beds, Herts and Bucks)
- Wiltshire
- WM (West Midlands)
- York
Helping you
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It Starts With You
Raising awareness of hereditary cancer risk through shared stories, voices and music. -
BBC Wellbeing
It can be hard to know where to start when it comes to your mental wellbeing, but there are lots of tools that can help. -
Get creative
BBC arts brings together arts, culture and resources to help you be more creative at home. -
Memory Radio
Designed to use music to help people reconnect with their most powerful memories.
Helping the family
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Behind the bandana
Pudsey has removed his bandana to encourage conversations that can help. -
Tiny Happy People
Explore simple activities, play ideas and find out more about your child's early development. -
Learn and Revise
BBC Bitesize shares lessons with videos, activities and more. -
BBC Young Reporter
Supporting young people to develop content creation skills and share their own stories.
What you might have missed
Discover more
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Podcasts and Series
Explore and listen to comedy, faith, politics and real-life from BBC radio teams local to you. -
BBC Introducing
Bringing together of all of the BBC's supporters of unsigned music. Upload your music to your local BBC radio station. -
Upload
Sharing your audio, video, text and images, on air and across local BBC radio digital platforms. -
A Voice for Nature
Sir David Attenborough invites us all to join him and speak on behalf of planet Earth.
