Celtic Music Radio is once again be participating in The Great Big Small Charity Car Draw.

You must purchase your ticket now as entries for the draw close on Friday 16 September – no more tickets can be sold after this date.

A group of small charities have got together to organise a raffle. We will be selling tickets during spring and summer 2011. At the end, a winning ticket will be drawn, and someone will win a brand new car – a Fiat 500 1.2 Pop!

Tickets cost £2 each and you can buy as many as you want. 95% of the income will stay with Celtic Music Radio to support our broadcast and internet services.

You can buy tickets online by clicking this link, or the link over at the right of every page on the website, or you can buy paper tickets from any of our team. Contact the Celtic Music Radio team at cardraw@celticmusicradio.net if you need more info.

This lottery is promoted by our friends at the Foundation for Social Improvement, a charity which helps small charities like us.

Celtic Music Radio is a charity registered in Scotland. Number: SC041172

Chocolates from Thornton’s.

Books from Waterstones.

Clothes from dare2b.

Games from, err, Game,  or play.com or Zavvi.

Anything from Marks & Spencer, Asda or Littlewoods online.

Hotel bookings. Car hire. Car and house insurance. Mobile phones.

Even sites to change your electricity and gas suppliers!

You can find all of these – and more – in the Celtic Music Radio online store – there’s also a link over on the right, below the “Listen” button.   Click on our store window then click through to these sites, and we’ll earn a commission on any purchases you make. It doesn’t cost you a penny extra.

There’s a full list of suppliers HERE.

One of our listeners recently bought a laptop computer from Asda Online. It cost around £300. By going there via the link on our online store, Celtic Music Radio received a “finder’s fee” of £20.

So please have a look at our store, browse round the list of suppliers, and bear it in mind when doing your Christmas shopping you will also be supporting Celtic Music Radio.

From the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

‘ Live, Online from the City of Music’ A collaboration between Glasgow Concert Halls,  Strathclyde University and Celtic Music Radio. Taking the music to the world!

Celtic Music Radio will be broadcasting live from the concert hall from 09.00. Click on the links to the right to listen.

9:45am Introduction by Jade Hewat, Celtic Connections Festival Manager
9:50am Councillor George Redmond, Chair of Glasgow Life
9:55am Ann Loughrey, Head of CSR for ScottishPower, Celtic Connections’ Principal Sponsor
10:00am Artistic Director Donald Shaw announces the programme for the 2011 festival

Sincere thanks to our good friends at the University of Strathclyde Information Services for technical assistance in delivering this video stream