Fun Kids is the UK’s children’s radio station. We are passionate about helping children think, create and play and all our shows and podcasts put kids front and centre.

We need great communicators who know their Moana from their Matilda to help craft great content that engages our listeners.

Think you’re up to the job?

We treat our listeners with a lot of respect. They are aged between 6 and 12, and we always talk TO them (and never down to them). Their ideas are vital to us.

Fun Kids has been nominated for UK Radio Station of the Year for three years in a row at the ARIAS, gaining a podium finish this year – and our network of podcasts did the same in the Podcast Network of the Year category of the British Podcast Awards this year.

Our presenters have gone on to great things, with many of them getting jobs at stations like Radio 1 and Capital.

Right now, we are looking for someone who can cover shows on Fun Kids, so we are having a special “Presenter Day” where we’ll bring together a number of applicants and do a series of tasks and pieces of training to understand you better.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t have any professional experience, but we’re looking for people who are well practiced through student or community radio or through podcasts or YouTube/social.

Want to be a part of what we do? Here’s the three things you need to do – read these steps carefully.

1. Spend at least a week listening to the different shows on Fun Kids. You will need an idea of what we do. We take this step really seriously.

2. Create a three minute demo of some links you think would suit our station. We want you to bring some of yourself to this role.

3. Email a cover letter with your audio to our Content Controller, Lloydie. Put the word SHOW in the subject line and send it to lloydie@funkidslive.com

Closing date: 23rd December 2024

Good luck, and we hope to see you at our presenter day in the new year!

The first Alexa skills built specifically for kids are now live in the UK and the children’s radio station Fun Kids is a launch partner.

Amazon’s new Kid Skills give parents a layer of control over how their children use the popular Amazon Echo range of smart speakers, whitelisting and promoting approved apps.

Joining Fun Kids is content from The Beano, Duplo and Pac Man.

David Madelin, CTO at Fun Kids says “We want kids and families to be able to discover Fun Kids on all of their devices. We’re excited to have worked with Amazon to get this ready for the launch of Kid Skills and look forward to adding more features over the coming weeks.”

Fun Kids listeners can stream the radio station and ask Alexa questions about what’s currently playing on-air.

For any families who’ve enabled Kid Skills the request to “Play Fun Kids” will be delivered directly by the skill, rather than using a third party aggregator like TuneIn.

Dave continues “It’s important that we own the relationship with our listeners so we can deliver them a great product, but also to ensure we’re looking after children’s digital data, especially as new legislation comes into force this month.”

Radio’s biggest unserved audience – children – finally get a radio station they can call their own, with the nationwide launch of Folder Media’s children’s radio station Fun Kids.

Fun Kids broadcasts a mix of music, games and silliness for 6 to 12 year olds, hosted by a group of exciting, young radio presenters. In addition the station brings sing-a-longs, stories and learning for pre-schoolers with Fun Kids Junior, on-air when older brothers and sisters are at school.

Fun Kids, which up to now, has only broadcast on digital radio in London has enjoyed considerable success over the past five years, winning industry awards and reaching over a quarter of million young listeners each week.

Matt Deegan, Station Manager of Fun Kids: “Up until now children have been abandoned by the radio industry – both by commercial radio and the BBC. Fun Kids has built a large audience by catering for their tastes and interests, but we’ve been limited by just broadcasting digitally in London. The launch of Fun Kids across the UK will allow more children to have a radio station that they can call their own. Many radio stations talk about the need to bring young listeners to radio, but we’re the only ones actually doing it.”

As well as a broadcast radio station, Fun Kids has a popular website, operates over 150 podcasts channels and runs 6 YouTube channels covering everything from gaming to education.

Matt continues: “Kids are natively multi-platform. Whether it’s TV, the radio, tablets or hand-me-down iPhones, kids love content made for them. Growing our digital radio reach means that we’ll be reaching more radios and unlocking the 1.9m cars that came with DAB as standard last year, allowing kids, all over the UK, to spend even more time with Fun Kids”

Fun Kids’ national launch is part of a new national digital multiplex that will bring a selection of new radio stations to the UK. The station will go live to the UK on the 29th February. Listeners should ‘retune’ their radio to pick up Fun Kids and the other new stations.

On 21st November it’s the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 and only one place in the UK will be bringing you all the action – Fun Kids!

As our exclusive partner, you will be placed at the centre of this exciting activity.

Across the entire week, Bex will be hosting our flagship show, The Club, at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria. Every day listeners will hear exclusive content, including interviews, backstage access, all culminating in an exclusive live broadcast of the show on 21st November.

Promoted across Fun Kids, this will be a unique 4-week partnership opportunity to promote your brand bringing it to hundreds of thousands of families listening across the country.

Click here to download the full opportunity

Christmas is a big time for families! And Fun Kids can embrace this time of year like no other station with a whole schedule packed with non-stop Christmas music, Panto Guide and even Santa presenting every day!

Once again we’re looking for a Fun Kids’ Christmas Partner, giving you exclusive sponsorship that positions your brand at the heart of all Christmas programming on the radio.

With successful partners, such as Random House (view case study), this is a great way to make your brand front of mind in the  lead up to Christmas.

Click here to download the full opportunity