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!

We’ve launched eight new Fun Kids branded radio stations which join our existing stations, Fun Kids and Fun Kids Junior.

If you love Fun Kids, we’ve got some super exciting news to share with you. 

Each one is available to listen to on the Fun Kids App, via the Fun Kids radio player as well as being available on the Amazon Kids+ service on Amazon Fire tablets!

You can even listen on Alexa, just activate the skill and then ask Alexa to play whichever Fun Kids radio station you want.

Plus, remember you can also keep listening to Fun Kids and Fun Kids Junior too!

Find out about all our new stations here…

There’s Fun Kids Silly, a whole radio station dedicated to just being silly. From songs about farts to farts that sound like songs, Fun Kids Silly is the place to be if you want to hear tunes like ‘Barbie’s Head Is Missing’, ‘Stink-o-saurus Song’ and ‘Baby Monkey’

After all that play, you might want to try Fun Kids Naps. Sometime you just want to put on some calming music to help get your child off to sleep without the drama. It’s a whole radio station of just the most relaxing bedtime lullabies to help your child get an early night.

You could try Fun Kids Classical. Did you know that classical music can help boost your child concentration, focus and help them to relax? That’s why we created Fun Kids Classical, a radio station that has nothing but the best classical musical for kids. It has music from all the best composers like Handel, Mozart and Bach.The orchestra is ready, so what are you waiting for?

For Dads who love the cheese, we’ve got a different kind of Classical too. Fun Kids Classics. The classics never die, and they also never stop playing on Fun Kids Classics! Whether you want to hear Avril Lavigne, Sia or even *NSYNC, it’s all hear on Fun Kids Classics. 

For those birthday parties, we’ve got Fun Kids Party. Sometimes kids just need that party atmosphere and everyone’s guaranteed to have a good time. With artists like Carly Rae Jepsen, Kidz Bop Kids and Panic! At The Disco, you’ll struggle to stop yourself from dancing!

Then there’s Fun Kids Pop Hits. We can all agree that pop is the best genre, right? They wouldn’t call it pop if it wasn’t! So if you want a non-stop playlist of nothing but the biggest and best pop hits for kids, then Fun Kids Pop Hits is the place for you! We’ve got all the biggest names in poop like Harry Styles, Little Mix and Ariana Grande. Day or night, a pop party is never far away with Fun Kids Pop Hits!

For lovers of Dan’s Animal Hour on Fun Kids, we’ve created Fun Kids Animals. It’s nothing but fun and hilarious songs all about animals, it’s like a zoo in your radio! So why not kick back, dust off your best impression of a duck and join in with the fun! We’ll be playing all the animal hits such as ‘Buzz Buzz Buzz’, ‘Walk Like an Elephant’ and ‘Bunny Hop’ all day long.

Then there’s Fun Kids Soundtracks. What turns a good film into a great film? Amazing music! That’s why we’ve taken this magical ingredient (the banging tunes) and made a whole radio station dedicated to all the best songs from the greatest films.So tune in to hear the biggest songs from tv shows and films you love like Frozen, Trolls and High School Musical!

To support our listeners and families in the latest lockdown, we are producing Activity Quest Daily, our new, cross platform lockdown programme.

Consisting of five tasks for kids to complete each day – some fun, some educational – it’s available at funkidslive.com/daily – mentioned in each show across the day, and appears in our Activity Quest podcast channel.

Fun Kids listeners have spoken and Dua Lipa has been named their Popstar of the Year.

Here’s the full list of winners:

1. Dua Lipa 
2. Little Mix
3. Taylor Swift 
4. Anne-Marie 
5. Ariana Grande 
6. Ava Max 
7. BTS 
8. HRVY
9. Katy Perry 
10. George Ezra 
11. Ed Sheeran 
12. Kidz Bop
13. Harry Styles 
14. Panic! At The Disco
15. One Direction 
16. Bruno Mars 
17. Lady Gaga 
18. Tones And I 
19. Justin Bieber
20. Miley Cyrus

If you want to get involved in the next countdown get in touch sam@funkidslive.com

As 2020 draws to a close, Fun Kids wishes you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Looking to the New Year, we’re happy to help you reschedule any plans that changed in 2020 and excited to show you new opportunities for 2021.

At Fun Kids, we’ve already started to look ahead and have some very exciting new additions that offer even more ways to engage with children and families.

Get in touch with us 👇

We’re here until December 24th and between Christmas and New Year to discuss upcoming opportunities. If you fancy a chat about how we can help you talk to kids and their parents, get in touch.

Sam Howard – sam@funkidslive.com

Children’s Radio UK, owner of Fun Kids, has been awarded £50,000 as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. We’re one of 1,385 cultural and creative organisations across the country receiving the support.

Our MD, Gregory Watson, says “Fun Kids has provided an important service to children and parents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Broadcasting 24/7 we have helped keep families entertained and engaged.

“We have created new podcasts to help children learn at home, and to help families re-engage with their communities as restrictions were relaxed. This grant will help us continue to provide our important services, as well as create new content, including our very first ‘Pantoland’ pantomime in which Fun Kids presenters will have to battle evil ‘Baron Co-Vide’ who seeks to ruin pantomime and Christmas for children, seeking help from one or two famous faces along their route.

“Our 18-part pantomime launches 1st December and will be broadcast on air and available on the Santa Daily podcast.”

Mission:
Our challenge was to promote the new range of Match Attax and Slam Attax from Topps from July – October 2018.

Campaign Objectives:

• Let the target audience of 6-11 year olds know about key releases
• Promote
• Convey the dark humour of the books
• Drive sales of the book series

Solution:

Launching on the 22nd January 2018, Fun Kids put together a multi-platform campaign across radio, online and social platforms. This included a multi-platform competition and themed 60 second adverts.

Whilst providing a buzz and excitement around the new book covers, Fun Kids also ran bespoke online articles, providing extra promotion and drove direct links and key messaging. As well as promoting the new A Series of Unfortunate Events episodes coming to Netflix later in the year.

We also promoted the release to parents on Twitter Facebook and to our newsletter subscribers

Results:

• 4 million on-air impacts
• 8 opportunities to hear per listener
• 1,700 competition entries
• 2,500 newsletter opens

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.”