Welcome to the third Working Hours podcast Newsletter. This newsletter is designed to keep you informed and up to date about the Working Hours project.

Working Hours is the oral history podcast about a place called Leeds, a time called now and activity called work.

Need to get in touch with the show? Email workinghourspod@western-studios.com

180 EPISODES

So, we hit 180 episodes. Well done us!

We have six episodes left in the can. We have three interviews booked in. There are ten more free spaces left before we hit the new 200 episodes target.

If you would like to be on the show, now is the time to book your interview. Encourage someone you know to do the same.

Email workinghourspod@western-studios.com and let us know the best time for us to arrange a couple of hours with you (or your referral).

Please, indicate whether you want to record online or in person.

Speaking of episodes, did you catch the bonus episode of Working Hours about Bills and Beats? If not go check it out now.

https://the-working-hours-podca.captivate.fm/episode/jin-theng-craven

The Next 20 Episodes And The First 20 YouTube Subs

We have finally hit 20 subscribers on the YouTube channel. Thank you and well done to everyone! That’s great timing. There’s a bunch of video episodes coming at you again. The first episodes will be published in November.

So get ready for that.

What’s the best way to get ready for it? By subscribing to the YouTube channel of course.

If you’ve already subscribed to the YouTube channel, please consider leaving a comment on your favourite episode. You could also share your favorite episode on one or more of your channels. It’s free to do both!

I know I’m teaching you how to suck eggs here but, your engagement on the channel generates a better chance of it being shown to more people and possibly getting more listeners. So the more you can engage with the YouTube channel the better content posted to it will do.

It’ll really really helps, just click the link to go to the channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/@workinghourspodcast4618

Thanks!

Money, Money, Money.

If you follow the show closely, you know that funding for Working Hours is nearly non-existent. It has always been a struggle to find the money to cover our costs. However, we’ve managed to do it for these five years. We’ve done it largely all on our own.

Unfortunately, we can’t do this anymore.

If you can help this project financially, please do. This can be done with a donation or a regular membership payment. You can also help by buying ad space on the show or purchasing something from Western Studios Leeds.

If you know someone who has money to spend and is unsure where to spend it, please send them my way.

Visit the show’s website to donate to Working Hours and help the show. Click the donate button on the Captivate episode player. That will take you to our Kofi page. You can donate any amount you want to the show there, as long as it’s more than three quid. Alternatively, you can support Working Hours with a monthly donation of just a pound by buying your Working Hours supporter membership there.

Click here to go to Kofi now: https://ko-fi.com/workinghours

If you can give £20 a month to the show, you help pay for a month’s worth of audio hosting for Working Hours. £20 a month also covers Working Hours’ web, phone, and email costs for the month. £20 pays for a month of YouTube audiograms or for Working Hours’ SquadCast and Descript access.

Each of these are needed and used to make the show and they all need to be paid for.

£111 pounds a month will basically cover all those costs. Which is why it’s on the Patreon as a membership tier. That’s right. One person could just cover the monthly non-labour expenses of this show with just one Patreon membership. That’s why they get the shout outs, because they’re basically going to be a producer on the show.

There are three choices of Patreon memberships. Supporters of Working Hours can help me pay towards the show’s running costs. They also help me to hit those 200 episodes.

Patreon memberships start at £6 for Loiners and £10 for non Loiners.

For those who can afford it there’s also the Valued Active Listener tier we mentioned above. This tier is for the serious listener. They can easily afford to support the show and want to help keep it going. I would need to sell only three or four of these memberships. This would make the show much more viable for me to continue producing it.

I could, maybe, get out an episode a week for a minimum of £450 quid month.

For a bit at least.

Anyway, if you enjoy the show and you can help it out then you should.

You can check out memberships at: https://www.patreon.com/c/workinghourspod/membership

And you can browse Working Hours sponsorships, ad rates and franchise opportunities on the Patreon shop: https://www.patreon.com/c/workinghourspod/membership

If you can help me pay for any of these costs, it would really help me out. Especially while I have no work and no income. This assistance would enable me to spend my time on getting interviews recorded and on publishing the banked recordings. It would keep me from looking for stupid jobs.

If I can get these costs covered, that would take the pressure off. It will help me to keep the show on the air. It will ensure that the next episodes can be made. It will also ensure that I still have somewhere to publish to when they’re ready.

If I could find members, donors, sponsors, or advertisers, it would help cover these costs. Finding any good Samaritans would also be beneficial. This would free me up to press on. I could then see how many more historic episodes of Working Hours we could make with your added support.

Your support will help episodes be released in a timely manner and be of the best quality possible.

On the next Working Hours Newsletter we will be looking at:

Working Hours Paid

Working Hours Packages – Buy the package to get work history and a Working Hours guest spot. Pay less to be on Working Hours by making more of the show yourself.

Western Studios Leeds Future – the history product, etc