It began as a way for a group of friends to connect around music when kept apart by lockdown: station founder Rory Natkiel broadcast to a few friends on a Friday night and it escalated from there! He realised the potential of a station, got a website up and running, and with many DJs in his immediate circle of friends it grew quickly and organically. The fledgling station was soon broadcasting six
days a week. In the year that has followed over 100 DJs from around the world have played on the station, with a global audience of thousands of people. In the summer of 2020 the Better Days FM DJs and listeners raised over £3,000 for between the Stephen Lawrence Trust in the UK and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the US. In 2021 the DJs involved in the station decided to keep it running full time as a way to show support for the music they love, and to build a platform for different communities to gather around during lockdown and beyond.
