The primary aim of the station is to serve the young people and communities of the greater Lincoln area, meaning that Siren is catering for a younger audience than its mainstream neighbours BBC Lincolnshire and Lincs FM.

[3][4] The station fitted a new antenna with a co-linear stacked dipole aerial on 20 August 2008 to improve reception in the north of the city.

[6] Catering for a younger audience than the mainstream stations heard in Lincoln, once a year schoolchildren are invited to produce and present their own programmes.

[7] There have also been projects aimed at communicating language and science education to a wider audience[8] and funds granted to support the development of community journalism.

In January 2024 the University of Lincoln's Senior Management Team announced that they were going to hand the OfCom licence back at the end of the summer term 2024.