[cma-l] Valuing Volunteer Time

[Jaqui Devereux]

Dear all

You will be pleased to know that some of our CMA hard work behind the 
scenes might now come to fruition!

Ofcom's latest response to the Future of Radio consultations includes a 
recommendation that, where appropriate and only where properly 
measurable, volunteer in kind time be used as part of the "income mix" 
for community radio stations.  If this recommendation is accepted,  it 
will not be compulsory for stations to measure this, and there would be 
some restrictions in terms of the percentage of income to be included 
from volunteer time (50% volunteer time and 50% on air 
advertising/sponsorship would not be allowable, for example).   These 
restrictions would be in place in order to preserve the distinctive 
nature of community radio, for social gain/community benefit.

For fuller details of the recommendations please go to:

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/futureradio07/

The CMA will be having discussions with Ofcom on how this recommendation 
could work in practice, and what you would need to do to evidence and 
value such time.  We would welcome your thoughts on this, also examples 
to go with what we already have on other funders' regimes for measuring 
in kind time.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes

Jaqui

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Jaqui Devereux

Acting Director
Community Media Association

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Sheffield
S1 2BX

+44 114 279 5219


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