[cma-l] Promoting community media successes

[Darren Jenkinson]

Good Afternoon, a couple of weeks ago I sent out an email asking for 
contributions to a video on what makes community media great. I am happy 
to say I have had a great response to this and I am in the process of 
receiving videos from across the UK.

I have had a couple of emails from people asking if there is other ways 
they could get involved as they don’t have the time to make a video. 
Happily the answer is yes and I wanted to take this opportunity to tell 
you a bit more about the session at the CMA Weekend.

The session about community media successes is primarily about us, as a 
sector taking time to pat ourselves on the back for the long  hours we 
put in and the difference our work makes. We will be having a 
presentation from 103The Eye, the first community radio station in the 
United Kingdom to begin broadcasting on a full five-year license. We 
will be showing the video which I have been told will also be repeated 
during some of the breaks. There will be a good chunk of the session 
dedicated to talking about our successes and perhaps looking into how we 
can create something which can be used to convince the people with cash 
in their pockets that we are the ones who can make their money work for 
them.

If you haven’t booked your place at the conference yet I would urge you 
to do so, we get so little time to gather as a sector and the CMA is 
giving us a venue to do this. I have heard the lunch is going to be 
quite good too. I hate to make this sound like a sales pitch but for two 
days of networking, sharing of ideas and potentially walking away with 
new ideas and potential directions £20 is not bad.

There is a link on the front page of http://www.commedia.org.uk

I look forward to seeing you there.

Darren Jenkinson
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Darren Jenkinson
Community Involvement Officer
Preston FM
Prescap Community Radio Project

2nd Floor
Buckingham House
Glovers Court
Preston
PR1 3LS

Tel - 01772 880791