[cma-l] CMA Council - CR Fund priority

trevor at felixstoweradio.co.uk trevor at felixstoweradio.co.uk
Sun Aug 1 10:20:04 BST 2010 

Phil

I see no reason why CMA should not administrate this fund, setting it up as a separate charitable entity, with Borad Members selected from relevant stakeholders. As an infrastructure organisation we are best placed to assess and understand the needs of our members, and capable of maintaining effective contact, and supervision of grants - particularly with the proposed hierachy where regional groupings will have closer contact with our member stations.

CMA providing the secretariat is an obvious solution. At SAVO (Suffolk Association of Voluntary Organisations) where I am a trustee/director we manage several such funds, for providers such as the Big Lottery, local councils etc. It is an effective bridge, where CMA can communicate effectively as they are capable of understanding the demands of both camps.

Kind regards

Trevor Lockwood


----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Korbel
Sent: 31/07/10 10:57 AM
To: Steve Buckley
Subject: Re: [cma-l] CMA Council - CR Fund priority

hi all

thanks for some smart thinking there Steve... yes we must take that small comfort from the govt response but also must not be under any illusions about how vulnerable the Fund is - meagre as it is.

I really like the idea of asking for the fund to be used as seed corn for more fund raising - a trust model perhaps - and the Govt would seek to see that in the hands of a registered charity I'd imagine. The idea of asking stuff away from Ofcom would also appeal to the Govt I'm sure. There is certainly a discussion to be had about the use of ERDF and other EU sources to match - but with the real danger that it wd cost too much to administer...

Knowing how utterly overstretched the CMA is there cant be alternative to the sort of approach that Steve suggests and we've got to get moving now - so that every MP in our reach is not just contacted but frog-marched to Osborne's door in good time for October's Comprehensive Spending Review.

Count us in!

best wishes,

Phil

On 30 July 2010 21:08, Steve Buckley < sbuckley at gn.apc.org > wrote:
 Dear Phil and all

 I want to share a few thoughts with you and CMA Council regarding the
 CR Fund and following the response from the government to the
 petition that I initiated last year.

 First, in reading the government statement, while I am sceptical of
 DCMS commitment or ability to progress in raising funds from other
 departments, it does seem to me there are some significant positives:
 (1) that, despite the change of government, it is consistent with
 previous (Labour) government statements recognising the value of the
 sector and accepting that there is merit in finding additional
 funding from other government departments to support CR social
 benefit; (2) it also reinforces the DCMS policy of funding the CMA.

 On the other hand it is clear that in the present climate even the
 existing meagre level of the Fund is not guaranteed to continue after
 the completion of the Comprehensive Spending Review. In this context
 it seems to me there should be three broad lines of response:

 1. We (the sector itself, the CMA and our allies) need to vigorously
 not only defend the Fund's existence but to continue to call for its
 increase from 2005 levels to a level commensurate with the Everitt
 Report and the present and future scale of the sector.

 2. The campaign needs to build significant grassroots mobilisation,
 that articulates with the CMA's efforts but is not dependent on the
 CMA's core resources. Its should be in parallel to and reinforce the
 policy dialogue with DCMS. This might take the form of a CR Fund
 action group/network that involves people from both within and
 outside CMA staff and Council.

 3. There is a need also to inject some fresh thinking into the
 development of the Fund. In the long term of course it should be
 extended to other community media. In the medium term it could be
 better taken out of Ofcom and established as a 'co-regulatory' entity
 with an objective to lead in raising funds from other sources in
 addition to the DCMS support. The Canadian experience is instructive
 in this respect - where the fund was set up by a group of CR sector
 activists. Initial funding came from the private sector with CRTC cash later.

 I'd welcome feedback from the CMA Council and others on these suggestions.

 Best wishes

 Steve Buckley
 Sheffield Live! 93.2 FM
www.sheffieldlive.org http://www.sheffieldlive.org 


 At 17:17 29/07/2010, you wrote:
 >Dear Members and friends
 >
 >Just to say that the Council of the CMA are due to meet in London this
 >Saturday and although we have a full agenda of important issues facing the
 >organisation and the wider sector I wanted to let you know it was happening
 >and to ask that if there are any burning issues you would like to flag up
 >for our attention please let me know via this list. I cannot guarantee
 >they will be discussed in detail this weekend but can guarantee as always
 >that they will not be ignored, that they will inform our thinking and be
 >responded to as soon as practically possible.
 >
 >Best wishes
 >
 >Phil
 >
 >Phil Shepherd
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