[cma-l] watching and observing with interest

[Julian Mellor]

We setup with entirely voluntary effort, and operated like that for  
the first six months of 2008.  Then we had a part-time manager  
responsible for developing business income for a year, funded by the  
CRF.  During that time and afterwards, all the admin and station  
management continued to be done voluntarily.  So it can be done.

Our fixed costs are £12k (i.e. everything we need to spend to keep  
running) - and over a third of that is rent.  Even though we're a  
small rural station, we can cover most of the fixed cost from  
sponsorship and donations.

However, not having a paid manager does put considerable reliance upon  
voluntary input and that doesn't appeal to many people (they all want  
to be presenters, not administrators).  That in turn meant there was a  
risk of it all collapsing if key people left.  So since Feb I've been  
contracted (for not much) for 1 day per week to do the general  
management.

There are obviously lots of different ways of running a station, but  
if its a broad community project with lots of volunteers, then it  
needn't cost much.

Plus we use low energy lightbulbs - so the lights shine brightly at  
10Radio on less than 40w!

Julian
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On 27 Jul 2010, at 11:52, CMA-L wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> From: Eddie Stuart <eddie at kcr.fm>
> To: murray at shmu.org.uk
>
> As a matter of interest, how many Community stations are run totally
> by volunteers (ie no salaries at all)?
>
> Regards,
>
> Eddie
> -- 
> Keith Community Radio Ltd - The Friendly Sound
> Registered in Scotland No.SC173805
> Registered Office: 59a Land Street, Keith, Banffshire, AB55 5AN
>
>> Murray Dawson wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Gary,
>>>
>>> How much do you suggest that we should pay the manager of a  
>>> Community Radio Station, or a Community Capacity worker?
>>> You imply that over £20k is way over the odds..........
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