[cma-l] charity status

[Julie at rwsfm.co.uk]

Guys

We were a registered charity when we were hospital radio, I then spent  
9 months arguing the toss with the Charity Commission on how we were  
just branching out in to the community. The response from the CC was  
that not everything community radio does is of a "charitable nature"  
unlike hospital radio which releaves the sick.

You are correct in saying that the CC have no category for radio, and  
as far as I am aware have no intention of changing that anytime soon.

My advice, don't waste your time and energy unless the CMA are  
prepared to take it up with Charity Commission, however, I did bring  
this up with Jacqui last year.

Julie MacLeod
Station Manager


Quoting Office - ccr-fm <office at ccr-fm.co.uk>:

> Dear All
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> Just a quick enquiry ....... Does anyone know how many Community Radio
> Stations in our fraturnity/brotherhood are actually charities ??     I know
> that we looked into it 7 years ago but the process was a complete nightmare.
> Also, in 2004 I clearly remember that the Charities commision simply had NO
> category for radio ... it was almost as if they didn't understand it >?>?
> I think the key to it and the crux of the matter was that we were
> technically ''all over the place'' in what we were providing ... in
> otherwords, providing a lot, but nothing specific !
> almost          ''a jack of all trades but master of none''
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> Have any of you guys had a similar experience ?                       I seem
> to recall that there is a station on the south coast as a charity ??
> plus         Regen (near to us) in South Manchester who do run Wythenshawe
> FM and ALL FM ...... outside of that, I'm a bit clueless to be honest ...
> Any ideas ?
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> What about Sheffield and of course the CMA ?
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> Many thanks
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> Regards
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> Nick
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