[cma-l] charity status

[Associated Broadcast Consultants]

Yes we had the same experience.  Essentially we discovered that a community
radio station could not be a charity unless it fulfilled one of a number of
narrow categories .  ie: if we decided to be a religious radio station then
bingo, but we did not want to go that way.

Instead we went down the CIC route.  It was "sold" to us as being equivalent
to being a charity, but from a recent approach from Inland Revenue I think
it might have some drawbacks compared to being a charity (they seem to treat
us like any other ommercial Ltd company) - but I'm not an expert.

Glyn Roylance
GLOSS FM.org


On 4 February 2011 18:16, Office - ccr-fm <office at ccr-fm.co.uk> wrote:

>  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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