[cma-l] charity status

[Office - ccr-fm]

Julie / Peter and All

 

Many many thanks for this …………. Thanks for your reply and for sharing your experiences …………………. Would you not argue though that once again it proves what a complete shambles this whole affair is in ??           it beggars belief ………. There doesn’t appear to be any kind of consistency in rules, regulations, applications and is almost as if the whole thing has been rushed through.

 

Possibly it has been rushed through, which in fairness, and giving everyone the benefit of the doubt was the right thing to do, or else we could still be faffing around with the pilots ….. however !   where the whole thing in my opinion has failed is the fact that there are clear issues, there are clear problems and there are honest, descent people pleading with the powers that be to help them …….. even to the point of saying ‘’if you don’t believe us’’ ‘’come and check it out for yourself’’        I don’t think we can be anymore staightforward, upfront and humble than that ………………………….. and still it rumbles on.

 

Julies experiences with the commision are exactly the same as ours, and yet Peter has got charity status …(why?)(how?)    we are all basically the same aren’t we !?    ……….. some stations are on 25 watts and managing very well indeed, whilst others are on 25 watts and struggling ……. In fact there are areas close to us around here where I could chuck the signal further using a catapult !

 

And finally …………. We got   SOME  stations advertising      and others   NOT ABLE TO   ?????? …………………. I truly truly believe, that if you went to South Africa or Japan or America and told them all about this ………… they’d die with laughter.

 

I think as a Country we are embarrasing ourselves and making a mockery of something that in the main is bloody marvellous ………………

 

Thank you guys ………. You have been most helpful

 

Regards

 

Nick

 

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From: londonhuayu at gmail.com [mailto:londonhuayu at gmail.com] On Behalf Of London Chinese Radio
Sent: 04 February 2011 23:23
To: Julie at rwsfm.co.uk; office at ccr-fm.co.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] charity status

 

Hi, 

 

We're a charity. (Just spent all day doing my charity returns!)

We had no problem registering as one, and the charity commission even gave us help in writing our charitable objectives.

They are on our website <http://www.londonhuayu.co.uk>  on about us.

 

Best,

 

Peter

London Chinese Radio

 

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:23 PM, <Julie at rwsfm.co.uk> wrote:

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
>
>
>
> 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''
>
>
>
> 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 ?
>
>
>
> What about Sheffield and of course the CMA ?
>
>
>
> Many thanks
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>




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