[cma-l] charity status

[BDFM Admin]

The Scottish system OSCAR  works on the basis that you supply them with
yearly reports both financial and development reports . The great benefit is
not paying rates, which is a real save but they are not always easy to work
with.....John Ritchie (chair)

 

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From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk
[mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Office - ccr-fm
Sent: 05 February 2011 14:35
To: 'Associated Broadcast Consultants'; 'CMA-L'
Subject: Re: [cma-l] charity status

 

Glyn n' all

 

Thanks Glyn ..... As I said .. It looks like everyone is fumbling around in
the dark. Either we can as a fraturnity / brotherhood or we can't .... which
is it .. ??  I dunno'?

 

Regards

 

Nick

 

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From: glyn.m.roylance at googlemail.com [mailto:glyn.m.roylance at googlemail.com]
On Behalf Of Associated Broadcast Consultants
Sent: 04 February 2011 22:59
To: Office - ccr-fm
Cc: CMA-L
Subject: Re: [cma-l] charity status

 

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

 

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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