[cma-l] Community Radio Fund: award of grants for 2011/12 Round 1

Tue Jul 5 14:14:48 BST 2011

I see what your saying Nick and I can understand what you mean..

However if you read the announcement this fund has become more about
sustainability and growth for stations. The way I read it they are happy to
fund for a post thats designed to bring in money to the station, and they
would hope that role becomes self financing and then some.. Ideally never
having to touch the fund again.. If every station had a ago at this (and
assuming that the market is sustainable in terms of business development as
well as grants) then after a few years everyone is taking enough money
to survive and grow.

Its that old corny tv advert, give a man a fish (eg pay your license fee and
split the grant between all stations) and he will eat for a day. Give him
the means to fish for himself (Development role) and he can feed himself and
his family for a lifetime...

Just my thoughts..

Martin

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Office - ccr-fm <office at ccr-fm.co.uk> wrote:

> Dear All
>
> Can we please please get rid of this ridiculous system and start practising
> what the apparent community radio bill is preaching.
>
> Opportunities for all, Equality, No one being left on the Station platform,
> All aboard the Train, even though it is not a gravy-train every-one getting
> a guaranteed little bit is better than people spending hours/days/months on
> pointless applications ...... time wasting, when their time could be spent
> better training people, serving the community etc
>
> When people come to our door wanting to 'take part' --- wanting to
> 'participate' we don't judge them we (in 99% of cases) welcome them with
> open arms and treat them the same as everyone else ...... we don't have
> panels passing judgement on them as to whether they are worthy or not, and
> yet the community fund does ............ Why ?
>
> Four grand guaranteed each year is better than nowt' !   furthermore, those
> of us who sit around doing nothing, or make bullets for others to fire
> might
> get a bit of boom boom in their bellies and join the throng. All going in
> the same direction as a team instead of an apparent seemingly
> rag-tag-and-bobtail mickey mouse outfit ......... (I think this is how the
> big boys view us)
>
> My suggestion is four/five grand GUARANTEED every year for everyone .....
> if
> we lobby (difficult) to get it upped to a million or 2 million the cookie
> gets bigger for EVERYONE
> Before we know it, as a team we could be at ten grand each. Licenses, minor
> on-going costs all paid for.
>
> Like most things in this balls-up, everything is made complicated, even
> more
> long winded than my e-mails, common sense never seems to prevail etc etc
> whoever it is who is in charge could you please for everyones sake and my
> sanity ''get your act together''
>
> Many thanks, I will be forever grateful.
>
> I'm off now to carry on banging my head against the brick wall.
>
> Regards
>
> Nick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk
> [mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of CMA-L
> Sent: 05 July 2011 11:49
> To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk; comradio-l at commedia.org.uk
> Subject: [cma-l] Community Radio Fund: award of grants for 2011/12 Round 1
>
> Ofcom's Community Radio Fund Panel met on Monday 13 June to consider
> applications for the first round of grant awards for 2011/12.
>
> In summary, at the time of the meeting:
>
> - The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has allocated
> £442,000 for the Community Radio Fund for 2011/12 (a further £20,000
> was allocated by DCMS to other community radio projects)
> - 67 applications were considered
> - Funding applications totalled £1,143,410
> - 16 applicants were awarded grants which totalled £225,403
> - 51 applicants were not awarded a grant
>
> First round of applications for funding in 2011/12:
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> The Panel reviewed each application and awarded funding based on the
> information provided, and with reference to the Community Radio Fund
> guidance notes. The Panel's decisions were for:
>
> - a full award;
> - a partial award; or
> - not to award any funding.
>
> The average grant in this round was £14,088. A table setting out the
> awards is at the end of this statement.
>
> Issues of note arising from the Panel meeting:
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> With public funding being cut in many parts of the UK, the Panel feels
> strongly that, as much as possible, grants from the Community Radio
> Fund should help further a station's financial stability and future
> sustainability. Therefore, even though the Panel does consider grants
> for community outreach or volunteer support posts, for example, (and
> the Panel recognises these are core station functions) it favours, as
> stated in our guidance notes, applications focusing on posts that will
> promote long-term financial sustainability.
>
> With regard to the applications the Panel considered in this funding
> round, it would like to make the following points:
>
> - A grant from the Fund for new stations is not a foregone conclusion,
> and applicants need to make their case sufficiently well for the Panel
> to be confident that a grant will be well-spent, and enhance the
> future viability and sustainability of the station.
>
> - The Panel would like to remind applicants to take due note of the
> published guidance as well as the guidelines included within the
> application form when completing applications. Some applications in
> this round sought funding for items that the panel considered
> ineligible. This included, for example, applications for equipment
> costs, publicity costs, website costs and funding for journalists. The
> Panel would like to remind applicants to have regard to the list of
> exclusions that the Fund will not support. This is listed in Annex A
> of the Community Radio Fund Guidance Notes:
>
>
> http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/broadcast/radio-ops/guidancenotes2
> 30210.pdf
>
> - Some applicants did not include job descriptions and/or work plans
> in their submissions for staff funding (question four of the grant
> application specifies that this is a requirement). This information is
> important to the Panel in order to consider whether the job
> description of the post to be filled corresponds with the outline
> description given in an application, or alternatively that the work
> plan for the post-holder matches the work priorities outlined in the
> Fund application.
>
> - With regard to roles intending to raise funds for stations, such as
> fundraiser and business development roles, the Panel considers that
> grants for roles such as these can be deemed a success if the post
> holder is able to raise, as a minimum, the equivalent of their own
> salary in the course of the grant spend and in so doing making the
> role sustainable and likely to continue once the grant has been spent.
>
> - Lastly, the Panel would like to emphasise to previous grant
> recipients the importance of good quality feedback on previous grant
> spends and that this information will be taken into account in the
> decision-making process (question twelve of the grant application, and
> separately in the grant report form). For example, for posts that
> included fundraising the Panel would like to know how much money the
> post-holder raised.
>
> Priorities:
> +++++++
>
> The Panel will continue to prioritise making grants to newly-licensed
> stations and to funding core activities and those which will improve
> the sustainability of a station. The Panel considers promoting
> long-term sustainability a critical, core activity, and will take
> special note of novel proposals that have this aim, such as those
> focusing on fund-raising and business development. The Panel also
> continues to believe there is scope for collaborative working or joint
> applications from stations.
>
> Applications for the second round of funding in 2011/12:
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> A total of £216,597 remains in the Fund for the financial year
> 2011/12. Applications for the second round will be invited on 19
> October 2011, with a closing date four weeks later at 5pm on 16
> November 2011. Decisions will be made at the next Panel meeting on 30
> January 2012.
>
> The Panel will give priority to those applicants who have not received
> funding in previous years. However, the Panel would urge all
> applicants to take note of the remarks outlined above.
>
> Summary of grants awarded in the first round for 2011/12:
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> 1) Station
> 2) Location
> 3) Purpose
> 4) Amount
>
> 1) 10Radio
> 2) Wiveliscombe
> 3) Business Generator (p/t)
> 4) £15,000
>
> 1) Alive Radio
> 2) Dumfries
> 3) Business Development Manager/Station Coordinator
> 4) £15,000
>
> 1) Amber Sound FM
> 2) Ripley
> 3) Financial Management
> 4) £5,500
>
> 1) BRFM (Bridge Radio)
> 2) Isle of Sheppey
> 3) Fundraiser & Business Development Officer
> 4) £12,300
>
> 1) Cambridge105
> 2) Cambridge
> 3) Fundraising Manager
> 4) £15,000
>
> 1) Celtic Music Radio
> 2) Glasgow
> 3) Sales & Fundraising Executive
> 4) £12,000
>
> 1) Cheshire FM
> 2) Winsford
> 3) Fundraiser & Marketing Officer
> 4) £16,125
>
> 1) Hermitage FM
> 2) Coalville
> 3) Business Development Officer
> 4) £15,950
>
> 1) In2beats
> 2) Bedford
> 3) Funding Coordinator
> 4) £14,976
>
> 1) Lionheart Radio
> 2) Alnwick
> 3) Business Development Manager (p/t)
> 4) £14,938
>
> 1) New Style Radio 98.7FM
> 2) Birmingham
> 3) Project Manager (six month period)
> 4) £12,000
>
> 1) Peace FM
> 2) Manchester
> 3) Station/Business Manager (p/t)
> 4) £15,526
>
> 1) Redroad FM
> 2) Sheffield
> 3) Business Development Manager (p/t)
> 4) £16,088
>
> 1) TCR FM
> 2) Tamworth
> 3) Funding & Development Officer
> 4) £15,000
>
> 1) The Park
> 2) Lymington
> 3) Business Development Manager
> 4) £15,000
>
> 1) Wythenshawe FM
> 2) Manchester
> 3) Station Manager (part-fund)
> 4) £15,000
>
> Source:
>
> http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/radio/community-radio-fund/gra
> nts-2011-12-1
>
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