[cma-l] Community Radio Fund: award of grants for 2010/11 Round 2

[Phil Korbel]

the good news in the Ofcom link - apart from the grants themselves -  is
that the Fund will continue for the next three years at a similar level as
currently...  yup, sure, peanuts when set against the needs and value of the
sector but its survival must be applauded in the context of all the other
cuts... [cue invective from Nick?]

here's what it says about the future:


   - Applications will be invited in April 2011, with a closing date in May
   2011. Dates to be confirmed.
   - The Panel will meet to make decisions on these applications on 13 June
   2011.
   - Ofcom is pleased to confirm that DCMS has stated that the Community
   Radio Fund will continue to be funded by the department up to and including
   2014/15. In the next round of funding, for the financial year 2011/12, DCMS
   has allocated £462,000 to the Fund.
   - Funding for the next three financial years is as follows: £448,000 for
   2012/13, £436,000 for 2013/14 and £430,000 for 2014/15.


And - if I'm reading the runes correctly - joint bids might be a good way
forward....

Finally - the notes on why some bids didn't get through are pretty clear -
read the form and the guidance!

Good luck,

bests

Phil


On 1 March 2011 12:38, CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk> wrote:

> Ofcom's Community Radio Fund Panel met on Monday 24 January 2011 to
> consider applications for the second round of grant awards for
> 2010/11.
>
> In summary:
>
> - The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) allocated
> £463,000 towards the Community Radio Fund for 2010/11
> - In the first round of funding in June 2010, the Panel made grants
> totalling £208,634,leaving £254,366 for the second round
> - A further £2,500 was returned to the fund from a previous grant recipient
> - 64 applications were considered
> - Funding applications totalled £1,196,138.46
> - 15 applicants were awarded grants which totalled £256,866
> - 49 applicants were not awarded a grant
>
> The average grant in this round was £17,124; the average grant for
> individual station awards, that is excluding the grants benefiting
> more than one station, was £14,833. A table setting out the awards may
> be found here:
>
>
> http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/radio/community-radio-fund/grants-2010-11-2
>
> The Panel notes that two grants, for £30,769 and £30,768 respectively,
> were for substantially higher amounts than the average and were
> awarded to bids designed to benefit more than one station. The Panel
> wishes to record that the first of these grants was for a joint
> application that will fund a Project Manager and other support for a
> pilot data collection and analysis project. The project aims to
> develop an affordable way for UK community radio stations to assess
> their audiences and community impacts and provide data for grant
> funders, service delivery clients and others. The aim is for a project
> that will benefit all community radio stations in the future. The
> second of these grants was for a Regional Account Manager /Commercial
> Fund Raiser post benefiting three individual community radio stations
> in south west England.
>
> Source:
> http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/radio/community-radio-fund/grants-2010-11-2
>
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