[cma-l] Community Radio Fund: award of grants for 2015/16 Round 1

[Phil Gibbons]

To be honest Wrighty, the CMA worked hard to keep this fund going at all.
DCMS wanted to get rid of it two years ago when it cut a lot of other
funds, but because we (Dom and Bill in particular from the CMA on behalf of
all members) lobbied hard, they kept it going albeit at a slightly reduced
amount.

My question would be 'why so few get funded'? I have heard the funders say
that many of the applications are just so far off the mark that they could
not fund them even though they would like to!

Phil

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Canalside's The Thread <
office at thethread.org.uk> wrote:

>     Has this amount come down ???                   hang on a mo …. So we
> have £500,000 or we are meant to have …. We had 100 Stations which then
> become 200 and then the fund goes DOWN ???      Have I missed something
> again here ?       LOL   J
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> It’s a good job we can keep smiling and see the funny side, we’d go
> bonkers without it.
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> You couldn’t write the script could you ?
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>
> Onwards and Backwards
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>
> Wrighty
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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 *CMA-L
> *Sent:* 07 July 2015 14:09
> *To:* cma-l at commedia.org.uk
> *Subject:* [cma-l] Community Radio Fund: award of grants for 2015/16
> Round 1
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> Ofcom's Community Radio Fund Panel met on Tuesday 23 June 2015 to consider
> applications in the first round of grant awards for 2015/16.
>
> The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) confirmed the total of
> £377,000 for the Community Radio Fund for 2015. The amount awarded in this
> first round of grants was £160,782, which leaves £216,218 for the second
> round of funding later this year.
>
> In summary, at the meeting:
>
>    - 42 applications for grants were considered
>    - The total amount of funding requested in these applications was
>    £822,034
>    - 12 applicants were awarded grants which totalled £160,782
>    - 30 applicants were not awarded a grant
>
> The average grant in this round was £13,398; the size of award ranged from
> £4,500 to £21,150. A table setting out the awards is below:
>
>    - *Beverley FM*; Beverley; East Yorkshire; Specialist Funding
>    Application Trainer - £4,500
>    - *BRFM*; Isle of Sheppey; Business & Development Officer - £5,500
>    - *CamGlen Radio*; Cambuslang & Rutherglen; Project Worker and
>    Business Development Manager - £19,753
>    - *Deveron FM*; Banff; Sales Person / Fund-raiser - £14,540
>    - *Gaydio*; Manchester; Digital Manager for an online advertising
>    project involving a number of stations around the UK - £21,150
>    - *Insanity Radio*; Egham, Surrey; Media and Development Officer -
>    £15,702
>    - *IÚR-fm*; Newry; Sustainability Officer - £16,000
>    - *Moorlands Radio*; Biddulph; Station Fund-raising Co-ordinator -
>    £8,153
>    - *Pure Radio 107.8*; Stockport; Training and Development Co-ordinator
>    - £16,560
>    - *Radio Teesdale*; Teesside; Business Development Manager (salary
>    contribution) - £15,000
>
> Applications for the second round of funding in 2015/16 will be invited on *Wednesday
> 14 October* with a closing date of *5pm on Wednesday 11 November 2015*.
> The Panel will meet to make decisions on these applications in January 2016.
>
> Source
> <http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/radio/community-radio-fund/grants-1516-round1>
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