[cma-l] Community Radio Fund: award of grants for 2015/16 Round1

Tue Jul 7 19:40:02 BST 2015

I agree Phil 
. I know everyone worked hard, and still does 
. I wasn’t
knocking anyone, I was merely making a point. As for the DCMS in all of this
I don’t think they have ever known their backside from their elbow since it
all began. They started off on the wrong foot, and they’re still on it.

It’s quite simple 
.. if you are dumping the fund then you dump the
advertising rules    ALL OF EM’     if you ain’t, then fine, fiddle around
with things and do a mix and match. Instead they have had a complete
horlicks of a system.

I would argue that it is actually those who are ‘’dare I say’’   clueless
who are the ones who need the help 
. For that very reason.

It’s like when you apply for a grant 
. It is the project and the grant
itself that are the key issues 
 it isn’t a game of let’s see who succeeded
best at English at school 

.. does the project have merit, if it does fund
it and mix it up a bit. Instead of giving one group £350,000 give 350,000
groups a quid each. This has always been my philosophy and it remains that
philosophy.

If we are filling in 20 grant applications and getting a tickle £££ from one
of them and 19 go Bon Voyage I would argue we ain’t doing what we are meant
to be doing 
. We can’t teach youngsters Radio if we’re pen pushing all day
long.

We are not here to bid against each other either (re:- our Fund)    we are
not here to compete with Commercial Radio, we are not here to be hit with a
stick every-time Commercial Radio spits its dummy out, we are not here to
sound like Radio One or XFM 

.. we are Community Radio 
.. and regardless
what others have said contrary to my beliefs, yes we are a bit warts n all,
a bit rough at the edges, a bit Mickey Mouse. It isn’t a criticism it is
merely a statement of fact, and anyone who believes otherwise is completely
GaGa.

We are what we are and I for one am proud of what we are and what we do

..as for the fund you can’t go down with it, it beggars belief !     as
Stations come on-board, it goes down anyway because the cake gets smaller.

We never had a 7 tier wedding cake in the first place, more like a Victoria
Sandwich 
 that soon became a Battenberg and now we’re just on Cup Cakes 

possibly next year the fondant will have gone as well.

LOL

Wrighty / Nick           I’ve even forgotten who I am now

As for the funders 

 flop their wages in the pot and then just have one
chap / girl with a cheque book, divide 250 by £350,000 grand and hey presto

. It’s not difficult. When this project launched back in 2001 instead of
being called the Community Radio Bill it should have been called the ‘’let’s
making everything difficult and complicated bill’’

Ding Ding ‘’Round Two’’             Good Luck everyone

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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 Phil Gibbons
Sent: 07 July 2015 15:30
To: The Community Media Association Discussion List
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Community Radio Fund: award of grants for 2015/16
Round1

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   :-)

It’s a good job we can keep smiling and see the funny side, we’d go bonkers
without it.

You couldn’t write the script could you ?

Onwards and Backwards

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

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/gr
ants-1516-round1> 

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