[cma-l] From Dom Chambers, Somer Valley FM

Fri Oct 23 11:59:49 BST 2015

Good morning all,

I’d like to publicly thank Dom for leading the CMA with such verve over the past 2 years.  I first met him at an event in Southampton and was instantly struck by his energy, enthusiasm and vision for our sector.  This led directly to my standing for Council, alongside some very talented and experienced colleagues.   Dom has worked tirelessly to forge new partnerships, he’s travelled the length and breadth of the country visiting member stations, and his work on the internal workings of the CMA leave us in a much stronger position.  Above all, working with Dom has been great fun.  He’ll be a great asset to any organisations he works with in the future.

The CMA is in safe hands with Danny Lawrence BEM as interim Chair and Bill Best at HQ.   There will be elections in due course and I look forward to working with my Council colleagues to develop new ideas and initiatives.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Pippa

Philippa Sawyer
Director, Wycombe Community Radio CIC
@wycombesound   @curlyradio

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Subject: [cma-l] From Dom Chambers, Somer Valley FM

To CMA members,

This is to let you know that yesterday I stepped down as chair of the CMA. 

It has been an extraordinarily rewarding and life changing experience working with the CMA. I have met amazing people making a fantastic difference through community media. We are a vibrant and growing phenomenon that is all the richer for its grass roots base. The media establishment is trying to work out what it is all about. As it juggles attitudes ranging from admiration to outright horror I strongly sense that appetites across all arenas, the wider public to governing circles, are growing for our positive force for social change or media with ‘good stuff’ as I like to put it. As society tries to make sense of us and we build our presence in the media landscape there has never been a greater need for the CMA. We must all help it to grow and I wish my colleagues on Council well with their work leading on achieving this. I’d like to make special mention of Bill Best whose dedication and support of our members is exemplary. Without Bill there wouldn’t be a CMA. Support him to support us as we all go about the vital business of delivering community media.

Visiting and talking with our members has been the most rewarding part of my work with the CMA. It is pretty obvious but those conversations confirm that funding is the principal challenge for our sector. For some time I have been increasingly focussed on finding funding solutions. This work has now reached the point where I need to give more time to realising the ambition of building a dedicated foundation charity. That is why I need to now step away from the chairs role. I think there is much to be learned from the Australian model of community radio where the representative organisation works in close collaboration with an enabling charity. That work will mean that I will always value and support the CMA from whatever platforms my work takes me to.

>From Glasgow to Glastonbury the conversations have been deeply stimulating but they are not done with. My appetite for learning about and sharing the experience of people right across community media remains unstinted. May there be many more. If you ever chance upon that remarkable pocket of England that lies between Bath and Wells known as the Somer Valley then do pop in. I’ll get the kettle on and conversation will flow.

Best wishes

Dom

Dom Chambers
Station Manager/Sales

Somer Valley FM 97.5 

Award winning radio for Local News, Sports & Great Music!

Telephone: 01761 568 004 / 01761 411755 (Ext: 150)
Mobile: 07802 457 396
Email 1: manager at somervalleyfm.co.uk
Email 2: sales at somervalleyfm.co.uk
Personal Twitter: @TheDomChambers
Web: www.somervalleyfm.co.uk

Somer Valley Community Radio Ltd, St. Chads Avenue, Midsomer Norton, Somerset, BA3 2HG

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