[cma-l] Funding news - Power to Change awards grants to grow and develop community businesses (UK-wide)

[Nathan Silveston]

The biggest issue I see with a lot of these grants is that because most stations take commercials they are seen more as a business rather than a community enterprise. Silly really. Although I do tend to agree that if pressured most (not all) stations would struggle to show the benefit they provide. Despite them undoubtably providing a great service. To that end having recent survey data and some way to prove the benefit is necessary. If stations want to gain some of these other grants. Generally stations that run as more of a social group seem to have a better time gaining funding due I would imagine to them having a more visable presence in the community.

Maybe all stations should start running community Internet cafe's then they can get grants easier..

Sent from my iPhone

On 2 Aug 2016, at 16:00, Pippa <pippa at curlyradio.com<mailto:pippa at curlyradio.com>> wrote:

I do hope the CMA will challenge Power to Change over their stance on Community Radio.  They are plain wrong when they say, and I quote from their own website:

‘hard to demonstrate they are locally rooted, as they cover a broad geographical area like a whole city, rather than a neighbourhood. Applications from community media organisations have often struggled to provide strong evidence of how they benefit the wider community’.

What utter tripe.  If I wasn’t busy getting a station ready to launch, I would take them on.  I wonder if there is someone from Global on their board.

Pippa

Philippa Sawyer
Wycombe Community Radio CIC
@wycombesound
07973 710963



Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10

From: CMA-L<mailto:cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 12:58 PM
To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk<mailto:cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
Subject: [cma-l] Funding news - Power to Change awards grants to grow and develop community businesses (UK-wide)

The second window for applications to the £10 million Community Business Fund is open until 31 August. There will also be an application window open in October. If you are a community business that needs funding for a business development project which will make your organisation more sustainable, then you should consider applying.

There will be other funding programmes going live in the course of 2016 that will be publicised through their website and newsletter.

Last year, £8 million of grant funding was awarded through the Initial Grants Programme.

http://www.thepowertochange.org.uk/funding/grants/

\\

Community Media Association
--
http://www.commedia.org.uk/
http://twitter.com/community_media
https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation

Canstream Internet Radio & Video
http://www.canstream.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/canstream

Book your tickets now for the Community Media Conference 2016: http://bit.ly/2016CMAConf


_______________________________________________

Reply - cma-l at commedia.org.uk<mailto:cma-l at commedia.org.uk>

The cma-l mailing list is a members' service provided by the Community Media Association - http://www.commedia.org.uk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/community_media
http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation
Canstream Internet Radio & Video: http://www.canstream.co.uk/
_______________________________________________

Mailing list guidelines: http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/
_______________________________________________

To unsubscribe or manage your CMA-L mailing list subscription please visit:
http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/pipermail/cma-l/attachments/20160802/dc3977fb/attachment.html>