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

[Bill Best]

Thank you for this Pippa.

We will take this up with Power to Change - however they are giving
applicants good advice as to how to best fine-tune their proposal.

The Power to Change has the right to assess applications on criteria of
their own choosing - and we do not know anything about the quality of
proposals submitted so far.

The Power to Change advise that the applications that they have received
from community media projects to date have not evidenced how the wider
community benefits from the project - this is useful advice that applicants
need to bear in mind when applying to Power to Change.

The Community Business Fund guidelines for applicants are available online
here:

http://www.thepowertochange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Community-Business-Fund-applicant-guidance-Round-2.pdf

Best regards for now

Bill
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On 2 August 2016 at 15:51, Pippa <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:
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> ‘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’.
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> 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.
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> *Subject: *[cma-l] Funding news - Power to Change awards grants to grow
> and develop community businesses (UK-wide)
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> 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.
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> There will be other funding programmes going live in the course of 2016
> that will be publicised through their website and newsletter.
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> Last year, £8 million of grant funding was awarded through the Initial
> Grants Programme.
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> http://www.thepowertochange.org.uk/funding/grants/
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