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

Tue Aug 2 17:59:44 BST 2016

Hi Bill and all

By way of example, Sheffield Live was knocked back at outline application
stage (which gives minimal opportunity to make the case), with the
following reasons given:

"Locally Rooted - Your application did not evidence that the project has a
clearly defined local geographical area of focus (for example: in urban
locations this could be a neighbourhood, ward or section of a city; in
rural locations this could be a village or collection of villages). Broad
Community Impact - Your application did not demonstrate how your project
would positively benefit a range of people within your community in
addition to the specific community of interest your organisation serves."

This is consistent with that which is stated in the guidelines. I wonder if
this is a template response to community media proposals. Has anyone
received similar, or different?

On the first point, the guidelines indicate that PtC definition of
'community' is both geographical and small scale. Unless they are prepared
to reconsider this, it will exclude many community media that would
reasonably consider themselves 'locally rooted' but cover too large an area
to meet the narrow PtC definition. On the second point we can not find any
logical basis for the conclusion reached.

I suggest a robust letter of concern from the CMA addressed to the new DCMS
Secretary of State, cc'd to the Big Lottery Chief Exec and the head of PtC.

Best wishes

Steve

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Bill Best <bill.best at commedia.org.uk> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> ‘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
>>
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>>
>> Philippa Sawyer
>>
>> Wycombe Community Radio CIC
>>
>> @wycombesound
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>> 07973 710963
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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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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