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

Tue Aug 2 20:32:08 BST 2016

Thank you Steve.

Will will do this.

Best regards

Bill
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On 2 August 2016 at 17:59, Steve Buckley <steve at cmso.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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>> Operations Manager
>> Community Media Association
>> http://www.commedia.org.uk
>> https://twitter.com/community_media
>> https://facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation
>>
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>>
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>> 2016: http://bit.ly/2016CMAConf <http://bit.ly/2016CMAConf>*
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Philippa Sawyer
>>>
>>> Wycombe Community Radio CIC
>>>
>>> @wycombesound
>>>
>>> 07973 710963
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> *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/
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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