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

Wed Aug 3 16:15:27 BST 2016

We had a similar knock back in June:

“Broad community impact – Your application did not demonstrate how your project would positively benefit a range of people within your community. However, you did provide strong evidence in relation to Locally rooted, Accountable to the local community and Trading for the benefit of the local community.”

I won’t share it here, but our section for broad community impact was pretty full on, detailing what we do, how many people we’ve reached, worked with, trained in the 30 years we’ve been around.  Discussing our dissemination local information and highlighting social, public services, health advice, volunteering, you name it. 

I’m not sure what more we could have done to please them.  After reading we’re not alone in this, perhaps they just don’t like community radio after all. 

Martyn

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It great that Sheffield Live have shared their experiences with us.  If we want the CMA to take this further we need other stations to share their experiences.  Either on the forum or in confidence to the CMA office.

Out of interest is PtC covered by the FoI Act?  If so, is it worth putting in a carefully worded question to try and find out how many stations have applied?

Richard

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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 <mailto: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 <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

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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.

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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