[cma-l] Dom Chambers to host the Community Radio Awards

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The inaugural Community Radio Awards <http://www.communityradioawards.co.uk>
- taking place on the 10th September at Birmingham City University - are
excited to announce that they will be hosted by Dom Chambers.

The Awards will celebrate, champion and promote the amazing work of
community radio throughout the UK. With 235 nominations received for 16
categories organisers are pleased with how the awards are engaging
community broadcasters. Whilst entries continue to be evaluated judges have
already fed back on how impressed they are with the wide range of skills,
talent, and creativity across the sector.

Dom Chambers is well known as an advocate for the community broadcasting.
Dom, who served on the CMA council for five years, runs Somer Valley FM
<http://www.somervalleyfm.co.uk/> in Somerset. He presents the Third Sector
Show on inRadio
<http://www.commedia.org.uk/news/2016/06/inradio-third-sector-show/> and
chairs the Radio Academy's Affiliated Partners group. Dom says:

“I am delighted to be hosting the first community radio awards. This is not
about winners and losers but an opportunity to showcase the fantastic work
achieved on an hourly basis by community broadcasters in the UK. I first
encouraged Martin to develop his ideas with the support of the CMA over two
years ago so it is wonderful to see his efforts come to fruition. I very
much look forward to working with him on what I know will be a great
celebration.”


The Community Radio Awards evening welcomes everyone involved in the radio
industry and the third sector. Organisers expect that many people will come
straight from the Community Media Conference
<http://www.commedia.org.uk/news/2016/03/community-media-conference-16/>.
The evening will begin with a drinks reception sponsored by PPL and PRS for
Music. The formal awards will start at 7pm with a 10pm finish and an after
show party planned at a local bar. Tickets for the Awards are £20 - or only
£15 for those who are attending the Community Media Conference
<http://www.commedia.org.uk/news/2016/03/community-media-conference-16/>
earlier in the day. Tickets can be booked at http://goo.gl/dCSO6P . The
Community Media Conference has a particularly strong programme this year
and bookings can be made at http://bit.ly/2016CMAConf

The Chair and organiser of the Awards, Martin Steers says “I am really
looking forward to the ceremony and the culmination of years of work on the
awards. It's been wonderful to have received so many entries and to see so
much engagement from the sector in the first year of the awards. It's great
to have Dom come on board as our Master of Ceremonies and I look forward to
working with him on the night to bring a real sense of celebration and
accomplishment to all those present and to the sector as a whole.”

*Note to editors:*

The Community Radio Awards have been setup to celebrate community radio and
all the hard work and time that the volunteers involved in community radio
put into their stations, shows and communities.

The full list of categories is: Community Development Project of the Year,
Station of the Year, Female Presenter of the Year, Male Presenter of the
Year, Community Show of the Year, Live Event or Outside Broadcast of the
Yea, Entertainment Show of the Year, Speech & Journalism of the Year, Arts
& Creative Radio of the Year, Specialist Music Show of the Year, Sports
Show of the Year, Marketing & Station Sound of the Year, Volunteer of the
Year
Young Person of the Year (under 21), Technical Achievement of the Year,
Innovation Award of the Year

For more information:

*Web: *http://www.communityradioawards.co.uk
*Email:* Martin Steers - info at communityradioawards.co.uk
*Tel:* 07950 967111

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