[cma-l] Community Radio Fund & the CMA

Fri May 13 11:05:50 BST 2016

Maybe I've missed something here -  but are we proposing asking the DCMS to give £25-30k to the CMA annually?I honestly don't think there's a hope in hell of that ever happening - but I'd be delighted to be proved wrong!

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> To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
> From: eddie at kcr.fm
> Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 00:57:26 +0100
> Subject: Re: [cma-l] feedback - Community Radio Fund & the CMA
> 
> I'd certainly support a motion along these lines.....
> 
> Eddie
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> On 11/05/16 14:02, Canalside's The Thread wrote:
> > Dear All
> >
> > I am just interested in peoples feedback on this one. As you are aware I
> > have been banging on about this for quite a while now and with current
> > too-ings and fro-ings I think the time is right to pitch it again.
> >
> > We all know through our own experiences that one of the biggest problems we
> > all face is the constant plate spinning. Obviously the running and chasing
> > around for funding takes up about 5 wobbly canes, and all the other plates
> > spin when we can get to them. Some as we know do fall off.
> >
> > We have each come to learn how to deal with this and 'manage' ..... whether
> > 'managing' is what we are meant to be doing I don't know ?  but we won't
> > trawl over the age old arguments again.
> >
> > Cutting to the chase, I don't believe the CMA (our representative body)
> > should have to operate in this manner ..... it doesn't say a lot for us, nor
> > does it help any of us if the CMA cannot represent us properly because they
> > to are also spinning plates.
> > We at least each have a Broadcasting platform to play around with, they (the
> > CMA)   do have canstreem, but that in itself is time consuming and doesn't
> > leave a lot of time for the admin and the representation.
> >
> > I hope I am not speaking out of turn (Bill / Martin et al) but I believe the
> > Community Radio Fund should automatically every year donate £25,000/£30,000
> > to the CMA.
> > I believe we would all benefit from it as the CMA would then be doing what
> > it is meant to be doing as opposed to learning the craft of plate spinning.
> > I suggest they leave that to us.
> >
> > Over the past few months I have been in liaison with David Rutley our Local
> > MP and Ed Vaizey to get feedback from them and whether it could be done.
> >
> > Obviously the questions are :-    can we have a mandate from members please
> > to officially put this forward and can I/we get authority from the
> > DCMS/Ofcom that this could be made possible.
> >
> > Thoughts ?
> >
> > This of course prevents us from going round in circles, or dare I say going
> > backwards if people cancel membership because they feel they aren’t being
> > represented. I'm not one for Chinese whispers behind closed doors as you
> > know, and this should an open discussion. Do it now and then either throw it
> > through the window at Conference or officially stamp it.
> > I don't particularly fancy still discussing it in ten years time which tends
> > to the norm in this game of Community Radio.
> >
> > The Right Honourable Sir Nicholas H Dumpty / Chairman and current Plate
> > spinning World record holder
> >
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