[cma-l] Community Radio Fund & the CMA

Fri May 13 13:06:47 BST 2016

The CMA have been receiving funding annually from DCMS for many years.

It was £20k in 2012, £19K in 2013, £19K in 2014 and £19K in 2015 and this
year I believe was £19k again to go into the central core costs of the CMA.
I'm sure Bill or Cathy can confirm this - but It is all published in the
accounts.

Phil

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:28 AM, David Sharp <
dave.sharp at academyfmfolkestone.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I agree that regular funding for the CMA would be a major benefit.
>
> I assume the CMA has to remain impartial of Ofcom / DCMS etc. If they were
> taking an important part of their funding from the latter, this could call
> into question any such impartiality.
>
> I'm not questioning their ability to actually be impartial, but how it
> could open them up to such criticism. However, despite this I would
> probably vote for such an idea personally.
>
> Dave 'completely unbiased coverage of all my major donor's events' Sharp
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> *From:* cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk <
> cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk> on behalf of Ian Hickling <
> transplanfm at hotmail.com>
> *Sent:* 13 May 2016 11:05
> *To:* The Community Media Association Discussion List
> *Subject:* [cma-l] Community Radio Fund & the CMA
>
> 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!
>
> Ian Hickling
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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
> >
> > KCR broadcasts across Moray and beyond on 107.7FM
> > and to the world on the internet at http://kcr.fm
> >
> > KCR is the operating name of Keith Community Radio Ltd.
> > Registered in Scotland: No SC 173805
> > Registered Office: 59a Land Street, Keith, Banffshire, AB55 5AN
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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