[cma-l] Health Projects workshop at Community Media Conference

[Phil Korbel]

Excellent thinking as ever Dom.

Many thanks.

Looking forward to some great discussion on Saturday afternoon,

best wishes

Phil

Phil Korbel FRSA - Director, Radio Regen, charity no. 1077763 Company Ltd
by Guarantee Registered in England and Wales No 3753832.
www.communityradiotoolkit.net
www.connecttransmit.org.uk

Please note that I work at Radio Regen under 2 days a week so responses
might not be as quick as we'd like.  Many thanks.


On 8 September 2016 at 09:31, Dom Chambers <domchambers at somervalleyfm.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Phil,
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> This initiative sounds interesting and you can count on Somer Valley FM
> for support and involvement. Congratulations to Radio Regen for getting
> this important project funded.
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> The link between care and health provision and community radio is crucial
> to carrying positive health messages. It is, however, under exploited with
> the lack of strategic approach between the department of Health, and other
> leading health authorities, and community media. To my way of thinking a
> key legacy of your project could be to use the evidence of Health FM to
> mount a credible proposition to governing authorities that firms up
> collaboration between our sectors. In 2012/13 the CMA were commissioned by
> the Department of Health to deliver the Radio Nation project. This targeted
> certain ethnic groups, through community radio, to raise awareness of the
> Organ Donor Register scheme. I am working on an evidence report of this
> project which is looking very positive. This makes a good starting point to
> the generation of the report on the social value of community media that I
> referred to in my last post to The List under the heading of  ‘Creativity,
> Diversity, Wellbeing – what’s behind our conference theme.’
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> Much to think about here and I look forward to attending your workshop on
> at the conference on Saturday.
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> Best wishes,
>
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> Dom
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> *From:* cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk [mailto:
> cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] *On Behalf Of *Phil Korbel
> *Sent:* 07 September 2016 12:27
> *To:* CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
> *Subject:* [cma-l] Health Projects workshop at Community Media Conference
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>
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> Hi all
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> Radio Regen is running a workshop on Saturday afternoon in Brum, so I
> thought I'd let you know what we've got in mind - and maybe test the water
> a bit.
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> Together with ALLFM we're about to start our 'Health FM' project - funded
> by the Community Radio Fund.  In short, the project will enable more
> stations to deliver health projects.  We're convinced that community radio
> is a highly effective platform for health projects so we're going to see
> who's doing what in the field at the moment, why it works (or not) and give
> stations help to create their own projects.  Because we're nice like that,
> we will also be offering a little bit of funding along with the advice that
> we can offer  to some stations to participate (don't get too excited, it is
> only a little).
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> By 'health' we really do mean the whole range - public health, primary
> care, acute care, old age and mental health.
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> We want the workshops to be a chance for us to meet stations already doing
> this sort of work or those that might be interested in so doing. It's very
> much the start of the project (so we will not be handing out cash!) so we'd
> like to lay the foundations of an informal network of stations interested
> in the field.  We won't talk at you too much and we very much want to hear
> about your experiences and needs in taking this sort of work further.
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> I'd welcome your comments now - and if you have specific questions feel
> free to email me directly.  Also - if you like the sound of the project but
> have the temerity to miss the conference - drop me a line and we can
> arrange a chat.
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> See you on Saturday,
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> best wishes
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> Phil
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> Phil Korbel FRSA - Director, Radio Regen, charity no. 1077763 Company Ltd
> by Guarantee Registered in England and Wales No 3753832.
>
> www.communityradiotoolkit.net
>
> www.connecttransmit.org.uk
>
>
>
> Please note that I work at Radio Regen under 2 days a week so responses
> might not be as quick as we'd like.  Many thanks.
>
>
>
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