<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sounds good Phil, how do you feel about going for funding on a UK basis and as best as we can on our terms?<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 18 May 2010, at 14:46, Phil Korbel wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi all<br><br>I, like many was a tad cynical about the whole 'Big Society' thingummy - especially it was said to have died a death on the canvassers' doorsteps. I didnt expect to see hide nor hair of it thereafter...but low and behold - here we have a 'vision paper' on that very subject from No 10 which includes this phrase - <br> <br>'The government will use funds from dormant bank accounts to set up a ‘Big Society Bank’, which will ‘provide new finance for neighbourhood groups, charities, social enterprises and other non-governmental bodies’.<br><br>A new source of revenue for community media - and Big Society [cough - sorry it still sticks in my throat] surely needs a place to talk? <br><br>Of course we'll be scrabbling for that pot along with all and sundry but hey...<br> <br>bests<br><br>Phil<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Phil Korbel<br>Director<br>0161 237 5454<br><br>Radio Regen is a community, media and urban regeneration charity <br>A company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales No. 3753832 <br> Registered office: 12 Hilton Street, Manchester, M1 1JF <br>Registered Charity No. 1077763 <br><a href="http://www.radioregen.org">www.radioregen.org</a><br><a href="http://www.communityradiotoolkit.net">www.communityradiotoolkit.net</a><br> <br><br> _______________________________________________<br><br>cma-l mailing list - <a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a><br><br>Community Media Association - <a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk">www.commedia.org.uk</a><br>_______________________________________________<br><br>To manage your mailing list subscription please visit:<br><a href="http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l">http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l</a><br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Marilyn Hyndman</div><div>Northern Visions/NvTv</div><div>23 Donegall Street</div><div>Belfast</div><div>BT1 2FF</div><div><br></div><div>Tel: 028 9024 5495 ext 207</div><div>Fax: 028 9032 6608</div><div><br></div><div>NvTv </div><div>Belfast Community Television</div><div>Free-to-Air on Channel 62/Freq:799.276MHz</div><div>Live on line: <a href="http://www.nvtv.co.uk">www.nvtv.co.uk</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.northernvisions.org">www.northernvisions.org</a></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>