Yes we had the same experience. Essentially we discovered that a community radio station could not be a charity unless it fulfilled one of a number of narrow categories . ie: if we decided to be a religious radio station then bingo, but we did not want to go that way.<div>
<br></div><div>Instead we went down the CIC route. It was "sold" to us as being equivalent to being a charity, but from a recent approach from Inland Revenue I think it might have some drawbacks compared to being a charity (they seem to treat us like any other ommercial Ltd company) - but I'm not an expert.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Glyn Roylance</div><div>GLOSS FM.org</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 February 2011 18:16, Office - ccr-fm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:office@ccr-fm.co.uk">office@ccr-fm.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Just a quick enquiry ……………….
Does anyone know how many Community Radio Stations in our
fraturnity/brotherhood are actually charities ?? I know that we looked into
it 7 years ago but the process was a complete nightmare. Also, in 2004 I
clearly remember that the Charities commision simply had NO category for radio …..
it was almost as if they didn’t understand it
>?>? I think the key to it and the crux of
the matter was that we were technically ‘’all over the place’’
in what we were providing ……… in otherwords, providing a lot,
but nothing specific ! almost ‘’a
jack of all trades but master of none’’</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Have any of you guys had a similar experience
? I seem to recall that there is a station on the south
coast as a charity ?? plus Regen (near to us) in South Manchester who do run Wythenshawe FM and ALL FM ………………
outside of that, I’m a bit clueless to be honest ……. Any ideas
?</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">What about Sheffield and of
course the CMA ?</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Many thanks</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Regards</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Nick</span></font></p>
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