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Sorry, I was replying from my phone in frustration at reading that
the best way forward was to give everyone the same - as been said a
number of times on the list, it's a bad idea.<br>
<br>
Here's a suggestion to everyone who likes the idea of sharing out
the whole fund and making good use of the £2,000 they receive.
Spend around the 2hrs or so that it takes to complete an Awards for
All Lottery application, and if your project is sound, you're very
likely to receive £10,000 - five years worth of evenly shared out
Community Radio Fund awards.<br>
<br>
The key to all of this is outcomes - if you are delivering 'Social
Gain', you are ticking 'outcome' boxes for most of the major
funders. That's where the real, and sustainable money is (i.e. 3-5
year funding arrangements).<br>
<br>
Murray<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 08/03/2011 20:03, Associated Broadcast Consultants wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTink+J_a7LxtDTu1d4fD7Mp=xBQmxieW=Fb=Equn@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Seems like a great idea to me. Although some people
think it's a "paltry sum", it would take our advertising a team a
long time pounding the streets to raise £2k. That amount could go
a long way to paying some of the fixed costs.
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<div>Regarding the "never happen" comment, the same could arguably
said about creating a larger fund!<br>
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<div>Glyn<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 8 March 2011 16:33, Murray Dawson
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<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB">I think we'll
have to agree to differ on this one Nick/Trevor. <br>
It'll never happen.<br>
<br>
Let's move on and concentrate on creating a larger fund.<br>
<br>
Murray<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy"
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">Looks like one or
two are starting to
drift round to my way of thinking
?? quite interesting really. Get
your
2K and THEN go back to your local MP and
ask the question ‘’is
someone taking the Michael
??’’ he might take you
seriously …………….. however, with some
getting
£30,000 and others getting sod-all our
whole ethos and the very basis of us
pleading poverty all the time goes out
the window.</span></font></p>
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face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy"
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">Have some faith in
your whinging Uncle
Nick ………….. at least try it for a couple
of years …………….
Anything is better than the shambles
we’ve got at the moment.</span></font></p>
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face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy"
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">The pot would grow
of course by at least £100,000
coz’ you wouldn’t need a grants panel
! just a monkey with a
cheque book …….. monkeeeee magic !</span></font></p>
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face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy"
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">Regards</span></font></p>
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face="Arial" size="2"><span
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Arial; color: navy;">Nick</span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On
Behalf Of </span></b>Ian Hickling<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
05 March 2011 16:34<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
cma-l<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
[cma-l] Weekend Digest</span></font><span
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font-family: Tahoma;"> <br>
Whilst I appreciate Trevor's desperation
to get things done, sharing a paltry
sum equally is no solution.<br>
The only sensible way to allocate a
given sum is as at present - by
application
stressing need.<br>
But - as he says - we do need vastly
more funding in addition to that
which is available if you look - and
fight - really hard.<br>
All the CR stations we deal with need to
enhance their transmission systems to
capture more listeners and thereby
attract more funding.<br>
That would require a lot of money but it
also needs Ofcom to clear every
single new transmission application.<br>
Ofcom has said it cannot even consider
any such applications at present because
it has over 200 new potential stations
to process and new broadcasters
have precedence over existing
licencees.<br>
That's another very real need that CMA
needs to address please.<br>
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<br>
Weekend Digest<br>
<br>
It's been a busy week, and I have some
comments to make. I must stress they are
my personal opinions, and do not reflect
the views of the Council, of which I
am an elected member.<br>
<br>
This week Nick said that he believed the
Community Radio Fund money should be
shared equally. Whilst it remains at
under £500K that gives each licensed
station about £2k. At my station it
means that our 100 volunteers can expect
a
cup of coffee occasionally. In any case
we give £850 to OfCom just to hold a
licence so the nett cost, after 20% VAT,
will be marginal.<br>
<br>
Importantly it means we can tell all our
listeners (is that an estimated 13
million) that we only receive £2K. I
think the BBC's 44 stations spent over
£600 million last year. So who gives
value for money? We should<br>
tell our listeners how we are treated.<br>
<br>
If everyone gets the same money there
will be no need for a committee to
decide
(I wonder what that costs in coffee and
biscuits?). It will certainly save
OfCom money.<br>
<br>
That anyone should judge whether a
licensed station is more worthy than
another
is not a valid argument. OfCom issued
the licence - so we are all worthy until
exposed as charlatans.<br>
<br>
Such a paltry sum can be turned into a
lever to make the government recognise
our value. We can provide services they
require - all they have to do is
recognise our existence.<br>
<br>
This raises a much wider problem. We are
all scrabbling around to find funders.
Many stations employ full-time
fundraisers, when it would be more
productive to
recognise the value of community media,
and to allow us to take over some of
the functions of local BBC, and to relax
the restrictive practices that
discourage entrepreneurship within our
sector.<br>
<br>
CMA should<br>
consider employing outside expertise,
and carefully chosen some of those could
also provide funding. Advertising
agencies, IT and equipment suppliers,
joint
licensing and many other options could
be considered.<br>
<br>
We have the opportunity to create a real
sense of national pride, to build
local communities, to train and support
local talent. We just need to be given
a modicum of support.<br>
<br>
Such financing can arise through
providing services. One significant
example is
that we should be the first suppliers to
the Central Office of Information. We
know we can provide services at a
competitive price and we have a deeper
reach
into society than any other media. <br>
<br>
I believe we should use the BSkyB
decision to further our aims and
aspirations.
A significant portion of the media is
now in the hands of one Australian and
his son. That helps my sense of national
pride, but importantly offers us all
an opportunity. We can provide local
news, and we<br>
can supply real information about the
mood of our people. Increasingly other
media are separated from the people.
Commercial radio agglomerates,
newspapers
and satellite stations are monopolistic.<br>
<br>
We are the only media in touch with real
people.<br>
<br>
I'll repeat these are my opinions - not
those of the Council.<br>
<br>
Trevor<br>
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