<div dir="ltr"><b>Source:</b> <a href="http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2014-08-08/community-radio-station-scoops-accolade/">http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2014-08-08/community-radio-station-scoops-accolade/</a><br>
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<p>A community radio station in Luton is celebrating after receiving the highest honour awarded to voluntary organisations.</p>
<p><a href="http://diversefm.com/">Diverse FM</a> has been given <a href="https://www.gov.uk/queens-award-for-voluntary-service/overview">The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service</a> which is personally vetted by The Queen herself.</p>
<p>The station's Community Media and Training Projects have helped young
people from the town gain experience in broadcasting and develop wider
skills to help them enter the workplace.</p>
<p>Through partnerships with the Department for Work & Pensions it has successfully retrained more than a 1000 jobseekers.</p>
<p>The station was set up in 2000 to promote community cohesion and was granted a licence to broadcast full time in 2007.</p><p>\\<br></p><div>Community Media Association<br>-- <br><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.commedia.org.uk/</a><br>
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