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</head><body><p>The CMA has no other option than to launch an all out campaign to promote Community Media locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. If e do not stand up and fight now our sector will be setback for a decade. We have mountains of positive outcomes to share and a political opportunity to push some proactive policies and mechanisms that can support our sector. </p><p>I fully support the remarks made by Steve Buckley, we have to open up these funding streams for our sector and I urge the CMA Board to put together a major campaign.  <br></p><p>Thanks</p><p><br></p><blockquote type="cite"><div id="ox-e22966e3e6" style="word-wrap: break-word; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">On 13 May 2016 at 15:55 Alan Coote <alan.coote@5digital.co.uk> wrote:<br><br><div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;">There can be little argument that every station should receive some money from governement when local TV and now local papers are being heavily subsidised.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;">For example; Allocating £5,000 to each station would allow it to cover broadcast and much of the fixed running costs. Stations registered with the CMA could then afford to pay a few percent to keep it supporting the sector.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;">A couple of ‘intended' consequences is that the government would recover some of the funds back in Ofcom fees and tax. The big plus is that the £5,000 would be a benefit-in-kind and therefore permit station’s to increase their own revenue by another £5,000.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;">A £10,000 net benefit and surely a virtuous circle!       </span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><div id=""><!-- [if !mso]> --><!-- <![endif] --><!-- [if gte mso 9]> --> <!-- <![endif] --><!-- [if gte mso 9]> --> <!-- <![endif] --><!-- [if gte mso 9]> --> <!-- <![endif] --><!-- [if gte mso 10]> --><!-- <![endif] --><p class="ox-e22966e3e6-MsoNormal"><span size="3" style="font-size: medium;">Kind Regards</span></p><p class="ox-e22966e3e6-MsoNormal"><span size="3" style="font-size: medium;">Alan</span></p><p class="ox-e22966e3e6-MsoNormal"><br></p><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"><div>Dear all<br><br></div>It is disappointing to hear DCMS stopped supporting CMA after over 10 years of funding across two different governments. It is not an unreasonable demand that this funding should be reinstated.<br><br></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Meanwhile the CMA and its members should surely be doing more to press for an increase in public funding for the sector as a whole. With the DCMS announcement yesterday that the government plans to establish a £20m contestable public service content fund, and the BBC's announcement that they will fund the costs of 150 journalists in private local commercial newspapers at a cost of around £8m per annum, why not also replace the current Community Radio Fund with a better mechanism to fund public service content and local news carried by community radio stations?<br><br>Culture Secretary statement on the BBC reforms<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/culture-secretary-statement-on-the-bbc-reforms" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/culture-secretary-statement-on-the-bbc-reforms</a><br><br>BBC and the News Media Association announce ground-breaking plans for new partnership<br><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/bbc-nma-partnership" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/bbc-nma-partnership</a><br></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; color: black; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-top: #b5c4df 1pt solid; border-right: none; padding: 3pt 0in 0in 0in;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">From: </span> <<a href="mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk">cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>> on behalf of "<a href="mailto:bill.best@commedia.org.uk">bill.best@commedia.org.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:bill.best@commedia.org.uk">bill.best@commedia.org.uk</a>><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reply-To: </span> "<a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Date: </span> Friday, 13 May 2016 at 13:16<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">To: </span> "<a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span> Re: [cma-l] Community Radio Fund & the CMA<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Afternoon</div><div><br></div>The CMA did not receive any funding from DCMS for 2015/2016 and looking forward there is currently no long-term funding agreement in place.<div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div>-- </div><div class="ox-e22966e3e6-gmail_extra"><div><div class="ox-e22966e3e6-gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Operations Manager<br></div>Community Media Association<br></div><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">http://www.commedia.org.uk</a><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/community_media" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/community_media</a><br></div><div><a href="https://facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation" target="_blank">https://facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br><br></div><div> <br></div>Canstream Internet Radio<br></div><a href="http://www.canstream.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.canstream.co.uk</a><br></div><a href="https://twitter.com/canstream" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/canstream</a></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><strong><span size="4" color="#0000ff" style="color: #0000ff; font-size: large;">Book your tickets now for the Community Media Conference 2016: <a href="http://bit.ly/2016CMAConf" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2016CMAConf</a></span></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="ox-e22966e3e6-gmail_quote">On 13 May 2016 at 13:06, Phil Gibbons <<a href="mailto:philjgibbons@gmail.com" target="_blank">philjgibbons@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote><div dir="ltr"><div>The CMA have been receiving funding annually from DCMS for many years.<br><br>It was £20k in 2012, £19K in 2013, £19K in 2014 and £19K in 2015 and this year I believe was £19k again to go into the central core costs of the CMA.<br>I'm sure Bill or Cathy can confirm this - but It is all published in the accounts.<span class=""><span color="#888888" style="color: #888888;"><br><br></span></span></div><span class=""><span color="#888888" style="color: #888888;">Phil<br></span></span></div><div class=""><div class="ox-e22966e3e6-h5"><div class="ox-e22966e3e6-gmail_extra"><br><div class="ox-e22966e3e6-gmail_quote">On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:28 AM, David Sharp <<a href="mailto:dave.sharp@academyfmfolkestone.com" target="_blank">dave.sharp@academyfmfolkestone.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; margin: 0px;">Hi<div><br></div><div>I agree that regular funding for the CMA would be a major benefit.</div><div><br></div><div>I assume the CMA has to remain impartial of Ofcom / DCMS etc. If they were taking an important part of their funding from the latter, this could call into question any such impartiality.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not questioning their ability to actually be impartial, but how it could open them up to such criticism. However, despite this I would probably vote for such an idea personally.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave<span size="2" style="font-size: small;"> 'completely unbiased coverage of all my major donor's events'</span> Sharp</div><div><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Tahoma;">--</span></div><div><div><div><div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><span size="2" style="font-size: small;"><strong><em>Dave Sharp</em></strong></span></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><span size="2" style="font-size: small;"><em>Station Manager</em></span></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><span size="2" style="font-size: small;"><em>105.9 Academy FM Folkestone</em></span></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><em style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Mobile: 07811 407635</em></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><em><span size="2" face="times new roman" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: small;">Folkestone office: 01303 721059 (Ext.4)</span></em></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><em><span size="2" face="times new roman" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: small;">Internal Folkestone Academy: x2499</span></em></div><div><a style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;" href="mailto:dave.sharp@academyfmfolkestone.com" target="_blank"><em>dave.sharp@academyfmfolkestone.com</em></a></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"> </div></div></div></div><br><div style="color: #282828;"><hr style="display: inline-block; width: 98%;"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" color="#000000" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>From:</strong> <a href="mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a> <<a href="mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>> on behalf of Ian Hickling <<a href="mailto:transplanfm@hotmail.com" target="_blank">transplanfm@hotmail.com</a>><br><strong>Sent:</strong> 13 May 2016 11:05<br><strong>To:</strong> The Community Media Association Discussion List<br><strong>Subject:</strong> [cma-l] Community Radio Fund & the CMA</span><div> </div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><span color="#000000" style="color: #000000;">Maybe I've missed something here -  but are we proposing asking the DCMS to give £25-30k to the CMA annually?<br></span>I honestly don't think there's a hope in hell of that ever happening - but I'd be delighted to be proved wrong!<br><br><div style="line-height: 21.3px; color: #444444; background-color: #ffffff;"><p style="line-height: 22.72px;"><span size="3" face="Calibri" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 22.72px;"><span style="line-height: 22.72px; color: #222222;">Ian Hickling</span></span></span></p></div><p style="line-height: 22.72px; color: #444444; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="line-height: 22.72px; color: #222222;"><span size="3" face="Calibri" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">Partner</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; line-height: 22.72px;"><br style="line-height: 22.72px;"><br style="line-height: 22.72px;"><a style="line-height: 22.72px; color: blue;" href="http://www.transplanuk.com/" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 22.72px; color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;"><img style="line-height: 22.72px; border: none;" src="http://www.transplanuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/transplan_UK_weblogo_190x60.png" alt="" border="0"></span></a></span></p><div style="line-height: 21.3px; color: #444444; background-color: #ffffff;"><p style="line-height: 22.72px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span size="2" style="font-size: small;"><em style="line-height: 22.72px;"><span style="line-height: 22.72px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #222222;">Office: 016 3557 8435  (07h to 22h GTS)</span></em></span></p></div><div style="line-height: 21.3px; color: #444444; background-color: #ffffff;"><p style="line-height: 22.72px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span size="2" style="font-size: small;"><em style="line-height: 22.72px;"><span style="line-height: 22.72px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #222222;">Car: 075 3098 0115 (only responds when driving)</span></em></span></p></div><div style="line-height: 21.3px; color: #444444; background-color: #ffffff;"><p style="line-height: 22.72px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><em style="line-height: 22.72px;"><span style="line-height: 22.72px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #222222;"><span size="2" style="font-size: small;">6 Horn Street, Compton, NEWBURY, RG20 6QS</span></span></em></p></div><br><br><div>> To: <a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a><br> > From: <a href="mailto:eddie@kcr.fm" target="_blank">eddie@kcr.fm</a><br> > Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 00:57:26 +0100<br> > Subject: Re: [cma-l] feedback - Community Radio Fund & the CMA<br> > <br> > I'd certainly support a motion along these lines.....<br> > <br> > Eddie<br> > <br> > KCR broadcasts across Moray and beyond on 107.7FM<br> > and to the world on the internet at <a href="http://kcr.fm" target="_blank">http://kcr.fm</a><br> > <br> > KCR is the operating name of Keith Community Radio Ltd.<br> > Registered in Scotland: No SC 173805<br> > Registered Office: 59a Land Street, Keith, Banffshire, AB55 5AN<br> > <br> > <br> > <br> > On 11/05/16 14:02, Canalside's The Thread wrote:<br> > > Dear All<br> > ><br> > > I am just interested in peoples feedback on this one. As you are aware I<br> > > have been banging on about this for quite a while now and with current<br> > > too-ings and fro-ings I think the time is right to pitch it again.<br> > ><br> > > We all know through our own experiences that one of the biggest problems we<br> > > all face is the constant plate spinning. Obviously the running and chasing<br> > > around for funding takes up about 5 wobbly canes, and all the other plates<br> > > spin when we can get to them. Some as we know do fall off.<br> > ><br> > > We have each come to learn how to deal with this and 'manage' ..... whether<br> > > 'managing' is what we are meant to be doing I don't know ? but we won't<br> > > trawl over the age old arguments again.<br> > ><br> > > Cutting to the chase, I don't believe the CMA (our representative body)<br> > > should have to operate in this manner ..... it doesn't say a lot for us, nor<br> > > does it help any of us if the CMA cannot represent us properly because they<br> > > to are also spinning plates.<br> > > We at least each have a Broadcasting platform to play around with, they (the<br> > > CMA) do have canstreem, but that in itself is time consuming and doesn't<br> > > leave a lot of time for the admin and the representation.<br> > ><br> > > I hope I am not speaking out of turn (Bill / Martin et al) but I believe the<br> > > Community Radio Fund should automatically every year donate £25,000/£30,000<br> > > to the CMA.<br> > > I believe we would all benefit from it as the CMA would then be doing what<br> > > it is meant to be doing as opposed to learning the craft of plate spinning.<br> > > I suggest they leave that to us.<br> > ><br> > > Over the past few months I have been in liaison with David Rutley our Local<br> > > MP and Ed Vaizey to get feedback from them and whether it could be done.<br> > ><br> > > Obviously the questions are :- can we have a mandate from members please<br> > > to officially put this forward and can I/we get authority from the<br> > > DCMS/Ofcom that this could be made possible.<br> > ><br> > > Thoughts ?<br> > ><br> > > This of course prevents us from going round in circles, or dare I say going<br> > > backwards if people cancel membership because they feel they aren’t being<br> > > represented. I'm not one for Chinese whispers behind closed doors as you<br> > > know, and this should an open discussion. Do it now and then either throw it<br> > > through the window at Conference or officially stamp it.<br> > > I don't particularly fancy still discussing it in ten years time which tends<br> > > to the norm in this game of Community Radio.<br> > ><br> > > The Right Honourable Sir Nicholas H Dumpty / Chairman and current Plate<br> > > spinning World record holder<br> > ><br> > > _______________________________________________<br> > ><br> > > Reply - <a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a><br> > ><br> > > The cma-l mailing list is a members' service provided by the Community Media Association - <a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">http://www.commedia.org.uk</a><br> > > Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/community_media" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/community_media</a><br> > > <a href="http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br> > > Canstream Internet Radio & Video: <a href="http://www.canstream.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.canstream.co.uk/</a><br> > > _______________________________________________<br> > ><br> > > Mailing list guidelines: <a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/" target="_blank">http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/</a><br> > > _______________________________________________<br> > ><br> > > To unsubscribe or manage your CMA-L mailing list subscription please visit:<br> > > <a href="http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l" target="_blank">http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l</a><br> > ><br> > ><br> > <br> > <br> > _______________________________________________<br> > <br> > Reply - 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