<div dir="ltr">Thank you Steve.<div><br></div><div>Will will do this.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div>-- </div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><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></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></span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><b><font size="4" color="#0000ff">Book your tickets now for the Community Media Conference 2016: <a href="http://bit.ly/2016CMAConf" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2016CMAConf</a></font></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 August 2016 at 17:59, Steve Buckley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@cmso.co.uk" target="_blank">steve@cmso.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Bill and all<br><br></div>By way of example, Sheffield Live was knocked back at outline application stage (which gives minimal opportunity to make the case), with the following reasons given:<br><br>"Locally Rooted - Your application did not evidence that the project has a
clearly defined local geographical area of focus (for example: in urban
locations this could be a neighbourhood, ward or section of a city; in
rural locations this could be a village or collection of villages).
Broad Community Impact - Your application did not demonstrate how your
project would positively benefit a range of people within your community
in addition to the specific community of interest your organisation
serves."<br><br></div>This is consistent with that which is stated in the guidelines. I wonder if this is a template response to community media proposals. Has anyone received similar, or different?<br><br></div>On the first point, the guidelines indicate that PtC definition of 'community' is both geographical and small scale. Unless they are prepared to reconsider this, it will exclude many community media that would reasonably consider themselves 'locally rooted' but cover too large an area to meet the narrow PtC definition. On the second point we can not find any logical basis for the conclusion reached.<br><br></div>I suggest a robust letter of concern from the CMA addressed to the new DCMS Secretary of State, cc'd to the Big Lottery Chief Exec and the head of PtC. <br></div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Steve<br><br><br><br></div></font></span></div></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 5:27 PM, Bill Best <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill.best@commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">bill.best@commedia.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thank you for this Pippa.<div><br></div><div>We will take this up with Power to Change - however they are giving applicants good advice as to how to best fine-tune their proposal.</div><div><br></div><div>The Power to Change has the right to assess applications on criteria of their own choosing - and we do not know anything about the quality of proposals submitted so far.</div><div><br></div><div>The Power to Change advise that the applications that they have received from community media projects to date have not evidenced how the wider community benefits from the project - this is useful advice that applicants need to bear in mind when applying to Power to Change.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">The Community Business Fund guidelines for applicants are available online here:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://www.thepowertochange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Community-Business-Fund-applicant-guidance-Round-2.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.thepowertochange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Community-Business-Fund-applicant-guidance-Round-2.pdf</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best regards for now</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Bill</div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><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></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></span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><b><font color="#0000ff" size="4">Book your tickets now for the Community Media Conference 2016: <a href="http://bit.ly/2016CMAConf" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2016CMAConf</a></font></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 August 2016 at 15:51, Pippa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pippa@curlyradio.com" target="_blank">pippa@curlyradio.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p><span lang="EN-GB">I do hope the CMA will challenge Power to Change over their stance on Community Radio. They are plain wrong when they say, and I quote from their own website:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">‘</span>hard to demonstrate they are locally rooted, as they cover a broad geographical area like a whole city, rather than a neighbourhood. Applications from community media organisations have often struggled to provide strong evidence of how they<span lang="EN-GB"> benefit the wider community’.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">What utter tripe. If I wasn’t busy getting a station ready to launch, I would take them on. I wonder if there is someone from Global on their board. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">Pippa<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">Philippa Sawyer<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">Wycombe Community Radio CIC<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">@wycombesound<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">07973 710963<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p><p>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986" target="_blank">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border-right-width:initial;border-bottom-width:initial;border-left-width:initial;border-style:solid none none;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:initial;border-top-width:1pt;border-top-color:rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p style="border:none;padding:0in"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">CMA-L</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, August 2, 2016 12:58 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[cma-l] Funding news - Power to Change awards grants to grow and develop community businesses (UK-wide)</p></div><div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">The second window for applications to the £10 million Community Business Fund is open until 31 August. There will also be an application window open in October. If you are a community business that needs funding for a business development project which will make your organisation more sustainable, then you should consider applying.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">There will be other funding programmes going live in the course of 2016 that will be publicised through their website and newsletter.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Last year, £8 million of grant funding was awarded through the Initial Grants Programme.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><a href="http://www.thepowertochange.org.uk/funding/grants/" target="_blank">http://www.thepowertochange.org.uk/funding/grants/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><br clear="all"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">\\<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Community Media Association<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">-- <br><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.commedia.org.uk/</a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/community_media" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/community_media</a><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br><br>Canstream Internet Radio & Video<br><a href="http://www.canstream.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.canstream.co.uk/</a><br><a href="https://twitter.com/canstream" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/canstream</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:blue">Book your tickets now for the Community Media Conference 2016: <a href="http://bit.ly/2016CMAConf" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://bit.ly/2016CMAConf</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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