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<div>The biggest issue I see with a lot of these grants is that because most stations take commercials they are seen more as a business rather than a community enterprise. Silly really. Although I do tend to agree that if pressured most (not all) stations would
struggle to show the benefit they provide. Despite them undoubtably providing a great service. To that end having recent survey data and some way to prove the benefit is necessary. If stations want to gain some of these other grants. Generally stations that
run as more of a social group seem to have a better time gaining funding due I would imagine to them having a more visable presence in the community.</div>
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<div id="AppleMailSignature">Maybe all stations should start running community Internet cafe's then they can get grants easier..<br>
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On 2 Aug 2016, at 16:00, Pippa <<a href="mailto:pippa@curlyradio.com">pippa@curlyradio.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Philippa Sawyer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Wycombe Community Radio CIC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;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:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Last year, £8 million of grant funding was awarded through the Initial Grants Programme.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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