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</head><body><p>PS Martin, all but one of our staff do indeed work for nothing, and I believe that's the case for all the neighbouring non-profits as well. And the lone paid workers usually work more hours than they are nominally paid for.<br></p><p>Alex<br></p><blockquote type="cite">On 30 May 2017 at 17:48 Martin Steers <martin@martinsteers.co.uk> wrote:<br><br><div dir="auto">Do we not believe that artists should receive due renumeration for their work? Would we expect all our staff to work for little or nothing?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also what about all the other not for profit activities, fates, events and isn't Glastonbury technically not for profit?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I like the idealism and if we could get some big name artists to agree or propose it.</div></div><div class="ox-2a61b19593-gmail_extra"><br><div class="ox-2a61b19593-gmail_quote">On May 30, 2017 5:39 PM, "Alex Gray, Two Lochs Radio" <<a href="mailto:tlr@gairloch.co.uk">tlr@gairloch.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote><div><div class="ox-2a61b19593-m_3633386419382601492WordSection1"><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;">Ha, I’ll collect the award later Nick.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;">But seriously, it does show that PPL has plenty of scope to propose to its members that they could introduce a social benefit licence scheme for very little cost by offering a low cost flat-fee (say £200) licence to stations constituted to operate not-for-profit and for social gain.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;">A back of the envelope calculation suggests this might drop their revenue from £212.1m to £211.8m (ie by about 0.15%).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;">So it would make the tiniest difference to their bottom line, while making a big difference to many hard-pressed community operations, while PPL would get the publicity kudos of showing what excellent public benefit-minded souls they are, and also support stations that tend to give more exposure to their less well-known and less well-heeled members.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;">Must go now – I want to try and get a photo of the pig that just passed my window.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;">Alex<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="color: #1f497d;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border: none; border-top: solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt; padding: 3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><strong>From:</strong> <a href="mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l-bounces@mailman.<wbr/>commedia.org.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l-bounces@mailman.<wbr/>commedia.org.uk</a>] <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>Canalside Community Radio Ltd<br><strong>Sent:</strong> 30 May 2017 15:39</p><div class="ox-2a61b19593-quoted-text"><br><strong>To:</strong> 'The Community Media Association Discussion List' <<a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a><wbr/>><br></div><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [cma-l] News release from PPL<u></u><u></u><p> <br></p></div></div><div class="ox-2a61b19593-quoted-text"><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: black;">Alex<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: black;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: black;">If you going for the wind-up-merchant of the year award 2017     I think you’ve just won it    LOL   :<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: black;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #222a35;">Nick</span></strong><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #222a35;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: #222a35;"><img id="ox-2a61b19593-m_3633386419382601492Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D2D966.F3ADF040" alt="webmainlogo" style="width: 242px; height: 149px;" height="149" width="242"></span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="ox-2a61b19593-MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; 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