[comradio-l] Community Radio Fund: award of grants for 2010/11 Round 2

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Ofcom's Community Radio Fund Panel met on Monday 24 January 2011 to
consider applications for the second round of grant awards for
2010/11.

In summary:

- The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) allocated
£463,000 towards the Community Radio Fund for 2010/11
- In the first round of funding in June 2010, the Panel made grants
totalling £208,634,leaving £254,366 for the second round
- A further £2,500 was returned to the fund from a previous grant recipient
- 64 applications were considered
- Funding applications totalled £1,196,138.46
- 15 applicants were awarded grants which totalled £256,866
- 49 applicants were not awarded a grant

The average grant in this round was £17,124; the average grant for
individual station awards, that is excluding the grants benefiting
more than one station, was £14,833. A table setting out the awards may
be found here:

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/radio/community-radio-fund/grants-2010-11-2

The Panel notes that two grants, for £30,769 and £30,768 respectively,
were for substantially higher amounts than the average and were
awarded to bids designed to benefit more than one station. The Panel
wishes to record that the first of these grants was for a joint
application that will fund a Project Manager and other support for a
pilot data collection and analysis project. The project aims to
develop an affordable way for UK community radio stations to assess
their audiences and community impacts and provide data for grant
funders, service delivery clients and others. The aim is for a project
that will benefit all community radio stations in the future. The
second of these grants was for a Regional Account Manager /Commercial
Fund Raiser post benefiting three individual community radio stations
in south west England.

Source: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/radio/community-radio-fund/grants-2010-11-2

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