Community Media Association

The first round for funding applications to the Community Radio Fund in 2010/11 will be open from 14 April 2010 until close of play on 11 May 2010.

Six community radio stations in Wales have received grants totalling £100,000 from the Welsh Assembly Government’s Community Radio Fund.

Ofcom has announced the award of one new community radio licence to
SAFE Radio, in Grays, Essex.

The Community Media Association launches its Arts Strategy that will, over the next two years, focus on establishing creative and enduring collaborations between the arts and the community media sector.

“Making good society”, the final report of the Carnegie Trust’s Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society has now been launched.

Ofcom has announced the award of five new community radio licences in South East England.

We’ve started a photo blog for 2010 and we want you to participate. We’d like you to send us photos of your community project that we will publish on “Community Media 365″.

Ofcom’s Community Radio Fund Panel met on Monday 25 January to consider applications for the second round of grant awards for 2009/10. 14 applicants were awarded grants which totalled £226,532.

The CMA has written to all MPs and key Peers to urge them to support the radio clauses of the Digital Economy Bill, highlighting the significant benefits that the community radio sector will receive as FM spectrum becomes available following digital radio switchover.

The House of Lords Select Committee on Communications has announced a short inquiry into the progress of, and prospects for, digital switchover of both television and radio in the United Kingdom.