How we invest in businesses and organisations that are focussed on social value and community benefit is an important question, as we seek to tackle […]
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Sharing and learning is at the heart of the community development approach, which is why Locality, the UK charity dedicated to helping community organisations, hosts […]
It’s often said that community media is ten percent media and ninety percent community development. But what do we mean by community development and how […]
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It was really good to catch up with John, Gerhart and Nas tonight, to chat about the community media projects they have been working on, […]
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This morning I chatted over Skype with Terry Lee from the University of Bedfordshire. We talked about Terry’s background supporting community radio, his work with […]
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I’ve just given David Lloyd’s Radiocentre commissioned report, ‘Small-Scale Radio in the UK – How Local Commercial and Community Radio can Co-Exist,’ a more detailed […]
This evening I met with Gareth Lapworth and Owen Williams to discuss the culture of open source software and ICT support for community-focussed organisations. We […]
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The Problem with Advertising: Community media advocates have for many years been seeking a solution to the funding challenges of running not-for-profit media projects. Funding […]
It’s widely reported today that British highstreets with the highest concentration of fast-food shops, betting shops and nailbars, correspond with the greatest ill-health and shortest […]
In June 2017 the whole country was shocked and convulsed by the news of the fire at Grenfell Tower. The pain and suffering experienced by […]
Liverpool Community Radio will start broadcasting on FM across the city of Liverpool in 2019. I visited Steve Faragher to find out more about the […]
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Today I had a chance to catch-up again with Sam Hunt from Leicester Community Radio. We discussed how developing community radio stations, both broadcast and […]
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On a lovely autumn day in Leicester, I took a walk up the canal so I could visit Vijay Umrao at EavaFM. We had a […]
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Community Radio in Leicester is thriving. The city now has three well established station, EvaFM, Takeover Radio and DemonFM. A new station, 2FunkyRadio will be […]
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The Social Value Act of 2012 was introduced by the UK government as a way of shapping the commissioning criteria for public and government services. […]
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