Decentered Media Podcast 051 – The How and the What of Community Media?
Tonight’s Decentered Media podcast discussion was with Amos Bilson, who researches the role of community media in the UK as it relates to the experience […]
Community Development
Decentered Podcast 031 – Dave Boyle Community Shares
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 […]
Locality – Power of Community Network Meeting
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 […]
Decentered Podcast 023 – Community Media and Community Development
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 […]
Decentered Podcast 16 – Community Media & Social Gain
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, […]
Decentered Podcast 13 – Terry Lee University of Bedfordshire
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 […]
Emphasising Social Gain – My Personal Thoughts on David Lloyd’s Report
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 […]
Decentered Media Podcast 10 – Open Source Culture
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 […]
Is it Possible to Develop an Alternative to Community Radio Advertising?
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 […]
Unhealthy Communities With No Local Voice
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 […]
Community Media is Different
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 […]
Decentered Podcast 07 – Steve Faragher Liverpool Community Radio
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 […]
Decentered Podcast 06 – Sam Hunt Leicester Community Radio
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 […]
Decentered Podcast 05 – Vijay Umrao EavaFM
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 […]
Decentered Podcast 003 – Leicester Community Radio
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 […]