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Just to remind you that the CMA Annual Conference & AGM will be on Saturday 11th June at The Number One Centre, 2 Didsbury Close, London, E6 2SX. The Conference/AGM mini-site is now live to take bookings: http://www.conference.commedia.org.uk/. The theme of the Conference this year is “Community Media – New Directions” and we have a strong and comprehensive agenda to reflect this: http://www.conference.commedia.org.uk/agenda.

The proposed changes to the CMA Charter will be discussed at this year’s AGM – the original and revised versions may be downloaded below:

Original Community Media Charter [PDF]
Proposed revised Community Media Charter [PDF]

The agenda for this year’s AGM is here with downloadable Nomination and Proxy Voting forms: http://www.conference.commedia.org.uk/agm-agenda. Within the afternoon slot in the conference we will have short items such as a discussion on moving forward with a national community media advertising agency and also a short presentation from Gari Sullivan on community radio in Australia. There will also be an update from Traffic Link, the free traffic news service.

Formal invites will be sent in the post to current members. The cost will be £40 for paid staff members and £10 for volunteers, £80+VAT for non-members.

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The CMA Annual Conference & AGM will be on Saturday 11th June in East
Ham, London.

The Conference/AGM mini-site is now live to take bookings:

http://www.conference.commedia.org.uk/

The theme of the Conference this year is “Community Media – New
Directions” and we have a strong and comprehensive agenda to reflect
this:

http://www.conference.commedia.org.uk/agenda

The agenda for this year’s AGM is here with downloadable Nomination
and Proxy Voting forms:

http://www.conference.commedia.org.uk/agm-agenda

Formal invites will be sent in the post to current members.  The cost
will be £40 for paid staff members and £10 for volunteers, £80+VAT for
non-members.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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The following applies to London only which is a shame but may be of interest to our Southern friends.

“It’s awards season again – and this month details are announced of the one certificate we all want to be able to hang in our downstairs loo… a Sony Radio Academy Award.

So how do you get your hands on one – or perhaps more accurately – how do you make sure your entry doesn’t let you down?

Ask anyone who has judged a Sony category and they will tell you of programmes which should have won – but how the entries let them down. With all the new categories announced this month this is the time to get your plans in place to make sure that doesn’t happen to you. …

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Congratulations to seven new community licencees in London. In a statement the UK regulator said: …

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Ofcom is today inviting ‘preliminary expressions of interest’ from individuals and organisations who wish to operate short-term digital radio services in London during or around the period of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. These ‘preliminary expressions of interest’ will help Ofcom both gauge the level of demand for radio services during this period and will inform the design of any possible licensing process should this be implemented.

The invitation can be found here:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/dcr/rb_london_2012/

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