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Community Media Solutions
About Community Media Solutions
CM Solutions is a specialist consultancy company providing support for community media development including radio, television, Internet and new media projects. CM Solutions draws on an experienced team of staff, consultants and associates who bring together project planning, management, financial and technical skills with a creative and innovative approach to our work and a deep knowledge of the community media sector. We aim to work in a collaborative manner, respecting the skills and experience of our clients and working with them to achieve effective outcomes. We bring the following principles to our work:
- Effective communication - we aim to work on the basis of open communication between clients and ourselves
- Empowerment - we aim to ensure that everyone involved in a project has the means to take informed decisions
- Quality of service - we aim to deliver consistently high quality services and to go the extra mile when needed
- Skill sharing - we aim to share our skills and know-how for the benefit of our clients and the community
- Developing partnerships - we aim to seek out and to develop partnerships for sustainable community media
History
Community Media Solutions Ltd was registered as a company limited by guarantee in April 2004 and commenced trading in October 2004. The company was established as a social enterprise to complement the role of the Community Media Association (CMA), the sector body for community media in the UK. It was born out of a recognition of the demand for research, business development and technical support services for the growing community media sector particularly in the context of public policy recognition for the sector achieved in the Communications Act 2003. The CMA provided start-up support to establish CM Solutions.
Since commencing trading operations in October 2004 CM Solutions has worked on six community radio licence applications, a feasibility study for community television, an investigation into neighbourhood broadband connectivity, evaluation of a broadcast campaign, comparative international research into sustainable community radio and several other projects. In its first six months of trading CM Solutions made a modest profit and, within twelve months of commencing trading, the CMA recouped the full costs of development of the company.
Alongside its commercial consultancy work CM Solutions is currently also working in partnership with the CMA to deliver a major programme of grant funding, business advice and technical support for community media in South Yorkshire. The initiative, under the banner "Turn Up The Volume" is supported by Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Development Agency for Yorkshire and The Humber, and by the European Regional Development Fund under the South Yorkshire European Union Objective 1 Programme. The programme aims to support 40 new community-based media and communication projects in the region.
CM Solutions is an independent employee-owned social enterprise whose future profits will be distributed for the benefit of community media.
For further information please visit www.cmso.co.uk
