The first ever Community Radio Awards have been held in Birmingham last night, with nearly 50 entries from across the country being recognised.   The inaugural awards took place at Birmingham City University, to a sold out crowd of more than 100 guests.   Awards chair Martin Steers said: “Everyone seems to have had a fantastic night.   “I am pleased to be able to recognise and showcase the work of community radio, and hope every recipient goes back to their station and area and shouts about the exceptional output, commitment and service in the community radio sector, from its volunteers and staff.”   Community Development Project of the Year…

The Community Radio Awards are pleased to announce that The Radio Hub has come on board as a supporter of the 2016 Community Radio Awards. The Radio Hub is a brand new networking project for community radio stations in South and South East and beyond to share best practices. They meet regularly and share best practices, have good industry speakers and promote community radio in the south of the United Kingdom. For 2017 they hope to go on the road due to high interest and meet in other parts of the UK. We are delighted to to be supporting the community radio awards, All Entries are winners and what a night it will…

Timings We are still finalising the time table of the event, so these times are to be confirmed however. The event is due to start with a drinks reception from 5:30pm with the venue opening at 6pm, we hope to start serving the food at 6:30pm with the awards ceremony starting at 7pm. We aim for the ceremony to not last more than 2 hours, and ideally we need to be out of the venue after 9:30, however we looking at heading to the student union pub the Eagle and Bull a 3 minute walk to continue the celebrations late into the night (although there has been talk of a…

The shortlist for the first Community Radio Awards has been revealed. The independent, not for profit awards will be held on Saturday September 10, at Birmingham City University. The inaugural awards were open to those involved with any Ofcom licensed Community Radio station, with 235 entries received from stations up and down the country. On the night the Gold, Silver and Bronze award winners for each for the 16 categories will be revealed and recognised. Tickets are still available at http://communityradioawards.eventbrite.co.uk, for £15 for those also attending the Community Media Association’s conference (charged separately) and £20 for the awards alone. Awards chair Martin Steers said: “The judges who were involved…

The inaugural Community Radio Awards – taking place on the 10th September at Birmingham City University – are excited to announce that they will be hosted by Dom Chambers. The Awards will celebrate, champion and promote the amazing work of community radio throughout the UK. With 235 nominations received for 16 categories organisers are pleased with how the awards are engaging community broadcasters. Whilst entries continue to be evaluated judges have already fed back on how impressed they are with the wide range of skills, talent, and creativity across the sector. Dom Chambers is well known as an advocate for the community broadcasting. Dom, who served on the CMA council for five…

Tickets to the Community Radio Awards 2016 are now on sale The award celebration evening is taking place on Saturday the 10th of September at Birmingham City University. We are aiming for the night to be a relaxed celebration of Community Radio and to announce who will take away Bronze, Silver and Gold in this years awards. No formal or strict dress code, so you can head straight over from the CMA’s Community Media Conference if you are attending that, as its all in the same building. We will be starting the night with networking as a transition between the two events and a complimentary drink courtesy of PPL and…

We are saddened to hear that communityradioawards.com is no longer going ahead as the community radio sector deserves every opportunity to celebrate its achievements. The transformative power of community radio is often not sufficiently recognised and we welcome every attempt to raise the sector’s profile and reward the hard work of both staff and volunteers. The communityradioawards.co.uk will be continuing as planned with a final celebratory event to be held after theCommunity Media Conference on Saturday 10th September at Birmingham City University. Tickets will be on sale shortly. We at communityradioawards.co.uk wish Leroy Allen CEO a speedy recovery, and send the rest of his team our best regards. We hope that the future will bring further opportunities to develop…

As we get close to the opening of our nominations I want to discuss our Judges and our Judging process, this is because we want the awards to be as open and as fair as possible for those submitting nominations to be able to understand what we are trying to achieve with our awards. We are aiming for a robust judge led process, where groups of judges will get the opportunity to listen, read and reflect on the nominations submitted for each category. The highest rated nominations in each category will be considered further until the submissions are narrowed down to the final 5 nominations. These final 5 shortlisted nominations…