Ofcom today announces the award of three new community radio licences.

Ofcom today announces the award of three new community radio licences.

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2008/06/nr_20080627b

Separately, Ofcom has updated the timetable for inviting community radio licence applications.

We intend to invite applications for the east and southeast of England, excluding the Greater London area, at the end of August 2008. We will update this timetable with dates for Greater London (within the M25) in due course.

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/commun_radio/tlproc/

In addition, Ofcom also announced the grant awards from the first round of funding from the Community Radio Fund 2008/09. In total *£266,600* has been awarded to 18 applicants.

The Fund has been established to help fund the core costs of running a community radio station.

The full document is available at:

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/commun_radio/Communityfund/grants080
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Finally, Ofcom is also publishing guidelines for community radio stations that wish to use volunteer time as part of station turnover.

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/commun_radio/volunteerinput.pdf