The documents below are reports and agreements officially submitted by Gtfm to Ofcom under the terms of its Community Radio Licence. They and published on this website as part of public accountability commitments.
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| 1. Ofcom Community Radio Grant Report - 2005 | ||
| 2. Ofcom Community Radio Grant Report - 2008 | ||
| 3. GTFM's Key Commitments Agreement | ||
| 4. GTFM Annual Report (to March 31st 2010) | ||
| 5. GTFM Annual Report (to March 31st 2009) | ||
| 6. GTFM Annual Report (to April 2008) . | ||
Station details:
Licence Number
CR004
Station Name
GTFM
2.2 Please set out the designated purpose of the grant and the amount awarded.
If this was for more than one purpose or post, please set out the different purposes and grant allocated for each.
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The grant was to enable the GTFM to continue to fund 2 key posts beyond March 31st 2005 when the 3 year EU Objective One funding ended.
The posts of Station Manager and Finance Assistant are crucial and without these the organisation could not function. As central management/finance posts they are also among the most difficult to fund via grants.
The amounts awarded were:-
Station manager £20,300 Finance assistant £15,400
TOTAL £35,700 |
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2.3 Please explain how the award was spent, setting out the details separately for
each post or purpose. If it was for a member of staff please include a summary of
work carried out and the main achievements of the post-holder (see also section 2.5).
For example, if it was for a fundraiser, please say how much money they have raised.
If the grant was awarded for any other (non-staff) purpose please provide a
breakdown of costs incurred with the date of the relevant expenditure.
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The grant was spent on salaries for these posts as per the application and award. In terms of the main work carried out the Station Manager has had to spend most of his time securing the funding and future sustainability of the organisation which was not an easy task. However faced with closure almost a year ago through the ending of our main source of grant funding he has successfully negotiated funding from a number of sources which has meant that running costs for not only 2006/7 have been covered but crucially for 2007/8 as well. Through vigorous lobbying of the Welsh Assembly – almost single handedly last November the Welsh Assembly announced the creation of a Community Radio Fund for Wales – an historic achievement in the development of community radio.
The Station Manager has also successfully bid for funding to extend community radio into other parts of the Rhondda Cynon Taff area.
The biggest achievement of all has to be that GTFM is still on air after 5 years – sometimes against the odds and is solvent! GTFM still remains the only licensed community radio station on air in Wales
The Finance Assistant has been able to develop the organisation’s book keeping and finance records and we now use the SAGE computer package. The Finance Assistant has been able to assist the Station Manager with claiming grant funding and ensuring relevant financial returns are made to all bodies and ensure all income and expenditure is made timely and efficiently
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2.4 The Community Radio Fund Panel is interested in how the grant award has
made a difference to the operation of your station. Please give us your comments.
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At an early stage in the development of community radio the award by OFCOM was almost 25% of our annual running costs – these are the most difficult costs to cover. I am pleased to report that in Wales the Community Radio Fund recognises this and is being set up to cover those costs
As said above, set against a backdrop of a difficult funding period during 2006 without the OFCOM award GTFM may not be here now!
We know that the future will still be very difficult funding wise but with the help of this grant GTFM has made significant inroads towards greater financial sustainability and spreading the risk across a greater number of ( smaller) funders
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2 Community radio fund:grant report form 2008
2.1 Station details:
Licence Number
CR004
Station Name
GTFM
2.2 Please set out the designated purpose of the grant and the amount awarded.
If this was for more than one purpose or post, please set out the different
purposes and grant allocated for each.
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We received a £14,000 contribution in Summer 2008 towards the first year basic salary of the new Sales Executive staff position we were seeking to create.
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2.3 Please explain how the award was spent, setting out the details separately
for each post or purpose. If it was for a member of staff please include a summary
of work carried out and the main achievements of the post-holder (see also section 2.5).
For example, if it was for a fundraiser, please say how much money they have
raised. If the grant was awarded for any other (non-staff) purpose please provide
a breakdown of costs incurred with the date of the relevant expenditure.
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The award is currently supporting the basic salary of our new Sales Executive, as originally intended.
This new addition to our core staff team joined us in March 2009, following a recruitment process which was delayed for nearly three months by successive key staff absences due to illness plus severe weather in the early part of this year.
We are therefore very pleased to report how, despite the depth of the recession locally - which has resulted in many job losses - the appointee is already having the positive effect we were hoping for on our local advertising bookings.
For example, in her first three weeks in post alone she booked seven advertising campaigns – all with new clients.
Although we have to remember it is still ‘early days’, very modest projections based on this initial success suggest we could nearly double our local advertising income by the end of the current financial, when compared to the year to March 2009.
A number of other advantages are accompanying our increased local sales activity, including:
1. The refreshing number of new (local) business names appearing regularly on-air, which in itself can aid the sales process, as well as broadening the amount of locally useful information broadcast;
2. Raised listener awareness of this aspect of our funding, demonstrating how GTFM is actively involved in supporting local businesses, some of which may literally lie just around the corner;
3. The benefit of having a staff member spending a significant proportion of their working time ‘out’ in the local community explaining GTFM’s (primarily) social ‘mission’ and not-for-profit status, as well as generally improving awareness to the station and the various tangible benefits it offers.
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2.4 The Community Radio Fund Panel is interested in how the grant award has
made a difference to the operation of your station. Please give us your comments.
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The strategic importance of the new staff position made possible by this grant award has grown during recent months in a way which could not have been predicted when the Station Manager first mooted the idea about 18 months ago, on discovering the station’s commercial advertising revenue fell well short of the 50% of total running costs currently permitted by the regulator.
Having already gained commercial experience running a number of small to medium sized commercial local radio stations he believed there could be considerable un-realised local commercial income potential in the area, especially since the main commercial radio stations are much bigger and would therefore be unaffordable to the majority of smaller local businesses.
He was also encouraged by the number of bookings which already resulted from following-up spontaneous enquiries to the station, even though it was not being pro-active in seeking them. This seemed to suggest that the rate-card (which he had re-designed shortly after joining the station) was priced about right. But the only way to find out for sure would be to employ someone specifically to sell advertising and sponsorship full-time in the local area.
He also correctly forecast that having already been supported primarily from public funds for six years, in applying for future assistance the station would increasingly be expected to demonstrate how it was also doing as much as possible to ‘help itself’.
Finally, even if there was no actual decrease in the overall size of funds available in the future via grants and other forms of public funding, it seemed likely the ever increasing number of organisations seeking help would necessitate either individually smaller awards, or a prioritisation policy probably favouring new or previously unsuccessful applicants.
Therefore, the policy agreed by the Management Committee sought to maximise commercial revenue potential over time (within a strong desire to continue sounding like a community, rather than commercial, radio station), while simultaneously seeking to spread grant funding support among a larger number of sources, each contributing smaller sums. Up to that point GTFM had survived each year on around three large contributions averaging £35-45,000 each from public/grant funders, supplemented by ad-hoc advertising bookings, comprised of roughly equal proportions of local advertising/sponsorship revenue and agency bookings on behalf of the Welsh Assembly Government which the previous Station Manager had been successful in securing.
Inevitably, progress toward these goals has been overtaken in 2009 by the effect of the largely unforeseen world-wide financial crisis and ‘credit crunch’, which has resulted in a drastic drop in the total amount of available money across the commercial, public and voluntary sectors in Wales - to the extent that even formerly ‘rock solid’ Trusts have had to cut back the number/size of donations because the value of (and therefore income from) their investments has plummeted.
The biggest single impact on GTFM so far has been the non-renewal (with no prior warning) of our Service Level Agreement with Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council in January 2009. This agreement had been worth £45,000 in the year to December 2008 so its non-renewal had a severe effect on cash flow.
Against this background therefore, the virtually immediate success of our new Sales Executive in bringing in additional cash has provided a real lifeline, as well as proving the idea actually works – even though the commercial ‘risk’ of making this staff appointment had been effectively removed thanks to this immensely helpful Ofcom Community Radio Grant.
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3. Community radio licence:
key commitments
Station name |
GTFM |
Community to be served |
The community of Pontypridd |
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Licence area |
Pontypridd (up to a 5km radius from the transmission site) |
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Frequency |
107.9MHz |
GTFM will provide a local and inclusive radio service for all residents of Pontypridd.
The aim is to encourage participation by offering training and encouraging volunteer involvement.
The station caters for the community by providing targeted and specialist music programming,
discussion programming on local issues and promoting local events.
Community Radio Order 2004: “It is a characteristic of community radio services that they are local services provided primarily (a) for the good of members of the public, or of particular communities, and (b) in order to deliver social gain, rather than primarily for commercial reasons or for the financial or other material gain of the individuals involved in providing the service.”
“(a) the provision of sound broadcasting services to individuals who are otherwise underserved”
“(b) the facilitation of discussion and the expression of opinion”
“(c) the provision (whether by means of programmes included in the service or otherwise) or education or training to individuals not employed by the person providing the service”
“(d) the better understanding of the particular community and the strengthening of the links within it”
Community Radio Order 2004: “It is a characteristic of every community radio service that members of the community it is intended to serve are given opportunities to participate in the operation and management of the service.”
GTFM will encourage and local community to be involved with the station as follows:
Volunteers present and/or produce programmes (e.g. specialist music output), and work on
administrative
tasks such as research, the compilation of travel news bulletins and
answering the phone.
Community Radio Order 2004: “It is a characteristic of every community radio service that, in respect of the provision of that service, the person providing the service makes himself accountable to the community that the service is intended to serve.”
The group will actively encourage feedback by a number of methods:
*All material in italics is direct quotations from the Community Radio Order 2004
Section 1
1 Community Radio Annual Report Form
1.1
Community Radio Annual Report Form: Year
Ending
Station
details
Licence
Number
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CR004 |
Station
Name
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GTFM |
Launch
Date
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Web
address where you will publish this report
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www.gtfm.co.uk. Will be
published on or before |
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1. Live output will typically comprise 65% music and 35% speech of daytime weekday programming, (‘speech’ excludes advertising, programme/promotional trails and sponsor credits). Outside these hours, the proportion of speech content may be reduced. 2. Music will consist in daytime of music from the 60s to the present
day. A range of specialist music styles, including Welsh, rock, folk, blues,
rock & roll, and country, will also be broadcast, mainly during evenings
and at weekends. GTFM will also
showcase local bands and Welsh language music. 3. Speech
content will typically comprise national, regional, local news and sport,
interviews, community messages and community information slots, what’s on guide
and phone-ins. 4. Output will mainly be broadcast in English with some Welsh language content also being broadcast. (The use of other community languages is permitted). 5. The service will typically be broadcast live for at least 12 hours per day weekdays, 11 hours Saturdays and 8 hours on Sundays (live programming may include pre-recorded inserts, as applicable). 6. The majority of station output will be produced at the main
station studios or at University facilities.
Some third-party programme material, such as news and features, may
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1.
Daytime speech output The concerted
effort to increase editorial coverage given to community initiatives (as described
last year) will have lifted the speech ratio above the 35% level at times, so
we are confident of having maintained our stated average during the period. (The
feature policy saw production of more extended feature versions of local news
story interviews for broadcast in programming time in addition to other
features and live interviews).
Gtfm does not impose speech time-limits on its broadcasters – for
example the local news bulletins last ‘for as long as they need to’ to convey
what are thought to be the important stories of the day. Therefore they can
vary in duration from 90 seconds to 3 or 4 minutes, occasionally even longer.
A similar rule applies to interviews and local information bulletins conducted
in programme time (i.e. between news bulletins), with presenters trusted to
devote sufficient time to discussion with guests without individual speech
segments becoming over-long in the context of programme continuity. This is
usually achieved through music punctuation every four minutes or so, but
presenters can decide on the spot if editorial content is sufficiently urgent
or compelling to warrant longer periods of continuous speech. An
example of this was during severe winter weather in early 2010 when near-continuous
reports updating listeners on worsening local road conditions during heavy
snow were broadcast as required. 2.
Gtfm’s music policy ‘The Music of Your Life’ continued to
deliver the variety promised during the reporting year, an approach which offers
our broadcast area the widest range of music available on any single non-BBC
radio service. All
the specialist music styles named above continued to be represented through
dedicated shows, together with a number of others including (smooth) Jazz,
70’s style Funk, Dance, and House. Nostalgia/pre-1960’s music is included at
peak time on Sunday morning, following a selection of more
traditional/religious favourites at breakfast time. Our ‘decade’ centred
sequences (50’s/60’s & 70’s/80’s), continued on Monday evening (every
three weeks) and every Sunday afternoon respectively. From Christmas 2009 the
weekly Country show joined all the others in being freshly prepared and
presented each week under a new presenter following the retirement of its previous
long-term host. During
the reporting year our monthly two hour ‘Jazz Connection’ programme ended
because the presenter was no longer available, whereas the weekly Classical Show introduced at the same time
in the 08-09 reporting year continued. Improvements
to the breadth of Welsh language music variety in our dedicated Welsh
language programmes continued and local bands received a boost through the
division of ‘Showcase Wales’ into two different programmes, one monthly (2 x
hours) and the other weekly for three hours and called ‘New Music Showcase’
(Monday 10pm-1am). 3.
Speech content subject matter continued to be very largely locally
orientated and virtually all produced in-house. Interviews on local issues were
routinely included in daytime programming output, starting with a key-story
feature spot at 08.25 on the weekday breakfast show, An
obvious exception to the local editorial theme was the content of the hourly IRN
bulletins, provided by Sky News. Despite our reservations about the 2 minute
duration of these bulletins however, following the switch to Sky we perceived
an increase in coverage of ‘big’ Welsh stories. While this occasionally
caused repetition on weekdays when IRN is followed by our own local bulletins,
we were particularly grateful for such coverage at weekends and on Bank
Holidays. Our
own local news provision continued to prioritise coverage of affairs in
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough, plus explanation of activities elsewhere
likely to impact the lives of local residents - in particular decisions made
by government, be that at the Welsh
Assembly or Westminster. The nature of devolved power in Our
staff Broadcast Journalist post continued to prove attractive to new
journalist graduates, with the recruitment of a replacement in August 2009
attracting 36 quality applicants. Pre-recorded
Community Messages (free ‘ads’ for charitable or not-for-profit organisations/events)
continued to be broadcast round the clock at around 15 minutes past each hour
with at least a dozen new ones added to the rotation during the period.
Meanwhile a larger volume of whats-on’s than ever before were read out on air,
together with news of local volunteering opportunities, re-training schemes
and charity fund-raising exercises. All
sports programming except the Cardiff City Phone-In came ‘in house’ in August
2009 when the University of Glamorgan closed their remaining local studio and
moved it to their new Atrium building in Cardiff. This meant the weekly
‘Season Ticket’ Saturday afternoon programme transferred to our main studios,
initially with the same volunteer team. This allowed better co-ordination
with weekday sports coverage which had always been produced at our Pinewood
studios. Following the installation by the University of an audio over IP
decoder The 4.
Welsh Language output received another boost with its second Interlink
volunteering award in a row, this time presented on 12th June 2009 to Ioan
Dyer and Gary Ellis for their promotion of the Welsh language via GTFM’s
dedicated four hours per week of programming (including Welsh language
music). At the end of this reporting year we introduced a fifth hour of Welsh
output at breakfast time on Saturday (07.00-08.00). Given the time of day and
the fact the vast majority of local people don’t speak the language, Welsh
links are paraphrased in English and the music is (approximately) a 50/50
percent language mix. Welsh language music also remained part of the main day
and night-time playlist rotation too, at the same percentage mix as before. Virtually
all advertising booked on behalf of government has a Welsh language version
and if asked we recommend a 4:1 English/Welsh ratio. 5.
Live output The station continued producing a similar amount of live output
as in the previous year, during which the percentage of daytime voice-tracked
output reduced a little in favour of more totally live programming. We
estimate totally live presentation (i.e. not voice-tracked or pre-recorded)
to have averaged at least 372 hours per four week cycle during the period. On
a typical weekday ‘live’ output (including on average one hour of freshly
voice tracked presentation) extended from On
Saturdays ‘live’ output extended from The
Sunday programme pattern also remained largely unchanged during the period,
with fully live output from When
voice-tracked and pre-recorded presentation are included we estimate Gtfm
produced an average of 508 hours per four week cycle of locally originated
and presented programming. 6. Local origination – As before, virtually
all our output was produced either at our own local studios or those of the |
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Key commitments: Social gain objectives (a) The
provision of sound broadcasting services to individuals who are otherwise underserved
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The service will be community-centred, reflecting and representing
the community that it serves, including Welsh language content and discussion
programming. No other radio service
caters just for Pontypridd. |
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Gtfm still provides the only ‘full-service’
local radio service specifically catering for the people living in its
transmission area, positioned as it is a few miles north of the area’s main
Cardiff-centred outlets, which include (the younger focussed) Red Dragon FM,
(regional) Real Radio and (national) BBC Radio Wales. It also became the only
broadcast local radio service originated in the Valleys area and available in
the western Valleys when UTV closed commercial local station Valleys Radio.
New Gtfm listeners in the Priority continued to be given to providing
up-to-date and locally relevant information at all times. For example, in the
early part of 2010, for the second year running, we were proud to have
managed to continue broadcasting throughout a period of severe winter
weather, during which staff and presenters walked - sometimes for miles - and
caught trains because roads were impassable in order to keep the station
on-air while others were snowed in altogether. Our Station Manager also
walked through snow drifts to our hilltop transmitter site on several
occasions to re-fuel a diesel generator keeping us on-air some of the time. We provided news of flood relief efforts
when Rhydyfelin and other parts of the area were hit by violent storms on 6th
June 09 (for details see News Archive on our website). During severe weather our largely live
evening output allowed us to relay severe weather alerts and flood warnings
received without delay. Our specialist music output contains
venue/gig guide and other specifically local information, together with
regular feedback from local listeners. The presenters of some of these
programmes are also asked to host music events in the We continued
to publicise the fact we operate the ‘only radio newsroom in the County
Borough’ because we believe that broadcasting from the heart of our coverage
area is a vital ingredient of our service.
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1.3
Key commitments: Social gain objectives (b) The
facilitation of discussion and the expression of opinion
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1. GTFM will offer air-time for local organisations to broadcast programming on issues of the day or about their organisation, and encourage listeners to engage and participate. A specific target is to ensure that at least five new groups become involved in such activities each year. 2. Phone-ins and discussion programming will involve invited guests and/or panels of experts to generate debate on local issues, including local sport. |
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1. Access
and participation – by and on behalf of local organisations and
individuals continued to be a cornerstone of our community radio service
during the period. At least a dozen new Community Messages were produced and
scheduled and hundreds of what’s–on and other local announcements broadcast on
behalf of a myriad local organisations from small community groups to The
station became actively involved in helping its listeners through the Digital
TV switchover process through involvement with Digital In
early 2010 the Station Manager was asked to join a committee organising a 30th
Anniversary celebration of the Glyn Taff Estate in May, which would also mark
the 21st birthday of Credit Unions in Wales which started on the
same estate, plus Gtfm which also started there as an RSL 11 years ago - going
on to become the first Community Radio station in Wales from studios just down
the road. Overall we established links with
– and gave on-air access to – dozens of new local organisations during the
period, well in excess of the five promised. We also continued to encourage
volunteering in the community and participation in charitable activity.. 2. Discussion and Phone-ins
- Day-to-day
discussion of local issues continued to be led through our hourly local news
bulletins and interviews/feature content in daytime programming.
Additionally, one-off studio discussions were mounted on specific subjects as
necessary. In the field of sport, the Cardiff City (football) Phone-in took place three times per week during the football season (3 x 1 hour all-speech discussions) and the half-hour weekly (all speech) ‘Ponty Rugby Show’ programme continued to discuss Rugby related issues and attract more big name guests. |
1.4 Key commitments: Social gain objectives (c) The provision (whether by means of
programmes included in the service or otherwise) of education or training to individuals
not employed by the person providing
the service
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1. GTFM has a training programme, parts of which are run in conjunction with the University of Glamorgan. Courses consist of a range of activities varying in complexity and formality. All volunteers complete an induction training course which provides participants with an overview of the station's philosophy and aims, together with some basic technical training. Other ad-hoc training of would-be presenters, contributors and behind the scenes volunteers occurs as needs dictate. Additionally the University of Glamorgan runs accredited and non-accredited courses in all aspects of radio production. These are designed to be appropriate to all levels of learning – from informal sessions on operating a mixing desk to accredited degree level modules in Radio Journalism and Radio Drama. 2. The station will promote and provide
training opportunities to the wider community either via links with the
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1. As in the previous year, Gtfm continued to
experience a high level of interest from prospective new volunteers, with 16
progressing as far as induction and studio training. We carried out a much higher percentage of
our own initial training at the station though as the University of Glamorgan
was largely preoccupied with establishing its new Creative Industries base in
Cardiff, including the construction of studios, which were not fully
functional for some of the period. The majority of our new recruits had at
least a little basic media training before we met them however, some of it
gained at the University - and we continued to work co-operatively with the
University, especially through continued involvement of their third year
degree course students. 2. Promotion
of local training opportunities - continued
in a number of ways. We promoted the idea of volunteering at Gtfm and the
fact training is provided on-air, via our website and in the local press. Station
staff and volunteers also attended outside training sessions to speak about
the station and the opportunities it offers. We
maintained strong relationships with local educational establishments and
training providers, including ‘Interlink’, the volunteering umbrella
organisation in RCT. These partnerships resulted in the on-air promotion of
dozens of training/re-training initiatives, adult learning courses (etc) at
all levels during the year, in addition to the activities of the As
well as pre-recorded and live promotions for individual events and
organisations, Interlink continued to take advantage of their weekly
one-hour morning slot (Thursday 10-11am) to promote particular
initiatives and individual volunteering organisations/opportunities in
greater detail.
We continued to provide logistical support including local news bulletins to the two remaining RSL/on-line community projects in neighbouring parts of |
1.5 Key commitments: Social gain objectives (d) The better understanding of the
particular community and the strengthening of
the links within it
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1. GTFM undertakes to focus on regeneration and working within deprived communities. The station will be a link to other relevant community projects working in this area. 2. GTFM will promote the station and the services it offers, such as hosting road shows and fundraising events for the community to participate in. 3. In
addition the station will provide a platform for other local organisations to
promote local activities and events for the community to attend or take part
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1. Regeneration - remained a key
feature of Gtfm’s Editorial Policy and the station stayed a member of the
Rhydyfelin Communities First Partnership. Also, through its two CF funded
staff posts it publicised the efforts of such groups across the whole of The
station also works closely with other local community groups (whether
supported by Communities First funding or not), especially within deprived
communities, for example the Glyntaff Tenants and Residents Association
(GTRA), on behalf of which the very first Gtfm RSL broadcasts were organised
a decade ago. The
station continued to promote other social initiatives including community
policing, neighbourhood watch and sustainable
energy/recycling. 2.
Promotion - the fact that nearly all output originated from our main
studio centre in the reporting year greatly enhanced Gtfm’s ability to
promote a ‘joined-up’ identity and image on-air. It also continued to work on improving the
diversity of its own website, as well as establishing a Facebook group and
making its local news headlines available via Twitter – a function which was
later built into the website so that news headlines were automatically
updated there too. The
station continued to contribute to its own column in the local weekly paper
and issued 1,000 ‘limited edition’ car stickers (July 09) which were eagerly and
quickly obtained by listeners. Gtfm was booked to provide summer roadshows at
the RCT Homes (housing association) Summer Family Day and Penrhys Carnival,
plus It
also broadcast live from a number of outside locations via a portable Comrex
facility, including the British Heart Foundation’s Go Red for Heart day (Feb
10). A
challenging cash-flow situation throughout the year (described below) meant
we had to shelve any planned marketing activity involving additional expense.
Significantly
therefore – partly prompted by its financial situation – during the year in
question Gtfm began more actively promoting the fact it is a registered
charity in its own right in order to establish the legitimacy of it being a
‘good cause’ itself worthy of fund raising effort. Previously, while its work
in promoting charity fund raising on behalf of others was widely acknowledged,
even by its own volunteers who often raised money for other charities too,
many local people and organisations appeared unaware that Gtfm was itself a
charity. In promoting itself as a worthy cause, Gtfm did not in any way reduce
the promotion given to other deserving causes. As a result several Gtfm
volunteers started planning events (many of which will occur during the next
reporting year) on behalf of the station itself. Gtfm’s
first dedicated fund-raising event for several years was a 70’s night, staged
at Pontypridd Rugby Club on 13th August 09, which attracted a
‘full house’ of listeners, some of whom dressed up in 70’s costumes (see
Gallery on the website) contributing a very useful £470 to station funds. 3.
Platform for other organisations
As already indicated above, Gtfm happily promotes all manner of
locally available services and activities.
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Key
commitments: Additional Social Gain objectives (if any are specified in your
licence). Not applicable |
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1.6
Key commitments: Access and participation
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1. A programme of support and training is provided to facilitate involvement. Training includes induction, and then informal training in a variety of roles as well as other support for volunteers. Participation will be invited and promoted via broadcast commercials, the website and promotional literature. As a specific target, each week, the station expects to involve approximately 30 volunteers in its various activities, both on-air and off-air. 2. Volunteers present and/or produce programmes (e.g. specialist music output), and work on administrative tasks such as research, the compilation of travel news bulletins and answering the phone. 3. The
station will develop its training for existing volunteer presenters. As a specific target, each year approximately
ten volunteer presenters will undergo further training to help broaden and
enhance their skills. 4. Work experience and other training opportunities will be offered to
local school children and older students, typically for a period of between
one and two weeks at the station, depending upon age and interests. Students will follow a specially formulated
induction. Target number of placements per year, 10-15. |
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1. Volunteer Induction and training –
This process was described in answer 1.4.1 above with 16 new volunteers
beginning training during the year. The
average number of volunteers involved in routine station activities in an
average week remained around 46. In July 09 Gtfm had a total of 80 ‘active’
volunteers, with quite a few more either resting of going through the
recruitment/induction programme, totalling more than 100 altogether, as in
the previous year. 2. As
in previous years also, many of Gtfm’s volunteers were involved in the
production and presentation of specialist interest music programmes, though
(as indicated above) the number involved in weekday daytime output has
increased appreciably over the last couple of years as staff on-air
involvement has reduced and each programme strip has been shared among
several different volunteers on different days of the week - both to give
more people a chance to broadcast and to address the fact that the majority
of volunteers cannot commit to daily tasks. Volunteers
also remained totally responsible for all on and off-air duties at weekends. 3. Additional Training More than ten
volunteers undertook additional training during the year. 4.
Work Experience During the 09-10 year 12 school students
completed work experience placements at Gtfm. We also hosted a job placement
for a degree course journalist student from the |
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Key commitments: Accountability to the target
community
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1. Listener surveys will be carried out as often as is practicable. As a minimum, the station expects to carry out such a survey at least once per year. 2. The station will actively encourage regular feedback from volunteers (formally and informally). Experienced volunteers will be co-opted onto the station's Management Committee to act as liaison between volunteer membership and station management. The station expects to have two such volunteer representatives on its Management Committee at any one time. 3. The station's Management Committee
undertakes to operate in a transparent manner and to actively encourage
feedback and comments from members of the community. Members of the community may also become
involved in the management of the station up to and including becoming a
member of the station's Management Committee.
(Formal elections to the committee will be held should the number of
interested parties exceed places available). 4. Complaints which cannot be dealt with by a
member of staff will be relayed to the Station Manager. He / she will take responsibility for
reaching a satisfactory conclusion, involving the Management Committee should
this be considered appropriate. 5. Where a complaint is upheld, the station
will publish details of the conclusions reached on its web-site and also, if
appropriate, on air. |
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1. Listener Survey Regrettably, Gtfm’s very restricted finances throughout the period, coupled with prolonged key staff absences through illness, prevented the station from carrying out a full-scale listening survey. This will become a top priority, resources permitting, in the year to come. An enquiry by Gtfm’s Chairman discovered it would cost around £8,000pa for a station like Gtfm to join the Rajar system. Therefore it is likely an industry standard questionnaire will be compiled in-house with fieldwork conducted by volunteers and students. 2.
Volunteer Feedback
Quarterly volunteer meetings continued this year and also provided
useful forums for open discussion of the station’s financial crisis and what
could be done to help. For example, at a meeting on During
the year three of Gtfm’s Trustees also undertook regular voluntary broadcasts
on the station. 3.
Management Committee Membership
of the Management Committee remained at six with a new member (another
regular contributor) replacing Dr Alun Hughes when his one-year secondment
(from 4 & 5. Complaints No complaints warranting either management attention or the formal complaints procedure were received during the period. |
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Volunteer inputs (see guidance notes on page 2)
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Allowing for multiple appearances an average of
46 volunteers worked on Gtfm output in any typical week in the reporting
period, split approximately as follows: Saturday: 9 x main programme
presenter/producers + at least 5
sports contributors on an
average week Total – (at least)
14 Sunday: 12 x main programme
presenter/producers, one of whom also looks after morning show
phone-answering/reception duties. Total – 12 Weekdays Daytime (average week):
4 x Community Link
volunteer presenter/producers per week 3 x Afternoon Delight
volunteer presenter/producers per week 3 x Drive Time
volunteer presenter/producers per week (from July 2009 onwards). All but one
of the new drivetime presenters already broadcast so did not add to the
overall total. Monday Night:
6 x
presenter/producers
Tuesday Night:
4 x presenter/producers
Wednesday Night: 4 x presenter/producers Thursday Night: 4 x presenter/producers Friday Night: 4 x presenter/producers Average
Involvement Different volunteers work widely differing hours,
but based on an average involvement of 4 hours per session once a week, a
notional monthly average would be 16 hours per volunteer, though this was
exceeded in several cases. |
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Significant achievements
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Staying
on the air and managing to provide a service which attracted several
expressions of thanks from listeners despite even more severe winter weather,
for longer, than last year. Maintaining
a full programme schedule with no discernable drop in breadth or detail in
the face of a 25% cut in operating funds resulting from the abandonment
without any warning of an SLA agreement worth £45,000 pa by the local
authority just before the start of the recession, though blamed on it. To
be awarded a second Interlink Volunteering Award for promotion of the Welsh
language. To
win a runner up WCVA Green Award for Gtfm’s pioneering work in powering its
FM transmissions - as far as is practicable - from sustainable energy sources
(wind & sun). Ironically this award was actually presented a week after Gtfm’s
solar panels were stolen from its transmitter site. |
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Significant difficulties
Do
you wish this section to be kept confidential?
No
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Having
to cope with a severe shortage of operating funds (as described above) requiring
(approx) £20,000 in savings to be found including one staff redundancy and the
need to seek cash-flow bridging finance from Finance Wales. The
theft (in late Nov 09) of the four solar electricity panels partially
powering the station’s transmitter on remote farmland, leading to the use of
a diesel generator to stay on-air, at the same moment fuel costs started to
rise rapidly. The
absence for three months (Jan-March 2010) due to serious illness of the
station’s Administrator/Book Keeper. Having
to re-apply for Communities First funding support for another year despite
showing performance well above all agreed targets to date. |
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Audience research
Please
provide a summary of any audience research/ data you have collected during the
year.
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As stated above, Gtfm was unable to
undertake planned audience research due to a shortage of staff manpower and
lack of available funding. |
Section 2
I hereby declare that the information given in this annual report is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true and correct.
Signature
Name
Alun Jones
Position
Trustee
Station
GTFM
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Email address
c/o |
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Telephone number
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Date
Community Radio Annual Report Form
Community Radio Annual Report Form: Year Ending 31 March 2009
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www.gtfm.co.uk This report has been published on our website
Key commitments: programming
The station caters for the community by providing targeted and specialist music programming, discussion programming on local issues and promoting local events.
We believe, on average, that our daytime output met these parameters during the year to 31st March 2009. While the replacement of three minute on-the-hour UK/International news with two minute bulletins when Sky took over as IRN’s contracted news provider will inevitably have reduced speech content in that category towards the end of this year, this reduction will have been compensated-for in terms of overall speech output by an increase in local feature content proportions implemented during the year.
2. Music will consist in daytime of music from the 60s to the present day. A range of
specialist music styles, including Welsh, rock, folk, blues, rock & roll, and country, will also be broadcast, mainly during evenings and at weekends. GTFM will also showcase local bands and Welsh language music.
Gtfm’s ‘Music of Your Life’ mixed-era daytime music format coupled with specialist output continued to deliver the variety we promise during the reporting year. As outlined in previous reports, we are confident this approach offers our broadcast area the widest range of music available on any single non-BBC radio service. During the year, as well as keeping the current playlist up-to-date we carefully added ‘oldie’ titles to our music database, allowing us to rest others to retain a refreshing approach - though the overall proportions of music from different eras remained largely unchanged.
All the specialist music styles named above continued to be represented through dedicated shows, together with a number of others including (smooth) Jazz, 70’s style Funk, Dance, and House. Nostalgia/pre-1960’s music is included at peak time on Sunday morning, following a selection of more traditional/religious favourites at breakfast time. We also have several ‘decade’ centred sequences (1970’s, 80’s etc), including Sunday afternoon and Monday evening. In the case of smooth Jazz and Dance, custom voice-tracked presentation, refreshed for every programme has replaced long term generic link based automation.
During this reporting year we also introduced two new specialist music programmes, ‘Jazz Connection’ a monthly two hour Jazz magazine (Thursday 7-9pm) and the Classical Show, a weekly classical music programme broadcast on Sundays (5-6pm). Both are presented by new volunteers who approached us with their ideas and contain interviews with artists as well as local music ‘gig’ and concert information - as do many of our longer established specialist sequences.
Improvements to the breadth of Welsh language music variety in our dedicated Welsh language programmes included an increased proportion of newer releases and artist interviews. Meanwhile local bands continued to be the central focus of ‘Showcase Wales’. Towards the end of 2008 we also arranged and broadcast our own interviews with prominent new Welsh music acts which emerged through ‘reality’ TV shows. ‘Only Men Aloud’, the male voice choir that won BBC tv’s ‘Last Choir Standing’) has several ‘Valleys’ members and recorded features with us in both English and Welsh. We also spoke exclusively to X-Factor runner-up Rhydian Roberts, whose mum was raised in Pontypridd.
Apart from the (in our view) unwelcome reduction by one-third in the number of IRN UK/International news minutes per hour which resulted from IRN’s switch to two-minute Sky News bulletins, we are pleased to report a tangible increase in both the volume and subject-matter breadth of our speech output during the year – the vast majority of which was locally orientated and virtually all produced in-house.
National (UK)/International News: Grumbles about bulletin duration aside, the transition to Sky News went smoothly, with no apparent reduction in quality in any sense. Headline national news is also included in ‘twenty-twenty’ headline sequences from 7.20-8.40am and 4.20-6.20pm on weekdays.
Regional and Local News: Although IRN/Sky bulletins covered occasional ‘big’ WeIsh news stories, ‘regional’ in our context also includes Wales-wide (Welsh ‘national’) news alongside larger scale South Wales stories, both of which were covered by our own newsroom in addition to more detailed coverage of local matters.
Much ‘Wales-wide’ material involved the decision/policy-making processes of the Welsh Assembly Government, with which we continued to enjoy a close working relationship. Gtfm remains one of very few non-BBC outlets in the Principality to prioritise the inclusion of – and devote airtime to - consciously explaining key WAG decisions in layman’s terms. As a result nearly all Assembly Government Ministers appeared in person on Gtfm news at some point during the year, many of them several times. Where necessary (for example to explain important new initiatives in more detail) ‘sound bite’ coverage in news bulletins was supplemented by full-length interviews in general programming.
Local news stories continue to include local regeneration, healthcare, education, community policing and other initiatives, alongside the many and various activities of Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council and Pontypridd Town Council. During the period there was a tangible increase both in the geographical spread of local story sourcing and the proportion of coverage including quality audio recordings made on location, resulting from increased feedback from local areas added to our reception coverage in 2007 and the recruitment of an MA graduate to our Broadcast Journalist post in spring 2008.
Gtfm’s staff journalist produces hourly local news bulletins for broadcast immediately after Sky/IRN from 6.02am on Monday to 6.02am on Saturday. While the majority of these bulletins are still pre-recorded (usually only minutes before transmission during weekday daytime), in this reporting year our new post-holder has chosen to present an increasing number of her bulletins live.
During the year in question, as part of a planned increase in such output, our Journalist also produced around two hundred full-length interviews/features for use in general daytime programming in addition to her news bulletin work. Most of this material was decided upon in weekly ‘Prospects’ planning meetings presided over by our Programme Co-ordinator who, in turn, was responsible not only for producing the majority of daytime speech features, but also scheduling them. Increasingly too, we are mounting more themed weeks (e.g. Diabetes Week) exploiting local angles and using Welsh spokespeople wherever possible.
On weekday mornings the hour long ‘Goldmine’ oldie music feature was replaced by ‘U Time @ 9’ which includes locally produced ‘lifestyle’ features such as a weekly book review, gardening tips and fashion news.
Also, especially during weekday morning/lunchtime, our hourly Community Message (see below) and Entertainment Guide features were supplemented by a higher quantity of presenter-read announcements and sometimes interviews about local events and services. In turn we have noted we are hearing more regularly from more local charitable and other organisations, many of whom said they were contacting us because they had found previous promotion of their events on Gtfm effective. Just one example was Llantrisant Male Voice Choir, who recruited new members and reported ‘near sell-out’ concerts as a result of publicity on Gtfm.
A brand new monthly one-hour motoring interest programme began in autumn 2008. Presented by a particularly enthusiastic volunteer who also organised a classic car run on behalf of the station in summer 2008, ‘Drivers Seat’ is broadcast live at 7pm on the first Thursday of the month. Although centred on its speech content, this programme includes some music to punctuate the flow of interviews. We know from feedback that this programme alone has extended our sphere of influence by increasing awareness of Gtfm, as well as recruiting new listeners.
Meanwhile Sport output remained very similar to that in the last reporting period, including the Cardiff City Phone-In three times a week and the Ponty Rugby Show once a week - a programme which has included Welsh rugby legends JJ Williams and JPR Williams in an ever more impressive list of studio guests during this reporting year. The year also included live reports from Wembley by two of our sports team volunteers at the momentous FA Cup Final clash between Cardiff City and Portsmouth, via our Comrex outside broadcast unit.
Output will mainly be broadcast in English with some Welsh language content also being broadcast. (The use of other community languages is permitted).
Bilingual presenter Chris Mason, who teaches Welsh words, phrases and even songs to our breakfast presenter (weekday mornings @ 9.20am) won an Interlink Volunteering Award for his promotion of the Welsh Language at a local ceremony in June 2008. This came in a year when our four hours per week of dedicated Welsh language output was overhauled to increase the variety of speech content and include a wider range of more contemporary music tracks in the language.
The service will typically be broadcast live for at least 12 hours per day weekdays, 11 hours Saturdays and 8 hours on Sundays (live programming may include pre-recorded inserts, as applicable).
The station consolidated its position following the previous year’s increase in the number of live broadcasting hours, together with reductions in the proportions both of voice-tracked and staff-presented daytime output as new volunteers came forward.
On a typical weekday ‘live’ output extended from 7am to midnight, the vast majority of which was presented in real time by our volunteers.
On Saturdays ‘live’ output extending from 7am (or 8, dependent on time of year) to 6pm was supplemented from August 2008 by an evening schedule comprising four new programmes between 6pm and 1am, all of which are custom recorded or voice-tracked freshly each week by regular presenters. These new programmes were suggested at a volunteer meeting by the people who now present them. They wanted to replace an automated sequence containing only generic links and the result is a considerably improved service to listeners at that time of day.
A similar enhancement took place at the same time to Sunday evening output, with live or custom voice-tracked programmes from 8am-8pm supplemented between 8pm and midnight by a sequence of three custom-recorded programmes each week.
Key commitments: Social gain objectives
a) The provision of sound broadcasting services to individuals who are otherwise underserved.
The service will be community-centred, reflecting and representing the community that it serves, including Welsh language content and discussion programming. No other radio service caters just for Pontypridd.
Gtfm provides the only ‘full-service’ local radio service specifically catering for the people living its transmission area, positioned as it is a few miles north of the area’s main Cardiff-centred outlets, which include (the younger focussed) Red Dragon FM, (regional) Real Radio and (national) BBC Radio Wales.
Priority is therefore given to providing up-to-date and locally relevant information at all times. For example, in the early part of 2009 we were able to continue broadcasting throughout a period of severe winter weather, during which presenters caught trains and walked to the studios - while others were snowed in altogether. Also, our largely live evening output allows us to relay severe weather alerts and flood warnings received at those times without delay.
Even our specialist music output contains venue/gig guide and other specifically local information, together with regular feedback from local listeners.
We publicise the fact that we operate the ‘only radio newsroom in the County Borough’ because we believe that broadcasting from the heart of our coverage area is a vital ingredient of our service. We were therefore sorry to learn the Upper Valleys centred, Ebbw Vale based, commercial local station Valleys Radio was expected to close down towards the end of this reporting period, as it was the only other radio service partly covering our area originating from studios located in the South Wales Valleys, as opposed to big cities on the south coast.
Key commitments: Social gain objectives
(b) The facilitation of discussion and the expression of opinion
1. GTFM will offer air-time for local organisations to broadcast programming on issues of the day or about their organisation, and encourage listeners to engage and participate. A specific target is to ensure that at least five new groups become involved in such activities each year.
To give it greater prominence, as well as marking a clearer distinction between charitable announcements and paid-for messages, our hourly Community Message slot was moved from within the thirty minutes past the hour advert break to its own dedicated clock position at around 15 minutes past each hour. Scheduling of this pre-recorded feature (each one highlights – often through the voices of the people involved - the work and contact information of an individual charitable/service providing organisation) was also extended to overnight and more weekend hours, as was the hourly Entertainment Guide (played at around 45 minutes past each hour).
During the reporting period at least thirteen new community messages were produced in-house and added to the scheduling system, in addition to a great many more individual interviews/features publicising the work of locally based organisations.
Encouraging volunteering in the community remained a central focus of Gtfm’s output.
2. Phone-ins and discussion programming will involve invited guests and/or panels of experts to generate debate on local issues, including local sport.
Day-to-day discussion of local issues continued to be led through our hourly local news bulletins and interviews/feature content in daytime programming. Additionally, one-off studio discussions were mounted on specific subjects as necessary. Coverage of the Welsh Assembly elections this year included interviewing all Pontypridd constituency candidates and carefully giving them equal airtime, both in terms of duration and broadcast time.
In the field of sport, the Cardiff City (football) phone-in took place three times per week during the football season (3 x 1 hour all-speech discussions) and our half-hour weekly (all speech) ‘Ponty Rugby Show’ programme continued to discuss Rugby related issues, as well as attracting big name guests as outlined in the programming section above.
Key commitments: Social gain objectives
(c) The provision (whether by means of programmes included in the service or otherwise) of education or training to individuals not employed by the person providing the service
1. GTFM has a training programme, parts of which are run in conjunction with the University of Glamorgan. Courses consist of a range of activities varying in complexity and formality. All volunteers complete an induction training course which provides participants with an overview of the station's philosophy and aims, together with some basic technical training. Other ad-hoc training of would-be presenters, contributors and behind the scenes volunteers occurs as needs dictate. Additionally the University of Glamorgan runs accredited and non-accredited courses in all aspects of radio production. These are designed to be appropriate to all levels of learning – from informal sessions on operating a mixing desk to accredited degree level modules in Radio Journalism and Radio Drama.
This year we experienced an unprecedented level of interest from prospective new volunteers, greater even than last year’s record-breaking response.
As before, Gtfm’s new volunteers attended at least one of the University run courses outlined above. Station staff also provided further programme contributor training and gave specific instruction on studio operations exclusive to the Pinewood studio site (i.e. our voice-tracking system). In house training is organised by our Volunteer Co-ordinator but undertaken by the majority of staff at one time or another.
A ‘first’ during the year was the live broadcast of a new radio drama about demon barber Sweeny Todd, presented by drama and media course students from the theatre in the University of Glamorgan’s new Atrium building. This ambitious production, complete with gruesome sound effects and specially composed music, went out at 8pm on a Wednesday evening without a hitch. A recording was repeated shortly afterwards on a Sunday afternoon.
All of our training is provided for and specifically tuned to the needs of the particular individual wherever possible. Therefore, despite the fact several people who started out as Gtfm volunteers now work professionally in the broadcasting industry, we regard such an outcome as a bonus rather than our main purpose in life - which is to encourage improved self-esteem and self-confidence, alongside volunteering in the community.
2. The station will promote and provide training opportunities to the wider community either via links with the University of Glamorgan or other local training agencies.
Gtfm continued to nurture strong relationships with many educational establishments and training providers in the area, including ‘Interlink’, the volunteering umbrella organisation in RCT. These partnerships resulted in the on-air promotion of dozens of training/re-training initiatives, adult learning courses (etc) at all levels during the year, in addition to the activities of the University of Glamorgan.
As well as pre-recorded and live promotions for individual events and organisations, Interlink continued to take advantage of their weekly one-hour morning slot (Thursday 10-11am) which allowed them to promote particular initiatives and individual volunteering organisations / opportunities in greater detail.
Station staff and volunteers also attended outside training sessions to speak about the station and the opportunities it offers. Meanwhile Gtfm’s Volunteer Co-ordinator became an accredited trainer at the University of Glamorgan.
We also continued to provide logistical support including local news bulletins and music releases to the three-locality based RSL project in neighbouring parts of Rhondda Cynon Taf, the main funding-related objective of which was to increase the technical literacy and computer skills of volunteers from their socially deprived coverage areas.
Key commitments: Social gain objectives
(d) The better understanding of the particular community and the strengthening of the links within it
1. GTFM undertakes to focus on regeneration and working within deprived communities. The station will be a link to other relevant community projects working in this area.
Regeneration is a key feature of Gtfm’s Editorial Policy and the station is a member organisation of the Rhydyfelin Communities First Partnership in its own right. Also, through its two funded staff posts it publicises the efforts of such groups across the whole of RCT County Borough (activity it has to report in great detail on a quarterly basis to the funding body). Therefore the station pro-actively covers local regeneration initiatives on a regular basis, mainly via its local news and daytime interview/feature content.
The station also works closely with other local community groups (whether supported by Communities First funding or not), especially within deprived communities - more of which it now reaches following its frequency change in summer 2007. Gtfm also maintains its relationship with the Glyntaff Tenants and Residents Association (GTRA), on behalf of which the very first Gtfm RSL broadcasts were organised a decade ago.
The station also continues to promote initiatives including community policing, neighbourhood watch and sustainable energy/recycling.
2. GTFM will promote the station and the services it offers, such as hosting road shows and fundraising events for the community to participate in.
Gtfm primarily promoted itself on-air, via its website and in a weekly column in the Observer newspaper during the year in question. It was also still enjoying the residual benefit of awareness stimulated the previous year when it distributed an A5 sized promotional leaflet to 50,000 households and local businesses. Although the leaflet primarily promoted the frequency change, it also gave general station information including volunteering opportunities and contact details, a factor we believe resulted in increased enquiries thereafter. This was fortunate, as other public marketing plans had to be shelved when our financial position became increasingly challenging (see ‘Significant Problems’ below).
In addition to a roadshow and outside broadcast from the switching-on of the Pontypridd town centre Christmas lights (Nov 08) and Cardiff City’s appearance in the FA Cup Final (May 08), Gtfm undertook a number of other live broadcasts, often made possible with reasonable sound quality through its fully portable ‘Comrex’ unit. These broadcasts included coverage of the reception events in Cardiff Bay to welcome Wales’s Olympic and Paralympics competitors back home (several of whom are from our broadcast area).
Also, in support of a major co-promotion with the Pontypridd British Heart Foundation surrounding ‘Go Red For Heart’ month (February 09), breakfast presenter Becci carried out a whistle-stop live-link-up tour of events held on Gtfm’s own nominated day, most of which had been organised by local organisations as a direct result of publicity on-air. Station presenters also made personal appearances in support of a number of other local charity events during the year.
Significantly also, priority was given during the year to improving the functionality (and therefore the near-instant support potential) of the Gtfm’s own website (www.gtfm.co.uk).
These improvements resulted from the purchase of special software allowing the website to be updated directly from the Station Manager’s workstation, a facility which will eventually be extended to other station computers.
3. In addition the station will provide a platform for other local organisations to promote local activities and events for the community to attend or take part in.
As well as the ‘Community Message’ pre-recorded announcement service outlined above, the station also runs a free ‘Whats On’ announcement service for all events organised on a charitable/non profit-making basis. This service became increasingly popular during the year and many hundreds of ‘whats-on’ announcements were broadcast live by station presenters.
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Access and Participation
GTFM will encourage and local community to be involved with the station as follows:
1. A programme of support and training is provided to facilitate involvement. Training includes induction, and then informal training in a variety of roles as well as other support for volunteers. Participation will be invited and promoted via broadcast commercials, the website and promotional literature. As a specific target, each week, the station expects to involve approximately 30 volunteers in its various activities, both on-air and off-air.
During the year in question the average number of volunteers involved in routine station activities each week rose to 45, out of an expanded pool of over 100 volunteers in total.
2. Volunteers present and/or produce programmes (e.g. specialist music output), and work on administrative tasks such as research, the compilation of travel news bulletins and answering the phone.
Many of Gtfm’s volunteers were involved in the production and presentation of specialist interest music programmes, though they also covered all the other activities outlined above. For example, volunteers were responsible for all live broadcasts as well as all reception/telephone cover every weekend - in addition to presenting an increasing number of the weekday daytime programmes. During this year a larger number of new volunteer recruits were processed than ever before, resulting in a need to reorganise the evening programme schedule to make room for them all!
3. The station will develop its training for existing volunteer presenters. As a specific target, each year approximately ten volunteer presenters will undergo further training to help broaden and enhance their skills.
More than ten volunteers undertook additional training during the year and communication with our small army of volunteers continued to improve, partly facilitated by the continuation of the quarterly volunteer meetings introduced the previous year. These have proved very successful, both in aiding communication and the exchange of ideas, as well as being a useful (socially enjoyable) ‘bonding’ exercise.
Significantly, several ideas from volunteers which directly led to improved programming variety/quality this year were first mooted at these meetings.
4. Work experience and other training opportunities will be offered to local school children and older students, typically for a period of between one and two weeks at the station, depending upon age and interests. Students will follow a specially formulated induction. Target number of placements per year, 10-15.
During the year in question we estimate that 12 students completed work experience placement at GTFM.
Key commitments: Accountability to the target community
1. Listener surveys will be carried out as often as is practicable. As a minimum, the station expects to carry out such a survey at least once per year.
Regrettably it has not been possible, mainly due to restricted staff organisational resources over long periods, to carry out a formal listening survey during this reporting year. However, we do hope to do so in Autumn 2009. As well as gauging our audience development by comparison with an earlier survey (2005), we plan to probe awareness both in core area locations and places where our signal only became available after the frequency change in summer 2007.
2. The station will actively encourage regular feedback from volunteers (formally and informally). Experienced volunteers will be co-opted onto the station's Management Committee to act as liaison between volunteer membership and station management. The station expects to have two such volunteer representatives on its Management Committee at any one time.
Feedback is always encouraged from all directions. In addition to the regular volunteer meetings outlined above, a regular e-mailed newsletter was also introduced encouraging volunteer communication at every opportunity.
3. The station's Management Committee undertakes to operate in a transparent manner and to actively encourage feedback and comments from members of the community. Members of the community may also become involved in the management of the station up to and including becoming a member of the station's Management Committee. (Formal elections to the committee will be held should the number of interested parties exceed places available).
Membership of the five-strong Management Committee increased to six in summer 2008 due to the one-year secondment of Alun Hughes (from a business discipline at the University of Glamorgan). Otherwise membership remained constant during the reporting period following changes the previous year when two members stood down and were replaced by two station contributors, one of whom regularly presents daytime programmes - thus improving Committee access to day-to-day operational knowledge.
4. Complaints which cannot be dealt with by a member of staff will be relayed to the Station Manager. He / she will take responsibility for reaching a satisfactory conclusion, involving the Management Committee should this be considered appropriate.
5. Where a complaint is upheld, the station will publish details of the conclusions reached on its web-site and also, if appropriate, on air.
No complaints warranting management attention or the formal complaints procedure were received during the period.
Allowing for multiple appearances and taking schedule changes in August 2008 into account, an average of 45 volunteers worked on GTFM output in any typical week in the (second half of the) reporting period, split approximately as follows:
Saturday:
9 x main programme presenter/producers + at least 5 sports
contributors on an average week
Total – (at least) 14
Sunday:
12 x main programme presenter/producers, one of whom also looks
after morning show phone-answering/reception duties.
Total – 12
Weekdays
Daytime (average week):
4 x Community Link/Through Noon volunteer presenter/producers per week
3 x Afternoon Delight volunteer presenter/producers per week (other contributors not included)
Monday Night:
6 x presenter/producers
Tuesday Night:
4 x presenter/producers
Wednesday Night:
4 x presenter/producers
Thursday Night:
4 x presenter/producers
Friday Night:
4 x presenter/producers
Average Involvement
Different volunteers work widely differing hours, but based on an average involvement of 4 hours per session once a week, a notional monthly average would be 16 hours per volunteer, though this was exceeded in several cases in reality.
Significant achievements
During this reporting year Gtfm continued to successfully develop the diversity, quality and consistency of the service it offers to the local community - which in real terms has progressed considerably since the station changed frequency and absorbed the majority of output formally produced at the University of Glamorgan in 2007.
It managed to do this despite a need for remaining staff and volunteers to cover the essential duties of key staff members who were absent due to sickness for prolonged periods, not to mention the logistical problems caused by severe weather and the need to negotiate an increasingly tricky cash-flow situation caused by sudden funding cuts during the first quarter of 2009.
Significant difficulties
Do you wish this section to be kept confidential? No
Although prolonged spells of key staff illness caused frustrating delays to several important station development processes (including updating our Business Plan and recruiting our new Sales Executive), by far the most significant difficulty experienced was the sudden (and un-announced) loss of our annual SLA agreement with RCT County Borough at the start of 2009.
Worth £45,000 in the previous year, the sudden non-renewal of this agreement had the immediate and potentially crucial effect of reducing Gtfm’s total annual income by about 25%.
The decision was apparently caused by major budget cuts within the council, resulting in turn from reduced government subsidies. But we had not been warned in advance this important agreement would not be renewed, so had not anticipated problems with funding in the remainder of the financial year to 31st March, even though we were wary of the possibility reduced budgets would be experienced in the financial year from April 2009.
We managed to stay on the air in the final quarter of this reporting year by cutting all non-essential expenditure and with the assistance of grants from the Welsh Assembly Community Radio Fund, plus additional advertising revenue brought in during the final month of the year by our (Ofcom Community Radio Fund subsidised) Sales Executive, supplemented by larger than average bookings for Welsh Assembly Government advertising campaigns.
Audience research
Please provide a summary of any audience research/ data you have collected during the year.
As described above, we did not carry out any formal audience research during this reporting period, but do plan to do so in Autumn 2009
Section 2
I hereby declare that the information given in this annual report is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true and correct.
Signature (signed on printed, posted version)
Name: Gwyneth Whiles
Position: Trustee/Director (member of Management Committee)
Station: GTFM
Email address: (c/o) terry@gtfm.co.uk
Telephone number: 01443 406111
Date: 25th June 2009
4. Community Radio Annual Report Form
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1. Live output will typically comprise 65% music and 35% speech of daytime weekday programming, (‘speech’ excludes advertising, programme/promotional trails and sponsor credits). Outside these hours, the proportion of speech content may be reduced.
2. Music will consist in daytime of music from the 60s to the present day. A range of specialist music styles, including Welsh, rock, folk, blues, rock & roll, and country, will also be broadcast, mainly during evenings and at weekends. GTFM will also showcase local bands and Welsh language music.
3. Speech content will typically comprise national, regional, local news and sport, interviews, community messages and community information slots, what’s on guide and phone-ins.
4. Output will mainly be broadcast in English with some Welsh language content also being broadcast. (The use of other community languages is permitted.)
5. The service will typically be broadcast live for at least 12 hours per day weekdays, 11 hours Saturdays and 8 hours on Sundays (live programming may include pre-recorded inserts, as applicable).
6. The majority of station output will be produced at the main station studios or at University facilities. Some third-party programme material, such as news and features, may also be produced elsewhere.
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1. We believe that, on average, the stated daytime speech proportions were delivered during the year in question. The actual amount of speech varies somewhat from hour-to-hour/day-to-day dependent on interview content (etc), though we normally remain with a music-based format.
2. Our ‘wider-than-average’ range of popular music during daytime continued to provide local listeners with a degree of individual song variety not available from any other single non-BBC station audible in our licence area.
The overall musical feel of daytime was (and is) melodic in order to appeal to the broadest range of local people, including senior citizens who we believe are mainly attracted by our locally orientated speech content and the friendly approach of our presenters.
The full range of specialist music genres listed, plus others, were broadcast throughout the year in question. Welsh language music was included both in the specific Welsh language programmes detailed below and (at low rotation) within ‘routine’ computer-scheduled output, this being a predominantly English speaking area.
3. GTFM has always regarded offering a local news service as of paramount importance. This was (and is) provided in hourly weekday local news bulletins compiled in-house and broadcast after IRN. The station’s Editorial Policy defines Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough as our main editorial area (a key part of which is our Pontypridd licence area). It also emphasises the station’s particular wish to highlight community regeneration initiatives, life-long learning, safer communities, plus the benefits of sustainable energy and re-cycling.
As a result GTFM has developed a good working relationship with all main political parties, local authorities and the Welsh Assembly Government. During the year in question it regularly broadcast interviews with Assembly ‘cabinet’ (and other) members and covered the Assembly elections. National (UK) and World news coverage was/is provided in live hourly (3 minute) bulletins by IRN. National (Wales) and regional news plus sports information is broadcast within routine local news bulletins.
There were also dedicated sports bulletins at Friday teatime and on Saturday morning (average duration 2 minutes) during the football/rugby union season, together with a weekly (all-year-round) sport and music programme ‘The Season Ticket’ on Saturday afternoon.
Additionally, the one-hour all-speech ‘Cardiff City Phone-In’ was broadcast three times a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) during both the football seasons covered by this report. Meanwhile our weekly rugby chat show ‘The Ponty Rugby Phone-In’ (one hour, all-speech) ran until the end of the 2007 season in its 7pm Monday slot, returning as ‘The Ponty Rugby Show’ on Friday evening at 6.30pm in autumn 2007. Unlike its football counterpart, the Rugby phone-in had sometimes struggled to attract sufficient studio guests and/or new callers and had also been presented by a member of staff who left the station in summer 2007.
The new rugby show is presented and produced by the Supporters Club Secretary of Pontypridd RFC and is proving more popular so far.
4. On average at least four hours of programming was presented each week in the medium of Welsh, supplemented by a weekday morning ‘learning Welsh’ spot for most of the year.
5. During the reporting period live weekday output usually exceeded these minimum limits by a large margin, often averaging around 17 hours on weekdays. Although this included some freshly recorded voice-tracked links during some daytime segments, over the reporting year the station sought to gradually reduce the amount of voice-tracking in favour of fully live presentation as it recruited new volunteers. This also meant station staff were called upon to present less programme slots during daytime than had previously been the case.
On Saturday live/specifically voice-tracked output accounted for at least 11 hours (typically between 7am and 6pm).
From April till August 2007 continuous all-live output on Sunday occupied the period from 8am-3pm, followed by 4 hours of specially voice-tracked programming (3-7pm). From August live Sunday output was broadcast from 8am-1pm, then 3-5pm, with specifically voice-tracked output from 1-3pm and 5-8 pm
6. From April until August 2007 programming came from our main studios except during the periods from 6pm-midnight Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday; 6pm-10pm on Wednesday and 2-6pm Saturday, when programming came from the University of Glamorgan studios.
During summer 2007 the University of Glamorgan moved much of its Creative Industries Department from the local campus to its custom-built ‘Atrium’ building in Cardiff. As a result it was no longer able to support its previous level of GTFM programme output, the majority of which re-located to the main Pinewood studio centre.
From August 2007 therefore, all output came from Pinewood except for nine hours of output per week from the local University campus studio (‘Cardiff City Phone-In’, 3 x hours, Mon/Wed/Fri @7pm + ‘Showcase Wales’, 2 x hours, Wed 8-10pm + ‘Season Ticket’ 4 x hours, Sat 2-6pm). Virtually all our programmes were produced at the above mentioned studios during the year in question. The only exceptions were occasional programmes produced ‘on location’ in the area, sometimes by University students as part of their media degree courses.
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GTFM provides what it regards as the only ‘full-service’ local radio service specifically catering for the people living its transmission area – which lies between Cardiff centred (and younger focussed) Red Dragon FM and the Upper Valleys/Ebbw Vale based station Valleys Radio. Priority is therefore given to providing up-to-date and locally relevant information at all times. For example, we are the ‘official’ Environment Agency ‘Flood watch’ station for our area and regularly receive faxes and emails allowing us to update our listeners about the state of local rivers and the likelihood of flooding. During this reporting year we also relayed Met Office Severe Weather Warnings having joined that scheme in December 2006. Since the majority of live evening output moved to our main studio centre in August 2007 our listeners have benefitted from the near-instant relay of important weather and flood warnings during weekday evenings, a time when programmes on most other ‘local’ stations ere either networked from well outside our area or voice-tracked. Even our specialist music output contains venue/gig guide and other specifically local information, together with regular feedback from local listeners.
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Key commitments: Social gain objectives (b) The facilitation of discussion and the expression of opinion
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GTFM will offer air-time for local organisations to broadcast programming on issues of the day or about their organisation, and encourage listeners to engage and participate. A specific target is to ensure that at least five new groups become involved in such activities each year. Phone-ins and discussion programming will involve invited guests and/or panels of experts to generate debate on local issues, including local sport
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[report back against your key commitments here] GTFM broadcast at least one ‘Community Message’ of average duration 30-45 seconds (virtually) every hour of the day and evening during the reporting period, during which the station had at least 50 such messages on routine rotation, scheduled by computer alongside the commercials and music.
The station provides production back-up enabling local organisations to script and record these announcements using their own words and voices. Additionally, many other local groups and their initiatives received coverage in our news bulletins and/or programme features. The activities of dozens (rather than 5) ‘new’ groups were publicised during the year in question.
Day-to-day discussion of local issues was mainly facilitated through hourly local news bulletins and interviews/feature content in daytime programming. Additionally, one-off studio discussions were mounted on specific subjects as necessary. For example, during the period local Assembly Member Jane Davidson made regular appearances talking and being questioned about topical issues.
The station and its audience also discussed the affairs of Cardiff City FC in the ‘Cardiff City Phone In’ (one hour, three times a week) and of Pontypridd Rugby Football Club in the ‘Ponty Rugby Phone-In’ and later ‘The Ponty Rugby Show’ (see programming section above for details). Both these programmes are all-speech formats.
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Key commitments: Social gain objectives (c) The provision (whether by means of programmes included in the service or otherwise) of education or training to individuals not employed by the person providing the service
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GTFM has a training programme, parts of which are run in conjunction with the University of Glamorgan. Courses consist of a range of activities varying in complexity and formality. All volunteers complete an induction training course which provides participants with an overview of the station's philosophy and aims, together with some basic technical training. Other ad-hoc training of would-be presenters, contributors and behind the scenes volunteers occurs as needs dictate. Additionally the University of Glamorgan runs accredited and non-accredited courses in all aspects of radio production. These are designed to be appropriate to all levels of learning – from informal sessions on operating a mixing desk to accredited degree level modules in Radio Journalism and Radio Drama.
The station will promote and provide training opportunities to the wider community either via links with the University of Glamorgan or other local training agencies.
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Most of GTFM’s volunteers have attended at least one of the University run courses outlined above. Station staff also provided programme contributor training and gave specific instruction to volunteers on studio operations exclusive to the Pinewood studio site (i.e. voice-tracking). Appropriate training is given to all new volunteers, organised by our Volunteer Co-ordinator.
Although several people who started out as GTFM volunteers now work professionally in the broadcasting industry, we regard such an outcome as a bonus rather than our main purpose in life - which is to encourage volunteering in the community.
GTFM continued to enjoy a strong relationship with a great many other volunteering groups in the area, especially via the ‘Interlink’ umbrella organisation, resulting in the on-air promotion of dozens of other training initiatives and opportunities during the course of the year. In addition to the broadcast of pre-recorded and live promotions for individual events and organisations, for much of the year Interlink took advantage of the weekly one-hour morning slot (Thursday 10-11am) specifically allocated to it by GTFM to allow the promotion of particular initiatives in greater detail. During the year GTFM also provided logistical support including simulcast output, local news bulletins and new music releases to a series of RSL broadcasts which were part of a project to introduce the benefits of community radio to neighbouring parts of Rhondda Cynon Taf. This project was originally conceived at GTFM by our founding Station Manager and now operates independently. It is funded by Communities @ 1 and is primarily intended to improve the computer and technological literacy of the people in the Treherbert, Penrhys and Penywaun areas. These broadcasts began in July 2007 and featured a (jointly-branded) relay of GTFM’s weekday Breakfast Show, followed at 10am by local programmes in the areas concerned.
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Key commitments: Social gain objectives (d) The better understanding of the particular community and the strengthening of the links within it
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GTFM undertakes to focus on regeneration and working within deprived communities. The station will be a link to other relevant community projects working in this area.
GTFM will promote the station and the services it offers, such as hosting road shows and fundraising events for the community to participate in.
In addition the station will provide a platform for other local organisations to promote local activities and events for the community to attend or take part in.
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GTFM is a member organisation of the local Communities First Regeneration Partnership because regeneration is a key feature of the station’s editorial policy. The station therefore pro-actively covers local regeneration initiatives on a regular basis via its local news and feature content. The station also works closely with local groups (whether supported by Communities First funding or not) within deprived communities. Its longest-term relationship is with the Glyn Taf Residents Association, known as GTRA.
The station also promoted community policing initiatives and neighbourhood watch schemes during the reporting year, as well as broadcasting a weekly ‘On The Beat’ spot in which a police officer appealed on-air for listeners’ help with various enquiries. GTFM promoted its own programmes on-air, via its website and in a weekly column in the Observer newspaper. The station also undertook outside broadcasts from locations including local blood donor sessions, plus the switching-on of the Pontypridd town centre Christmas lights. Station presenters also made personal appearances in support of a number of other local charity events during the year.
Perhaps most significantly, the station also arranged for the production and door-to-door delivery of A5 promotional leaflets (in June and July 2007) to 50,000 local households and businesses, primarily to promote a change of broadcasting frequency required by Ofcom. As well as giving the all-important new frequency details the leaflet also gave station contact details, promoted its volunteering/training activities and invited anyone interested to come forward.
Despite the great risks of a frequency change after several (five) years on-air at a station like ours with very limited financial/promotional resources, we believe the frequency change process – and the leaflet - may actually have enhanced our awareness and listenership, especially in parts of the immediate Pontypridd area not properly served (or not served at all) from our original transmitter site.
We
believe this because of a subsequent tangible increase in audience
feedback/interaction (all of it positive), as well as a flood of new
volunteer enquiries, which have reached unprecedented
levels. As well as the ‘Community Message’ pre-recorded announcement service outlined above, the station also runs a free ‘Whats On’ announcement service for all events organised on a charitable/non profit-making basis. This is very popular with local event organisers and listeners alike and hundreds of ‘whats-on’ announcements were broadcast live by station presenters during the year in question.
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Key commitments: Access and participation
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GTFM will encourage and local community to be involved with the station as follows: A programme of support and training is provided to facilitate involvement. Training includes induction, and then informal training in a variety of roles as well as other support for volunteers. Participation will be invited and promoted via broadcast commercials, the website and promotional literature. As a specific target, each week, the station expects to involve approximately 30 volunteers in its various activities, both on-air and off-air. Volunteers
present and/or produce programmes (e.g. specialist music output), and
work on administrative tasks such as research, the compilation of
travel news bulletins and answering the phone. The station will develop its training for existing volunteer presenters. As a specific target, each year approximately ten volunteer presenters will undergo further training to help broaden and enhance their skills. Work experience and other training opportunities will be offered to local school children and older students, typically for a period of between one and two weeks at the station, depending upon age and interests. Students will follow a specially formulated induction. Target number of placements per year, 10-15.
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[report back against your key commitments here] During the year in question an average of 35-40 volunteers took part in routine station activities each week.
Many of GTFM’s volunteers were/are involved in the production and presentation of specialist interest music programmes, though they also covered all the activities outlined above. For example, volunteers were responsible for all live broadcasts as well as all reception/telephone cover every weekend - in addition to presenting an increasing number of the weekday daytime programmes. We gave supplementary training to more than 10 volunteers during the year and we are improving the consistency of this on-going training over time.
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August 2007, to coincide with the University volunteer’s move to
Pinewood studios, we instigated quarterly volunteer meetings which have
proved very successful, both in aiding communication/the exchange of
ideas and as a social ‘bonding’ exercise.
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Key commitments: Accountability to the target community
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The group will actively encourage feedback by a number of methods: Listener surveys will be carried out as often as is practicable. As a minimum, the station expects to carry out such a survey at least once per year. The station will actively encourage regular feedback from volunteers (formally and informally). Experienced volunteers will be co-opted onto the station's Management Committee to act as liaison between volunteer membership and station management. The station expects to have two such volunteer representatives on its Management Committee at any one time. The station's Management Committee undertakes to operate in a transparent manner and to actively encourage feedback and comments from members of the community. Members of the community may also become involved in the management of the station up to and including becoming a member of the station's Management Committee. (Formal elections to the committee will be held should the number of interested parties exceed places available.) Complaints which cannot be dealt with by a member of staff will be relayed to the Station Manager. He / she will take responsibility for reaching a satisfactory conclusion, involving the Management Committee should this be considered appropriate. Where a complaint is upheld, the station will publish details of the conclusions reached on its web-site and also, if appropriate, on air.
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No formal survey was conducted in this year and we will prioritise doing so as soon as possible.
Feedback is always encouraged and – as detailed above - we have implemented last years’ stated intention to hold regular volunteer meetings. GTFM’s continued split-site operation in the first half of this report year made communication with volunteers far more difficult than it became after August 2007.
The Volunteer Co-ordinator has also encouraged a greater degree of volunteer communication in both directions, presiding over our system to monitor the perceived effectiveness of in-house staff training.
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Volunteer inputs (see guidance notes on page 2) An average of 35-40 volunteers worked on GTFM output in any typical week in the reporting period, split approximately as follows: Saturday: 5 x programme presenter/producers + 5 or more sports contributors Average total – Saturday volunteers 10 Sunday: 1 x admin (phone-answering) volunteer 2 x Sunday Breakfast presenter/producers 1 x Old Gold (request) presenter/producer 2-3 x Spotlight (Arts prog) presenter producers 1 or 2 ‘Golden Years’ voice-tracked afternoon presenters 1 x Country music programmes presenter/producer 1 x Welsh Language evening voice-track presenter Average total - Sunday volunteers 10 (Typical) Weekday Daytime: 1 x Community Link/Through Noon volunteer presenter/producer each day + Media student input (10-11am) input on Wednesday, later moving to Friday. 1 x ‘Afternoon Delight’ volunteer presenter Average total - Weekday volunteers – 7 (student and short feature contributors not included) Monday Night: Cardiff City Phone-In team included an average 1 volunteers per prog; Ponty Rugby Phone-In team included an average 1 volunteer per prog; Retro Show: usually 2 presenter producers (in era rotation) Bob + Norm’s Blues Show features 2 x volunteer presenter/producers Tuesday Night: Livewire (in Welsh) 2/3 volunteer presenter/producers Clwb Cymreig 2 volunteer presenter/producers Highly Strung average 1 or 2 volunteer presenter/producers Wednesday Night: Cardiff City Phone-In team 1x volunteer (different from Monday) Showcase Wales 2 x volunteer presenter/producers Rock Show: 1 x volunteer presenter/producer Thursday Night: Livewire: 2 x volunteer presenter/producers L’America; 2 x volunteer presenter/producers Limelight: Average 1 x volunteer presenter/producer (on rota) Friday Night: Cardiff City Phone-In 1 x volunteer (same as Mon or Wed) Livewire: 2 x volunteer presenter/producers Quantize Sessions: 1 x volunteer presenter/producer Average total - weekday night volunteers – 24 Different volunteers work widely differing hours, but based on an average involvement of 4 hours per session once a week, a notional monthly average would be 16 hours per volunteer.
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Significant achievements
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During this reporting year GTFM successfully negotiated several potentially hazardous logistical exercises and emerged the stronger for the experience.
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Significant difficulties
Do you wish this section to be kept confidential? No
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Section 3
Additional Notes Relating to Excel Spreadsheet Questions
Section 4
I hereby declare that the information given in this annual report is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, true and correct.
Signature (written copy signed by Dave Jones)
Name
Dave Jones
Position
Chair
Station
GTFM
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Contact email address terry@gtfm.co.uk
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Telephone number 01443 406111
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Date
29th September 2008