Overdue: 505 days
Public benefits
Volunteers receive training and support which enhance their skills and abilities. The benefit to our wider community of listeners arises from a service which seeks to entertain, inform and educate through our varied radio output and through the provision and enhancement of physical facilities and services in community media. The benefits are
measured by volunteer numbers and feedback on their training and volunteering experience and aslo through listenership surveys and research, both quantitative and qualitative. It is also identifiable in the number of additional facilities and services that we can provide. No. Our volunteers, trainees and our wider student and youth community who listen to and enagage with our radio services. Any private benefit from the enjoyment of volunteering and in enhancing individuals skills and knowledge is purely incidental and necessary in the management and operation of the charity.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Blast106 Limited is a not-for-profit community media organisation based in Belfast which has provided a community radio service to the student & youth community on a cross-community basis since 2009. Blast106 engages with and provides a service to our beneficiaries, both volunteers and listeners, on and off air. The stations output is varied and
engaging and provides relevant information as well as providing a medium by which our community can express its views and aspirations. Through our training services we provide participants with an opportunity to learn and develop new skills which improve their self-esteem and employability. We offer our training to the community and through educational institutions and since 2009 have trained over 500 people. We provide support and assistance to other community media organisations with a similar ethos and this assistance can be both advisory, resources and financial. We have a Media Centre in Belfast City Centre providing Studios, Recording & Production Facilities and support offices. Our ambition is to secure our own premises which will preferably involve bringing an old or listed building back into use and we support the increase and enhancement of physical infrastructure resources for our community media sector. We actively seek to bring about political change to improve the support of community media in all its forms for the benefit of our community.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- General public
- Men
- Overseas/developing countries
- Unemployed/low income
- Voluntary and community sector
- Volunteers
- Women
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Advice/advocacy/information
- Community development
- Community enterprise
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Cultural
- Economic development
- Education/training
- Environment/sustainable development/conservation
- General charitable purposes
- Grant making
- Volunteer development