Aims and Objectives:
- To provide access to training, development and volunteering opportunities; to encourage local creative talent; to foster local traditions and to provide services for the benefit, entertainment, education and development of our community.
- To provide a right of access to minority and marginalised groups and to promote and protect cultural and linguistic diversity.
- To promote the right to communicate; to assist the free flow of information and opinions, to encourage creative expression and to contribute to the democratic process and a plural society.
- To seek to have ownership representative of local geographically recognisable communities or of communities of common interest.
- To be editorially independent of government, commercial, religious institutions and political parties in determining programming policy.
- To honestly inform our audience on the basis of information drawn from a variety of sources and to provide a right to reply to any person or organisation subject to serious misrepresentation.
- To be established as an organisation, which is not run with a view to profit and to ensure independence by being financed from a variety of sources.
- To recognise and respect the contribution of volunteers.
- To operate management, programming and practice which oppose discrimination and which are open and accountable to all supporters and volunteers.
- To foster exchange between community media practitioners using communications to develop greater understanding in support of peace, tolerance, democracy and development.
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