- Location: Grantham
- Project Type: Active Community
- Area: Midlands
- Awarded: £700
- Status: In Progress
Project Details
OFCOM recently granted a 5 year licence to provide a full time community radio station for Grantham and its surrounding villages. Gravity FM is now up and running as a community interest company. The station will highlight matters of direct interest to local people, such as the closure of the local Hospital, with rural issues having a high profile. The management board and volunteers are made up of local residents with an active desire for Gravity FM to be a distinctive community resource. The station recently acquired a house from Grantham College, which volunteers are helping to convert into studios. When completed, the facilities will give local students the chance to learn radio management and production, as part of their courses in media studies. In order to really go out and get the vox pops they need to make this truly community enterprise, they will need hand held recorders. It’s Your Community will make a real difference by providing the funding to buy this equipment.