Trent Mission Statement

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Mission Statement

Trent Sound is a social enterprise company limited by guarantee. All funds generated by our business activities are re-invested back into the business, we do not have shareholders and this allows us to focus on our service without reference to shareholders or other internal financial constraints.

This page sets out the aims and objectives which underpin Trent Sound Limited, detailing our community strategy, outlining our plans for the future and forming the basis of our “Mission Statement”. This mission statement is not exhaustive and is subject to revision and addition as the service develops, but does set out in some detail the main principles which dictate our station’s purposes within Nottingham’s diverse communities.

The aims of Trent Sound Limited are:

To operate a community radio station composed primarily of members from the community it serves. Its purposes are to identify and promote community awareness for the benefit of social inclusion and interaction; to encourage involvement in the nature, characteristics and uses of untapped skills and knowledge and to provide a participation and social interactive medium for its members and its community;

To provide a forum and focus for ideas to be exchanged and for the sharing and delivery of information throughout its members and its community. Its activities to include the exchange of ideas and information by discussions and debate, to include journals, special interest groups and local gatherings across the broadcast medium;

To promote and encourage the inclusion and participation of its members and its community, their opinions and expressions and to provide assistance to communicate and broadcast special interest projects. Projects will typically embrace social, health and welfare, education, industry and commerce, tourism, agriculture, entertainment and the arts, local government, community groups, charities, local community projects and companies;

To provide the whole community with a collective communication opportunity via a broadcasting service. The Company shall only have aims that are impartial and of benefit to the community;

To provide the local community with a voice to deliver information on a wide range of subjects having specific local impact or interest as well as providing entertainment;

To act as a communications catalyst to promote social integration through the involvement of local groups, organisations and volunteers in the delivery of its media services;

To advance the education of the public in all aspects of community media and to promote the educational benefits resulting from the establishment of community media services which are owned and controlled by their community and constituted otherwise than with a view to profit;

To recognise the diversity of the community by providing access to broadcast programming, training and education and by promoting community groups and events for the benefit and enjoyment of the entire community;

To operate broadcast radio stations, transmit radio programmes, and do all things necessary as the Company considers appropriate to provide benefit for, and access to radio communications for the community and to acquire and hold radio frequencies and licenses as determined from time to time by the appropriate licensing authorities;

To ensure that programmes broadcast by the Company maintain a high general standard in all respects and in particular in respect of their content, quality, balance and wide-range of subject matters, having regard to programmes as a whole;

To write, produce and distribute programmes, vocational programmes, cultural programmes, programmes of interest to the public or any section thereof, public affairs programmes, musical or dramatic performances, messages, news, reports, lectures, speeches, and any other matter conducive to the aims and objects of the Company;

To provide training in the various facets of broadcasting in which the Company is involved, and to provide counselling, instruction and direction as required and to carry out such further and other objects or both (whether or not related to the foregoing) as the Company may from time to time by ordinary resolution decide to undertake.