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Jeremy says:
”I am passionate about keeping FromeFM alive and relevant to Frome and to the Community Radio family. I am keen to embrace all new initiatives both financially and creatively. We are on the lookout from within our membership for key people to help with training, studio management, post production, jingle production, design and community reporting! If you have any suggestions, questions, or would like to discuss any of my areas of responsibility, please contact me direct anytime on jerwestcott@nullaol.com.”
Fun Facts about Jeremy:
Jeremy’s Show on Frome FM:
Westcott’s World is a weekly magazine style show with a mix of worldwide interviews, dedications, comments and 50’s, 60’s and 70’s music. You can listen on FromeFM every Wednesday at midday, or catch up on MixCloud.
There are lots of ways you can fundraise for us, and have fun at the same time!
Here are some ideas, and there are more in our fundraising guide . And come up with you own ideas – let your imagination run wild!
Please make sure that any fundraising activities meet the current COVID-19 government guidelines.
If you are doing something that involves sponsorship it can be useful to have a fundraising web page – FromeFM are registered on Local Giving, so that’s the best place to create your fundraising page.
Please let us know if you are doing fundraising for us. We would like to thank you, and can promote your fundraising on-air and online. We also have some merchandising that we can provide for events.
Please see the support us page for ways in which you can donate your raised funds to us.
We really hope that you do fundraise for FromeFM, however, we ask that anything you do is:
FromeFM is a not-for-profit organisation run and managed entirely by volunteer members. We have operating costs of around £16,000 a year from rent, utilities, licences and insurance. We need your help so we can stay on the air and even expand our service!
There are lots of ways you can support FromeFM so we can continue to broadcast original content relevant to all people and communities in Frome.
You can set up a monthly donation to FromeFM on Local Giving, or make a one-off donation on Local Giving or Everyclick.
Raise money for FromeFM when you shop online, book a holiday, change utilities or buy insurance – all at no extra cost to you! Read more on our Give As You Live blog post.
The Co-op will donate 1% of proceeds from all own branded food products to FromeFM up until October 2019. Our blog post contains more details on how to register and take part.
Fundraise for us… Run a marathon, do a parachute jump, organise a pub quiz – there are lots of fun ways you can fundraise to keep FromeFM on air.
Fancy a flutter to support FromeFM? Sign up for the Shape Mendip Lottery for just £1 a week and have a chance of winning £25,000!
Use Everyclick Search and you can make money for FromeFM every time you search the web without it costing you a penny. Read more on our Everyclick information page.
Become a member of FromeFM as an individual or community group and take part in running shows and deciding how the station is run.
Your business can support FromeFM and get a range of on air and online promotions with our advertising and sponsorship packages.
There’s always lots of jobs that need doing to keep FromeFM on air. If you want to volunteer with us please get in touch.
You can set up a monthly or one-off donation to FromeFM on LocalGiving or Everyclick. Please remember to Gift Aid the donation if you can.
You can make monthly donations with a standing order. You can print out the standing order form and take it to your bank, or use the bank details below.
For standing order or direct transfers, our bank details are:
Frome Community Productions CIC
HSBC Frome Branch
Sort Code: 40-44-33
Account Number: 62079968
Please make cheques out to Frome Community Productions CIC and post them to:
Frome Community Productions CIC
Frome Town Hall
Christchurch Street West
Frome, Somerset
BA11 1EB
All rights, including copyright, in the content of the www.frome.fm web pages are owned or controlled for these purposes by Frome Community Productions CIC (hereon identified as FromeFM). All images/audio either belong to FromeFM or are used with permission/fair-use.
The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 says that copyright is an automatic international right that gives companies who are the creators of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works the right to control the ways in which their material may be used.
Clarification of these rights within the act is enshrined in the FromeFM Volunteers Charter, which took effect in 2007 and was refreshed in 2013, under item 3.9.
Accept that all information compiled and all programme material made using the Station’s equipment and facilities, is the property of the Station unless express permission is given to the contrary.
The full charter is available to download from the following direct link FromeFM Volunteers Charter. This policy document is due to be refreshed again in 2018.
Copyright is an automatic international right that gives creators the freedom to decide what happens to their creations. You may use someone else’s work only if you have their permission by the copyright owner or if the law allows it, such as for fair-use
Copyright automatically applies to, and protects, all of FromeFM’s creative work. That means we are free to decide how other people can use our work and means that anyone else must ask permission before using our work. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a “professional” or not, the law is the same for everyone.
The law in the UK defines the things which copyright automatically applies to.
Original works, for example writing, music, drama, art and photography, are protected by copyright. Films, sound recordings, typographical arrangements and broadcasts are also covered as long as they are not copied from a previous work of the same kind.
Here are some examples of original works that are copyright protected:
For FromeFM the majority of our copyright calls into the ‘Broadcasts’ and ‘Sound recording’ categories, but this is not an exhaustive list.
Generally, while programme rights are likely to be held by FromeFM, as a whole broadcast, there will be other factors in play too. Ask yourself the following questions.
Which company owns/has made the programme? Do they own all rights within the programmes or do other people who have contributed to it still have rights in the programme too?
It’s helpful to break these down into different types, as they are treated differently in a copyright context:
FromeFM understands the importance of contributions presenters make with regards to programmes but there is a whole raft of supporting roles that get a show on the air. There are more obvious ones such as studio managers, producers and equipment engineers but also those hidden behind the scenes who develop the website, do our marketing & promotion, licensing, trainers, financial, legal & organisational admin and even those who do the cleaning. We are a community of volunteers and when a show is “Produced by FromeFM” we are all given a tacit nod for the work involved.
According to the act, it is an offence to perform any of the following without the consent of the owner:
Rights cannot be claimed for any part of a work which is a copy taken from a previous work. Unless express permission is granted, for example, changing the idents would technically be a breach under 4.) “Adapt the work”. The copyright of the samples remains with the original author no matter how much it is edited or manipulated.
Streaming or re-uploading this content without permission would also be a breach of 3.) “broadcast or show the work in public”. You may not re-upload FromeFM content to platforms such as Soundcloud, Podomatic, iTunes, YouTube, Facebook or Mixcloud without express permission. This list is not exhaustive.
Fair-use does apply to our programmes and small portions can be used without express permission for the purposes of critique, news reporting, education or incidental use. Re-broadcasting entire shows do not fall under fair-use.
FromeFM is obligated to defend copyright. If you are caught using the FromeFM material in whole or in part without permission then we may contact your hosting company or streaming provider directly.
The period a copyrighted work is protected for depends on a number of factors such as the type of work created and when it was made. For example, if you wrote a poem your work will be protected until 70 years after your death. Programmes produced for FromeFM are protected for a period of 50 years from the date of production. The oldest FromeFM content does not become copyright free until 2057.
FromeFM has various sharing agreements with many other local community stations and organisations including Infosound, Somer Valley and BCfm (among others).
The fact that copyright belongs to FromeFM does not mean that we cannot share when there is a mutual benefit. If you wish to speak with us about syndication and licensing agreements please visit the Contact us page. In most circumstances, we offer this for free for community broadcasters but there is a fee for commercial for-profit businesses.
To be approved for syndication your station must have full compliance with content licensing through relevant third party collection agencies (including but not limited to PRS, PPL, MCPS) as well as compliance with other regulatory bodies, policies or frameworks.
Copyright belongs to the person who created an original work. If a presenter creates something as part of their job voluntary role, it belongs to their employer. In the case of FromeFM programmes, anything produced using FromeFM owned equipment and using our facilities for original broadcast on our station the copyright owner is FromeFM. This is also written into the FromeFM volunteers charter which applies to all members.
The owner of copyright does have the right to transfer it to someone else if they want, or they can give someone permission to use the work without giving away the ownership. When permission is granted for use of a work it’s often referred to as a licence. FromeFM already has syndication agreements with other community stations in order to licence programmes to legitimate broadcasters where a benefit is seen as mutual.
To avoid infringing copyright law, you need permission before you use our work, or the use you’re making needs to be covered by a legal exception.
When permission is granted there will usually be various conditions the user needs to agree to. These might include a fee which ensures the creator gets paid for their work, as well as other conditions about how and where it can be used, limits on use and the way it must be acknowledged.
Copyright exists in most countries and while the law varies around the world the same general principles apply in most territories. There are international copyright agreements to provide protection for authors and creators while allowing their work to be translated, produced and enjoyed by audiences worldwide.
There are some exceptions to copyright defined in the law that allow you to use a work for some educational or private uses, amongst others, without getting permission first. Some new exceptions have recently been created in UK law. You will find a useful list of exceptions in “What the Law says”.
This page was last updated on 12th December 2017 and supersedes any previous verbal or email agreement.