Annex C
PUBLIC VOICE
Public Voice is a voluntary sector network established
to support, defend and protect public service broadcasting in
all its forms now, and in the future. Public Voice campaigns to
ensure that communications reform is led by public interest objectives,
such as plurality of voice, impartiality and objectivity in news,
diversity and quality of content, right across the market and
to ensure there are sufficient safeguards in the future legislation
and regulation to make this vision a reality.
Any voluntary or community organisation can
join Public Voice. Our steering committee is made up of a number
of agencies who have particular expertise in the voluntary and
media sector, but we have a wide and active membership with new
supporters arriving every day. Current supporters and members
include: NCVO, The Kings Fund, WWF, RSPB, NIACE, CAFOD, Age Concern
England, Childline, RNIB, Oxfam, RNID, NFWI, CSV Media and the
British Deaf Association.
THE PUBLIC
VOICE STEERING
COMMITTEE
Broadcasting Support Services is a charity which
has been devising and providing flexible solutions to the public
and voluntary sectors and broadcasters since 1975. It offers a
full range of services including short- and long-term telephone
helplines, donation processing, publishing, new media, fulfilment,
Welsh bilingual services and consultancy. BSS provides office
space and management support for the Public Voice campaign.
The Campaign for Quality Television was set
up in 1988 to express the concern of programme makers about the
then proposed de-regulation of television. After intensive activity
around what became the 1990 Broadcasting Act it was re-launched
in 1995 and has since published two major reports on the state
of British broadcasting. The campaign exists to: promote the value
of public service television; ensure choice and quality for all
viewers in the UK; ensure that public service television is adequately
funded; to promote public debate about television; and to persuade
legislators towards policies which are creative and imaginative
and which treat the viewers as partners in the enterprise of television
rather than simply as sources of revenue.
The Community Media Association, (formerly the
Community Radio Association), was founded in 1983 by audio production
workshops, community radio projects, social action broadcasters,
media activists and academics. It was set up with the aim to support
a third sector of community media services alongside commercial
broadcasters and the BBC.
The Media Trust works in partnership with the
media to meet the communications needs of charities, voluntary
organisations and community groups. It provides advice and support
from media and communications professionals for the voluntary
sector, makes videos and television programmes for and about the
voluntary sector, offers volunteering opportunities for media
professionals, and runs the Community Channel, a television channel
for the voluntary sector.
The Third World and Environment Broadcasting
Project (3WE) is a coalition of non-governmental organisations
concerned with international development, environment and human
rights issues. It works for sustained, imaginative and fair media
coverage of developing countries, their people and the environment
in which they live. 3WE's membership consists of the following
leading non-governmental voluntary organisations: ActionAid; CAFOD;
Christian Aid; Comic Relief; ITDG; Oxfam; RSPB; Save the Children;
United Nations Association-UK; Unicef UK; Voluntary Service Overseas;
Worldaware; and the World Wide Fund for Nature.
The Voice of the Listener and Viewer is an independent
non-profitmaking association representing the interests of listeners
and viewers across the UK. VLV is concerned with the structures,
institutions, funding and regulation that underpin the British
broadcasting system, and in particular with the principle of public
service in broadcasting. It has over 2,000 individuals, nearly
50 academic departments and organisations and nearly 30 corporate
organisations in membership, including RNIB, RNID, RSPB, NSPCC,
NFWI, Age Concern England, Help the Aged, IBT and the Parkinson's
Disease Society.
Public Voice is supported by The Joseph Rowntree
Reform Trust Ltd.
15 January 2002
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