Discipline: community-media

Grassroots, participatory radio, TV and publishing.

Stitcht

Stitcht is a fan engagement agency using its own technology to activate fans of brands to provide video content at scale. We then turn videos from fans into brand storytelling that we distribute into the brand’s channels, which drives growth in acquisition, engagement or monetisation. We are the pioneers of Fan-Generated Content.

Joe Jarvis

Designer, creative and organiser behind Hands® Bicycle Club and Block Radio.

Hands® Bicycle Club

Hands® Bicycle Club is a local community bike club. Free, open-to-all, and strictly No Lycra, we run monthly group rides through and around the city at a slower pace and shorter mileage. Hands® group rides encourage socialising with other local people and finding a deeper appreciation for the green space and connectivity of the city’s … Hands® Bicycle Club

Block Radio

Block is a new independent online radio station based in Milton Keynes: for its people, by its people. An assembly of pre-recorded ‘radio’ shows created by artists, musicians, producers, creative organisations, craft nights, bike clubs and more from the local community — radio in nothing but name.

Cable Radio MK (CRMK)

CRMK was formed in 1978. The station’s broadcasting medium was literally built into the fabric of the city via a network of underground cables. It began life in the converted offices of Channel 40 TV on Fishermead Boulevard; when the lease on the MKDC premises ran out, the whole operation was moved to a large … Cable Radio MK (CRMK)

Channel 40

Pioneering grassroots / hyper-local television station that operated in Milton Keynes between 1976 and 1979 — essentially an early precursor to community broadcasting and YouTube.