Ofcom

The Office of Communications is the licensing and regulatory body for community radio in the UK. We report to Ofcom annually against all the key commitments that form our licence, who require us to deliver all of these each year.

Our Key Commitments:

Description of character of service

Soundart Radio is for the people of Totnes and creates opportunities for practising artists, musicians and the wider community to use radio as a means of creative expression. It provides opportunities for local people to make original and creative programmes, including arts programming and a variety of alternative music genres. The studio is located within the licensed coverage area.

The service provides a range of community benefits (social gain objectives mandated by statute) for the target community, both on-air and off-air, and in doing so, achieves the following objectives:

• the facilitation of discussion and the expression of opinion,
• the provision (whether by means of programmes included in the service or otherwise) of education or training to individuals not employed by the person providing the service, and 
• the better understanding of the particular community and the strengthening of links within it.

Members of the target community contribute to the operation and management of the service. The service has mechanisms in place to ensure it is accountable to its target
community.

[November 2008. Revised September 2016. Revised March 2025]