# Community Channel to close June 30 without extra support - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/06/21/community-channel-close-june-30-without-extra-support/ - Published: 2016-06-21T08:21:28+01:00 - Author: Melanie May **[Community Channel](http://www.communitychannel.org) will close on 30^(th) June unless a fresh call for public financial support is successful.**   While it receives over £3m in kind annually from commercial broadcasters, the channel urgently needs to raise £300,000 to give it time to increase its revenue from partnerships and advertising. [Earlier this month](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/06/06/community-channel-seeks-investors-become-first-community-owned-national-tv-station/) it launched a crowdfunding community share scheme to help achieve this. ## Advertisement [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/)   Support for the channel has come from a wide range of current and former broadcasters, politicians and celebrities, including actor Juliet Stevenson, presenter Mary Nightingale, and Sir Lenny Henry, who tweeted his support to his 61,000 followers.   > I'm supporting [https://t.co/KoztTIDDl7](https://t.co/KoztTIDDl7) [@comchantv](https://twitter.com/ComChanTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > [@crowdfunderuk](https://twitter.com/crowdfunderuk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) -The community > channel needs you. Check it out. > — Lenny Henry (@LennyHenry) [June 12, 2016](https://twitter.com/LennyHenry/status/741984006439370752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)       Community Channel was launched in 2000 by the [Media Trust](http://www.mediatrust.org/), and gives charities and community organisations a way of reaching millions of people. Over ten million people watched the channel last year – an increase of four million in four years, whilst over a million said the channel motivated them to volunteer.   Lord Grade, former BBC chairman and chief executive of Channel Four, said:   > “Britain would be a poorer place without Community Channel. It is unique in the > world as a means of galvanizing support for so many communities and causes. I > urge people to get behind the community shares scheme and continue to hope that, > even at this late stage, a funding solution can be secured to keep it going now > and for the long-term.”   At the time of writing, Community Channel had raised just over £27,000 of its £300,000 target on its [Crowdfunder page](http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/community-channel). * **[Free help offered with charity communications](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/09/12/free-help-offered-charity-communications/)**( 12 September 2017) * **[How charities can communicate about coronavirus](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/03/31/how-charities-can-communicate-about-coronavirus/)**( 31 March 2020) * **[Free communications support offered to charities and public sector](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/04/14/free-communications-support-offered-to-charities-and-public-sector/)**( 14 April 2020) ![Loading](https://fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/page-views-count/ajax-loader- 2x.gif)