Mr. Declan Gibbons:

On the environmental side of things, we were approached by the BAI and by a company called Sustainability Works a few years ago about the possibility of setting up a sustainability network, and that was something that community radio embraced. Mr. Purcell spoke about those things being broken down. We looked at the 17 goals. When we first looked at them, we wondered whether we could relate to any of them. However, when you get into them, much of it is relatable to our business, for want of a better description, and our sector. It is something in which we have decided to play an active part and be leaders in.

We have been able to demonstrate how community radio is implementing those kind of things on the ground by facilitating NGOs and local groups which are active in the community and giving them an opportunity and allowing people to talk about facts rather than scaremongering and that type of thing that goes on.

The former CEO of BAI said in the last two years that community radio has been the single largest contributor to media literacy in recent decades. There are huge challenges there in the whole remote space at the moment, but once we get back to a person-to-person situation, community media has great opportunity to increase media literacy. In addition, we will be creative in the meantime in finding technologies that will improve that and allow us to do that.