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ABBREVIATIONSACRE Action with Communities in Rural EnglandBMECRCBlack and Minority EthnicCommission for Rural CommunitiesEHRC Equality and Human Rights CommissionICARipprMTRAMInformation Centre about Asylum and RefugeesInstitute for Public Policy ResearchMedia TrustRefugees, Asylum-Seekers and the MediaACKNOWLEDGEMENTSICAR and Media Trust are very grateful to the following members of the Advisory Group which wasestablished to help guide the research. The Group met twice, in July and December 2007, and madean invaluable contribution.Kate Smart, Asylum Initiatives. Don Flynn, Migrant Rights Network. Cristina Andreatta, Migrants RightsNetwork. Harmit Athwal, Institute of Race Relations. Urmi Raval, Inter-Faith Network. Bob Satchwell,Society of Editors. Nazek Ramadan, Migrants Resource Centre.Advice was also provided byNic Millington, Rural Media CompanySimon Berry, RuralnetMartin Ball, Black Training and Enterprise GroupThe research has been conducted under Improving Reach, a pilot project of Media Trust fundedby Capacitybuilders to provide free communications, media training and support for small to mediumsized volunteer organisations working with Black and Minority Ethnic (BME), Migrant and/or Refugee,Isolated Rural and Faith communities. It also offers help and communications advice through mediamatching and newswire services. www.mediatrust.org/improving-reachImproving Reach staff: Amanuel Woldesus, Project ManagerCatherine Setchell, Project Co-ordinatorCapacitybuilders is a non-departmental public body set up in 2006 to take over the management ofthe ChangeUp programme and to work with other funders to build the capacity of the Third Sector. Itexists to create a more effective Third Sector by improving support for it.Uncovered: assessing media and communications needs and capacity of marginalised communities11