The NCRF is a national, membership-driven association of community radio stations and support service organizations.  Radio station members are independent non-profit CBOs - owned and run by diverse local communities who actively participate in the development of programming activities, for sustainable non-discriminatory local development.

Our work is to build an enabling environment and a coherent sector identity -- ensuring continued healthy growth of community radio in South Africa.  We do this by:

Setting standards for the sector and monitoring implementation; Providing information and advice to membership; Representing the collective interests of members; Creating structures and systems that encourage community radio stations to share experiences, skills, best practice models and resources; Coordinating capacity building in the sector; Lobbying and doing advocacy work to promote and protect the sector; and Forging strategic alliances and partnerships with key stakeholders to facilitate  delivery of services, resources, funding and support to both members and the sector.