Pulman’s Weekly News is Awarding Community Grants

Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for your Christian Media Network

Regional bursary prize named after the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman continues to offer sponsorship to get affordable causes.

Many West Country communities understand the name George Pulman well. He’s considered something of a Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.

His media brands always been an abundant news source for more than 150 year through the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.

Pulman’s news was always renowned due to the reliability and trustworthiness. The thing that was provided by Pulman’s journalists could be thought to be being true.

Exactly who may well not know is that George Pulman seemed to be an ongoing committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.

To help you rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically play the church organ on a Sunday morning. There he proceeded the meet and marry his young wife, who had been likewise attracted to turned into a regular person in the same Axminster congregation.

Throughout his life he supported the need for building community: through Church, rural life and native news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to a lot of West Country causes and concerns that may otherwise have been restarted and forgotten.

Journalism was obviously a task that required the absolute maximum responsibility and was an occupation addressed with great respect.

So in the today’s era of pretend news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s time to recall the values of a single from the news media’s earliest pioneers.

A guy of faith who built a regional media empire in the wake in the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.

Duncan Williams, from Devon, who is the present managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary continues to uphold precisely the same values of George Pulman and it is open for nominations throughout the year.”

The bursary prize makes donations in the past 12 months for the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association along with the production of new talking newspapers and recorded books to the elderly and partially sighted.

Of late the Pulman’s Award aids fund the publication of a number of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses meant to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back within the community.

Numerous leaflets and booklets have been distributed across the West Country to help you enlighten young adults in regards to the risks of drugs and addiction.

Publishing, in most its great shape, is still as relevant nowadays in just the same manner it had been when George Pulman was alive.

It provides a great capability to do good.

Our British free press heritage and local news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – can make society a better place.

(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)

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