Pulman’s Weekly News is Awarding Community Grants

Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for that Christian Media Network

Regional bursary prize named following your 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 the 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 for its reliability and trustworthiness. The fact that was published by Pulman’s journalists could be viewed as being true.

What people may well not know is George Pulman has also been an ongoing committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.

To aid rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically play the church organ on the Sunday morning. There he took the meet and marry his young wife, who was likewise drawn to turned into a regular person in exactly the same Axminster congregation.

Throughout his life he supported the value of building community: through Church, rural life and local news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to many people West Country causes and concerns that may otherwise are already cast aside and forgotten.

Journalism was obviously a task that required the utmost responsibility and it was a career given great respect.

So within an today’s era of pretend news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s can remember the values of just one of the news media’s earliest pioneers.

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

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

The bursary prize has made donations in the past Yr towards the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and also the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books to the elderly and partially sighted.

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

Countless leaflets and booklets are also distributed throughout the West Country to help you enlighten teenagers in regards to the risks of drugs and addiction.

Publishing, in all of the its great shape, remains to be as relevant today in only exactly as it had been when George Pulman was alive.

It features a great capacity to do good.

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

(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)

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