Pulman’s Weekly News is Awarding Community Grants
Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for that Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named as soon as the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman will continue to offer sponsorship to good 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 a prolific news source for upwards of 150 year through the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for its reliability and trustworthiness. That which was provided by Pulman’s journalists may be thought to be being true.
Exactly who might not know is that George Pulman have 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 a Sunday morning. There he took the meet and marry his young wife, who was likewise fascinated by become a regular member of exactly 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 many people West Country causes and concerns that may otherwise happen to be cast aside and forgotten.
Journalism would be a task that required the maximum responsibility and was a profession treated with great respect.
So in the today’s era of pretend news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to recall the values of one with the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A man of religion who built a regional media empire from the wake in the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, who’s the current managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary is constantly uphold exactly the same values of George Pulman and is also open for nominations all through the year.”
The bursary prize has created donations during the past 12 months on the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and also the output of new talking newspapers and recorded books to the elderly and partially sighted.
Most recently the Pulman’s Award aids fund the publication of your compilation of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses built to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back from the community.
A huge selection of leaflets and booklets are also distributed throughout the West Country to help enlighten young people in regards to the risks of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in most its great shape, remains as relevant in today’s world in just the same manner it had been when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great chance to do good.
Our British free press heritage and native news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – will make modern society a greater place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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