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 will continue to offer sponsorship to good 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 way back in 1857.
His media brands continued to be a prolific news source for over 150 year through the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for its reliability and trustworthiness. The thing that was published by Pulman’s journalists could be considered as being true.
Exactly who may 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 with a Sunday morning. There he proceeded the meet and marry his young wife, who was likewise attracted to turned into a regular person in exactly the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he believed in the value of building community: through Church, rural life and native news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to many West Country causes and concerns that may otherwise are already cast aside and forgotten.
Journalism was a task that required the maximum responsibility and it was a profession treated with great respect.
So in an today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to remember fondly the values of a single in the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A male of faith who built a regional media empire within the wake from the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, who is the actual managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary continues to uphold the same values of George Pulman and it is open for nominations all through the year.”
The bursary prize has produced donations during the past Twelve months for the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and the output of new talking newspapers and recorded books for your elderly and partially sighted.
Of late the Pulman’s Award aids fund the publication of an compilation of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses built to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside community.
Numerous leaflets and booklets are also distributed across the West Country to help you enlighten young adults about the dangers of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all of the its great shape, continues to be as relevant today in just the same way that it turned out when George Pulman was alive.
It has a great chance to do good.
Our British free press heritage and native news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – can make our universe a much better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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