Pulman’s Weekly News is Awarding Community Grants
Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named after the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman will continue to offer sponsorship to great causes.
Many West Country communities know the name George Pulman well. He’s considered something of your Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands always been an abundant news source for over 150 year throughout 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 created by Pulman’s journalists could possibly be viewed as being true.
What folks might not exactly know is that George Pulman seemed to be a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To assist 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 drawn to turned into a regular person in exactly the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he supported the significance 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 which may otherwise have been cast aside and forgotten.
Journalism would have been a task that required the most responsibility and it was a career treated with great respect.
So in the today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s remember fondly the values of one of the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A man of faith who built a regional media empire in the wake from the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, who’s the actual managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary is constantly uphold precisely the same values of George Pulman which is open for nominations all through the year.”
The bursary prize has created donations world food prices 1 year to the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association along with the creation of new talking newspapers and recorded books for your elderly and partially sighted.
Lately the Pulman’s Award aids fund the publication of a series of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses made to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside the community.
Numerous leaflets and booklets have been distributed across the West Country to help enlighten the younger generation about the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in most its various forms, is still as relevant today in just the same way that it was when George Pulman was alive.
It has a great capability to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – could make our universe an improved place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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