Pulman’s Weekly News is Awarding Community Grants
Report by Angelina L. Kennedy to the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman will continue to offer sponsorship to get affordable causes.
Many West Country communities know the name George Pulman well. He is considered something of an Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands stayed an abundant news source for over 150 year during the entire prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for its reliability and trustworthiness. The fact that was provided by Pulman’s journalists may be thought to be being true.
What individuals may not know is that George Pulman has also been a lifelong 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 over a Sunday morning. There he went on the meet and marry his young wife, who was simply likewise interested in turn into a regular person in precisely the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he advocated the value of building community: through Church, rural life and local news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to a lot of West Country causes and concerns that might otherwise are already cast aside and forgotten.
Journalism would be a task that required the most responsibility and was a career helped by great respect.
So in a today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to recall the values of 1 in the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A man of religion who built a regional media empire from the wake from the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, that 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 is open for nominations throughout every season.”
The bursary prize has made donations world food prices 1 year towards the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association along with the output of new talking newspapers and recorded books to the elderly and partially sighted.
Recently the Pulman’s Award has helped fund the publication of your series of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses meant 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 assist enlighten teenagers about the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in every its many forms, is still as relevant today in just exactly as it was when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great capacity to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – will make modern society a better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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