Pulman’s Weekly News is Awarding Community Grants
Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for your Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman will continue to offer sponsorship to great causes.
Many West Country communities be aware of name George Pulman well. He or she is considered something of the Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands always been a prolific news source for over 150 year throughout the 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 considered as being true.
What individuals might not exactly know is always that George Pulman seemed to be a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help you rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically take part in the church organ on the Sunday morning. There he proceeded the meet and marry his young wife, who was simply likewise fascinated by become a regular member of the identical Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he believed in the need for 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 put aside and forgotten.
Journalism was obviously a task that required the maximum responsibility and was a career given great respect.
So within an today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s remember the values of one in the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A person of faith who built a regional media empire within the wake with the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, that is the actual managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary continues to uphold the identical values of George Pulman which is open for nominations all through the year.”
The bursary prize makes donations in the past Twelve months for the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association along with the output of new talking newspapers and recorded books for that elderly and partially sighted.
Lately the Pulman’s Award helps fund the publication of a group of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses made to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back from the community.
Countless leaflets and booklets have also been distributed throughout the West Country to assist enlighten teenagers concerning the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all of the its many forms, remains as relevant in today’s world within exactly as it had been when George Pulman was alive.
It possesses a great capability to do good.
Our British free press heritage and native press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – could make modern society a better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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