Pulman’s Weekly News is Awarding Community Grants
Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named as soon as the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman is constantly offer sponsorship to good causes.
Many West Country communities be aware of name George Pulman well. He or she is considered something of a Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands continued to be an abundant news source for over 150 year through the entire prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for the reliability and trustworthiness. The fact that was created by Pulman’s journalists could be regarded as being true.
Exactly who may not know is the fact that George Pulman seemed to be a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically play the church organ over a Sunday morning. There he continued the meet and marry his young wife, who had previously been likewise attracted 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 people West Country causes and concerns that may otherwise are already put aside and forgotten.
Journalism would be a task that required the maximum responsibility and was an occupation addressed 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 1 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’s the existing managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary is constantly uphold the identical values of George Pulman and is also open for nominations all through the year.”
The bursary prize has produced donations during the past Yr towards the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and the creation of new talking newspapers and recorded books for that elderly and partially sighted.
Recently the Pulman’s Award aids fund the publication of the group of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses made to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside the community.
Countless leaflets and booklets have also been distributed across the West Country to assist enlighten young people concerning the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all of the its many forms, is still as relevant these days in only the same way that it absolutely was when George Pulman was alive.
It possesses a great capacity to do good.
Our British free press heritage and native press 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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