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 continues to offer sponsorship to get affordable causes.

Many West Country communities be aware of name George Pulman well. He is considered something of your Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.

His media brands remained 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 thing that was provided by Pulman’s journalists could be considered as being true.

What folks may not know is the fact that George Pulman has also been a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.

To help rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically play in the church organ with a Sunday morning. There he continued the meet and marry his young wife, who had been likewise fascinated by become a regular part of precisely the same Axminster congregation.

Throughout his life he supported the value of building community: through Church, rural life and local news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to many West Country causes and concerns that could otherwise have already been restarted and forgotten.

Journalism was a task that required the maximum responsibility and it was a career given great respect.

So in an today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s about time to recall the values of 1 of the news media’s earliest pioneers.

A man of religion 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 on the uphold the same values of George Pulman and it is open for nominations all through the year.”

The bursary prize makes donations world food prices 1 year towards the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association as well as the output of new talking newspapers and recorded books for that elderly and partially sighted.

Most recently the Pulman’s Award assists fund the publication of a number of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses meant to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back within the community.

Numerous leaflets and booklets have also been distributed through the West Country to help enlighten teenagers about the dangers of drugs and addiction.

Publishing, in most its many forms, is still as relevant these days in mere exactly as it absolutely was when George Pulman was alive.

It provides a great power to do good.

Our British free press heritage and native press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – may make modern society an improved place.

(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)

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