Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named after the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman is constantly on the offer sponsorship to get affordable causes.
Many West Country communities have in mind the name George Pulman well. He’s considered something of a Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands continued to be a prolific news source for more than 150 year during 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 published by Pulman’s journalists could possibly be thought to be being true.
What folks may not know is George Pulman was also a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically have fun playing the church organ over a Sunday morning. There he went on the meet and marry his young wife, who had previously been likewise drawn to be a regular an affiliate the identical Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he advocated the importance of building community: through Church, rural life and native news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to a lot of West Country causes and concerns that may otherwise have been put aside and forgotten.
Journalism was obviously a task that required the utmost responsibility and it was a job addressed with great respect.
So in the today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s remember fondly the values of a single with the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A person of faith who built a regional media empire within the wake in the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, that is the current managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary is constantly on the uphold exactly the same values of George Pulman and is also open for nominations throughout the year.”
The bursary prize has made donations in the past Twelve months towards the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and also the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books to the elderly and partially sighted.
Recently the Pulman’s Award has helped fund the publication of an series of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses made to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside community.
Hundreds of leaflets and booklets are also distributed over the West Country to help you enlighten young adults regarding the risks of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all its great shape, continues to be as relevant nowadays in mere the same manner it absolutely was when George Pulman was alive.
It possesses a great capability to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – may make society a better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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