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 good causes.

Many West Country communities know the name George Pulman well. He could be considered something of your Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.

His media brands always been an abundant news source for over 150 year through the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.

Pulman’s news was always renowned for its reliability and trustworthiness. The thing that was authored by Pulman’s journalists may be thought to be being true.

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

To assist rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically take part in the church organ on a Sunday morning. There he continued the meet and marry his young wife, who had been likewise drawn to be a regular part of precisely the same Axminster congregation.

Throughout his life he supported the importance 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 could otherwise happen to be put aside and forgotten.

Journalism would be a task that required the utmost responsibility and it was a job helped by great respect.

So within an today’s era of pretend news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s time to recall the values of one of the news media’s earliest pioneers.

A guy of religion who built a regional media empire from the wake of 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 precisely the same values of George Pulman and is open for nominations all year round.”

The bursary prize has produced donations costs Yr on the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association as well as the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books to the elderly and partially sighted.

Recently the Pulman’s Award helps fund the publication of your number of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses made to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back within the community.

Numerous leaflets and booklets have been distributed across the West Country to assist enlighten the younger generation concerning the perils associated with drugs and addiction.

Publishing, in most its many forms, is still as relevant nowadays in just the same way that it had been when George Pulman was alive.

It features a great capacity to do good.

Our British free press heritage and native press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – could make society a greater place.

(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)

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