Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for your Christian Media Network

Regional bursary prize named following the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman is constantly on the offer sponsorship to great causes.

Many West Country communities understand 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 an abundant news source for over 150 year throughout the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.

Pulman’s news was always renowned due to the reliability and trustworthiness. That which was created by Pulman’s journalists might be considered as being true.

What people may not know is always that George Pulman have also been an ongoing 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 on the Sunday morning. There he proceeded the meet and marry his young wife, who was likewise fascinated by be a regular part of the identical Axminster congregation.

Throughout his life he advocated 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 that could otherwise have been put aside and forgotten.

Journalism would have been a task that required the absolute maximum responsibility and was an occupation addressed with great respect.

So in an today’s era of faux news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s about time to remember fondly the values of one of the news media’s earliest pioneers.

A male of religion who built a regional media empire within the wake in the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.

Duncan Williams, from Devon, who is the present managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary will continue to uphold exactly the same values of George Pulman which is open for nominations all through the year.”

The bursary prize has produced donations during the past 1 year to the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and the output of new talking newspapers and recorded books for your elderly and partially sighted.

Most recently the Pulman’s Award helps fund the publication of an series of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses designed to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside the community.

Countless leaflets and booklets have also been distributed over the West Country to help enlighten teenagers regarding the perils associated with drugs and addiction.

Publishing, in most its various forms, remains as relevant in today’s world in mere the same manner it had been when George Pulman was alive.

It possesses 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 a much better place.

(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)

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