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The Painswick Beacon

The community newspaper for Painswick, Gloucestershire

THIS MONTH

 

Click for: Beaconline - this month's web edition

 

 

Beacon Contacts


Chairman:
- Philip Oakley                       01452-813936

Treasurer:

- Richard Aspinall                01452-812379

Subscriptions:

- Shirley Clark                      01452-812378

Editorial/Production Team:
- Leslie Brotherton                 01452-813101
- Jack Burgess (& Features) 01452-812167
- Terry Parker (& Sport)       01452-812191
Personal Column:
- Rachel Taylor                      01452-813402

- Jenny Gaugain                    01452-812599
Diary:
- Edwina Buttrey                    01452-812565
Features:
- Carol Maxwell                     01452-813387

- Charles Dorman                  01452-814548
Advertising:
- Dermot Cassidy                   01452-813737

Distribution:
- Celia Lougher                 01452-812624


 Beacon email: beacon@painswick.net

For over 30 years, The Painswick Beacon has been telling the everyday stories of Painswick and Painswickians. 

The first Beacon was published in April, 1978 and it has been published since then on the first Saturday of each month. The print run of 1,500 copies is delivered free to every household in Painswick village itself, to subscribers in the neighbouring villages of Edge, Sheepscombe and Slad, and from pick-up points in other villages. There are also around a hundred postal subscribers from elsewhere in the UK and around the world: from Bristol to Bangkok, Walsall to Warsaw and Malvern to Montreal.

Regular features include Parish Council & planning news, news from local clubs and societies, the Painswick property report, the Sports Page, the Village Diary and the ins and outs, ups and downs of Painswickian personal lives in The

 Personal Column. All are available here as part of Beaconline, the web edition, which itself attracts around 350 ‘hits’ a month. The Beacon relies for its income on advertising from local businesses and voluntary subscriptions. Currently there are around 600 subscribers who contribute on average something over £8.00 each per annum.

Producing the Beacon each month - typically 20 - 24 pages - is a thoroughly communal effort. All Beacon 'staff' are volunteers - no-one gets paid - and each issue relies on editorial contributions from individuals and organisations from all over the community.

In addition, the Beacon publishes annually - with monthly updates on-line - the Painswick Directory which seeks to list the contact details of all enterprises and organisations within the civil parish of Painswick.

An on-line archive provides access to most Beacon back issues over (at present) the past seven years. The archive also includes the first Beacon from April 1978 and the 25th Anniversary commemorative edition published in April 2003, which contained a short history of The Beacon as well as a Clubs and Societies supplement describing the many voluntary organisations that continue to enrich the lives of Painswickians.

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