After the Sad Goodbye to the Champion Newspaper last year we said Hello to Maghull’s New Quarterly Community Magazine in December.
The really well received first edition entitled ‘Maghull Press’, which was delivered to most of the 9000 homes in Maghull for free, is now revving up for the second edition in March and would welcome advertising interest from the community not only to promote a business or event but to help pay for the publishing and delivery costs of your local magazine.
If you would like further information, please contact Maghull Town Council on (0151) 526 3705 but please bear in mind that our deadline for submissions and payments will be the 22.2.23. If you haven’t seen the first edition please follow this link: https://www.paperturn-view.com/?pid=Mjk290634
Background.
Many community organisations, residents, businesses have been lamenting the sad loss of the Champion newspaper in August after 28 years, firstly for the awful challenging times incurred for their ever-helpful staff, but secondly for the fact that a community cannot be a community without communication. The Champion was delivered free to 160,000 homes in Sefton and West Lancs, each week, and championed and inspired good causes throughout. However, by necessity it had to budget by reducing its size and diluting the Maghull and Aintree news by creating a North Liverpool focus.
Since then a handful of us at Maghull Town Council have sought to emulate good practice elsewhere (1, 2), to draft a quarterly A5 32+ page magazine, which has been paid for with adverts and bulging with Maghull community stories. Following an editorial meeting, the proposed quarterly magazine, entitled ‘Maghull Press’, was delivered free to every home in Maghull with 1000 made available in popular venues before Christmas. Everyone in the small team played their part and we are enormously grateful to Stefanie Lawrence (MTC Finance & Admin Officer) who within her part-time role has achieved a miracle by formatted it and handling the advert payments.
We hope the magazine will stimulate interest, be informative and inclusive, whilst keeping everyone connected in challenging times.