The Woolaston News
The Woolaston News ( a source of information on the local activities of every interest group in Woolaston) has been a regular feature in the village for about 36 years. It has raised many thousands of pounds for the memorial hall over that time, being published twice a year, giving updates on village life and reporting on interesting folk and businesses in our community.
Sadly though, the memorial hall committee has announced that it can no longer continue. Our wonderful posties who delivered it for free have been told that they can no longer do so, and to pay the post office would wipe out any profit. Our editors who have given many many hours to producing the magazine now find that the job has become too much and in-depth articles are not being provided as they once were.
We also have to acknowledge that local communication has become so much more instantaneous with the great advances of social media. And so it is with a heavy heart that the committee announced that the era of Woolaston News has come to an end.
Woolaston News – the village newsletter, is delivered free to every house in the civil parish.
This publication began in the late ‘80s when new house building nearly doubled the centre of the village. A group of volunteers produced an information sheet as a welcome to incomers. For this reason it is still responsible to the Memorial Hall management committee.
Over the next few years the method of production changed from photocopying, manual assembly and delivery entirely by volunteers, to the present where once the whole thing has been assembled on a computer, the final electronic file is professionally printed and distributed.
After a major increase in advertising rates with the Summer 2010 issue, there is once again a small profit for the Memorial Hall.
