A good community is one where people are encouraged to come together, get involved participate and feel included. That’s why we do so much to support our local community groups. This is our ethos and this underpins why our magazines and community website exist. Our team lives and works in the areas we cover. We are the only local publication that can say that and this is important to us because this is our community and why we are so passionate about it.
The Promotion Of Community Groups Just Got Better
We promote our local community groups on a double page in every printed issue, for free. This is titled Community Pages, look it up in our latest editions. In February we launched our new community website. This means we now promote our local groups online. This facility is brilliant because much more information can be included. For example, in print we are limited to basic information only, because we want to include as many community groups as possible.
On our website each community group has their own profile page. We charge £30 per annum which helps with our admin costs. On their profile page groups have space for:
- A logo
- A .pdf
- 5 images
- Details of what they do
- Where they meet (with a Google map)
- Contact details
- Website and social media links
If you are not technically minded, we will create the profile at no extra cost.
We’ve made our local Community Groups easy to find via a big menu that you can search by category and we’ve got a site-wide search too.
Local Community Events Are Easy To Find
We’ve always had a Community Notice section in our printed magazines, where community groups can advertise their events. This is free of charge. All we need is information and we need it in good time for each issue, please. Our deadlines are on our Advertise page. However, with our new website events can be added at any time and this is a free service offered to groups, charities and not-for-profit events with an entry fee of £7 or less. Simply click on Submit Event and put the details in.
The What’s On section on our website lists All Events and can be searched by keywords, by date, month or year which makes finding what’s going on really easy.
Where possible we will promote your events on our social media.
Feature Articles On The Local Community
We take every opportunity to write articles highlighting the great work of our local community groups and charities. For example, in every issue we feature helpful advice from West Midlands Police and Fire Services, doing our bit to keep people safe. We’ve written and published articles for Aldridge Sailing Club, Aldridge Shed, Walsall Photographic Society, Pelsall Common Folk, Streetly Eco-Festival, Stonnall Gardeners’ Guild, Sutton Road Allotments and Walsall Senior Citizens Orchestra to name but a few.
Get Involved In Your Local Community
Through our mighty efforts we hope more people will get involved in local events and join our local community groups. Together we can reduce the number of people feeling isolated and excluded. We really believe that a lack of knowledge and awareness is the biggest problem. If people don’t know what’s happening and what’s available to them, how can they join in and be part of their local community? That’s why we started The Pioneer Magazine 15 years ago and we are still striving to connect all things local.
Until next month.
Yours locally
