Your Marshwood Vale Magazine

After more than twenty years, and now more than 300 issues of The Marshwood Vale Magazine, we need your help to carry on.

We have launched this Crowdfunding campaign to raise money to employ someone to take Marshwood forward and make the magazine sustainable. 

While the current production team work on a voluntary basis, and have done since the start of the pandemic, it isn’t fair to expect a new employee to work without payment.

And it doesn’t make sense to ask our community to help support us, unless we use that support to find a way to make this resource strong enough to survive in its own right.

Over the last twenty-two years of publishing this monthly community magazine, we have launched and run initiatives that included local food awards, writing awards, photographic awards, community awards and of course the hugely popular ‘Marshwood Arts Awards.’

In lockdown we managed to keep the publication going when it was impossible to distribute and most of our advertisers had been forced to temporarily close their doors. During those harrowing months for everyone we produced two issues a month in an attempt to keep our readers and local residents aware of what was happening with all of their favourite clubs, venues and businesses.

Our focus has always been set on highlighting all that is special about our wider local community; publishing features about the people, places and events that make our lives more fulfilled.

And now, as we move into a world where communication and relationships within our community are more important than ever, we want to find someone to take the reins and help develop our new hybrid Marshwood.

We will be publishing the magazine in print four times a year and we will be publishing our online magazine Marshwood+ every month.

Each issue, online and in print, will be full of all the usual selection of local profiles, events, gardening, property, local food, arts and entertainment. And most importantly, we will be highlighting initiatives that support sustainability in our local environment. We will continue linking environment, culture and the arts within our wider local community.

However, we need your help to ensure that that sustainability applies to us as well.

Please help us by donating to our Crowdfunder so we can focus on the long term sustainability of The Marshwood Vale Magazine.

Every donation, no matter what size, will make a difference to our future.

Thank you.