Kesgrave

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Kesgrave News is produced and distributed every month by a team of volunteers, and is a fine example of what a local community magazine can become.

Started in July 1992 as a single sided newsletter, it grew quickly to a double sided newsletter and then became a sixteen page community magazine in February 1993. It now boasts twenty-four A4 pages a month with colour front/inside cover and centre pages and has a circulation of about 5,900. A sign of the magazine's success is that it is funded by local and regional advertising.

Despite rising costs and an ever-growing circulation we are still able to meet our original ideals: to carry news and opinion from the local community and to be a good general read as well. The magazine is hand delivered by a local distribution team, free of charge, to every household and business in the Town.

Kesgrave News is produced using a desktop publishing package (PagePlus) and is electronically delivered to the printers to produce high quality layouts and artworks.

Below are typical items included in Kesgrave News:

• Opening Times - town council offices, library etc
• Kesgrave Town Council - public information articles
• Challenges - wordsearch, total trivia,
• Organisations Articles - Scouts, Guides, local religious organisations, VPA, Royal British Legion etc
• Sports Pages - cricket club, football clubs etc
• General Articles - centre page, viewpoint, local police etc
• Tots to Teens - reports from local schools, playgroups etc
• Conservation - Kesgrave Conservation Group
• Readers Letters

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