Welcome to the Minster Matters Website

Current Issue: No94 : July 2008
(available from 26th June)

ISSN 1755-9502 (Print) : ISSN 1755-9510 (Online)

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**NEW** Read Our Blog **NEW**
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Masthead/Logo by Ellen Berry-McIntosh, aged 10

  
Michael Birch   -   Michaela Hockley   -   Kizzy Morcom
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Delivered free to every home in Minster
Limited availability at St Marys Church - Minster, Attwells (Newsagents),
Cliffes (Butchers), the Library (CD also available here).
Copies may also be obtained, in very limited numbers, outside of the village,
from Cliffsend Post Office, St Mary Magdalene Church - Monkton
and St. Nicholas Church - St Nicholas-at-Wade.

Minster Matters is a very informative village newsletter run entirely by a small team of volunteers and aimed at keeping the community up to date with local news, events and village concerns.

Printed monthly, except for January, and consisting of 28 pages, at present, you’ll find everything that matters in the area from local interests and views, to services, useful numbers and contacts. With so much covered we’re sure you’ll enjoy the read!

Whilst the editorial team try very hard to uphold an unbiased and factual approach to reporting news, and covering, wherever possible, both sides of a story, we also provide the opportunity for readers to respond with their own thoughts, which we endeavour to print in the newsletter, subject of course to the usual editors approval and space being available.

The first issue of Minster Matters (hard copy) appeared at the beginning of 2000 due mainly to the efforts of the then Editor Kelvin Holdom. Kelvin built on his initial 4 pages until he moved to Devon in 2006 when it had grown 6 fold. June 2006 saw our first online edition available and the magazine is now regularly read in the far reaches of the globe. February 2008 saw us venturing into the realms of podcasting and producing a spoken version on CD, for those less fortunate than ourselves, who have problems with their sight.

Whilst Kelvin successfully produced the magazine with little or no help (except for his willing band of deliverers) for quite a number of years, slowly he coersed more and more volunteers onto the team, and as at launch date of this website we have a regular group of 8 volunteers who work tirelessly each month to get it to the printers on time, and another group of approximately 30 people who take it upon themselves to go out in all weathers to deliver hard copies to all properties in the village. Further to this we also have another small group who have put themselves forward as readers for our CD issue, but we are always interested in new people coming forward to help in anyway they can.

We have decided to go our own way with regard to where we now host our pages, as we felt that we were taking a bit of a liberty and an awful lot of space on the village website, what with back issues, photographs, freeware etc., and our recent expansion into "talking books and podcasts".

We believe that space can then be made available to other organisations in the village who may wish to have a small web presence without the expense.

As already mentioned, from here you can now access both current and back issues, our recommended freeware and various pictures. You can also download our talking book and podcast files.

Although we deliver the magazine, free of charge, to every property in the Minster Electoral Area, all costs being covered by advertising and donations, we are also able to send it further afield on subscription, a service we are extending to our "talking book". For further details on either of these please visit the "Purchase" link on any page

COPY DATES

General Copy, for any edition, must be with the Editors by 20th of the month,
at the very latest, prior to publication.
We cannot guarantee a space for all copy received
(Commercial Adverts by 15th)

*MUSIC WANTED* MINSTER MATTERS would like to find some royalty free music to use as both opening and section intro's for their new "Talking Book Magazine" If we have any budding composers amongst us, who would be interested in allowing us to use some of their work, for free ?, or who are willing to write something especially for us, then please get in touch with a member of the.. Editorial Team Thank you to Daryl Booth , Brenda Saker and Richard Spendlove MBE who have allowed us to use some of their music.

See Us Here

Come and see what we are about at the Minster Flower Show, in the Recreation Ground on the penultimate Saturday in July (19/08), pop in and have a chat. We also hope to be out with our gazebo again during Open Gardens Weekend in June (21st/22nd 08).

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