A new Voice for Arran starts next week
Next Thursday’s issue will see the launch of a new Voice, completely free to the people of Arran and the wider world. The date, April 1st, seems a good one to us, full of cheerful possibilities.
Voice for Arran, the new title, will appear every Thursday as before, on a new website, www.voiceforarran.com . It will offer free publicity and editorial cover for all events we hear about, and it will accept your adverts for next to nothing. (Details will follow very soon – we’ve a new team of people busy working out an astonishingly cheap deal.)
JUST ONE REQUEST
If you are an Arran-based online reader, could you print off a few copies of the paper each week and give them to your local shop or Post Office? Or hand them out at any club or society you belong to? That way, the new Voice will be available on paper to those who don’t have a computer, and it can come back into being seriously (and frivolously) useful. The weekly issue will print out at about three A4 sheets. Voice for Arran is in full colour online, naturally, but we suggest you print in black-and-white, to keep your cartridge costs minimal. We are asking for this help as a start-up, because voluntary circulation is the only way to get round the problem of colossal printing costs. Nobody needs to do very much, but if enough people give a hand in a small way, we can make the Voice available again to the whole island, in print as well as online. It will of course be smaller than the old paper, but it can grow very quickly if it is used and contributed to. The way it is managed will grow as well, with constant new possibilities. Anyone who would like a hand in its development is most welcome to join the rapidly expanding team. Contact us on info@voiceforarran.com or phone 700 574 or 820 361.
We have no paid staff. This is truly a community enterprise, dependent on goodwill and the wide sharing of a few simple tasks. Expert professionals have with immense generosity offered their free services in accountancy and marketing, and help with editing and distribution is starting to fall into place. Further offers of help in any form will be warmly welcomed. Just e-mail or phone, on the address and numbers given above.
Voice for Arran will of course maintain a high standard of editorial comment, together with an irreverent eye for whatever seems ludicrous. Its Voicemail section will publish ALL letters that come in, subject only to the laws of libel and obscenity. We are there to air your views and convey your needs. Let us know what you want, and we’ll do our best to provide it. Voice for Arran is free – and it is in your hands.
