About The Arran Voice
From the beginning, The Arran Voice has been a genuinely local paper, run by a small team of Arran people and owing its existence to the rather larger handful who contributed to its setting up. It began as a response to public discontent when the old, well-loved Arran Banner had been sold to a large (and more recently, to an even larger) off-island consortium that seemed to have little concern for island needs and opinions. Our aim is still to provide a medium through which all people within the Arran community and its wider diaspora can generate and share news, with no over-ride from any external editorial viewpoint.
We continue to provide as much free information and small event publicity as we can. Where a proposed event is non-profit-making and for the benefit of the community, we make no charge. If there is any doubt about whether an event fits this criterion, Janis Murchie, our advertising manager, is always willing to advise and give help. Janis belongs to a well-established Arran family. She knows everyone and is always anxious to help promote Arran businesses, small or large. Like most of the team members who produce the Voice, she is young, for we have a policy of offering employment to local young people. Kelly Donnelly, who writes her lively Music column each week, came to us for experience before starting a University course in Journalism, and has made the big step into professional writing, while giving much pleasure to the many admirers of her column.
From the first week of September 2008, an arrangement was struck with Menzies Distribution and means The Arran Voice is now available in the major Scottish cities and all over the local mainland. This will enable us to help publicise Arran businesses beyond the island. Our comprehensive website, which has a world-wide readership, can offer even broader connections for Arran’s many matchless products and its vital tourist industry. The big picture, however, does not monopolise our concern. These are difficult economic times, and we are anxious to give all the help we can to smaller undertakings.
We continue to provide as much free information and small event publicity as we can. Where a proposed event is non-profit-making and for the benefit of the community, we make no charge. If there is any doubt about whether an event fits this criterion, Janis Murchie, our advertising manager, is always willing to advise and give help. Janis belongs to a well-established Arran family. She knows everyone and is always anxious to help promote Arran businesses, small or large. Like most of the team members who produce the Voice, she is young, for we have a policy of offering employment to local young people. Kelly Donnelly, who writes her lively Music column each week, came to us for experience before starting a University course in Journalism, and has made the big step into professional writing, while giving much pleasure to the many admirers of her column.
From the first week of September 2008, an arrangement was struck with Menzies Distribution and means The Arran Voice is now available in the major Scottish cities and all over the local mainland. This will enable us to help publicise Arran businesses beyond the island. Our comprehensive website, which has a world-wide readership, can offer even broader connections for Arran’s many matchless products and its vital tourist industry. The big picture, however, does not monopolise our concern. These are difficult economic times, and we are anxious to give all the help we can to smaller undertakings.
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