A change at Whitton Ways

All change at Whitton Ways…

Subscriptions due in January

After more than 15 years, I am going to be hanging up my full-time editor’s hat at the beginning of 2023. The good news is that I will be handing over to are to a team of editors who will rotate the role and bring their own personal inspiration on the magazine. We will have more news on this next month, but in the meantime, I would like to thank everyone involved in the magazine production, who give their time for free to ensure that the magazine can continue to be delivered to your doorstep for a very modest subscription. This includes designer David Leake, advertising manager Ian Smith, Hugh Clayton who proof reads the magazine, the team of 20-odd volunteer distributors organised by Ethel Hutchings, and Paul Trickey who ensures we can balance the books!

Thanks also to all the many contributors — I have a list of almost 80 locals who contribute regularly from the villages of Ramsbury, Chilton Foliat, Axford and Froxfield, or occasionally from Aldbourne and Baydon — who all put up with the editor’s nagging with good grace! Thanks also to the Whitton Clergy Team, who do likewise, and always find time from their enormously busy schedules to pen individual columns for the magazine.

2023 subs £8

We are all grateful for your continued support as readers. The magazine subscription for 2022 must rise slightly to £8 to cover increased costs and to allow us the flexibility to expand the number of pages to 48 as we have been this year to mark special occasions such as the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and subsequent death. — this still represents a fantastic value for money at just 67p per month. Subscriptions will be due once again in January. You can pay the £8 to your own distributor, or take advance of the facility to pay on-line, direct from your bank account. Please Note: If you do pay online, please let your distributor know!

The Whitton Ways account details are:

Account name: Whitton PCC

Sort code: 09 - 01- 50

Account number: 04676688

Thanks once again to everyone involved in Whitton Ways. As we were going to press, we awaiting news on the magazine’s results in the annual National Parish Magazine of the Year competition. I hope to have good news to report next month.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy and Healthy 2023.

Vanya Body

Whitton Ways Editor

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