This is the village magazine for Sawston, delivered to about a third of its three thousand households and sold in the shops, with a print run that over the years has varied between 1,000 and about 1,300 copies. It’s generally 48 pages, including a directory of local info and diary of local events, printed in black with a full-colour cover (an innovation quite early in my tenure).

I managed a production team of ten volunteers and built up a network of local writers and photographers to add to the existing roster of local organisations contributing copy. Working with a friend, I changed the style to make the tone positive and accessible; turned random bits of information into a useful local directory; and revamped the design to make the magazine more lively and readable. For each issue, I might write articles, do interviews, take photographs, research news, or compile information; I edited the magazine and wrote an editorial, and – the largest task – laid out all the pages in Quark Xpress to export to PDF for digital printing.