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 of about 1,300 copies. It’s currently 44 pages plus a four-page pull-out directory of local info and diary of local events, printed in black with a full-colour cover (a recent innovation).

I manage a production team of ten volunteers and am building up a network of local writers and photographers. Working with a friend, I’ve 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 may write articles, do interviews, take photographs, research news, and compile information; I edit the magazine and write an editorial, and lay out all the pages in Quark Xpress to export to PDF for digital printing.