No news is good news. Or is it?

Please help me dispatch if you can, because no news is bad news

Last week was Indie News Week, a celebration of independent public interest news publishers from around the country organized by The Public Interest News Foundation.

Throughout June, in celebration of Indie News Week, the Public Interest News Foundation’s Indie News Fund is matching all donations, patron contributions, and new supporter sign-ups for The Enfield dispatcher. If you think you could support The Enfield dispatcherthis month is a perfect time because your contribution will be doubled.

As long as you have an independent local news source such as The Enfield dispatcher in your area, your community can stay informed – but unfortunately too many news providers cannot cover their costs and have to close.

The Enfield dispatcher is published by Social Spider Community News. We are a very small team. We’ve always been honest with you, our readers, about how difficult this time is for small publishers like us.

When I started Dispatch in 2018 we knew that the newspaper industry was facing difficult times. Following the closure of Enfield Gazette and Advertiser in 2017, we wanted to make sure Enfield didn’t end up without local journalism.

This story is published by the Enfield Dispatch, Enfield’s free monthly newspaper and free news website. We are a non-profit publication published by a small social enterprise. We have no wealthy backers and rely on the support of our readers. Donate or become a supporter.

We are incredibly grateful for the support the Enfield community gives us. You can see here the list of people and organizations who support us with regular donations. Without this help, we would really struggle. We are also grateful to our regular advertisers who put their trust in us to share their messages.

Just this week we were shortlisted for Best Local and Community Newsletter at the 2024 Publishers Newsletter Awards.

Our news is always free for anyone who wants to read it.

Every month in print and every day online, we bring you as much news as we humanly can with our small team, without any of the advantages of larger corporate publishers. We don’t publish “content”, we publish news. We break stories. We don’t write clickbait stories that are intended to be picked up by search engines and directed at people who have never set foot in our brough, nor lived and worked here. We try our best to bring you Enfield news that you won’t find anywhere else. If we had more resources, we would bring you more. .

Without news, how would you know about the issues affecting your community? How would you know what local authorities are planning or if they are acting legally? How would you know if your local environment has been affected and by whom? And how do you know about positive changes in your area, about success stories?

If you can, please support The Enfield dispatcher, today’s independent local news provider and keep your community informed. No news is bad news.

Enfield Dispatch Team.

Independent news outlets like ours – which report for the community without wealthy backers – are under threat of closure, turning Britain’s cities into news deserts.

The public they serve know less, understand less, and can do less.

In celebration of him India News WeekThe Public Interest News Foundation’s Indie News Fund will match the fund for all donations, including new annual supporter subscriptions for the month of June.

If our coverage has helped you understand our community a little better, please consider supporting us with a monthly, annual or one-time donation.

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