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Dulwich Diverter

Dulwich Diverter

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Hi all,


We are the team behind The Peckham Peculiar, a free community newspaper for Peckham and Nunhead that launched in January 2014 after raising over ?5,000 on Kickstarter. Now, two years on, we hope to crowdfund the same amount again to print a sister title for the Dulwich area, covering East, West, North Dulwich and the Village.


We are former residents of East Dulwich and currently live just 15 minutes away from Lordship Lane, so we know the area well. A number of our contributors live in SE22 and other parts of Dulwich.


We are aware that a number of free magazines are already distributed locally, but we will be the only newspaper unique to the area and we hope we can offer something different. If you'd like to find out more about what we do, please follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/dulwichdiverter


Please feel free to ask us anything you'd like, either on here or by emailing [email protected]. Thanks for reading!

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bawdy-nan

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Hello


Great idea and very good luck. I wonder though, would you mind sharing how it works. I don't mean a budget, but, for example, do you pay your contributors, or is it a "community platform" type of thing? Is it a commercial enterprise? Or one of these "new-hybrid-things-they-have-these-days"?

Dulwich Diverter

Dulwich Diverter

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Hi all, thank you for your comments. We're really glad to hear you like the sound of the paper! A huge thanks also to everyone who has contributed their hard-earned cash to the crowdfunding campaign so far. We've raised over ?800 since 8pm last night, which is way beyond our hopes and expectations!


Bawdy-nan, thank you for your question. The concept behind the Dulwich paper is the same as The Peckham Peculiar, in that everyone who works on it does so in their spare time. We believe in paying all our regular contributors for their efforts, be it journalists, designers or photographers.


Paying all our staff costs a fair bit of money and thanks to the advertising support we have, we essentially break even each issue. As a result, in order to launch a new paper we'll need to raise the initial cash to fund the start-up costs, which is why we've launched the Kickstarter campaign.


If you'd like more of an idea of the type of stories we cover, you can check out the back issues of the PP here: http://issuu.com/peckhampeculiar We envisage that if we do manage to print The Dulwich Diverter, it will be very similar in the style of content.


Let us know if you have any more questions!

Bic Basher

Bic Basher

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Always wondered if the Peculiar would expand to Dulwich, either as a extension of the current paper or as a stand-alone title.


Good to see that you're attempting to go for the latter. The niche editorial format of the current paper should go down well here, leaving the SLP and Southwark News to do what they do best.

Dulwich Diverter

Dulwich Diverter

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Hi everyone,


Thanks again for the lovely comments - it's genuinely appreciated!


Our crowdfunding campaign is only three days old but we've already raised nearly half the money we need so we're thrilled.


And particularly because almost a quarter of what has been contributed has come via the East Dulwich Forum!


If you want to know more, please go to:


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peckhampeculiar/the-dulwich-diverter-a-free-local-community-newspa/


Thanks so much!


All at The Dulwich Diverter

bawdy-nan

bawdy-nan

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Thank you!


Dulwich Diverter Wrote:

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> Hi all, thank you for your comments. We're really

> glad to hear you like the sound of the paper! A

> huge thanks also to everyone who has contributed

> their hard-earned cash to the crowdfunding

> campaign so far. We've raised over ?800 since 8pm

> last night, which is way beyond our hopes and

> expectations!

>

> Bawdy-nan, thank you for your question. The

> concept behind the Dulwich paper is the same as

> The Peckham Peculiar, in that everyone who works

> on it does so in their spare time. We believe in

> paying all our regular contributors for their

> efforts, be it journalists, designers or

> photographers.

>

> Paying all our staff costs a fair bit of money and

> thanks to the advertising support we have, we

> essentially break even each issue. As a result, in

> order to launch a new paper we'll need to raise

> the initial cash to fund the start-up costs, which

> is why we've launched the Kickstarter campaign.

>

> If you'd like more of an idea of the type of

> stories we cover, you can check out the back

> issues of the PP here:

> http://issuu.com/peckhampeculiar We envisage that

> if we do manage to print The Dulwich Diverter, it

> will be very similar in the style of content.

>

> Let us know if you have any more questions!

Dulwich Diverter

Dulwich Diverter

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Hi all


Just a quick update on our funding...


We've now raised over ?3,000 on Kickstarter - with over ?1,000 coming via the East Dulwich Forum so a huge thank you to all that have backed us so far!


If you want to see details of our crowdfunding campaign and more info on us, please go to:


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peckhampeculiar/the-dulwich-diverter-a-free-local-community-newspa/


Many thanks


All at The Dulwich Diverter

Dulwich Diverter

Dulwich Diverter

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A huge thank you to all of our 67 backers so far!


Earlier this morning, just 4.5 days after the campaign started, we hit our minimum target of ?5,000! Our running total currently stands at ?5,445 so we?re absolutely thrilled at the response.


We?ve still got 54 days to go so any further money we raise, we will invest into increased circulation and/or helping produce future editions, and keeping the project alive throughout 2016 and beyond. We will then rely purely on advertising revenue to keep printing.


Thanks again,


Mark and Kate and all at The Dulwich Diverter

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