THE SOCIETY IN THE REGIONS

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Each member of the society is assigned a region. Each regional organisation is autonomous and can decide how to organise itself so long as it signs up to the society's objectives.

Regional meetings are organised to meet the requirements of members in those regions. They are encouraged to develop a programme with the help of the executive director and head office.

Some regions are extremely active whilst others meet occasionally.

One of the society’s current objectives is to increase regional membership and activity in order to ensure that local and regional issues are aired and addressed and that any national significance is quickly noted.

Any members who have ideas or an interest in promoting regional activity are asked to contact their chairman or the society’s central office.

Regional Boundaries

Eastern Region
Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex
North) and Kettering.
Chairman: Mr Stuart Rawlins, Editor, Essex
Chronicle Series, 01245600700,
stuart.rawlins@essexchronicle.co.uk
Secretary: Mr Colin Moule, 01223 434441,
muffinthemoule@aol.com

London & Home Counties
Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Central London, Greater London, Surrey, Kent, West and East Sussex, Essex (South).
Chairman: Ms Hannah Walker, Group Editor, South London Press & Mercury Group, 0208 769 4444, hannahwalker@SLP.co.uk

Midlands
Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Humberside south of River Humber, Peterborough, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Hereford and Worcester, West Midlands, Warwickshire, and Welshpool and Banbury.
Vice-Chairman: Mr John Butterworth, Weekly Series Editor, Shrewsbury Chronicle, 01743 248248,
jbutterworth@shrewsburychronicle.co.uk

Ireland
Chairman: Mr Edmund Curran, Editor, Belfast Telegraph, 02890 264400, ecurran@belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Northern
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, Durham,
Cleveland.
Secretary: Mr Malcolm Warne, Editor,
Darlington & Stockton Times, 01325 505191,
mwarne@nen.co.uk

North-Western
Cumbria, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cheshire,
Greater Manchester and Leek.
Chairman: Mr Richard Catlow, Editorial Director, Greater Manchester Weekly Newspapers, 0161 480 4491, richard.catlow@gmwn.co.uk.
Secretary: Mr Ken Bennett, Head of PR, Key 103, 01457 820494, kd_bennett@yahoo.co.uk

Scotland
Chairman, Scotland: Julian Calvert, Journalism lecturer
Cultural Business Group, Glasgow Caledonian University
Tel: 0141 331 3844
Vice-Chairman: Roy Scott
Secretary: Mr Donald Fullarton, 01436
673774, dsf@btinternet.com
Scottish recruitment officer: Mr Bill
Livingstone, Editorial Director, Dunfermline
Press, 01383 728201,
W.livingstone@btinternet.com,
Treasurer: Mr Drew Cochrane, Editor, Largs &
Millport Weekly News, 01475 689009,
dcochrane@cfpress.co.uk, SC

Wales
Chairman: Mr Alastair Machray, Editor in
Chief, Daily Post Wales, 01492 574455,
alastair.machray@dailypost.co.uk.
Secretary: Mr Spencer Feeney, Editor, South
Wales Evening Post, 01792 510000
spencer.feeney@swwp.co.uk,

Wessex
Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, parts of
Somerset, Newbury, Reading, Salisbury and
Wokingham.
Chairman: Mr Ian Murray, Editor, The
Southern Daily Echo, 02380 424777,
ianmur@soton-echo.co.uk
Secretary: Mr Joe Scicluna, Editor, Andover
Advertiser, 01264 323456,
joe.scicluna@andoveradvertiser.co.uk,

Western
Gloucestershire, Avon, parts of Somerset,
Wiltshire, Devon and Cornwall.
Chairman: Mr Steve Egginton,
steve.egginton@btinternet.com
Secretary: Mr Andy Cooper, Managing Editor,
North Devon Journal, 01271 343064,
andyc@northdevonjournal.co.uk

Yorkshire
South, West and North Yorkshire, and
Humberside north of River Humber.
Chairman: Yorkshire, Mr Alan Powell, Editor,
Sheffield Star, 0114 2767676,
alan.powell@sheffieldnewspapers.co.uk,