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Governance
DN has a governing body comprising the two joint editors
Jill Cheeseman, 338609 and Mary Robinson, 338272 and the treasurer, Buffy Heywood, 338212.
You can view the Deddington News Governing Document, including its aims and principles.
There is a committee of sub-editors comprising:
Charles Barker, 337747 (Parish Council correspondent)
Alison Day, 337204 (Clubs and Societies)
Jean Flux, 338153 (Diary)
Kristin Thompson, 337052 (Postbox)
Molly Neild, 338521 (Features)
Frank Steiner, 338624 (Church/chapel)
John Sampson, 338739 (Annual advertisements)
Debbie Grimsley, 336110 (Monthly ads and inserts)
Click the links to send copy or messages
Email the editor if you would like an alert when each new issue is ready
In 2012 DN will become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in order to protect the team.
Production
Deddington News is an A4 magazine of 18 editorial pages plus cover, printed in black and white and stapled twice along the outside edge. Editorial pages are printed on white paper, and are interleaved with 16 pages of advertisements printed on yellow paper.
The print run in 2011 is 1,050 copies. Printing of editorial pages is done on a Risograph machine housed in the Windmill Community Centre. The annual advertisements on yellow pages are printed in two half-yearly runs by Eagle Press of Abingdon, and stored in the Windmill. Inserts are supplied ready printed by the advertisers.
The 2011 cover design is by Katrine Scott-Mitchell. Issues February–November use the same cover illustration printed in a single colour; a separate four-colour cover is designed for December.
Manual collation and stapling of each issue takes about two hours, and is carried out at the Windmill by a team of some 20 or so willing pairs of hands. Thirty or so volunteers act as distributors for various areas of the parish. If you would like to join the collators or distributors, please contact anyone on the production team.
The production team comprises:
Duplicating: Ruth Johnson, 338355, and Pat Swash
Collating and distribution: Pat Brittain, 338685, assisted by Alison Brice, Yvonne Twomey and teams.
Finances
Annual turnover is currently just over £8,000; about £6,500 is kept in reserve. It has a 'society' bank account at the Banbury branch of the National Westminster Bank, and is funded almost entirely by advertising revenue. The accounts are audited annually.
Any profit made is returned to the community, funding projects such as new noticeboards around the parish and at the Castle Grounds, making donations towards the Deddidngton OnAir, the Market Place Christmas tree, Hempton church doors, etc.
Copies of the current issue of DN are available in the Flower Shop, Market Place, with a box for donations.
History
| Sep 1976–May 1979 | Mary Robinson |
| June 1979–Oct 1979 | Margaret Leaver and Jill Cheeseman |
| Nov 1979–Jan 1982 | Jill Cheeseman |
| Feb 1982–Jan 1983 | Una and Derek Vickers |
| Feb 1983–Jan 1984 | Janet Clark |
| Feb 1984–Jan 1985 | Ralph Elsley |
| Feb 1985–Jan 1987 | Marianne Elsley |
| Feb 1987–Feb 1994 | Angela and Norman Stone |
| Mar 1994–Aug 1997 | Sylvie Spenceley |
| Sep 1997–Dec 2002 | Kristin Thompson |
| Feb 2002–Feb 2008 | Christopher Hall |
| Mar 2008– | Jill Cheeseman and Mary Robinson |