Rhiwbina Living Issue 57
The 15 year anniversary issue of Rhiwbina Living, the award-winning magazine for Rhiwbina.
The 15 year anniversary issue of Rhiwbina Living, the award-winning magazine for Rhiwbina.
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feature<br />
15<br />
years of<br />
<strong>Rhiwbina</strong><br />
<strong>Living</strong><br />
Fifteen years ago, two friends decided to create a magazine for<br />
<strong>Rhiwbina</strong>. The pair reflect on their last decade and a half<br />
On a sunny August day in 2007, two<br />
long-time friends sat down with a<br />
blank A4 note pad and a pen in a<br />
<strong>Rhiwbina</strong> garden. They didn't know<br />
it at the time, but it would be the<br />
start of a journey that's taken them<br />
to every corner of <strong>Rhiwbina</strong> village -<br />
and into the glare of stage lights at<br />
award ceremonies.<br />
It all seems<br />
like a long<br />
time ago<br />
now and for<br />
co-editors<br />
Patric<br />
Morgan and<br />
Dr Danielle<br />
Dummett,<br />
the<br />
magazines<br />
have<br />
become<br />
an integral<br />
26<br />
part of their lives.<br />
"Creating and sustaining a<br />
successful publication against so<br />
many odds has been very hard<br />
work," says Patric.<br />
"While other publications have<br />
the support of a large team behind<br />
them, the fact that we are fiercely<br />
independent has meant that<br />
we've done all the work ourselves<br />
- everything from writing and<br />
designing, through to supporting<br />
our advertisers and hand-delivering<br />
the magazines door-to-door<br />
throughout <strong>Rhiwbina</strong>. We live and<br />
breathe the magazines every day of<br />
our lives."<br />
There have been many challenges<br />
along the way, starting with the very<br />
first issue which was published way<br />
back in 2007.<br />
"From the outset, we decided<br />
that the magazine had to be a<br />
high quality publication," says<br />
the magazines other co-editor,<br />
Danielle. "It needed to have relevant<br />
and readable features that readers<br />
would relate to. With that in mind,<br />
we planned on having our first issue<br />
out in time for Christmas."<br />
With no funding or financial<br />
backing behind them, the pair<br />
visited the local shops to source<br />
advertising to fund the first issue.<br />
"The initial response wasn't quite<br />
we had hoped for. We had one<br />
shop owner who told us that<br />
<strong>Rhiwbina</strong> had a magazine back in<br />
the 1980s and that it never worked<br />
because they couldn't get enough<br />
advertising; then we had someone<br />
telling us where to go with the<br />
words 'Don't you know there's a<br />
bl**dy recession on?'.<br />
"It wasn't until we visited Paul and<br />
Mags in Serenade that we got our