Enterprising Baildon pupils in magazine scoop (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Enterprising Baildon pupils in magazine scoop

10:50am Friday 20th April 2012 in Aire Valley

A trio of enterprising 13-year-olds have created their own magazine and distributed it to more than 2,000 people.

Such was the success of the Local Leader, created by Titus Salt School students in Baildon, that the three teenagers plan to create one each quarter.

Not only did they write all the articles about regeneration, City Park, constituency changes and the history of Bingley, but they also secured the advertising to allow the magazine – inspired by the Telegraph & Argus’s sister title Yorkshire Living magazine – to be handed out for free.

That meant calling various businesses and then they had to ring ten printers to get the best price for the magazine to be printed for them to hand it out.

The students were James Salter, Megan Carson and Cory Kilshaw, and they also got comments from MPs about local issues to put in the copy.

James, who was the editor of the first Local Leader, said: “We got inspiration from the Yorkshire Living Magazine. We just saw it and thought we could do the same.

“We have been doing enterprise activities for a couple of years. We wanted to do something new and exciting. We enjoyed this project and had a lot of fun.

“There were decisions about what to write and we had to get quotes from lots of different printers. There were e-mails to be sent and we had to call businesses. Then we distributed the completed magazine to local businesses and handed them out in City Park to people.”

Teacher Jim O’Connor, who is enterprise leader at Titus Salt, said he had asked students at the beginning of the year whether they wanted to create an enterprising project.

“James, Megan and Cory said that they would like to do a magazine and they actually put a business plan together,” he said.

“We then went through what they would like to see in it and they raised the money and got the advertising.”