SO, WE got through our first month!

Firstly thank you for all those who have supported us in our first month.

We have been bowled over by the way the arts organisations work together.

We would also like to say thank you to the many councillors who have also given their help.

Our first year is all about establishing contact with organisations and building up the mailing list.

It is also about building up a team and we are steadily constructing an on-line community of valued contributors.

We have filmed twenty five news items.

We have published 169 news items.

Our viewing figures are small at the moment. We gained over 19,000 page views in July, 6,000 uniques. However, in many ways, there are 19,000 views that, before July 1st, did not have such an on-line news-source.

Readers from 396 towns and cities in the UK and 42 countries.

As we say, these are the same tiny acorns that our sister paper, YourThurrock started with. YT gained 16,000 page views in the last three days and one film (Unions surround Boris Johnson) gained 10,000 views in two days!

We hope to get near to those levels by..2018!

So, on we go…