THE BASINGA IS THE MAGAZINE OF THE PARISH OF OLD BASING.

Originally run by the church as the St. Mary’s Parish Church Magazine.
These were the days of the mechanical typewriter, wax stencils, hand folding and stapling.

With the expansion of the Parish it was decided that to continue to produce a free copy for every household, a dedicated team of people would be needed. To this end the church handed over the production to a group of church and non-church residents, properly constituted as the Basinga Management Committee.

Under the guidance of the Management Team the magazine production has progressed using photocopiers, word processors to Desk Top Publishing and commercial printing. This has lead to the introduction of full colour adverts and covers and the use of recycled paper.

The magazine is distributed free of charge each month to 3,150 households by 100+ volunteer distributors.

The magazine is produced using Quark Express on Apple Mac computers allowing electronic output direct to the commercial printer. The cost of production is paid from the Classified and Contract Advertising revenue. Donations received from residents and organizations together with any operating surplus is used to upgrade the magazine and the production equipment.