Submission Details ------------------
Nominee Summary
Dumfries and Galloway What’s Going On (DGWGO), is a FREE online News, Events and much more community paper. Launched back in 2011, DGWGO is a valuable resource for the region. Operated by locals, Robin Baird a farmer from Kirkcudbright, who runs his 520-acre family farm single handed and Derek Pennycook a businessman. both tirelessly keep the world connected with everything Dumfries and Galloway, from local news and events to job vacancies, property, traffic updates, weather and much more. DGWGO promotes our region worldwide, by sharing stunning photos and videos of the region’s beauty spots, historic sites and places of interest.
What makes your nominee stand out?
The fact that DGWGO supplies everything for FREE and keeps it all to a very high standard. DGWGO is becoming the regions most trusted news and events format. With the local papers readership rapidly in decline and prices increasing, more people are turning to DGWGO to keep them in touch with their local community and also letting the world beyond know just how wonderful Dumfries and Galloway is.
Supporting the local community
The DGWGO team, work around the clock during Met Office Storms, reporting any local traffic news, Flooding, fallen trees, power outages and much more, helping people to keep updated and feeling safe. Plus, DGWGO supports hundreds of local events, from Farmers Markets to theatre shows, small pub gigs, jumble sales, art exhibitions and much more by promoting them for free. The jobs.dgwgo.com website offers local businesses a FREE option to advertise their job vacancies to a huge audience and is a great way for to encourage new people to come and work and live in a rural part of Scotland with a declining population. The DGWGO guys pride themselves in supporting the community that the live in, and love.
Maintaining high ethical/environmental standards
In a modern world, DGWGO is environmentally friendly, a paper free way to keep in touch with everything D&G, the business prides itself in the fact that people can have all the local news and information at their fingertips, without having to spend a single penny, without having to travel to purchase an old fashioned paper or magazine that is the next day’s recycling or worse LANDFILL. Plus, the DGWGO websites are powered by carbon neutral servers
