History

An independent voice for the community

Since its first edition in July 1869 the Maidenhead Advertiser has been faithfully serving the community, bringing it the most up-to-date and comprehensive news possible.

As a truly independent newspaper, the Advertiser is committed to the principles of fair, accurate and impartial reporting of local issues and aims to provide its readers with unrivalled coverage of Maidenhead and its surrounding towns and villages.

Unique among weekly newspapers, our independence is guaranteed by our status as a trust. In 1962 Louis Baylis, the newspaper's proprietor, created a charitable trust which bears his name, effectively making a gift of the newspaper to the town with the aim of keeping alive the invaluable tradition of public service it had established.

Each year the Trust distributes money to local good causes while the newspaper's values of public service and providing an independent voice for the community remain as strong today as ever.