Yes - we make nothing off of the Magazine. All purchases go straight to the charity involved.

The rest is payed for by Lyra Auld out of her own wages. Thanks to the help of volunteer writers we are able to produce current, high quality content.

Again, this is a CHARITY MAGAZINE. We can only afford to print limited copies without taking any profit, so the magazines sold in our shop are more expensive in order to raise the most money with fewer prints.

However, we have ways that we mitigate the price. On our personal shop, copies are £6. However, PDF copies are available for a donation price. Copies sold in our partnering stores are also sold for a donation price.

Two of our four core values lie in education and ethical exposure. The QR codes facilitate both - not only can you go on to do further research past the point of the magazine, but it also provides a place for those participating in the magazine to display their work.

In terms of ethical exposure, we also link the work of those involve in the project in an online library. This is so that the public can browse their work free of charge, earning them more exposure.

The QR codes work both on paper to be scanned and online (subject to the level of update on your phone).

Dear Lord, what a sad little life Jane! Not even a real question - though as a comment and concern we fully take your views on board. We are not trying to be ‘woke’ - however we cannot deny the inexplicable link between being ‘woke’ and believing in bare minimum human rights. Our ethos is based upon learning, education and ethics. Make of that what you will. If you read it you might find yourself with some grace and decorum xox

Agreeably, the authors’ rampant dyslexia and choice of career path do not naturally go hand-in-hand.

However, we have multiple student editors on the team who are incredibly talented at what they do, to help the founder out. Should a teeny-tiny mistake fall through the cracks, we sincerely apologise - However if you wish to donate £6 to charity in order to read the magazine and raise your concerns, we will not be complaining anywhere near as much as you ;)

Trust me, if I was trying to scam you there would be far less stressful ways to do so than running entire magazine!

We are not a business, we are a student project. We also want to keep a running total of how much money we are actually raising, as we do have a goal in mind.

For us, the most tangible way to do this is through our shop.

Here is how your money is donated :

• Purchase the Mag (Please).

• Photo images of the cheques donated, alongside our Sum-Up and Paypal reports are then uploaded to the “Receipts” page. This occurs with every report/large transaction (ie donation) that we complete.

• In this way we are able prove that your money is being donated to the charity.

In the meant time, should you get an email from HSBC telling you to hand over your details… don’t!

In short - Very Irregularly.

In terms of the Magazine itself, we try and aim to publish every three months. This is for many reasons -

• The magazine is expensive to print and time consuming to write. We want to make sure that we are putting out quality content that is easily accesible. The way to do this is by giving ourselves time to do just that.

• It is student ran - students are either busy or hungover 90% of the time. The other 10% is dedicated to the magazine.

• We believe in slow news - It takes time to process information and create change. 3 months gives us time to really process the information and put together quality content for the reader.

• The Magazine contains a lot more information than what is written in the pages, thanks the the QR codes. Unlike regular magazines, it might take you three months to get through all of the content we have cited and linked.

  We remove all of the pressure on our writers to fill quotas, as we have found that it reduces the morale of those helping with the Mag. After all they are volunteers!

Yes… and no!

For our official collage (the one which we use for prints ect) a-lot of the photos were taken by us. The rest are from an incredibly old encyclopaedia. The pictures are copyright friendly and we cannot plagiarise our own work!

Because we make profit from the prints (to put towards magazine production) it is vital that these are copyright friendly.

However for our magazine covers the story is a little different.

Firstly - in our Bibliography we link any books/magazines we have used to put and piece together the collage - we know that we do not own the work and we are honest about every place we have sourced the photos from.

This is why a lot of the faces are not in full as we want to keep anonymity of those we use in the pictures.

Secondly, we make sure that all of the photos we use are old/outdated. The photos are collated from a variety of sources so we do not want to rip-off any current material.

Lastly (and most importantly) we do not make any money off of the magazine. As there is no profit made, it technically cannot be classed as copyright. This is a Charity Project.

The rest of the photos we use we ensure are in the public domain or directly QR Coded/Linked. For more details see here or visit our legal details page.

Take The Wheel’s aim is NOT to defame any of the people we expose/talk about. No journalist waltzes into the office on a Monday morning and thinks:

“Huh, now would be a good time to unintentionally slag off a big company”!

Therefore, we take defamation very seriously. As a magazine that is dedicated to education, there is always an element of honesty that WILL inevitably shed events in a negative light. There is arguably, no ethical way to spread information that is honest AND factual without also shedding light on the negative aspects of events.

However, in doing so, we are not out to defame any particular person or company - rather, our interests are in exposing the truth. There are several ways we combat this:

When it comes to the work that we have sourced and written -

Firstly, we always link every site and source we have used. On top of this, we never write opinion based pieces about certain people/companies without sourcing a quote from the other party, in order to remain educated yet impartial. If something comes across as bad… and we have gone to lengths to ensure that both parties have spoken for themselves… maybe what has happened is objectively… bad! When we do share the odd opinion piece, we ensure that the opinion is about a chain of EVENTS as appose to the actions of one particular brand or person. Every source used, including the defamation defence or released statements are available in our bibliography.

When it comes to safeguarding those we interview (so they feel safe to speak freely of their experiences):

We understand that to censor some peoples experiences for the sake of defamation, goes against the whole purpose of education in the mag. Therefore, we publish 99% of the original transcripts from interviews. If an interviewee mentions a company or person, we either -

• Blank the Name but allow them to continue speaking

• Ask them during the interview to avoid naming certain associates

• Ensure that if they have spoken about the topic before, that they have been allowed to talk about it, so that we can also publish their work (as republication of a defamatory statement is still defamation)

For both interviews and our written work, we assess if something could be defamatory with professionals at the University of Sheffield first.

Should something be considered defamatory it is pulled. To be extra safe, we also double star (**) ANY statements that could be considered defamatory. The statements we gather/are released by the aforementioned party, are then linked in the Bibliography for the magazine, along with all of the sources.

For more information see here or visit our legal details page.