Join the Observer readers' panel

The Observer is your newspaper – and we value your opinion.

That’s why we’re setting up an Observer Reader Panel.

By joining the panel and giving your views you can directly contribute to the development of the Observer series and ensure we produce the best possible newspaper and website based on what YOU want.

Maybe you want more sports coverage, think we need to improve our letters pages or perhaps you think we should make some other changes to the Observer series.

Maybe there’s an issue in your neighbourhood that you think we should be campaigning about or perhaps you simply want to let us know when we’ve done something well – or not so well.

The Observer series is at the heart of life in this area – but we can only stay there with your help.

As a panellist, you and other readers will be given a voice to tell us exactly what you think about the content in the newspaper and on the website by answering short questionnaires.

We’ll share the survey results with you and tell you what we’re doing as a result of your feedback.

It’s easy to join - just click the ’Chichester Observer Reader Panel’ link to the top right of the screen.

We are grateful for your valued readership - and look forward to hearing your views.

Colin Channon

Group editor

What’s in it for you

If you join our reader panel, we hope you’ll find it a fun experience. While we’ll certainly touch on some serious subjects in our surveys, we’ll try to make it very easy for you to share your views with us and in a way that might be quite entertaining.

To show our appreciation, we enter panel members into prize draws to win various prizes and we give members access to all sorts of freebies, to thank them for their involvement.

We also share the survey results with panel members.That way they can see the impact of their feedback on the newspaper and website.

Possibly the best reason to get involved is this – you can influence the content and tone of the Observer series, your local newspaper and website. That’s got to be a good thing!

We’re proud to serve the people of the Chichester area and we’ll continue to stand up for what’s best for the area. Join our panel and you can help with our mission.

Our commitments to you

We’re happy to make some promises to you…

1. We’ll keep your feedback anonymous, unless you give us permission to quote you

2. We’ll keep your feedback confidential, i.e your specific feedback won’t be shared with anybody else

3. We’ll manage the panel in line with the Market Research Society’s Code of Conduct

4. We won’t share your contact information with anybody else

5. We won’t send you promotional or marketing messages

6. If you tell us you want to leave the panel at any stage, we’ll remove your details immediately