Dear Luke,
Please check out my hourly rate (which I think you'll find to be about the going rate) and then consider very carefully if you can afford the time and help of any of the escort's here. Sorry but in this business, as you may have gathered 'time is money'. Of course I have just helped in your journalistic training, there are no free lunches here. That's for free hun.
You also indicate that you're too tight to travel and leave your patch, hmmm.
By the way, I'd love to know how you plan to 'draw greater, positive attention to what you do, to raise some important issues and get some personal stories/experiences'. Personally I do get plenty of 'positive attention' from the guys who pay my wages.
Thanks but no thanks, now run along as I'm sure there must be a dog show somewhere for you to cover....
Nuff said?