Glyn Edwards is its Editor. Ray DaSilva, a British bookseller and Punch enthusiast, kindly allows the Worldwide Friends to use his American banking facilities for membership dues. He also prints the journal. Others serve as official contacts for the organization in their home countries. Currently there are contacts in the United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Japan, China, Italy, Finland, and the Internet.
Membership is open to anyone and everyone.
To let members share their common enthusiasm and to exchange information around the world on all aspects of the Punch and Judy tradition. To lend support to the tradition where it exists outside the United Kingdom, and to foster an appreciation of Mr. Punch in countries where he is not as familiar as he is in Britain. The organization furthers these aims through the pages of Around The World With Mr. Punch . Also, members in each participating country organize locally whatever they wish in pursuit of these aims. For example, in August of 1999 the Worldwide Friends participated in a Punch Faire at the Puppeteers of America's National Festival in Seattle.