Currently, we have 3 editions each month – in Bromley, Orpington and Beckenham.
21,000 copies in total each month (7,000 of each magazine).
Our readership is estimated at 18,000 per magazine (approximately 55,000 every month including both print and digital editions)
We distribute to local households in Bromley, Orpington and Beckenham. We also have over 30 pick-up points across the Bromley borough. A list of these is on The Magazines page.
If you’re not in our distribution area, you can see our list of pick-up points here or you can read the digital edition.
Yes, you can subscribe here for postal copies for just £2 a month (£24 a year), You can also subscribe here to receive your free digital copy every month.
We’d be delighted if you did! Please send us your community news here. We can’t guarantee we’ll publish everything that’s submitted but we will consider your submissions.
We can’t cover business news unless you advertise with us – see our advertising page for more info. We also encourage readers to send in their letters and comments as well as stories of ‘random acts of kindness’, pet pictures and anything that relates to positive and inspiring community news and stories.
We are a trusted magazine that people engage with. Our magazines usually have a long shelf-life because people hold onto them to refer back to for things like the community noticeboard, competitions and puzzles, the ‘What’s On’ events and of course the insightful features and community stories! They like to dip in and dip out of our magazines and sometimes pass them on to family and friends.
Looking after the environment is very important to us. All our magazines are printed using vegetable-based inks and on FSC® Certified paper. Not one copy is wasted either – any that are left over at pick-up points are then distributed to households. We also encourage readers to recycle their magazines after they’ve finished with them – or even better to pass them on to a friend! Moreover, for every 6-month and 12-month advertiser that books an ad campaign with us, we plant a tree on their behalf.
We like to cater to businesses whatever their budget, so there are a number of different ways to advertise in either magazine including the standard adverts, Classified listings, Noticeboard announcements, newsletter advertising and even sponsoring an issue. Find out more on our Advertising page.
Advertising costs from as little as £12 a month, if you buy advertising in bulk. See all our advertising rates here.
If you book just one advert, we will send you an invoice for BACs payment. If you are bulk buying adverts over several months, you can either pay upfront for the whole amount or you can spread the cost with Go Cardless payments.
Go Cardless is a simple, transparent and secure way to make regular payments. You will only pay for the number of months you’ve booked, and you’ll get a reminder email before each payment is taken. You’ll know exactly how much you’re paying and when it will come out. Find out more information see the Go Cardless website and you can register to pay here.
Yes, we do. See our advertising page for details on charity discounts.
Yes, we offer discounts for bulk buying adverts – the longer you advertise for, the cheaper it is. See our advertising page for bulk buy information.
We’re all about delivering real value and rewarding businesses that choose to grow with us. Advertisers booking six months or more benefit from added exposure at no extra cost. This includes social media promotion across our engaged local audience, a complimentary editorial feature to help tell your story and a tree planted on your behalf as part of our commitment to giving back to the community and environment. For those partnering with us for 12 months or longer, in addition to the above, you’ll also receive a premium listing for 1 year in our online business directory and our app at https://apple.co/4lSNi4m and a free full page ‘Behind The Business’ editorial feature (worth £343) giving your business year-round visibility beyond the magazine and helping local customers find you more easily. It’s all part of making sure your advertising works harder for you, while also making a positive impact locally.
Keeping the magazines full of informative, engaging content is important to us. So, we only ever reserve half of each magazine for advertising.