The Alternative Guides are in a full colour broadsheet format, unfolded size 700mm x 500mm (slightly smaller than A1).
The Website is a reflection of the Printed Alternative Guides, so advertisers in the printed guides are automatically included on the website.
The same deadlines therefore apply to printed and web versions.
If you would like to receive regular email reminders of forthcoming dealines, please email your details
| Area Covered | Period Covered | Copy Needed By |
| London & Kent Area | March/April/May | Early January |
| South Coast Area | March/April/May | Early February |
| London & Kent Area | June/July/August | Early April |
| South Coast Area | June/July/August | Early May |
| London & Kent Area | Sept/October/November | Early July |
| South Coast Area | September/Oct/November | Early August |
| London & Kent Area | December/January/February | Early October |
| South Coast Area | December/Jan/February | Early November |
The London & Kent edition
covering Everywhere the inside M25,
PLUS Canterbury, Ashford, Dover, Margate, Gravesend, Gillingham, Maidstone,
Tonbridge, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells, Etc.
covering Brighton, Lewes, East Grinstead, Haywards Heath, Eastbourne, Hastings, Rye,
PLUS Bournemouth, Poole, Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester, Chichester, Salisbury, etc.
Advertising Rates
The following prices are per area, per issue.
Listings and advertisements are automatically included on the website
at no extra charge.
These prices include all typesetting, scanning etc.
| per issue | per year (4 issues) | ||
| Small Box : mono | 55 x 44mm landscape | £55 | £200 |
| That's just £4.23 per week | |||
| Medium Box : with full colour logo | 110 x 44mm landscape | £99 | £360 |
| That's just £7.61 per week | |||
| Medium Box : with full colour logo | 89 x 55mm portrait | £99 | £360 |
| That's just £7.61 per week | |||
| Large Box : full colour | 110 x 89mm landscape | £175 | £640 |
| That's just £13.46 per week | |||
| Full Colour for just £15.31 per week |
Copy Details
All that is needed is the wording that you require and a logo or
suitable picture from a letterhead or business card.
Wording can be posted to the address below or emailed as
a Word file - or just as text in an email.
Your advertisement is then produced and a proof sent for your approval before publication.
If you wish to produce your own advertisement please make sure that
it is the exact
size and of a suitable quality and send it as an uncompressed JPEG
or TIFF file.
We are unable to accept programme files like Publisher, Quark, Corel etc.
However, listings need to be of Specific, Dated Events in the geographical area covered by the Alternative Guide.
Please note: Specific, Dated Events... i.e. a meeting, a course, a workshop, an open day.. saying 'I'm a massage therapist and I'm available every Monday afternoon' needs a paid box advertisement.
In the printed guide there is often not enough room to include
all the listings submitted.
Advertisers always get their events listed in the printed guide and
then as many others as possible
are included.
All listings are normally included on the website though..
Subject to them
being deemed suitable of course.