The Alternative Guides are in a single colour broadsheet format, unfolded size 720mm x 520mm (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 |
Kent Area |
Feb/March/April |
Early January |
| London Area | Feb/March/April | Early January |
| East Sussex Area | March/April/May | Early February |
| New Forest Area | March/April/May | Early February |
| Kent Area | May/June/July | Early April |
| London Area | May/June/July | Early April |
| East Sussex Area | June/July/August | Early May |
| New Forest Area | June/July/August | Early May |
| Kent Area | August/Sept/October | Early July |
| London Area | August/Sept/October | Early July |
| East Sussex Area | September/Oct/November | Early August |
| New Forest Area | September/Oct/November | Early August |
| Kent Area | November/Dec/January | Early October |
| London Area | November/Dec/January | Early October |
| East Sussex Area | December/Jan/February | Early November |
| New Forest Area | December/Jan/February | Early November |
| Area | Print Run | Towns Covered |
Kent Area |
15,000 per quarter |
Canterbury, Ashford, Dover, Folkestone, Margate, Gravesend, Rochester, Gillingham, Maidstone, Tonbridge, Sevenoaks, Etc. |
| London Area |
18,000 per quarter | Everywhere the inside M25 |
| East Sussex Area |
15,000 per quarter | Brighton, Lewes, East Grinstead, Haywards Heath, Tunbridge Wells, Eastbourne, Hastings, Rye, Etc. |
| New Forest Area |
15,000 per quarter | Bournemouth, Poole, Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester, Chichester, Salisbury, Etc. |
| per issue | per year (4 issues) | ||
| Small Box : mono | 57 x 44mm landscape | £55 | £200 |
| Less than £5 per week including vat | |||
| Medium Box : mono | 115 x 44mm landscape | £99 | £360 |
| Less than £9 per week including vat | |||
| Medium Box : mono | 89 x 57mm portrait | £99 | £360 |
| Less than £9 per week including vat | |||
| Large Box : mono | 115 x 89mm landscape | £175 | £640 |
| Less than £15 per week including vat | |||
| Large Box : FULL COLOUR | 115 x 89mm landscape | £199 | £717 |
| Full Colour for less than £15 per week including vat |
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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.