BARNSLEY’S PREMIER LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE
19,500 COPIES DISTRIBUTED ACROSS BARNSLEY
EACH MONTH DIRECT INTO LETTERBOXES
The Premier Lifestyle Magazine
FOR BARNSLEY
With a distribution to 19,500 households & businesses in the South Barnsley area each month,
‘Barnsley Today & Around Birdwell’ magazine is a fusion of two local lifestyle publications that
create the one larger ‘iPad’ size glossy magazine. The magazine carries a mixture of local news, views and opinions, as well as featuring a range of editorial articles covering a variety of topics
and local businesses that you’d expect to see in a lifestyle magazine.
I’m very proud of the fact that all this is done with a small, but a very efficient team of hard working
local individuals, myself included, who are all passionate about the Barnsley area that we live in.
I’m confident that you’ll like our unique magazine so much that you’ll look forward to receiving
your copy each month and that you’ll want to tell all your friends all about it.
Read the latest issue here…
MORE ABOUT
BARNSLEY TODAY &
AROUND BIRDWELL MAGAZINE
About Us
Based in Hoyland, ‘Barnsley Today & Around Birdwell’ magazine is the Premier lifestyle publication in the Barnsley area. The magazine is full of news, views, opinions & features, as well as carrying information about what’s happening in and around the local Barnsley area. I’m Peter Holmes – that’s me pictured on the left – and I’m the publisher of the magazine. I’m proud to say that the magazine is produced from start to finish by a small, but very well organised and hard working team. As well as myself I also have an excellent local graphic design team who work alongside me and contribute an enormous amount to the appearance and layout of the publication. I also have an outstanding team of excellent local regular editorial contributors and, last but not least, a large team of conscientious and very hard working distributors – without whom none of this would be possible.
Distribution
Distribution is a key part of our success and our distribution team hand delivers 19,500 copies of ‘Barnsley Today/Around Birdwell’ each month with every home and business receiving a copy of the magazine in the following areas – Hoyland, Hoyland Common, Platts Common, Blacker Hill, Elsecar, Hemingfield, Jump, Wombwell, Birdwell, Worsbrough Village, Pilley, Pilley Green and Tankersley.
We also collate full and detailed distribution sheets each month, so that we can pinpoint when & where any one of our magazines has been delivered. I personally don’t believe in just dropping piles of magazines off at different ‘pick-up’ points around the Barnsley area in the ‘hope’ that the publication ‘might’ be picked up and read. Neither do we randomly deliver to ‘selected streets’ in large postcode areas like other local magazines. I’m proud to say that Barnsley Today/Around Birdwell magazine is hand-delivered directly into letterboxes each month – I firm believer that an advertiser is paying for their advert to be seen and not just left in a pile ‘hoping and waiting’ to be picked up by a casual passer by.
Editorial & Regular Features
Within the magazine there are regular editorial features each month such as our popular property section, which is always in & around the centre pages of the magazine, there’s also regular editorial features on wide range of topics such as Health & Beauty, Food reviews with our regular ‘In the Mood for Food’ feature written by our very own local ‘foodie experts’, Gardening, Legal, Education, Lifestyle and Travel, as well as bi-monthly editorial features on Computers & Technology, Social Media, Nature and other interesting topics.
Artwork
We don’t make any charge to our customers for any of the artwork that we produce for advertisements that appear in the magazine – this is produced totally free of charge and is part of the price that you pay for your advertisement. However all proofs that are sent out are in a low resolution format, so that they cannot be reproduced by other publications before first appearing in Barnsley Today/Around Birdwell without gaining our express permission beforehand.
No advertisement is ever published without it being approved by the advertiser and a copy of the magazine is always hand-delivered personally or posted by first class post to advertisers on the day preceeding the first day of distribution.
Testimonials
Lindsay Garfitt-Brown, Marketing, Communications & PR Manager, Barnsley College
“We’ve advertised in Barnsley Today for many years and we’re proud to be a part of our community magazine. It’s a great publication that reaches a lot of households in the local area. The Editor, Peter, is in regular contact and his enthusiasm and passion shines through when he communicates with us.”
Neil Spencer, Chief Executive & Company Secretary at the Forge Community Partnership
Robert Barraclough, Easylife Mobility, Based in Wombwell, Barnsley
We have been working with Barnsley Today Magazine for the past six years and have always found that Peter and his team
have been very helpful in the production of our advertisements, in particular with helping us to meet copy and artwork deadlines.
Peter has also been very helpful with several of our campaigns at crucial times throughout the year on numerous occasions.
The response we get from our advertising is consistent throughout the year and we wouldn’t hesitate in recommending Peter and
Barnsley Today Magazine to any potential advertiser.