If you are one of the community's charities, not-for-profit clubs, societies, help, good-will or social betterment groups, you can advertise for free in the Town Crier..
You will not be charged for features about you, nor your news, announcements, wins, recognitions or details of coming events.
Please also note that my goal is to support as much as I can the efforts of local organisations, people and small local businesses to prosper. Therefore I will only accept your submissions if you are based in or specifically belong to the area covered by the magazine.
To further clarify: you count as local if (a) you live in the area and/or (b) you have an office, a shop or a market stall within the area covered by the magazine. You count as a small business for our purposes if you have 50 employees or fewer.
All you have to do is submit a writeup about your charity or not-for-profit service covering whatever you want the magazine's readers to know about it. In addition you can provide any contact/website/social media details you would like people to have. A few pictures to attract readers' attention would also be advantageous. Preferably, images should be in PNG or JPEG format although I can be flexible if needed.
Also if you want to announce, say, forthcoming event(s), exhibitions, fundraisers and so forth, send me an image of your banner or poster and I'll display it in the magazine or on the website or both, space permitting.
Please send your submission to this link
Other items we will feature free of charge are:
Poetry - submit examples of your poetry and if I feel the poem works in the context of the magazine I'll publish it. I can't guarantee to publish every poem submitted no matter how good they are so if your poem isn't selected, that doesn't mean I didn't like it.
Recipes - the same applies here also.
Humour/satire - and here
Life hacks and health tips - let's help one another by sharing our knowledge and successful actions.
Wild ideas - let's share and discuss creative ideas no matter how wild they seem.
Commended and Recommended - write in and tell us about some business, tradesman, charity, restaurant, public service and so forth that has provided exemplary. praiseworthy service or set a fine example for others to follow. Good works well recognised will help uplift the whole community.
Any and all submissions where published can have, if you wish, the contact/website/social media details of their author.
If you would like to submit an article. feature. announcement or ad. please contact me now
If you are getting published for free, please consider helping the Town Crier be viable by making a small voluntary donation in exchange.
When submitting material for the Town Crier please bear in mind the following policies.
One
When deciding whether to publish a submission I use my own discretion. On a few occasions I may decide not to accept a submission. The reasons for rejecting a submission are various and not personal. On the odd occasion that I do reject a submission, I am under no obligation to explain or justify my decision and will not enter into explanations or justifications.
All submissions are made on that understanding and by making a submission you are confirming your agreement with this policy.
Two
My goal is to uphold community and family values. Therefore I will not feature or promote the following:
Drugs and pharmaceutical products of any kind
Psychiatry
Party politics
Denigrating the spiritual or religious beliefs of others
Anything encouraging or advocating anything illegal
Anything promoting or advocating sex, promiscuity, gender issues, sexual orientation of any kind whether heterosexual or homosexual.
People are of course entitled to communicate about such subjects elsewhere but I'm not interested in having such material in the Town Crier.