Welcome to Essex Publications
Strengthening local community, promoting local businesses to local people since 2005
Essex Publications
PUBLISHED SINCE 2005
Strengthening the local community, promoting local businesses to local people.
We are committed to supporting local businesses by providing a platform for targetted advertising in well-established local magazines. Our mission is to actively promote and showcase products, services and successes of businesses within our community. Through strategic and tailored advertising campaigns, we aim to amplify the visibility and reach of local businesses, providing support, increase awareness and driving growth within our area
When businesses advertise with us, we can offer an additional value-added support by providing complimentary editorial support alongside your advert. We can offer the opportunity to have featured editorial news coverage showcasing your expertise, fundraising, staff achievements or similar. This provides an additional avenue to engage our readers and create a deeper connection between your business and our community. Our goal is to provide comprehensive support to our advertisers.
Every issue of our magazines has a minimum of 50% editorial which can include local news, events, fundraising, features and editorial.
This ensures our magazines are read, informative, useful and retained
BOOKING DEADLINE
The booking deadline for advertising is 20th of each month.
The magazine is published and distributed the first week of every month.
ARTWORK
We can use most formats of artwork including jpeg, word, pdf, and powerpoint.
We can also desighn your artwork, for use only in our magazines. This is provided free of charge.
Our magazines are A4 size, which provides a good size advertisements for our advertisers and ensures readability.
EDITORIAL
We welcome editorial written by local people only.
The deadline for submitting editorial is the 20th of every month
Celebrating 20 years of North Weald Village Life
The August issue celebrates 20 years since I published my first magazine - North Weald Village Life magazine. It has gone from strength to strength over the years, originally printed in black and white and now in full colour. It has always retained it's A4 size.
Now of course, since March 2023, I publish two magazines, as I launched Epping Town Life.
Later this year, 2025, I will be launching my third local magazine.
Epping Town Life
The first issue was launched March 2023
North Weald Village Life
The 200th issue was the April 2023 issue
Epping Town Life
The 2nd issue April 2023.
North Weald Village Life
Issue 199, March 2023
Fundraising
We work with and support local charities and organisations every month.
This could be promoting events or encouraging new members.
We also offer a discount for any charity requiring to advertise.
Review
We do visit and carry out reviews of cafes and restaurants.
We can take photographs and write editorial.