NEW QUARTERLY MAGAZINE
ESK VALLEY NEWS is changing from a monthly to a quarterly magazine from July 2022. Read our article below to find out why.
ESK VALLEY NEWS QUARTERLY publishing dates will be:
Summer issue (Jul, Aug, Sep) Publish: July, Contributions: please send now! (latest by 1 June)
Autumn issue (Oct, Nov, Dec) Publish: October, Contributions by: 1 September
Winter issue (Jan, Feb, Mar) Publish: January, Contributions by: 1 December
Spring issue (Apr, May, Jun) Publish: April, Contributions by: 1 March
The general theme for each Quarterly will be seasonal, and occasionally we will suggest a Special Focus . . . (see below)
EVENTS
The Quarterly will cover events happening during the three months of each issue so please continue to send events information (email us at: valleynews@basementpress.com). We realise that some events may not be arranged three months in advance so we also plan to publish an online events listing on our website, to be updated monthly. See: www.eskvalleynews.co.uk
ESK VALLEY NEWS FACEBOOK
We’ll continue to share time-sensitive news and events on the Esk Valley News Facebook page. Please email us if you’d like to share information to the community via the Esk Valley News Facebook page.
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We hope these new arrangements will help Esk Valley News live on in the community.
We’ll be in touch with subscribers and advertisers to discuss the changes when we’ve worked out how much the Quarterly cover price needs to be to cover costs.
If you have any comments please do get in touch.
Best wishes,
NICOLA & PASCAL
Esk Valley News
email: valleynews@basementpress.com
ESK VALLEY NEWS QUARTERLY publishing dates will be:
Summer issue (Jul, Aug, Sep) Publish: July, Contributions: please send now! (latest by 1 June)
Autumn issue (Oct, Nov, Dec) Publish: October, Contributions by: 1 September
Winter issue (Jan, Feb, Mar) Publish: January, Contributions by: 1 December
Spring issue (Apr, May, Jun) Publish: April, Contributions by: 1 March
The general theme for each Quarterly will be seasonal, and occasionally we will suggest a Special Focus . . . (see below)
EVENTS
The Quarterly will cover events happening during the three months of each issue so please continue to send events information (email us at: valleynews@basementpress.com). We realise that some events may not be arranged three months in advance so we also plan to publish an online events listing on our website, to be updated monthly. See: www.eskvalleynews.co.uk
ESK VALLEY NEWS FACEBOOK
We’ll continue to share time-sensitive news and events on the Esk Valley News Facebook page. Please email us if you’d like to share information to the community via the Esk Valley News Facebook page.
•••
We hope these new arrangements will help Esk Valley News live on in the community.
We’ll be in touch with subscribers and advertisers to discuss the changes when we’ve worked out how much the Quarterly cover price needs to be to cover costs.
If you have any comments please do get in touch.
Best wishes,
NICOLA & PASCAL
Esk Valley News
email: valleynews@basementpress.com
SPECIAL FOCUS: JULY 2022
The first Quarterly in July will focus on Climate of the Moors and Sea. We’d love to receive your stories and articles about climate / weather around this area, past, present and future; green initiatives; wildlife and the environment; farming, people, local history, etc. We hope you will share poems, short stories, artwork and photographs – they don’t all have to be about climate either!
If you have an idea for a future ‘Focus’ for the Quarterly, please email: valleynews@basementpress.com We’d love to hear from you.
If you have an idea for a future ‘Focus’ for the Quarterly, please email: valleynews@basementpress.com We’d love to hear from you.
WHY IS ESK VALLEY NEWS CHANGING?
When we began publishing Valley News in April 2010 we never imagined it would carry on for another twelve years – and we still want it to carry on if we possibly can! We love publishing local stories and helping the community share information, and we’re grateful to you all for your support and encouragement.
The monthly Esk Valley News magazine is well supported we feel the time has come to make changes:
Social media is brilliant for spreading news rapidly through the community but it does make this particular role of the printed monthly Esk Valley News magazine less prominent. We are conscious of the cost and paper wastage of unsold copies and the increased costs in time and fuel – and pollution – from widening our distribution.
The cost of paper is also rising. Our wonderful printer – Alan at Jetprint, Whitby – is now forced to raise printing prices, which means a price rise for the magazine to cover our costs. We haven’t increased the price for twelve years, so this is a possibility, but we feel a bigger change is necessary.
Last summer we experimented with a special full-colour 128-page bound edition (‘All About Trees’) over two months instead of our usual 48-page monthly magazine. The ‘Tree book’ sold out, and its longer shop shelf-life meant more exposure for our advertisers. Feedback from readers was very good: ‘... a great read and full of interest’, ‘... looks beautiful’, ‘...a publication to keep on the bookshelf’. And distribution costs were halved.
The experiment has led us to the following plan for the future:
From July 2022 onwards we will replace the monthly magazine with a larger quarterly publication modelled on the full-colour special published last summer.
ESK VALLEY NEWS QUARTERLY publishing dates will be:
Summer issue (Jul, Aug, Sep) Publish: July, Contributions: please send now! (latest by 1 June)
Autumn issue (Oct, Nov, Dec) Publish: October, Contributions by: 1 September
Winter issue (Jan, Feb, Mar) Publish: January, Contributions by: 1 December
Spring issue (Apr, May, Jun) Publish: April, Contributions by: 1 March
The general theme for each Quarterly will be seasonal, and occasionally we will suggest a Special Focus . . . (see below)
EVENTS
The Quarterly will cover events happening during the three months of each issue so please continue to send events information (email us at: valleynews@basementpress.com). We realise that some events may not be arranged three months in advance so we also plan to publish an online events listing on our website, to be updated monthly. See: www.eskvalleynews.co.uk
ESK VALLEY NEWS FACEBOOK
We’ll continue to share time-sensitive news and events on the Esk Valley News Facebook page. Please email us if you’d like to share information to the community via the Esk Valley News Facebook page.
•••
We hope these new arrangements will help Esk Valley News live on in the community.
We’ll be in touch with subscribers and advertisers to discuss the changes when we’ve worked out how much the Quarterly cover price needs to be to cover costs.
If you have any comments please do get in touch.
Best wishes,
NICOLA & PASCAL
Esk Valley News
email: valleynews@basementpress.com
March 2022
The monthly Esk Valley News magazine is well supported we feel the time has come to make changes:
Social media is brilliant for spreading news rapidly through the community but it does make this particular role of the printed monthly Esk Valley News magazine less prominent. We are conscious of the cost and paper wastage of unsold copies and the increased costs in time and fuel – and pollution – from widening our distribution.
The cost of paper is also rising. Our wonderful printer – Alan at Jetprint, Whitby – is now forced to raise printing prices, which means a price rise for the magazine to cover our costs. We haven’t increased the price for twelve years, so this is a possibility, but we feel a bigger change is necessary.
Last summer we experimented with a special full-colour 128-page bound edition (‘All About Trees’) over two months instead of our usual 48-page monthly magazine. The ‘Tree book’ sold out, and its longer shop shelf-life meant more exposure for our advertisers. Feedback from readers was very good: ‘... a great read and full of interest’, ‘... looks beautiful’, ‘...a publication to keep on the bookshelf’. And distribution costs were halved.
The experiment has led us to the following plan for the future:
From July 2022 onwards we will replace the monthly magazine with a larger quarterly publication modelled on the full-colour special published last summer.
ESK VALLEY NEWS QUARTERLY publishing dates will be:
Summer issue (Jul, Aug, Sep) Publish: July, Contributions: please send now! (latest by 1 June)
Autumn issue (Oct, Nov, Dec) Publish: October, Contributions by: 1 September
Winter issue (Jan, Feb, Mar) Publish: January, Contributions by: 1 December
Spring issue (Apr, May, Jun) Publish: April, Contributions by: 1 March
The general theme for each Quarterly will be seasonal, and occasionally we will suggest a Special Focus . . . (see below)
EVENTS
The Quarterly will cover events happening during the three months of each issue so please continue to send events information (email us at: valleynews@basementpress.com). We realise that some events may not be arranged three months in advance so we also plan to publish an online events listing on our website, to be updated monthly. See: www.eskvalleynews.co.uk
ESK VALLEY NEWS FACEBOOK
We’ll continue to share time-sensitive news and events on the Esk Valley News Facebook page. Please email us if you’d like to share information to the community via the Esk Valley News Facebook page.
•••
We hope these new arrangements will help Esk Valley News live on in the community.
We’ll be in touch with subscribers and advertisers to discuss the changes when we’ve worked out how much the Quarterly cover price needs to be to cover costs.
If you have any comments please do get in touch.
Best wishes,
NICOLA & PASCAL
Esk Valley News
email: valleynews@basementpress.com
March 2022
