Editor’s Letter
include even more than usual in the next couple of issues.
something to tell us?
In this edition we’ve put together a feature on festivals. We’ve kept it to five pages, although if we were to list every one taking place this year there would be no room for anything else in the magazine!
The Discover team has a monthly get-together to exchange ideas about what we are going to put into each of our magazines. Advertising will always be in of course – your support of the businesses is what pays for everything else.
It’s the small local events that are difficult for us to find though. So if you know of anything happening near where you live – a country fair, a village market, a local play type of thing – send in the details to editorial@discovermagazines. co.uk. That’ll make the magazine interesting and useful for the recipients and – let’s be honest – make my life just a little bit easier!
We’ve always included a what’s on and anything else we think of that’s interesting. It’s the one thing that searching on the internet isn’t very good for. Suppose you’re thinking ‘weather’s nice tomorrow, what shall we do’. You can search for it, but it’ll be site after site, page after page – there’s no one place that collates it all. So as it’s nearly summer and there are hundreds of activities and event available, we are proverbially making hay, and have decided to
Thank you. Thanks to festival ‘Secret Garden Party’, and photographer Max Miechowski for our beautiful cover this month. See page 37 for more details.
Tania Editor
If you don’t tell us we can’t share it!
Discover Team
Oyez! Oyez! Melanie Tinson
Tania Houston
Director, Advertising melanie@discovermagazines.co.uk 023 8027 6396
Director, Finance & Operations tania@discovermagazines.co.uk 023 8027 6361
Discover is YOUR local magazine, delivered to 145,000 homes in the Solent area (13,500 homes get this Chandlers Ford edition) so it’s a great opportunity for community organisations, groups, clubs, schools, churches etc to make announcements. Think of us as your local Town Crier! • What’s On • Groups & Clubs • Charity Events • School Notices • Local News • Campaigns • Volunteering
Talitha Gibbins
Artwork Co-ordinator design@discovermagazines.co.uk 023 8017 0101
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Kevin Houston Distribution
disti@discovermagazines.co.uk
If you don’t tell us we can’t share it! Email: editorial@discovermagazines.co.uk Online: www.discovermagazines.co.uk and use the Editorial Request Form on our Contact Us page