Folkife West, on folklife.uk
  • πŸ„΅πŸ…† Home
  • πŸ„΅πŸ…† News (by area)
    • 🄵🅆 Cymru
    • 🄵🅆 West Country
    • 🄵🅆 Midlands
    • 🄵🅆 South-East
    • 🄵🅆 North
    • 🄵🅆 Alba
    • ⎈ International >
      • ⎈ International Archive
  • πŸ„΅πŸ…† Festivals, Workshops
  • ⎈ Updates
  • ⎈ Send news
  • ⎈ Info
    • Data
    • Sizes
  • ⎈ Our other websites
    • Journal website
    • Directory website
    • Zoom / Virtual (Directory site)
    • Homend Poets
Picture
In print:
​FW page 3
Picture

www.folklife.uk
🄵🅆 ​
magazine

Picture
Picture

• contact  • info • 

•  contact details  &  info :  deadlines, ad rates, membership
FW, Folklife West,  printed 3 x year:  4-monthly, Jan, May, Sep
A4-size pages copied online, so not suitable for phones.
Picture
Online: read
​or download
Picture
FOLKLIFE

Contact

Picture
EMAIL
sam@folklife.uk

PHONE 
01684 561378

ADDRESS
16 Barrett Rise, Malvern,
​Worcs WR14 2UJ

Please email sam@folklife.uk

What we do - and what we don't
  • FW:  print magazine, also copied online  - not a blog, nor email forwarding service!  We don't use social media.
  • We print folk news from our Members only; plus researched articles (membership not required); and a few ads. For deadlines, word limits, etc, see below.
  • No interviews or reviews (members can send their publicity about their albums).
  • Member-performers news is very welcome as above, incl. members' forthcoming albums, tours, etc.
  • Non-Members please do not send news, nor CDs for reviews.  We do include non-Member ads.

​£
BACS :     ‘Folklife West T/A Folklife’   sort code 09-01-55,  account 18675181
Cheque :    ‘Folklife’ post: 16 Barrett Rise, Malvern, WR14 2UJ
Card :    https://ko-fi.com/folklife/shop
Picture
Updates to Members' folk news; Journal; online Directory

on
UPDATES webpage & emailed updates ---

Join our Mailing List, and get free Directory listings online!

​
​free  emaileD  UPDATES  (6 to 12 a year)           for DETAILS: cliCk to open (& close!)
 **** From Feb 2022,    FREE LISTINGS in our DIRECTORY  if you are on our emailed Updates list  ****
  • VENUES:  How often [e.g. Wkly, 1st],  Day,  County,  TOWN, NAME, website,  + optional contact name + optional phone
  • PERFORMERS, SHOPS, ETC (categories see online Directories):  County, NAME, website, + optional contact name + optional phone
​
A form for our free emailed Updates (monthly-ish)  
                    
-- 
or --  just email sam@folklife.uk with the same details. 

This is useful for you, 
​
with Updates
 for News, Directory, & Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders). 
   
​So we spend less time on admin/emails = more time for magazine & website
.  And know how many read this, & where, and so resource appropriately!  
​
Picture
Picture
Keep in touch with our free emailed occasional Updates

​​Updates: News, Directory, Folklife Traditions 
(& Deadline Reminders).

 
A form to sign up to Folklife Updates
​
and/or for new Folklife members

OR if you prefer, simply email same details to sam@folklife.uk
​      New permissions only ​(so if any changes, please email instead)
     
​We don't pass on details.  
Data policy (opt-in) see Data webpage

Permission to hold & use your personal information

* indicates required

"INFO page" : details of deadlines, ad rates, & membership

FOLKLIFE WEST, FOLKLIFE TRADITIONS JOURNAL, print magazines, and copied online  
​● 1 MAY (May, Jun, Jul, Aug), DEADLINE 20 MAR.

AD RATES - BACS/bank, cheque, card
  • Colour, A4 £150,  1/2  £80, 1/4 (A6) £50, 1/8 £25.    
  • Mono,  A4 £60,  1/2  £32, 1/4 (A6) £18, 1/8 £10. 
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP - see  details below, download as PDF or read image of FW page 3
Data policy is on Data webpage.
Picture

"Info-page"  as a pdf -- download (same as page 3 image below):

info_17_mar_2023.pdf
File Size: 568 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Picture
EU £27.  USA £36.  Sterling only.   Also available as a PDF copy of magazine  £9 worldwide.
​


           Sizes webpage --- ad sizes for beginners if you're new to publicity, unsure which is A4 or A5, etc​
You will receive 1 copy of 3 issues per year, UK by post or worldwide by WeTransfer
and for each issue you can send in
 your folk news. Word limits apply: 200 words, more if advertising, see below.
Using Word.docx  ?

​
Using 'Word' Footnotes and Endnotes
For any notes: please use Endnotes.

Please do not use Footnotes.
​

How to convert Footnotes to Endnotes, see the
Contact & Contribute webpage, on the Folklife Traditions website
Picture
Ads :  Sizes (A4) subpage

If you're NEW to publicity ? Not sure about page sizes / A4 vs A5 ? Then see our Guide to Page Sizes - A4, A5, etc, with examples, note these are A4-size pages, so not suitable for mobiles. 
​
See our webpage,  link-- 

AD SIZES for beginners
Picture
   If you find this free website useful . . .  as FW print magazine always makes a healthy loss . . .  plus, these free websites cost c.£300 a year . . . 
​​   you may wish to donate £3 very occasionally,     by clicking the yellow box (for our "Ko-fi" site) for a 1-off £3 card payment. Thank you!
​

Folklife West 52-page print magazine, copied online *** Folk news on www.folklife.uk *** Researched articles on www.folklife-traditions.uk
If you can afford it, you may wish to support us, by a very occasional £3 donation, or buying a printed FW magazine, or a Pdf of FW, or by 
subscribing 

​–– Copied online - always free to view !     There's no obligation to buy magazines -- or to donate !
​PAYMENTS:  

​BACS / phone BANK

Folklife,  sort code 09-01-55,
account 18675181

 
Overseas, email
sam@folklife.uk for bank details.
​

Or CHEQUE to "Folklife",
16 Barrett Rise,Malvern, WR14 2UJ.


Or CARD - our payments site   
ko-fi.com/folklife/shop
Picture
---- Emailing PDF of current FW  
​--  £3
  Worldwide, via WeTransfer (sent as size A4 or US-letter)
​Link to card payment for PDF
ko-fi.com/s/8e92e77df9
Picture
---- Posting the current FW 
     (UK, EU only)  
​     UK £6.  EU £9.

​Link to card payment 1 copy
ko-fi.com/s/42287c6234
Picture
Annual Membership (3 issues) with
your news,

UK £18, EU £27.   Discounts for 2+.
​Link to card payment to subscribe
ko-fi.com/s/8624d72d04
Picture
----  Adverts from 1/8 A4 mono to A4 colour
​Link to card payments for adverts
ko-fi.com/s/34cd1547ab

​About us: meet the Folklife team: our volunteers  (as listed on page 3 above)

OUR POLICY
  • All of us (correspondents, editors, designers, etc) are volunteers, we receive no payment, no free adverts, etc. 
  • Correspondents can receive 3 copies of FW per issue, to sell, or give away, or circulate at their venue, as they wish
  • Other Volunteers such as those who supply lists, receive 1 copy of FW per issue
  • Correspondents and Volunteers receive free Membership of Folklife, so free news of all their folk activities
  • The magazine will run on a non-profit basis.  Note: so far, it has always run at a loss, subsidised by the editors. No grants or sponsorships are currently received.

 
CORRESPONDENTS
  • Correspondents include festival-organisers, club organisers, performers
  • Correspondents give an area or special-interest overview
  • Correspondents can mention their own festivals, clubs, sessions, performances: to a maximum about 1/4 of the column
  • Otherwise, what Correspondents put in, and leave out, is entirely up to them
  • So (eg) in order to mention as many venues as possible, a venue might be mentioned but not their guests **
  • MORE for those interested in BECOMING A FW CORRESPONDENT below - see And you ?
    
FOLKLIFE MEMBERS can send in their own news items to editors (up to 200 words per item, more if advert)

SENDING YOUR INFO TO CORRESPONDENTS

Our priorities … informal free gatherings, & volunteer-run organisations … do-it-yourself folk

- such as folk clubs, dances, music sessions, singarounds, small halls, and festivals run by unpaid volunteers.
Many printed folk magazines have folded over the years!
So, whilst we are not a commercial organisation, we must closely monitor costs, adverts, and sales, in order to survive.  
Venues that have paid guests : we cannot guarantee that Correspondents will have room to mention guests;
but for just £18 a year, you can join Folklife, and send in 200 words publicity per issue (more words if paid advertising). 
 
Organisations employing paid staff should consider joining Folklife for just £18 a year - less than 1 ticket for some events!
You can then send in up to 200 words per issue (more if advertising).

Correspondent -  And you ? 

If you would like to email a column every quarter, covering your area (which can include some mentions of your session/club/act/festival/etc), anywhere,
then we offer FREE MEMBERSHIP incl. free listings and up to 3 free copies.
*** as above - not mostly about your club/act - and - must be every issue ! ***


Read on, and then contact us !    Contact details see Info webpage

  • COVER an area, large or small, OR a SPECIAL INTEREST (eg morris, concertina, social dance ...)
  • Your 3 free copies: up to you what you do with them,
    • some only want 1 or 2
    • some give away 1 to other club organisers,
    • some circulate at their session on a read-and-return next time basis ...
    • some sell 'em (in eg own club or elsewhere),
    • some buy more -- we give 3, any more charged at discount rate (buy @ £2.40, sell @ £3) - see prices above
  • Some like to write a lot, some don't.
  • Correspondents' word limit: 700 words
    • Suggested minimum is 350 ....... • word count doesn't include heading, contact details, etc.
​​
  • House style: please avoid CAPITALS FOR NAMES ETC as we emphasize by using bold.
    • We may add ® symbol for Members "(see ad/directory/festivals etc)"
  • Your style: some give bullet-point lists, some ramble on .... we welcome whatever style suits you 
  • Area covered: size of area is up to you. It doesn't matter if there is a bit of overlap.
    • Or perhaps a special interest, eg sessions, morris, concertina, dance.
  • Correspondents give an area overview
    • Correspondents can mention their own festivals, clubs, sessions, performances: to a maximum about 1/4 of the column!
    • Otherwise, what Correspondents put in, and leave out, is entirely up to them
      • So (eg) in order to mention as many venues as possible, a venue might be mentioned, but not their guests. See above "Our priorities … informal free gatherings, & volunteer-run organisations … do-it-yourself folk, and Venues that have paid guests​
  • Your photo - please send a head and shoulders type (see examples below)
  • Pictures for column: entirely optional: a few high-res photo welcome. Printed in mono (so won't work if eg mainly black & red).
  • Deadlines: as top of page
Thanks, Sam.

  • Last update: 5 Nov 2022,  copyright Folklife, publishers.
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • πŸ„΅πŸ…† Home
  • πŸ„΅πŸ…† News (by area)
    • 🄵🅆 Cymru
    • 🄵🅆 West Country
    • 🄵🅆 Midlands
    • 🄵🅆 South-East
    • 🄵🅆 North
    • 🄵🅆 Alba
    • ⎈ International >
      • ⎈ International Archive
  • πŸ„΅πŸ…† Festivals, Workshops
  • ⎈ Updates
  • ⎈ Send news
  • ⎈ Info
    • Data
    • Sizes
  • ⎈ Our other websites
    • Journal website
    • Directory website
    • Zoom / Virtual (Directory site)
    • Homend Poets