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Reaching more than 100,000 readers all across the South West
the spark magazine
the UK's biggest alternative magazine
The summer Spark (issue 61). Out now & lasting to the end of August.
With 34,000 copies distributed around the West every quarter, we are the biggest free, green, complementary health & positive change magazine in the UK.
• find out more about who we are & what we do: about The Spark
• read articles exclusive to the website, including our Pukka tea-tasting guide & Glastonbury Goddess Conference here • see the latest issue online here
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You can now make comments on everything in our Read The Spark section - so if you see something here on the website & would like to contribute - a different angle, a new strategy, a question perhaps - use the 'make a comment here' button to add your voice. We very much hope that this can become a place where people share their tips, experiences and wows! (All comments will be moderated)
We hope you enjoy our revamped website; please bear with us while we add, tweak & improve still more! We'd love your ideas, suggestions or criticisms. Email us here.
advertise in the next issue of the spark
• Online booking for The Spark Autumn issue is now closed
but we may still be able to squeeze your ad in - leave a message on our answerphone or email us here
You can still use online booking for the winter issue and beyond
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From just 80p a word reach more than 100,000 people: people, like you, interested in doing what's right for the community & the planet
You can still talk to us in the office (we're hoping the online booking will make us easier to get hold of) so if you'd prefer the human face of The Spark call Ann on 0117 914 3434 (Tues, Wed & Thurs).To find out more about affordable advertising in the Spark read advertise in The Spark
spark out
Highlights for our
summer issue include:
• Festival Guide: our pick of small-scale, eco camps & festies
• our OUT! page of high spots and viewpoints in Sparkland
• our selection of low-impact outdoors gear
• Q&A with activist & football poet Dennis Gould
• interview with secular celebrants Bec & Amy
• feature on how the online world is enabling modern activists
• update on codex alimentarius & other new legislation
• a look at alternative animal healing
• and much much more!
Win: tickets to an amazing FIVE different festivals! a super Cotswolds break for two! and an amazing walking holiday in the Lake District!
The Spark is available from hundreds of different outlets in Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham, Glastonbury, Gloucester, Stroud, Swindon, Taunton, Trowbridge, Wells - even as far away as Lacock, Totnes and West Wales! See the box on the left to find your local distributors.
readers survey
The Reader's Survey is now closed. Huge thanks to everyone who took the time to complete it, either here or in the Winter 09 issue of the magazine. We'll be revealing the results shortly - and announcing the lucky winners of our £50 Pukka herbs or £50 Divine Chocolate hampers.
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