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EarlyBirds: March 18th
Final: April 22nd
About the Spark
Set up way back in 1993, the Spark is the UK's biggest - and most established - ethical quarterly. Now printing 34,000 copies an issue and with a readership well in excess of 100,000 you can find us around Bristol and Bath, throughout Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire in fact in just about everywhere in the West as well as in selected outlets in Devon, Hampshire, the Midlands, Shropshire and Wales.
Uniquely the Spark is entirely independent. What we mean by that is we write every word ourselves - you'll never read any adverts or press releases masquerading as editorial. We do not promise coverage to our advertisers just because we like them or they throw bundles of cash at us; that's not how we work. Our readers know that they can trust us. they might not always agree with us, but that's another issue!
Our aim is to keep you in touch with locally based creative solutions for a changing world, and to help you get the best out of life. We cover a whole range of ideas, activities and behaviours that make up personal, social and global change for the better. We're based in the most active area for positive change in the UK. That’s one of the reasons that The Spark has grown into the biggest free alternative magazine in the country.
We need your help in all sorts of ways but especially to find the people we should be celebrating. So let us know about people and things that you like. We don’t have a big marketing budget so it really helps if you like The Spark to tell other people about us. Thanks. We’re small and imperfectly formed (people are often gob-smacked at the size of our office). We use green electricity, low-energy light bulbs, Fairtrade coffee and many, many different types of tea-on-a-string. We share our lunch round a table and talk nicely to each other (most of the time). We’re pro-green, pro-bike and pro-gress.
The Spark is printed four times a year - usually in the last week of February, May, August and November - and is published by Blue Sax Publishing Ltd, a small business owned entirely by John Dawson, our publisher. The Spark is free thanks to our Directory: All those neat entries in our listings are actually adverts (that means we don’t do free ads - sorry). We deal with the majority of our distribution ourselves, so if there's anywhere you know of that might like to stock the Spark let us know!