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Our DATA POLICY (we don't pass on details) see Data webpage on folklife.uk
NEW permissions only (so if any changes, please email instead)

See "UPDATES webpage"  on our main Folklife website , 
includes our latest  FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER
and any further updates

Do join us - New Members: if you join now, you can publicise yourself, be added to Directory, mentioned in UPDATES, etc

We are supporting our Folklife Members, who support Folklife ​(£18 a year, since you ask).

With recurring costs (websites, domains, email, repairs & upgrades for computers & software)
and no income from May & Sep printed magazine sales, we are losing even more money than usual!

​Therefore, only listings from our supportive Members are publicised.

info:  our contact and further information page

(1)  about Folklife & FW: www.folklife.uk

(2)  contact

(3) "Info" ~ deadlines, ad rates, & membership

(1) About   Folklife publishers, and Folklife West
Folklife's main site is www.folklife.uk

Folklife are print publishers,
​who also provide some material online.

FW, the Folklife West magazine,
60-64 pages: A4-size printed paid-for publication

With Folk news, and listings, from our Members
(mostly Wales, England West Country, England West Midlands & Oxon), and Folklife Traditions -- news & articles, and  Folklife listings

We also publish Folk What's On -  simply the ads from FW, sent free to concert venues, libraries, TICs, etc.

We also provide, free, online:
--- FW and Folk What's On ;
--- this Directory;
--- an archive of articles from the Folklife Traditions pages in FW.

Also, a Wales / Welsh Traditions Directory, website Bywyd Gwerin.

See more on our other publications on our main site: www.folklife.uk

FW   ( 1 )
FT: the Folklife Traditions pages

The FT pages have articles and folklife news; plus 1-line listing-summaries for Folklife Studies & Folklife Societies, and seasonal local celebrations for this issue (covering 4 months)

The FT Archive
We have a fully indexed online archive for all issues on a new fully-interactive FT site!  Full listings plus Jan-Dec seasonal local celebrations.
PDFs of each issue (A4 size) are on an e-magazine website.

'Folklife Traditions' listings, open to all   
Folklife Societies  
Folklife Studies & Institutions   
​Seasonal Celebrations

FT: website

FW ( 2 )
News pages 

FW's folk news from our Folklife members, which forms the first half of each issue.
➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers 
➂ Media ➃ Services (incl. Shops) 
➄/ ➅ Festival & Workshop Diary
• News webpages:  Wales. Then England: mostly West Midlands & West Country; mostly, a webpage for each county.
Note: these webpages are copies of FW's A4-sizes pages, so may be too big for mobiles.

news pages are on our Folklife website

Of these 3 sections, 
​(1) open to all.
(2) and (3) are from our Folklife members only.
Membership £16 a year, besides posting out FW three times a year, covers Members' news and online Directory listings.

FW   ( 3 )
Listings are on News pages

Listings from Folklife Members only

• venues • performers • services • festivals • workshops •
song, music, dance, story, poets

In FW, we print 1-line listing-summaries, plus a next-12-months festival diary, a workshops diary.

Online, we have the full listings on this, our Members' Directory website.

'Folk' listings, from our members   
➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers 
➂ Services (incl. Shops, media) 
➃ Festival Diary 
➄ Workshop Providers

CORRESPONDENTS & OTHER VOLUNTEERS  --- see FOLKLIFE--TEAM page on our main website, Folklife.org.uk

(2) Contact ~ simply email the information
Due to spam, we don't use forms, other than Folklife Newsletter data protection form, above

EMAIL
sam<at>folklife.uk

PHONE 
01684 561378

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

A link to our main site ... www.folklife.uk

 Do email us . . .

. . . firstly, please read what we do - and what we don't

• FW is a print magazine - not a blog, nor email forwarding service!
• We don't use social media such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.
• We only print Members' news; researched articles; and a few ads.
• For deadlines, word limits, etc, see "info" below

• Member-performers news is welcome, including forthcoming CDs, tours, etc.
• For Festival Diary, please email us directly the details as on Festivals page. 
  
• For adverts, see below.

• So Non-Members are asked not to send editorial details about performers, festivals, etc, nor CDs for reviews.  We do include a few non-Member ads.

IF JOINING FOLKLIFE or
TO RECEIVE OUR OCCASIONAL emailed FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER, without joining Folklife:
please fill in (very simple)  form top of page 

Do join us:
Folklife membership for Folklife West, 60-64 pages (A4) print magazine, folk news (Wales, England West Country & West Midlands & Oxon) & folklife traditions​.

To join Folklife.
To join: £16 a year.  Please send by BACS  to:  Folklife, sort code 09-01-55,  account 18675181.  EU £24.  USA £32. 
NO CHEQUES PLEASE.    
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New Data rules (from May 2018)
See our  DATA webpage   <------ [ link to our main Folklife website ]

You will receive 1 copy of 3 issues per year, and for each issue you can send in
------ your folk listings, as in this online DIRECTORY,
------ your folk news. Word limits apply: 200 words per item, more if advertising, see below

(3)  "info" 
- download
​   our "Info" page

info_jan_2021.pdf
File Size:	574 kb
File Type:	pdf

Download File

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The above PDF to download (an image of which is shown on the right)
is the same as the information below 
--- deadlines;
--- Membership;
---  & word limits;
--- Your adverts in FW.   
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This is a copy of FW page 3, which is always our "Info page"
download size:  A4 page

​From April 2021
NO CHEQUES PLEASE.  

​FW Deadlines

●   1 Jan:     19 Nov
●   1 May:    19 Feb 
●   1 Sept:    19 Sept

Folklife West to be published	< covering 4 months >	Deadline Copy Date
●    FW    Jan    1st	< Jan   •   Feb   •   Mar   •   Apr >	COPY    by    19 Nov
●    FW    May   1st	< May   •   June   •   July   •   Aug  >	COPY    by    19 March
●    FW    Sept   1st	< Sep   •   Oct   •   Nov   •   Dec >	COPY   by    19  July

Articles for Folklife Traditions pages: 2 months 1 Nov, Mar, July

Late changes after Deadlines? Possibly … conditions apply.

Changes might be possible after deadline, conditions apply, see below:

ADVERTS

• IF:  same size / image-type (eg jpg) as originally sent by Copy Date above
• . . . . . . .  up to 30th Nov ,   31st Mar,   31st Jul   as we need to finalise advert layout !  

FOLKLIFE MEMBERS’ NEWS & LISTINGS: changes 

• IF same word-length or shorter than last issue • up to 6th Dec ,   6th Apr ,   6th Aug       
• Non-members news to Correspondents needs to be sent well before Copy date
• It is entirely up to our local Correspondents as to what they put in / have room for. Typically, venue details, but maybe not dates, with preference to smaller sessions etc - guest venues should take out membership (only £16 pa) to list their guests etc..

⇒   Do Join Us !

Your Membership Benefits
FW by post
and
Free Editorial / Publicity, in print + online
•  Festivals, Venues, Performers, Media, Services, Organisations, etc
• News & Reports, 
• Listings: in this Directory, with summary in FW
• Festival Diary,  Workshop Diary

No form needed

• BACS: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 1867518
  
• Please email your name, address, phone  
• ​Details for our use when posting - not shared with anyone else
• ​Email sam<at>folklife.uk

UNDER REVIEW

PLEASE SEE INFO SHEET ABOVE

Posted :  1 year to 1 address  £16

• 3 issues per year
• x1= £16, 
• or share the cost with friends: x2 = £20,
• x3 = £24, x4 = £28, x5 = £32 

Reselling for 6 or more :

post-free + discount 1/3rd

(cost £2, sell at £3)

√    post free 6 or more, by Clubs, Pubs, Venues, Festivals, Performers, Shops, and you -
X    Sold as ordered - No returns

• x6 = £36 per year (or £12 per issue)
• x7 = £42 per year
• x8 = £48 per year
• x9 = £54 per year
• x10 = £60 per year
• x11 = £66 per year
• x12 = £72 per year  .... etc
• You can also buy 6 or more on a per-issue basis, 1/3rd of above, so x6 is £36 per year = £12 per issue, etc​

⇒  Word limits / Editorial


➊ Members' News

up to 200 words, for each news item;

more if advertising --
1/8 275 words;  1/4 300 words;  1/2 350 words;  A4 450 words

your Reports, Dates, Festival Info, CD Info.

• Reviews: only as sent in by our Members 
• so please don’t send CDs to editors
• don’t count: heading [name/venue/start time], end contact details
• Photos: B&W high-res (300 dpi) welcome 
  X not low-res eg copied from web ! 
• Word limits are for 1 item, you can send in more than 1, eg your club news and your gigs count as 2 separate items.
• Festival & Workshops Diaries:
  same word limits for “More Details” section.
• In addition to Members' news, we have area correspondents, usually 350 to 800 words [may vary, depends on local circulation/ads] 
  
  

​➋ Folklife Traditions 
Articles & news ~ word limits by arrangement. 
See folklife-traditions.uk website

Send News as plain email, or as RTF, or as Word.doc

⇒  Your  Adverts  in  FW

• stand out   ………………… as advertising limited to just 1/4 of FW!
• ​value for money!   … as your adverts will be shown for 4 months!
• and copied online:  …  on www.folklife.uk, or in this Directory for Festivals and Workshops 
• and copied to our ads-only Folk What’s On, distributed free to TICs, libraries, & large general venues that include folk programming

UNDER REVIEW

PLEASE SEE INFO SHEET ABOVE

Ads:  2019 & 2020 Costs  (no VAT charged):

‘Prepaid’  --  £4 less than invoiced.

• Prepaid = you pay by deadline, so we don’t have to invoice (we'll email a receipt)

‘Prepaid’  -- 10% discount for 2 prepaid
‘Prepaid’  -- Prepaid year over 15% less than 3 prepaid separately.

Colour

• A4 invoiced £184.  Prepaid £180.  Year [x3, £540, -15+%] £450 
• Full bleed (edge-to-edge)  £200 colour (see Sizes, below)
• 1/2 invoiced £104. Prepaid £100.  Year [x3, £300, -15+%] £250 
• 1/4 [A6]  invoiced £64. Prepaid £60. Year[x3, £180 -15+%] £150  
• 1/8 [1/2 A6]  invoiced £34. Prepaid £30. Year [x3, £90 -15+%]£75

          
Mono  

• A4   invoiced £73.  Prepaid £69. Year [x3, £207 -15+%]  £175
• 1/2  invoiced £42.  Prepaid £38.  Year [x3, £114 -15+%] £96
• 1/4 [A6]  invoiced £25.  Prepaid £21.   Year [x3, £63 -15+%] £53
• 1/8 [1/2 A6]  invoiced £16. Prepaid £12. Year [x3, £36 -15+%] £30

Book space by emailing your Purchase Order Nº.
Invoiced terms = 30 Days from invoice date. 
Invoices (and receipts) are emailed.​

• Further ads will not be accepted if money owing from last time ! 

• You can book A4 colour position: prepaid, on 1st come, 1st served, basis
• Mono ads placed as near as possible to your news, or Diary entry,

• Page preference-order to biggest (1st A4; 2nd 1/2; and so on)

Ads :  Sizes (A4)
'A4' - if you're not sure about page sizes 
- see our Guide to Page Sizes [<---this is on our main folklife site] - A4, A5, etc, with examples (A4-size pages, not suitable for mobiles).

​Colour only

• Edge-to-edge  … max w 210, max h 297, +3 mm bleed

Colour or mono

• A4 …. max w 188, max h 275
• 1/2 across  max w 188, max h 132
• 1/2 column  max w 92, max h 268
• 1/4 [A6]  ...  max w 92, max h 132 

• 1/8 …… max w 92, max h 64   
• Other: any combination of 1/8 boxes (4mm between boxes).

Sizes include optional border

Ads :  Ads must be emailed (image or text)

• email image:   camera-ready ~ attach your tiff, jpeg, PDF - we can stretch to fit
• or   email text:  just email us the words; you can also attach 1 logo to be included; we will typeset, free, in our choice of typeface (as we regularly do for smaller clubs)
• complex adverts may appear differently, so please ask a professional designer to design & send them​

√    We use: Mac OS 10.7.5,  Adobe InDesign CS 6.
√    Colour ads: you are advised to send us a printout so we can check colours.
√    If B&W: pl convert colour to greyscale, & check that before sending.
√    Tiff  √ Jpeg,     
√    PDF as High-definition 300dpi, text 600 dpi, fonts embedded; if B&W ad, send only as greyscale.
?    Word  “.doc” is not an image, so can't be used directly 

• You can "Save" Word as a PDF - design with a good margin or top or bottom may go missing!
• GO TO⇒  "Print" 
• THEN GO TO⇒  "Save As PDF" 
• check before sending - we can't alter PDFs

Using Word.docx  ?

Using 'Word'  Footnotes and Endnotes  For any notes: please use Endnotes.   Please do not use Footnotes.
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For how to convert Footnotes to Endnotes, see www.folklife-traditions.uk/contact-contribute.html (on our Folklife Traditions website)