Folklife West - distribution

Folklife West Journal is now included with Folklife West, as per the '5 or more' list below, but not as libraries/TIC list

This page is http://www.folklife-west.co.uk/distrib.html

Folklife West homepage http://fw.folklife-west.org.uk (with links to Folklife West pages online)

Please see the "INFO page", http://www.folklife-west.co.uk/info.html

for Ad sizes, prices, formats, and for reselling discounts

We distribute 2 editions of Folklife West

• 1: FOLKLIFE WEST full edition
  • sold @ £2, posted £3
  • Members are organisations (venues, performers, festivals, media, shops & servives) and individuals.

• 2: FOLK WEST ads-only edition
  • Reference copy, Libraries & Tourist Info

MEMBERSHIP of FOLKLIFE WEST:

• you are very welcome to join us. For benefits, please see our home page www.folklife-west.co.uk
• a non-profit organisation, donations welcome

CONTACT US … PHONE: 01684 575704 (Sam & Eleanor Simmons)

SKYPE: folklife-west •  WRITE: FOLKLIFE WEST, 16 Barrett Rise, MALVERN, Worcs WR14 2UJ [ England, UK

Where FOLKLIFE WEST and FOLK WEST are DISTRIBUTED

FOLKLIFE WEST full edition (£2, posted £3)

DISTRIBUTION LIST

1. WHERE TO FIND FOLKLIFE WEST

• THE "5 OR MORE" LIST

(DISTRIBUTION LIST 2, LIBRARIES & TOURIST INFO CENTRES follows)

5 or more copies are sent to Member clubs and correspondents, & some others, as below (all others receive 4 or less)

See Folklife West or our online listings for club details

By post: please do not ask those listed below to post you a copy; instead, contact us as above.

Wales

• CORRESPONDENT: - NATIONAL: Mick Tems

East

• Norfolk CORRESPONDENT: "NEWS from the EAST" / NORWICH FC John Mathews

East Midlands

• Leics CORRESPONDENT: "NEWS from LEICS & nearby" / GU4 / GRAND UNION FOLK Peter Burnham

South-West

• Bristol CORRESPONDENT:"BRISTOL" Tony Slinger
• Devon BIDEFORD: BIDEFORD FOLK CLUB / FESTIVAL Jerry/Hilary Bix
• Devon CORRESPONDENT: "GREETINGS FROM S DEVON" column / TEIGNMOUTH FC Martyn Hillstead
• Devon PENNYMOOR: PENNYMOOR SINGAROUND Clare Penney
• Devon TIVERTON: TIVERTON FOLK CLUB Susannah Billeter
• Devon TOPSHAM: TOPSHAM FOLK CLUB John Bickford
• Glos CHELTENHAM: CHELTENHAM FOLK CLUB Chris Beaumont
• Glos NEAR LYDNEY: FOREST FOLK CLUB Jan Bayliss
• Glos DURSLEY: DURSLEY ACOUSTIC MUSIC NIGHTS David Cheffings
• Glos STROUD: GOLDEN FLEECE SONG SESSION Bob Bray
• N.Somerset NAILSEA: NAILSEA FOLK CLUB David Francis
• Somerset MINEHEAD: CORRESPONDENT "EXMOOR & WEST SOMERSET" & ACORN FOLK CLUB Eileen Ann & Jim- from JULY 2012 issue
• South Glos SHORTWOOD: DRAGON FOLK CLUB Maggie Starkey
• Wilts SWINDON: SWINDON FOLK SONG CLUB Eric Stott

South-West plus West Midlands

• various counties CORRESPONDENT: "ROVING CORRESPONDENT" (esp. ceilidhs) / STROUD CEILIDHS Cresby Brown
• Glos, Worcs E CORRESPONDENT: "BILL PULLEN'S BLUES BULLETIN" Bill Pullen

West Midlands

• Herefds HEREFORD: NIGHTJAR MUSIC / NIGHTJAR FOLK CLUB Rob Strawson
• Hfds NE, Worcs S CORRESPONDENT: "SESSION NEWS from S Worcs & N-E Herefds" John Taylor
• Warwickshire BEDWORTH: BEDWORTH FOLK CLUB Malc Gurnham
• West Mids Co. BIRMINGHAM: BLACK DIAMOND FOLK SONG CLUB Paul Ryan
• West Mids Co. BIRMINGHAM: HOBGOBLIN Birmingham shop, Mark McCabe
• Worcs BRANSFORD FOLK AT THE FOLD Eric & Eileen Payne
• Worcs BROMSGROVE BROMSGROVE FOLK CLUB Bob Bignell [and from July 2102 N WORCS/S BRUM CORRESPONDENT]
• Worcs MALVERN: FW's EDITOR Sam Simmons (home & various local sessions)
• Worcs SYTCHAMPTON: SYTCHAMPTON FOLK DANCE CLUB Jeff Oakey
• Worcs WORCESTER: SOMERS TRADITIONAL FOLK CLUB Sam Simmons

West Midlands - non-Member sales

• Herefds LEDBURY: LEDBURY TOURIST INFO CENTRE & ICE BYTES Internet Cafe & Ice Cream Parlour, 38 The Homend
• Worcs MALVERN: ASPECT DESIGN Printers, publishers, stationers, 89 Newtown Road
• Worcs MALVERN: MALVERN BOOK CO-OP, 2, St Ann’s Road

DISTRIBUTION LIST 2.

LIBRARIES & TOURIST INFO CENTRES.

FOLK WEST ads-only copies for reference

• A special LIBRARY/TIC edition which contains all adverts, but no news or listings.
• Distribution is related to advertising and membership in an area, and will vary from issue to issue.
• From time to time we contact some other areas with a view to expanding our distribution.
• Currently: distributed to libraries in every county in the West Midlands and the South West, and to tourist info centres in some counties.
• Distribution is to some or all libraries within a county. ® Some public libraries are Members, and so receive Folklife West full edition
• We can support new regular advertisers by increased distribution to any areas not covered.

Technical note: this software package is currently inserting unwanted bold, italic, underlining in the list below.

In addition to areas listed below, we may contact some in other regions with a view to expanding our distribution.

NB library & tourist info closures - unprecedented since we started! List always subject to change

see http://libraries.fromconcentrate.net for a map of actual/proposed closures

Where we say "Libraries - All" this means all libraries in that area, other than Mobile and "Neighbourhood Libraries"

ENGLAND - WEST MIDLANDS REGION

HEREFORDSHIRE

• Libraries: ALL
• TICs: Ledbury sells £2 paid-for edition Other TICs get 1 free ads-only Folk West: Bromyard T.I.C/Library, Hereford, Leominster, Ross-On-Wye.

SHROPSHIRE/TELFORD

• Shropshire TICs: Ludlow, Shrewsbury Visitor Information Centre.
• Shropshire Libraries: Albrighton, Bayston Hill, Bishop's Castle, Bridgnorth, Broseley, Church Stretton, Craven Arms, Ellesmere, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Much Wenlock, Oswestry, Pontesbury, Shifnal, Shropshire Music & Drama (Shrewsbury), Wem, Whitchurch
• Telford Libraries: Dawley, Madeley, Newport, Oakengates, Telford, Wellington Music Library

STAFFS inc STOKE.

• Stoke Library.
• Staffordshire Libraries: Burton, Cannock, Leek, Lichfield, Newcastle, Perton, Stafford Shire Hall, Tamworth

WARWICKSHIRE

• TICs: Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwick.
• Warks Libraries: Alcester, Atherstone, Bedworth, Bidford, Kenilworth, Leamington Spa, Nuneaton Library & TIC, Rugby & Information Centre, Shipston, Stratford & Information Centre, Studley, Warwick Music Collection, Whitnash.

WEST MIDS COUNTY: BIRMINGHAM

• Birmingham Libraries ALL

WEST MIDS COUNTY: DUDLEY

• Libraries: Brierley Hill, Dudley Music Library, Halesowen Music Library, Sedgley, Stourbridge Music Library

WEST MIDS COUNTY: SANDWELL

• Libraries:

W. Brom Central Reference Library, Blackheath, Cradley Heath, Oldbury,Smethwick, Tipton, Wednesbury.

WEST MIDS COUNTY: OTHER BOROUGHS:

• WOLVERHAMPTON Central Library • WALSALL Central Library • SOLIHULL Central Library • COVENTRY Central Library.

WORCESTERSHIRE

• Worcestershire Libraries: ALL
• Worcs TICs: Malvern, Worcester, Bewdley, Broadway, Droitwich Spa, Evesham, Pershore, Redditch, Upton-Upon-Severn; + Tenbury Apr/Jul only [Bromsgrove TIC closed]

ENGLAND - WEST COUNTRY (SOUTH-WEST REGION)

BATH & NORTH-EAST SOMERSET

• BANES Libraries: Bath, Keynsham, Radstock, Midsomer Norton.

BRISTOL

• Bristol Tourist Info. Centre
• Bristol Libraries Bristol Central Library, Bedminster, Bishopsworth, Fishponds, Henbury, Henleaze, Horfield, Knowle, Redland, St George, Sea Mills, Stockwood, Westbury, Wick Road.

BOURNEMOUTH

• Bournemouth Library Music Zone

CORNWALL

• Libraries:

Bodmin, Camborne, Cornish Studies (Redruth), Cornwall Performing Arts (St Austell), Falmouth, Hayle, Helston, Launceston, Liskeard, Newquay, Padstow, Penzance, Redruth, Saltash, St Austell, St Ives,Torpoint, Truro, Wadebridge.

DEVON (PLYMOUTH and TORBAY are listed separately)

• Tourist Info. Centre: Sidmouth
• Devon Libraries:

Axminster, Barnstaple, Bideford, Bovey Tracey, Braunton, Budleigh Salterton, Crediton, Cullompton, Dartmouth, Dawlish, Exmouth, Honiton, Ilfracombe, Ivybridge, Kingsbridge, Kingskerswell, Kingsteignton, Newton Abbot, Northam, Okehampton, Ottery St. Mary, Seaton, Sidmouth, St. Thomas, Tavistock, Teignmouth, Tiverton, Topsham, Totnes.

• ® Exeter Central, Devon = Folklife West member, Folklife West full edition

DORSET (POOLE and BOURNEMOUTH are listed separately)

• Dorset Libraries: 20 copies distributed --- nb possible library closures down to 14 libaries but not for a year (4/11), Ed

GLOUCESTERSHIRE (see also SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE)

• ALL 39 Libraries
• Glos TICs: Cheltenham, Gloucester, Stroud, Tewkesbury, Winchcombe (Forest of Dean council have closed their TICs)

ISLES OF SCILLY

• Isles of Scilly Library

NORTH SOMERSET

• North Somerset Libraries: Cleevedon, Nailsea, Portishead, The Campus, Weston-Super-Mare, Worle.

POOLE

• Central Library

PLYMOUTH

• Plymouth Libraries ® Plymouth = Folklife West member, Folklife West full edition

SOMERSET (see also BATH & NORTH-EAST SOMERSET and NORTH SOMERSET)

• Somerset Libraries:

• Bridgwater, Burnham-On-Sea, Chard, Crewkerne, Dulverton, Frome, Glastonbury, Ilminster, Minehead, Shepton Mallet, Somerton, Street, Taunton, Wellington, Wells, Williton, Wincanton.
• ® Yeovil = Folklife West Member, Folk West full edition
• Sedgemoor Visitor Centre [M5]

SWINDON

• Swindon Libraries: Swindon Central

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

• S. Glos Libraries: Bradley Stoke, Cadbury Heath, Chipping Sodbury, Downend, Emersons Green, Filton, Hanham, Kingswood, Patchway, Staple Hill, Thornbury, Winterbourne, Yate

TORBAY

• Torbay Libraries: 4 copies distributed

WILTSHIRE (see also SWINDON)

• Wilts Libraries Salisbury Reference, Trowbridge Reference

CYMRU / WALES

Chepstow TIC, Hay-On-Wye TIC, Monmouth TIC.

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• Last updated: 28 April 2012, copyright Folklife West, publishers.