NCT Clapham & District branch is a powerful network of parents and parents-to-be in South West London The Clapham & District branch of the NCT comprises over 1,800 members, made up of parents and parents-to-be living in and around the Clapham area.

Our membership is mostly located in SW4, SW11 and SW12, although we do also have members living in SW2, SW8, SW9, SW16, SW17, SW18 and SW19. It is without doubt a highly targeted and lucrative audience and our advertising opportunities offer local businesses valuable access to this audience.

We currently offer advertising opportunities within our magazine ‘Special Delivery’, which is distributed quarterly to around 1000 member households, and we also offer the opportunity to advertise in our online Local Businesses Directory.  The Clapham & District branch also runs many events and activities throughout the year, for which we are happy to offer advertising & sponsorship opportunities to local businesses. If you are interested in sponsorship or have any specific advertising requirements or ideas, then please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you: advertise@claphamnct.com

‘Special Delivery’ Magazine Advertising

Our quarterly magazine is delivered to members in March, June, September and December. The magazine is a valuable source of information for our members, not only for the support and informative articles, but also as a handy reference guide to local activities, events and service providers. It is A4 format, printed in full colour.

Advertising booking and copy deadlines

Spring - 31th January 
Summer -  30th April
Autumn - 31st July
Winter - 31th October

If you are interested in advertising with us, please contact advertise@claphamnct.com

Magazine advertising rates

Each issue of Special Delivery is a result of hard work by a team of committed volunteers working in their spare time. Advertising revenue pays for the printing and paper used to produce the magazine, Clapham and District NCT Branch is a non-profit making organisation.

Artwork requirements It is very important that your follow the artwork requirements - your advertisement will only be as good as your artwork.

Page: Bleed size: 303(H) x 216(W), Trim size: 297(H) x 210(W),
Full page advert: 267(H) x 180 (W)
Half page advert: 126(H) x 180(W)
Quarter page advert: 126(H) x 82.5(W) 

- All artwork must be supplied to the dimensions above. Please note all quarter page adverts are portrait.
- All adverts should be supplied as CMYK jpeg or tiff files (minimum 300 dpi), PDFs, QuarkXpress documents or good quality hard copies suitable for scanning.
- QuarkXpress documents should be supplied with full fonts and any jpegs or artwork required for printing.
- Microsoft Office Word files are not acceptable.
- We do not offer a full design service, although simple artwork can be set, please contact us to discuss.

Website advertising

We also offer advertisers the opportunity to appear within our Local Businesses Directory on this website. Each directory listing will include: business name, address, telephone number, email, contact name, web address and a 25 word description of products and services. If you would like to register your interest in advertising within our local online directory, please email: advertise@claphamnct.com

*Preferential rates will be offered to our existing magazine advertisers to recognise and acknowledge their valuable support. Newsletter advertisers can purchase a directory listing at an additional cost of £10+VAT per quarter over and above their usual newsletter advertising rates, provided the web advertising is booked at the same time as the newsletter advertising.

Sponsorship

For those businesses that would like a really high profile among local parents, sponsorship of the quarterly magazine, annual postnatal directory and/or branch is available. Please contact advertise@claphamnct.com to discuss how we can work together.