About Us
Celebrating 20 years!
We established our magazine in 2005. Starting with a modest distribution, we have expanded and now cover the whole town and outlying villages.
Over the years we have established ourselves as the foremost community magazine for the town. Our aim is to bring high quality editorial about the town’s history, news, events, etc. to the residents.
We encourage our readers to support local businesses they can trust.
Our Mission statement is to connect local people with local businesses and local community charity, events, news and interests.
We provide local businesses with value for money advertising close to home and we encourage our readers to give support to local businesses.
At East Grinstead Living, we are driven by a desire to support local businesses, charities and community groups and offer unique, interesting content to readers. Our advertisers immediately notice, and feel the benefit of being in their own community magazine and better still, they can build up a client base close to home – this saves on petrol and time and builds up local word of mouth!
Our circulation is around 19,000 copies which are delivered directly into homes & businesses in East Grinstead, Ashurst wood, Sharpthorne, West Hoathly, Dormans Park, Furnace wood, Felbridge, Felcourt, Dormansland with up to an additional 500 copies for pick up.
Royal Mail deliver the magazine on our behalf.
Why? Because you can’t get distributors to go down all the long drives and remote houses of the area, whereas the postman has to! This gives us confidence in our distribution.
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Our Team
Tally Whittaker
Editor & Head of Accounts
Alongside Chris, Tally has been driving the magazine since the beginning in 2005, when, as a mother with 3 young children she decided to start a more flexible business that also brought something positive to the area… 20 years later she will still never says no to a cuppa, especially with a biscuit (or two). Tally is a dedicated cat lover!
Chris Miller
Designer
With a degree in Art & Design, there is nothing that Chris can’t do design wise! From websites to ads. His many years of experience of print advertising, means he has come up with many incredibly effective adverts for our clients over the years. Whatever he does, he does well and also, in general, gives very sound advice!
Chris is a dedicated Dog lover!
Regular Editorial Contributors
Tom Forward
Tom contributes a monthly nature article based on the rich beauty of our flora and fauna of our local Ashdown Forest,. A freelance ecologist, wildlife guide and outdoor educator who bring with him 20 years of experience in the field. He loves sharing his passion for the natural world with people of all ages, helping them develop wildlife identification and practical conservation skills. Find him on Instagram @forward.tom
East Grinstead Museum
The magazine has been collaborating with the museum for at least 15 years now to bring a stream of fascinating local history to our readers as well as exhibitions the museum puts on.
We have many editorial contributors who all go far to make our magazine the community gem it is!