About Us
Tally & Chris have been running magazines since 2005 in Mid Sussex. We now have three. Over the years we have helped hundreds of businesses build a solid customer base around their homes – this allows them to cut down on travel costs and time.
We continually strive to bring a bigger and better community magazine to our readers and encourage them to support our local businesses. We deliver the magazines door to door, for the ease our local residents. Something they can expect and look forward to every month.
Through the publication we also support the local community groups of Haywards Heath and Lindfield, plus local charities. We bring our local readers information about events happening around the town. Plus, lots of good news stories and history of this area.
We are always looking to learn so welcome feedback with open arms!
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 Ashdown Forest 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 Our huge delivery quantity of 19,000 covers Forest row, most of Crowborough, Danehill, Horsted Keynes, Buxted, Hadlow Down, Frant, Groombridge, Five Ash Down, Maresfield, Ashurst and more with up to an additional 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.
Let us use our years of expertise to help you build up your business!
Some of our recent reviews
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
Ashdown Forest Centre
Since we started, we have been collaborating with the Forest Centre team at Wych Cross, to get out messages of news and events to our readers.
Gillian Rolfe
Local historian who is a regular contributor
We have many editorial contributors who all go far to make our magazine the community gem it is!