The SPAB Magazine

The SPAB’s official publication is a 72-86 page full colour quarterly magazine. With a print run of 7,000 and at least 60% of members whom live in old or historic houses. The readership includes architects, surveyors, town planners, local authority conservation officers, engineers, builders, craftsmen, interior designers and homeowners.

The magazine offers heritage news, casework, technical advice, special features, a comprehensive book review section and has 80-90 regular advertisers.

In addition to regular main features on traditional materials and repair techniques, the SPAB campaigns on a wide range of conservation issues. Extensive coverage of controversial topics like architectural theft and airport expansion has attracted nationwide publicity.

Advertising Information

The Society

Founded by William Morris in 1877, SPAB is the largest, oldest and most technically expert conservation body campaigning to preserve old buildings.

The SPAB is a charity (no. 231307) funded mainly by subscriptions, donations and legacies. It plays a formal part in the planning system and under the Town and Country Planning Act must be notified of all applications to demolish or partly demolish listed buildings in England and Wales. The SPAB is asked to comment each year on hundreds of cases of every conceivable type of structure from farmhouses to mansions or from little churches to cathedrals. The SPAB still works to the principles in William Morris’s 1877 Manifesto, based on conservative repair, respect for the past and regular maintenance. There is free telephone technical advice to members.

Membership offers access to programmes of lectures and visits. People who have trained through the Society’s Scholarships and William Morris Craft Fellowship Programmes care for many important buildings in the UK.

The SPAB lobbies the government on issues affecting old buildings and publishes low cost technical leaflets.

Benefits of advertising

The SPAB provides access to a well defined and high quality audience that includes professionals who will specify or recommend, plus historic homeowners and property developers.

The SPAB’s status as a leading authority on conservation, and as a useful reference source, prolongs the life of advertisements.

Although the SPAB will not endorse products and services, readers are aware that advertisers are vetted for relevance and understanding of the SPAB’s principles.

The SPAB focuses on all periods of the UK’s architectural history.

Members include the majority of the UK’s leading conservation specialists. Their education may have commenced on one of the SPAB’s training schemes such as the annual scholarship training programme for young architects, building surveyors and structural engineers.

Advertisement Rates

DISPLAY RATES	Depth x Width (mm)	Single Insertion	Series of Four
Whole page (Trim)	297 x 210	£1,290	£1,145
Whole page (bleed)	303 x 216	£1,290	£1,145
Whole page (grid)	277 x 187	£1,290	£1,145
Half page (portrait)	269.5 x 91	£750	£720
Half page (landscape)	132 x 187	£750	£720
Quarter page	132 x 91	£460	£410
Special positions +10%

PRODUCTS & SERVICES		Single Insertion	Series of Four
Per SCC	1 Col 43mm, 2 Col 91mm, 3 Col 139mm, 4 Col 187mm	£40	£35

SITUATIONS VACANT		Single Insertion
Per SCC	1 Col 43mm, 2 Col 91mm, 3 Col 139mm, 4 Col 187mm	£45

Publication and Copy Dates

Issue Number:	Spring	Summer	Autumn	Winter
Publication Dates:	March	June	Sept	November
Copy Deadline Dates:	2 February	10 May	23 August	1 November

Loose Inserts

A5 sheet (up to 6g) £695

A4 sheet (up to 10g) £850

Copy Requirements

High resolution (press ready) PDF with CMYK images and postscript fonts embedded.

Notes

Please note that all advertisements are vetted by SPAB and should be supplied in advance for approval. Advertising agency discount 10%. All rates exclude VAT

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