Introduction
Occold ORACLE is sponsored by ORAC and delivered free to about 300 households in around the village. It is published quarterly and delivered early March, June, September, and early December in time for Christmas events and advertisments.
Issues can be posted if required. Each edition is available in large type if required.
Content can be changed between issues and we can help with artwork/graphics.
Prices
Advertising is FREE to Occold Clubs and Organisations, Statutory Bodies and For Sale / Wanted items. We also welcome articles about Occold and surrounds, the environment and generally anything which may be of wide appeal.
Business advertising rates are as follows:
- Half page - £15 for 1 issue
- Full page - £54 for 4 issues
- Half page - £8 for 1 issue
- Full Page - £30 for 4 issues
Guidelines for Submission
- The Oracle is very kindly printed by Envigo Their machine takes our A4 Word file and shrinks it to A5 booklet format which changes margins, headings, photos etc. and particularly print size, and this creates considerable work in the compiling and editing stage of production
Whilst we can change many formats to suit this process (txt, rtf, etc) it would help dramatically if you could submit electronic articles in the following:
Use Word (doc or docx) or odt format.
Use Calibri font size 14 (select in HOME)
Use Narrow Margins (select in Layout)
Use No paragraph spacings (select in Design) then, in text just hit return twice to create paragraph spacing)
Do Not Use Headers, Footers, Headings or Titles
Do Not Use page breaks
This will ensure that the page you see on your computer will look as close as possible to the final printed page.
Paper or email articles can also be handled
- Pictures and photographs should be submitted in electronic form, or original photo. Photographs in most of the popular electronic formats (.jpg, .bmp. .gif etc) can be handled and give a better result than scanning
- Submitters are solely responsible for the content of their articles, in particular any copyright issues
- Articles containing links to other web sites should be checked to ensure any such links are working. Thereafter, the submitter is responsible for maintaining these
- Business advertisers will be invoiced following approval of the way their advert will appear
Enquiries
For queries on layout formats, large type, postage, advertising rates or to submit your material, please contact the Editors:
Julia Pointer
Debbie Phillips
Email: oracle@occold.com