To contact SMILE, please email us at smile@essentiallocal.com or you can call us at
Essential Local on 020 8432 3441
OUR PARTNERS
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Essential Local is an independent local business support agency and magazine founded in Balham. 20,000 copies of the A5 glossy magazine - complete with event listings, local reviews, celebrity articles and local features - are distributed four times per year directly to households in Battersea, Balham and Clapham. It now also includes an A to Z Directory of selected local businesses, venues and services (with an entry for local businesses priced at just £95 for 12 months/4 issues). Essential Local will be highlighting all the new SMILE offers available to SMILE card holders as they emerge throughout the year. |
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InsideBattersea.co.uk, InsideClapham.co.uk and InsideBalham.co.uk are an easy to use local business directory, online magazine and local event and news listing website. Updated regularly with local news and a comprehensive local 'What's On' guide, these websites will be highlighting some of the best SMILE offers and promoting all the new offers available to SMILE cardholders as they emerge throughout the year. |
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Sharing local life in communities across London. ... Find your area and join in your local community. Soon to be relaunched, Yourlocallondon.co.uk promotes community life throughout the capital. By promoting SMILE to a wider audience, we'll be raising awareness of Battersea, Balham, Earlsfield and Clapham across London. |
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Essential Local is a team of freelance journalists, print agents, graphic designers and website designers. It was founded in Balham over six years ago to support local small and start-up businesses and to offer fair, low-cost design, print and promotional services. Regular offers include 5000 doublesided A6 postcards for £90; 500 biz cards, 500 comp slips and 500 letterheads for just £149; and 5-page websites for £195. Operating in a similar way to a local cooperative, every service is designed to secure the lowest possible prices for small business, for whom every penny counts. |
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Lee and Lucy Pendleton established James
Pendleton Independent Estate Agents in 2003, opening their first office
in Clapham South.
Since then the company and the team has grown significantly focusing on
a specific area of South-West London with six offices: in Battersea, Battersea Park, Wandworth Town & Tonsleys, Clapham
Common, Wandsworth Common and Clapham South & Balham. The team at
James Pendleton work with a 'We Live Here' attitude. This means that
as all of the staff live locally to their offices they have a far
better
knowledge, understanding, expertise and love for the area where they
specialise. |
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To ask how you can raise money and gain free publicity for your organisation through SMILE, click here for further information. Are you a local business? If you would like us to promote an offer for you, click here for further information.
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