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Leaflet distribution services across Manchester and the North West

Your leaflet goes out with our magazines, delivered by hand to 336,000 homes across Greater Manchester and Lancashire.
Leaflets from
3p
Local areas
57
Homes reached
336,000
Every
4 weeks
Distribution
GPS tracked

Your leaflet, delivered with our magazines

Your leaflet is delivered alongside our local magazines, by the same team, on the same rounds, every four weeks.

We do not do standalone drops. If you want your leaflet delivered on its own, on a date of your choosing, we are not the right fit and we would rather say so here than on the phone.

What you get instead is a leaflet that lands in the hand with something the household already recognises and reads.

A person in a red sweater is delivering a stack of brochures through a letterbox on a black door. They are inserting several colorful brochures depicting various advertisements into the slot. A brick wall is partially visible in the background.

Why going out with the magazines works in your favour

It keeps the cost down

Ours starts at around 3p a leaflet because the round is already happening. You are not paying for a delivery team to walk the streets for you alone.

It arrives in better company

A leaflet on its own competes with the takeaway menus and the charity bags. Yours arrives attached to a magazine people kept and flicked through.

It borrows twenty years of trust

Residents in Bolton, Bury, Wigan and Blackburn know the magazine when it comes through the door. Your leaflet reads as local, not as junk.

From 3p a leaflet

Considerably cheaper than addressed mail, with no delivery round to fund on your own.

Every four weeks

Your leaflet goes out on the next available cycle, so you can build up repeat visibility.

GPS tracked

Proof of delivery on every round, so you know exactly where your leaflets went.

Delivered by hand, and you can see where

Every one of our leaflet distributors carries a GPS tracker, so we can show you the roads walked and the day it happened.

We want to be precise about what that gives you. It is proof of delivery. It confirms your leaflets went where you paid for them to go.

It is not a measure of response. We cannot tell you how many people rang you afterwards, and any distributor who says they can is guessing. If you want to track response, put a code, a landing page or a dedicated number on the leaflet and we are happy to help you think that through.

How Leaflet Distributors Work in the UK Everything You Need to Know

Where your leaflets can go

We deliver to 57 individual magazines across Greater Manchester and Lancashire. Everything is in the North West, and we do not deliver outside these areas.

An honest word on Manchester. Inside the city itself we cover four areas: Chorlton, East Didsbury, West Didsbury and Whalley Range. We are not claiming blanket coverage of the city centre and everything around it.

Where we are strong is Greater Manchester as a whole. If your customers come from Bolton, Bury, Wigan, Salford, Trafford, Stockport or Rochdale, that is the bulk of our 336,000 homes and where your leaflet will do the most work.

Where we publish

  • Bolton 10
  • Bury 8
  • Salford and Trafford 8
  • Wigan 7
  • Manchester 4
  • Burnley and Pendle 4
  • Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 4
  • Chorley 3
  • Rochdale 3
  • Blackburn 2
  • Rossendale 2
  • Stockport 2

57 magazines in total. Numbers show how many individual magazines we publish in each area.

Leaflet printing and distribution, handled for you

You do not need to arrive with artwork ready to go.

Our design team can put your leaflet together, and we can print it too, so the whole job sits with one supplier and you are not chasing three of them.

Design and print are charged separately from distribution. Ask us for a price when you enquire and we will quote the lot together.

Red Rose Directories design team working on advert artwork for a local business

Who this suits, and who it does not

It works well for you if

  • Your customers are local
  • You can name the towns they live in
  • You want reach on a small budget
  • You sell to households
  • Trades and home services
  • Takeaways and local retail
  • Care and cleaning services
  • You want repeat visibility

If you would rather have a permanent presence in the magazine itself, magazine advertising starts at £39 for one area.

It is not for you if

  • You need a fixed delivery date
  • You need a standalone drop
  • You want demographic targeting
  • You need response reporting
  • You want addressed mail
  • Your customers are national
  • You sell only online
  • You need areas outside the North West

Getting started takes three steps

1

Tell us your areas

Give us the towns you want and we will tell you how many homes that reaches and what it costs.

2

Get your leaflets ready

Send us your artwork, or let our designers create it. We can print for you as well if that is easier.

3

We deliver and show you

Your leaflets go out on the next cycle, and the GPS record confirms the rounds were walked.

What our customers say

“Hi Carole, I have been a recipient of the Red Rose Directory for a number of years and commend you on an excellent and worthwhile publication.

I have been able to source a range of specialist support and advice.”

Ms Griffiths
Resident

“I use the directories a lot. I always read through them. I do enjoy looking through the directories, and I have used quite a lot of your advertisers from them! I look forward to receiving my next copy!”

Mrs Todd
Haslingden Resident

“Red Rose are professional in every way. I was nervous about advertising at first, but after using them I now feel I have found a great company! Big mention to Jenny and Ross – Thank You!”

David
GutterPRO Manchester West

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See below the areas our magazines cover and where your leaftelts could be seen

Bolton

  • Bradshaw and Harwood
  • Breightmet and Tonge
  • Bromley Cross
  • Farnworth and Kearsley
  • Heaton
  • Horwich
  • Ladybridge and Beaumont
  • Little Lever
  • Sharples
  • Westhoughton

Bury

  • Brandlesholme
  • Hollins and Unsworth
  • Prestwich
  • Radcliffe
  • Ramsbottom
  • Tottington and Greenmount
  • Walmersley
  • Whitefield

Salford and Trafford

  • Boothstown and Ellenbrook
  • Eccles
  • Flixton
  • Sale
  • Stretford
  • Swinton and Pendlebury
  • Urmston
  • Worsley

Wigan

  • Aspull and Hindley
  • Astley and Tyldesley
  • Atherton
  • Leigh
  • Orrell
  • Shevington
  • Standish

Manchester

  • Chorlton
  • East Didsbury
  • West Didsbury
  • Whalley Range

Burnley and Pendle

  • Barrowford
  • Burnley
  • Colne
  • Padiham

Hyndburn and Ribble Valley

  • Accrington
  • Clitheroe
  • Great Harwood
  • Wilpshire

Chorley

  • Adlington
  • Coppull
  • Whittle-le-Woods

Rochdale

  • Bamford
  • Heywood
  • Norden

Blackburn

  • Darwen
  • Feniscowles and Pleasington

Rossendale

  • Haslingden
  • Rawtenstall

Stockport

  • Heatons East
  • Heatons West

Not seeing your area? Call us on 01204 300013 and we will tell you which nearby magazine your customers are most likely to read.

Leaflet distribution FAQs

Can you deliver my leaflets on their own, without the magazine?

No. Every leaflet we deliver goes out alongside our magazines on the four weekly cycle.

It is the reason we can keep the cost at around 3p, and the reason your leaflet arrives with something people actually want rather than landing on the mat on its own.

Prices start at around 3p a leaflet, which is a good deal cheaper than addressed mail. What you pay depends on how many homes you want to reach and where they are.

Tell us your towns and we will work it out for you. Call 01204 300013 or send us the areas you have in mind and we will come back with a figure.

Every distributor is GPS tracked, so we can show you where the round went and when. That is proof of delivery.

It does not tell you how many people responded, and we will not pretend otherwise.

Get your leaflet into 336,000 homes

Tell us the towns you want to reach and we will come back with a price. No pressure, and a straight answer about whether we are the right fit.

Prefer to talk it through? Call us and we will tell you in a couple of minutes which magazines your customers are most likely to read.

74 St Georges Road, Bolton, BL1 2DD Monday to Friday, 9am to 5.30pm

Ask for a price

We will get back to you with a cost for your areas.

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How do I know which size advert is right for my business?
Not sure which fits? The pricing calculator will show you what each size costs in the areas you are interested in.

Eighth page. Our smallest advert, and the easiest way to test an area. Room for your logo, your contact details and a point or two about what you do.

Quarter page. If you are a sole trader or working on the tools, this keeps you comfortably busy without bringing in more work than you can handle.

Half page. You get strong visibility across the area and a noticeably higher response rate.

Full page. You become impossible to miss on the page.

Double page spread. Best if you have a lot to show, several products or services, or you want to run an advertorial that tells your story properly.

Prime pages. Front cover, back cover, inside front, inside back, page three and centre pages. Maximum exposure and the strongest brand recognition in the magazine.