One flyer through every letterbox in Romsey. Up to 90% less to advertise.

Every quarter, Swift Locals prints one double-sided A4 flyer shared by sixteen slots: trades alongside local events and community information, so it reads as the household's go-to reference, not another leaflet for the bin. Every advertiser pays a flat £500 + VAT and lands in every letterbox on the round, cutting the cost by around 90% compared with mailing alone.

SWIFT
LOCALS
Romsey Household Round, Side A
Plumbing
Plumbing Company
Your trade
Your business here
Electrical
Electrical Company
Gardening
Gardening Company
Cleaning
Cleaning Company
Locksmith
Locksmith Company
Roofing
Roofing Company
What's on
Local Events Calendar
+ 8 more slots on Side B, trades and local info
The problem

Most direct mail gets binned before it's read.

A leaflet for one business gets a glance, then the recycling. Swift Locals is designed to be the exception: one quarterly sheet that mixes trusted local trades with the events and information a household actually wants to hand, the kind of thing that ends up on the fridge or in a kitchen drawer, referred back to for weeks rather than binned on day one.

That's also what makes the cost split fair. A flyer households keep and reuse is worth more per advertiser than one they discard, so sharing it sixteen ways still means real, repeated attention, not a diluted glance.

How it works

Four steps, one flyer, one cost split fairly.

1

Every quarter, a new round

A postcode round in Romsey or the wider Test Valley goes to print four times a year, so listings stay current and households expect the next one.

2

We fill the slots

Sixteen slots share the flyer, eight to a side. Most go to non-competing local trades; a few are kept for local events and community information, so it's worth keeping, not just reading once.

3

One print run, one post

A single professionally designed flyer goes to print and out to every household in the round.

4

Cost splits, reach doesn't

The cost divides between everyone on the sheet. Every business still lands in every letterbox in the round.

Booked a slot? You get first refusal on the same slot next quarter, before it's offered to anyone else, so a good spot on the flyer is yours to keep, not something you have to re-win every issue.
The maths

Sixteen businesses, one cost, one flat price.

A full round, design, double-sided print and addressed postage across every household on it, costs roughly ten times what a single advertiser pays, so sharing it sixteen ways cuts each advertiser's cost by around 90%. Mailed alone, one business would foot the entire amount.

Mailing the same round alone
≈ £5,000
One business, full print & postage cost
Your slot on Swift Locals
£500 + VAT
One of 16 slots, same households reached

Figures are indicative: the exact household count per round depends on local print and postage rates, but the £500 + VAT price per advertiser doesn't change.

Why direct mail

A channel that still gets read when inboxes don't.

Independent UK mail research backs up what a good flyer already does instinctively. Physical mail gets noticed, held on to and acted on at rates most digital channels don't come close to.

96%
of mail delivered in the UK is engaged with rather than binned unopened
JICMAIL, 2025
143 sec
average attention a household gives a piece of mail over 28 days
JICMAIL, Q4 2025
2 to 5%
typical UK direct mail response rate, well ahead of most digital response rates
JICMAIL Response Rate Tracker, 2025
8 days
average time a mail item stays in the home before it's thrown away
JICMAIL, 2025
What's on it

Trades households call eventually, plus what's on right now.

Most slots go to trades that households keep the flyer on the fridge for, the kind of call that comes weeks or months after the post lands. A handful are reserved for local events and community information, which is what turns the flyer into something households actually hold on to.

Plumbing & heating Electrical Gardening & landscaping Cleaning Roofing Locksmiths Pest control Window & door fitting Local events calendar Community & council notices
Only one slot per trade, per issue. Once a plumber has booked a round, no other plumbing business can join that same mailing, so you're never sharing a side with a direct competitor.
Coverage

Starting in Romsey, growing across Test Valley.

A new issue goes to print every quarter. Current and planned rounds:

Romsey town Nursling North Baddesley Chilworth Michelmersh Awbridge Ampfield Broughton (planned)
Pricing

One flat price. No surprises per round.

Per advertiserSlots on the flyerLayout
£500 + VAT16 total8 slots per side of one A4 sheet

The price per advertiser stays £500 + VAT on every quarterly issue you book, whichever round you're placed on, as a round's household count grows, so does your reach, at no extra cost. One slot per trade per issue, and a few slots each quarter go to local events and community information rather than advertisers, so it's kept, not binned.

Get in touch

Reserve a slot on the next issue.

Tell us your trade (or event/information listing) and area, and we'll confirm which quarterly round has an open slot and what it'll cost.

Thanks. We'll be in touch within a couple of days to confirm your round.