Support Heather & Sand
Join our little adventure
Heather & Sand is a small idea with rather big ambitions.
We’re setting out to create a different kind of guide to enjoying Northumberland — beautiful places, good walks, local history, great food, interesting people and all the little discoveries that make a day out memorable.
Not just another directory. Something you actually enjoy spending time with.
We’re also working on a Heather & Sand radio show — music, stories, what’s happening around Northumberland and a few ideas for where to disappear to next weekend.
Help keep us fuelled
Most Heather & Sand adventures seem to involve coffee and cake at some point.
If you enjoy what we’re creating and would like to help keep us wandering, photographing and writing (and drinking far too much coffee), you can buy us one. Every little bit helps.
Buy us a coffeeFor Northumberland businesses
If you run a local business and like what we’re building, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re looking for a small number of early partners to come along for the journey. We’re not talking enormous advertising budgets — quite the opposite. Give Heather & Sand a thin slice of your marketing spend and we’ll work hard to make sure your support earns its keep.
That might mean appearing alongside relevant stories and guides, featuring in our radio show once it launches, or finding other interesting ways to introduce people to your business. Partner features are always clearly labelled.
Coming soonPrinted welcome cards and displays around Northumberland, ready for next year’s visitor season.
And because these are early partnerships, we’d rather talk about what works for your business than sell you an off-the-shelf package.
You can see more about how we work with local businesses, from free community listings to seasonal campaigns.
Supporting Heather & Sand never buys a good review. Our Journal stories and Listed reviews are always our own.
What we’re building
Our ambition is simple: to create the most enjoyable guide to spending your leisure time in Northumberland.
A place people visit when they’re planning a holiday, wondering what to do this weekend, looking for somewhere good to eat — or simply fancy ten quiet minutes dreaming about Northumberland.
We’re still at the beginning, but search engines are already starting to send people our way. As Heather & Sand grows, we’ll support that with social media, video, our radio show and something we particularly like — good old-fashioned promotion here in Northumberland itself.
If you’re a local business, accommodation owner, attraction, café, pub or shop — or simply someone who thinks Heather & Sand sounds worth supporting — we’d love to hear from you.
Come and join our little adventure.
Curious how Heather & Sand is made? Read how we use AI.