Business Club
The Sheppertonian Business Club
Get found, get known, get booked in Shepperton.
58% of our readers open the newsletter every week, and every one of them lives here. Start with a free listing.
Start here
A free listing, for every business in and around Shepperton.
Your name, category, description, and a link to your site. On our local business directory, findable by anyone looking for what you sell. No card, no catch, no expiry.
Why free? Because a directory is only worth anything when it's full. We would rather have every local business on it, be genuinely useful to the village, and earn your money later, if and when we're actually worth paying for.
The numbers
What we can actually show you.
Most people selling you local advertising talk about "exposure". Here is what ours has actually done.
Finalist, Best Social Impact Award, Spelthorne Business Awards 2026. We're not the only ones who think a village needs somewhere to hear about itself.
We are not a newspaper and we're not going to pretend to be one. We're local, we're independent, and we're read properly rather than skimmed. An open rate of 58% is roughly double the industry average, and it comes from people who genuinely live in and around Shepperton. Not people in Australia who liked your Facebook post by accident.
What it's actually done for a local business
Our reel for The Ferry Coffee Shop reached over 40,000 people.
Why this works
In a village this size, people buy from businesses they feel they know.
Boosted Facebook posts reach people who will never drive here. Leaflets go in the bin with the pizza menus. A Google ad buys you a click, not a reputation.
What actually moves the needle in Shepperton is being seen, repeatedly, in a place people already trust, by people who could walk to your door. That is the only thing we sell.
Three ways to work with us
Pick the one that matches where you are.
Listed
Be findable.
- Listing in the local business directory
- Searchable by category and description
- A link to your website
- Findable by anyone searching locally
Supported
£500 a year, save £100. Be seen.
- Everything in Listed
- Enhanced listing with your logo, pinned at the top of the directory
- Named thank you in the weekly newsletter
- A mention on the podcast every month
- Two job or event listings in the newsletter each month, worth £20
Produced
We make your content, and you own it.
- Everything in Supported
- One on-location reel a month. We come to you, film it, edit it and caption it
- The reel is yours. Use it on your own channels, your site, anywhere you like. Music licensing not included.
- One professionally recorded audio piece or interview segment
- Captions and copy written for you
- Partner Spotlight in the newsletter
- Host-read credit on the podcast
Cancel monthly tiers whenever you like. UK registered charities get 25% off every tier, just email us your charity number.
Limited, one each
Put your name on something people use every week.
Sponsorship is different to membership. You get your name on one specific, useful thing that the whole village sees, and nobody else can have it while you do.
| What you'd sponsor | Founding rate |
|---|---|
| The Weekly What's OnOur most-opened newsletter, every Thursday | £150/mo |
| The PodcastHost-read, twice monthly, plus show notes | £150/mo |
| The Community Groups DirectoryEvery club and society in the area | £100/mo |
| The Community Resources DirectoryLocal support, health, housing and help | £100/mo |
These are founding rates, and they're deliberately low. As the audience grows, these slots will grow in cost. Take one now and your rate is locked for 24 months.
One-off
Featured Business
The full treatment, all in one month.
- A ten minute feature interview on the podcast, properly produced
- A dedicated newsletter about your business, sent to the whole list
- Promotion across every newsletter that month
- Two social reels
- A full year of enhanced directory listing
A la carte
Just want one thing?
No tier, no commitment, no conversation about membership. Tell us what you want and we'll make it.
| On-location reelWe come to you, film it, edit it and caption it. Yours to use anywhere. Music licensing not included. | £150 |
| Dedicated newsletter featureA standalone newsletter all about your business, sent to the whole list. | £80 |
Also available, and entirely self-serve. Pay online, fill in a short form, done. No need to email us at all.
| Post a job in Thursday's newsletterA headline listing with a direct link to your advert. £25 to feature it at the top of the jobs section. | from £10 |
| Feature an event in the weekly What's OnAdding an event to the community calendar is always free. £10 puts it in the newsletter as well. | £10 |
Posting regularly? Supported includes two of these every month, so it pays for itself at three listings.
Free, and no pitching
Come and meet us.
Shepperton Business Connect. Third Thursday of the month, 5pm to 7pm, The Ferry Coffee Shop at Shepperton Lock. Co-hosted with nikibakes.
No membership, no fee, no going round the room introducing yourself. Just local business people who actually talk to each other.
The awkward questions
Things you may be thinking.
I've been burned by directory listings before.
So has nearly everyone. That is exactly why ours is free. You risk nothing, you find out whether it sends you anything, and there are additional paid options if you like the result.
How do I know any of this works?
Right now, you don't, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. So start free. Come to Business Connect. Try a single reel for £150 and see what it does. Spend more only if it earns it.
You're smaller than the local paper.
We are, and we'd rather say so than dress it up. But our readers open the newsletter at roughly double the rate most publications manage, and every one of them lives here. Being properly read by the village you actually trade in beats being scrolled past by strangers somewhere else.
Am I locked into a contract?
No. Listed and Supported are monthly and you can stop whenever you like. Produced has a three month minimum, only because one month of content isn't long enough to tell you anything useful.
I only really want to be found on Google.
Then take the free listing and stop there, we're working hard to make that discoverable via Google searches. We'd rather you were on the directory for nothing than not on it at all.
Who actually reads it?
People in Shepperton, Sunbury, Ashford, Staines, Upper and Lower Halliford, Laleham, Littleton, Charlton, Walton and the surrounding villages. Residents, not accounts. Local, not global.
Not sure where to start?
Start free. Take the listing, come to Shepperton Business Connect, and see whether you like us before you spend a penny.
Get your free listing Email Gareth
Or just turn up at Business Connect on the third Thursday. We'll be the ones with the coffee.