Connecting with Our Community
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Connecting with our community PITTWATER 11+ YEARS MANLY WARRINGAH 17+ YEARS NORTH SHORE 7+ YEARS Our Mission Is to provide customers with a medium to grow their businesses; readers and consumers a means to tell their stories and connect with local business and community groups a voice to encourage local engagement. We always act with integrity and honesty, building ongoing relationships based on understanding, trust and a genuine commitment to delivering value. Our Vision Is to be a diversified marketing and communications business, serving local communities throughout Sydney. Our brands are cherished and trusted for being a primary source of stimulating, reliable and accurate community and business content. Our customers demand our products because we: • have trusted local brands, delivering real value • provide customised service • are respected for the honesty and integrity of our advice • are committed to delivering results Why Active Networks Readership We’re at the top of reader’s preferences when it comes to print Longevity A proven shelf life means your message is out there for up to a month. Repetition It’s all about message frequency. 65% of readers browse each issue up to 6 times. Engagement Our brands resonate with residents. Over 40% of readers spend one to three hours immersed in our content. Message Top of our reader preferences are grass root and council news, social issues, restaurants, deals and events, all things we deliver. Save Save money due to our modest rates, the longevity of our magazines and the value adds provided Multi-media Print, web, email and Facebook we offer a multi-channel approach Flexibility Run a different message or communication strategy in Peninsula Living – Pittwater to Peninsula Living Relationship It’s in our Mission statement … build ongoing relationships based on understanding, trust and a genuine commitment to delivering value. Distribution 30,000 magazines across Pittwater, 87,000 magazines across the Northern Beaches, 47,000 magazines across the lower North Shore, all delivered in to the mailboxes of residents. PENINSULA LIVING PENINSULA LIVING NORTHSHORE LIVING PITTWATER MANLY WARRINGAH LOWER NORTH SHORE 30,000 57,000 47,000 Who reads us Their gender Their age Are they employed? 78 73 % 48 % 33 % 22 % 18 18 % % % Female Male 25-44yrs 45-65yrs 65+yrs Employed Retired Owner or renter? 72 % 28 % Owned Renting What do they earn 29 24 % % 14 % $75-$125k $126-$199k $200,000+ Results from survey Jan 2016 & Dec 2016. Our readers habits How long do you keep us 56% One to four weeks How often do How long do Rate our you read us you read us for magazine look 65% 41% 60% Spend one to three hours Read us two to six times engaged with us Rated us 7-10 for design Results from survey Jan 2016 & Dec 2016. Our readers favourites FOOD AND WINE Dine in style The Royal Motor Pittwater, we are treated to a mud cake with a praline Yacht Club’s Salt Cove delicious twice-cooked duck crumb. Staff are attentive Brasserie is the perfect with buckwheat noodles, and friendly and the INSTANT SOUP Pittwater oasis to watch steamed Asian greens and atmosphere is relaxed and Miso the world go by. shallots, ginger and sweet inviting. Whether you’re a This is absolutely no fuss, no mess, no chopping. You can even make your own soy dressing plus a perfectly general member, boat owner instant healthy kit to take to the office. All you need to do is add hot water. he Royal Motor prepared chargrilled Scotch member or a guest – as well Yacht Club in Broken fillet with dauphinoise potato, as Salt Cove restaurant, the TBay is a waterfront baked stuffed field mushroom club offers a choice of three venue with a difference – and salad with green shallot bars, a heated swimming the ideal spot to celebrate and caper butter. pool and children’s play area SERVES a special occasion or enjoy We finish off with ricotta plus a complimentary GRASS ROOTS a leisurely breakfast, lunch cheesecake with raspberry shuttle bus home. 1 or dinner seven days a coulis plus a rich chocolate Yacht could be better? week. Add an extensive menu skilfully prepared Who: Royal Motor Yacht Club by renowned head chef Open lunch: Monday to Sunday, 11.30am to 3pm; Michael Mulquiny and his Dinner: Monday to Sunday, 5.30pm to 8.30pm; team to the club’s excellent COMMUNITY Breakfast: Saturday and Sunday, 8am to 11am wine cellar and you have a (cafe open from 8.30am to 8.30pm) recipe for smooth sailing. Where: 46 Prince Alfred Parade, Newport 71% While overlooking the Contact: 9997 5511 or royalmotor.com.au boats on picture perfect NEWS a Taronga Zoo Friend family membership Ingredients Win! • 300 ml (10.5 fl oz) hot water To enter text your email address to • ½ tbsp miso 0417 592 426 • ¼ tsp dashi powder Entries open 30th December 2016 • Pinch of dried, cut wakame If your email isn’t valid you won’t be eligible to enter. METHOD This 12 month pass is for two adults and two children. Keep Put the miso, dashi and wakame the children entertained during in your mug, pour on the boiling Is your Will school holidays and visit as many water and stir. OURCommunity NEWS times as you like. It doesn’t stop The upgrades aim to reduce there. Use your pass to visit Instant kit method – place congestion, improve safety and meet Contestable? Taronga Western Plains zoo, squares of cling film on your future traffic demand. receive discounted parking and bench then place the miso, This recipe comes from Japanese Superfoods, $29.99, published Other proposed changes include: discounts on special events and then wakame, then dashi onto by New Holland Australia. Author Yoshiko Takeuchi loves Have • Relocating the intersection of merchandise. each square and twist to close. beautiful food and doesn’t believe you have to compromise either Mona Vale Rd and Tumburra Refrigerate or freeze (if you also health or taste. She has appeared on The Biggest Losercooking her your say St about 40 metres west and add chopped shallots). Take one food for the contestants, runs a cooking school and has also had the changing access to left-turn in and whenever you need. pleasure of meeting her idol, world-famous chef Tetsuya Wakuda. on left-turn out only To enter the competition for a Taronga Zoo Friend family membership entrants must text their email address to 0417 592 426. Each SMS submitted will be charged at the standard Australian carrier SMS rate. Competition closes 5pm 30/01/2017. Full terms and conditions can be found at www.thinklocal.com.au/content/taronga-zoo-competition-ts-and-csLTPM/14/00861LTPM/16/00850 • Closing the existing intersection Mona Vale Rd at Mona Vale Rd and Addison Rd 88 www.activenetworks.com.au PENINSULA LIVING - PITTWATER 89 upgrades to general traffic and restricting On divorce, as part of a financial access to emergency vehicles only settlement, Graham agreed to make • Building a new local road provisions in his Will to leave part of an connection between Bungendore asset to his and his ex-wife Sally’s two St and Powder Works Rd daughters. Graham also agreed to leave esidents are invited to have their The plans are detailed in Review of the proceeds of two life insurance say on proposed changes to Environmental Factors and Species policies to his ex-wife. Mona Vale Rd, between Terrey Impact Statement documents, which RHills and Ingleside. can be viewed at Northern Beaches Days before Graham’s death he changed his Will to no longer leave the share of the Images credit: Volunteer Photography The Roads and Maritime Services’ Council and Mona Vale Library. plan includes widening the arterial The documents are also available asset to his daughters as promised. He had also let the insurance policy premiums from two lanes to four lanes between online at: www.rms.nsw.gov.au/ lapse making the policies worthless. McCarrs Creek Rd and Powder Works projects/sydney-north/mona-vale- Pittwater group slams Rd, and increasing the speed limit to road/mvrwest.html Sally and the daughters contested the new 80km per hour. Submissions close March 13. Will. The court would not nullify the new merger decision Will ruling that a person, provided he or she has testamentary mental capacity, may change his or her Will at any time Some Pittwater residents reprieve for Sydney where there was But Pittwater MP Rob Stokes says up to the date of death. for over 50 Years say they are disappointed “strong justifications” for them. the government will aim to mitigate Servicing Pittwater The court ruled however that Sally was with a state government’s Pittwater Forever chairman Craig this via a new requirement for merger entitled to damages for the loss of the recent decision to not de- Boaden says the news is a blow, councils. This new rule will allow ward insurance policies and that the daughters amalgamate Northern particularly when one poll by the councillors to be in charge of strategic were entitled to make a claim for damages FOOD AND Beaches Council. former Pittwater Council found 89 per planning decisions for their ward. Your European Car from the estate due to the loss of the cent of residents opposed the idea of “This was a decision of the Cabinet promised asset. ittwater Forever – an umbrella merging with neighbouring councils. in mid-February,” he exclusively tells Service Specialists group for 18 local organisations He says in Pittwater there are real The lesson? Your Will may still be subject Peninsula Living. “It’s now up to • European vehicle service specialists 90% – had been hopeful that new worries about overdevelopment public service to implement by way of to representations or promises you have • Servicing all late model vehicles PNSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and residents fear they will now lose legislation or policy.