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BERMONDSEY SE1

PlatformBermondsey SE1
Est2019
DisciplineCommunity Building, Content Production, Editorial, Campaigns
Audience22K across social, 89.8% London

Bermondsey SE1 is a neighbourhood publication we started in 2019 and have run ever since. Portraits of the people who live and trade here, coverage of the market and the street, and the two annual campaigns we produce for it. It is written from inside SE1 rather than about it, which is why 22,000 people follow it and why nearly nine in ten of them are in London.

A gallery frontage on Bermondsey Street, people at a table outside.
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Our own platform

We built the thing we tell clients we can build.

Bermondsey SE1 is ours. We started it in 2019 with a simple idea, tell the story of SE1 properly, from the inside. Seven years on it is the platform people around here actually read. Every agency says it can build a community. This is us proving it, on our own name, with our own money, in public.

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BSE1 • Your inside scoop on Bermondsey & SE1 London 📍 London's riverside neighbourhood 🍴 Food, art, hidden gems & the people who power them 🤝 We champion local stories
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Pappardelle and a spread of plates on a table at a Bermondsey restaurant.
Tower Bridge at the end of a wet Bermondsey street, commuters walking towards it.
The Shard rising above the railway arches and warehouses of Bermondsey Street.
A crowd gathered on the grass for an outdoor event, tower blocks behind.
Bermondsey Street Festival, the road packed with people seen through the trees.
A man in an England shirt at a Bermondsey street party, bunting overhead.
A man in an England shirt at a Bermondsey street party, bunting overhead.
A terrace of orange and red shopfronts, a passer-by crossing the frame.
Two people sitting in a sauna in felt hats, from a Druid Street Saunas post.
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The Proof

People of Bermondsey

Interviews with the founders, makers and business owners who make the area tick. It is the feature our audience turns up for most.

  • 26K avg Instagram reach
  • 3K website views
  • 400 new followers for the featured brand
Christine Hall, owner of Giddy Grocer, on Bermondsey Street.
Claire Burrows, founder of Air & Grace, on Bermondsey Street.
Louis of Bermondsey Street Runners, on Bermondsey Street.
Pedro of Pedro's Wine Bar, on Bermondsey Street.
Gabi of Oca London, on Bermondsey Street.

12 Days of Bermondsey

Twelve local businesses, twelve days, every December. Timed for the moment people are deciding where to spend.

  • 266K reach
  • 302K impressions
  • 15.5K likes across 12 brands
Borough Market's entrance at dusk, a Christmas wreath over the gates, festoon lights, The Shard behind.

Bermondsey Street Festival

We sit on the committee. This year we are heading up the Family Zone in Leathermarket Gardens and curating the programme. We do not cover the festival from the outside, we help build it.

  • 200K views on one reel
A family audience seated on the grass at the festival, a dog wandering in front.
A woman in a green top standing in the festival crowd.
A bookstall on the street, people browsing, a dog at their feet.
The crowded festival street seen from above through the trees.
Three volunteers in festival T-shirts with their arms around each other.
Musicians playing on a small stage beside a Bermondsey sign.
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Who we work with

From global institutions to the independent down the road. The approach does not change.

  • Borough Market
  • The Shard
  • Tate
  • The Old Vic
  • Locke
  • Shangri-La
  • M.Manze
  • Flat Iron Square
  • Peter Layton London Glassblowing
  • Giddy Grocer
  • Comptoir Bakery
  • Rally
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A local audience that actually turns up.

89.8% of them are in London. When we talk about a business, people walk through the door.

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22KFollowers across social
180KAvg monthly reach
4.3KNewsletter subscribers
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