Danbury & Lovejoy is a small, independent UK site about practical home life: keeping warm and dry for less, cooking, growing your own and getting through British weather. It’s written by me, Gareth Isherwood. I live on the East Sussex coast. I’ve grown my own food for about fifteen years, and for the last three I’ve had an allotment.

If you’re a brand or a PR agency, this page tells you what working with us looks like, and what it doesn’t.

Who reads us

  • The Danbury Dispatch: a weekly email every Thursday, sent to 1,800+ readers who chose to get it.
  • The site: UK readers, mostly arriving with a specific problem to solve. Think damp bedrooms, drying washing indoors in winter, what an appliance actually costs to run, or what to cook this week.
  • Current figures on request. Email us and we’ll send current traffic, audience and Dispatch numbers, with the date they were measured. We don’t publish them here because a figure on a web page goes stale, and we’d rather you had a correct one.

How we review

Most of the site is research-led buying guides. A growing part of it is hands-on: products that have been in our home and properly used. A hands-on review says so at the very top, with what we had, where it came from, how long we used it and what we did with it.

In practice, that means:

  • Our own photographs. We take every photograph on a hands-on review ourselves. No stock images and no brand press shots.
  • Measured, not guessed. Where it matters we measure. Energy use comes from a plug-in energy monitor on the machine itself, and humidity comes from hygrometers logging in the room.
  • Real conditions. That means a coastal flat, a cold spare room on washing day and an ordinary kitchen. It doesn’t mean a lab, and we never claim it does.
  • Time. We tell readers exactly how long we used something and how many times, because “used daily for six weeks” is a claim they can weigh.

For worked examples, see our Russell Hobbs Chilluxe review (a supplied unit) and our eufy X10 Pro Omni review (bought with our own money). The full method is on How We Research.

Ways to work together

Supplied products for review. You can offer a product, or we may ask for one. If it fits our readers and we can use it properly, we’ll review it.

Commission partnerships. If you run an affiliate programme, through Amazon, Awin or another network, or directly, tell us about it. A programme means we can earn on a product we already recommend. It doesn’t put the product on the page.

What we agree to, and what we don’t

These are the same terms we publish to our readers on How We Research. We hold every partner to them.

We will:

  • Say at the top of every review of a supplied product who sent it and that we didn’t pay for it, before the reader reaches our opinion.
  • Agree a publication date with you if you need one.
  • Check factual details with you before publishing: model numbers, specifications and prices.
  • Tell readers if a brand pays us commission on sales through our links.
  • Keep the product and go on using it, so we can say later whether it held up.

We won’t:

  • Agree to a positive review, a word count or a set of talking points.
  • Show you the review before it publishes, or give you approval over it.
  • Hold back a review because the verdict isn’t good. If we don’t like the product, we say so and the review still runs.
  • Take payment for a review, or for a place in a buying guide.
  • Sell links or guarantee a followed link. We don’t do SEO-only placements.
  • Add a product to a round-up because it was sent to us. A supplied product earns a spot on exactly the same terms as anything else, or it doesn’t appear.

Before you get in touch

The product has to make sense for UK readers. That means a UK plug and genuine availability from a UK retailer, with reasonable warranty terms. It also has to be something our readers would actually use at home.

Please include the product, a link to its UK listing, any timing you’re working to, and whether you’re writing for the brand or for an agency.

Email: [email protected], with “Collaboration” in the subject line. I aim to reply within 2–3 working days. If you have a deadline, put “DEADLINE” and the date in the subject line.