• No vendors keep 100% of the sales from selling DOPE and receive the magazine for free. Each issue earns vendors combined around £105,000.

  • Unfortunately, our system has a problem that means that when some people change their addresses on the website, their subscriptions still go to the old address. After much troubleshooting, we don’t have a way to solve this beyond advising people that when they move addresses, they should end their current subscriptions and re-subscribe with a new address and account.

  • We send out subscriber copies of the newspaper every 3 months when the new issue comes out. To do it every time there is a new subscriber would mean having to employ a full-time distributor, which we don’t have the financial resources to do. If you don’t think this is why you haven’t received a copy yet, then there's probably a problem that we can help fix. Email: dopemagazine@solidarityeconomy.coop

  • Yes! Although we often ask people who don’t live in the UK if they have the financial means to give more than the basic £3 a month tier, as the cost of postage for posting abroad is often so much money that we lose money on foreign orders.

  • DOPE Magazine Community Interest company is the legal body which runs DOPE Magazine. As of July 2024, DOPE magazine is published by Solidarity Economy Association after being set up and published for 6 years by Dog Section Press.

  • Yes! There are two ways to do this:

    1. You can subscribe on behalf of someone else by putting their address when you subscribe.

    2. Or you can do a limited subscription (like a one-year subscription) as a gift via Patreon.

  • DOPE has two key distribution points, with several other smaller points.

    The main points are:

    Freedom Bookshop, 84b Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX. Fridays – 12.00-18.00

    People’s Republic of Stokes Croft, 14 Hillgrove St, Bristol BS2 8JT. Mon-Sat – 11.00-18.00

    We also have smaller distribution points in Edinburgh, Stroud and Norwich.

  • Yes! We are looking for new volunteers to help with distribution on Fridays from Freedom Press in London. If you think you can join the volunteer team- contact us dopemagazine@solidarityeconomy.coop

    Do you have another skill that you think might be useful, or just want to connect? Let you know. dopemagazine@solidarityeconomy.coop

  • We print roughly 35,000 copies per issue of DOPE Magazine. But we want to do more- subscribe or share the option of subscribing with your friends and family to give us the financial resources to expand our reach.