Top 5 Hobbies & Niche Mags

Puzzler Collection

Still going strong after 40 years, Puzzler offers a great selection of stimulating puzzles from the nation's top compilers. Puzzles range from more relaxing challenges such as word-search, Number Jig and Dot-to-Dot, to the more challenging cryptic crossword, Numerical Crossword and Kakuro.

Among the magazine's iconic puzzles are Round Tour, featuring an intricately woven grid with fiendish clues; and Alphabetical Jigsaw, a crossword in which you must solve a set of rhyming cryptic clues and determine the position of the answers in the grid as if completing a jigsaw.

Subscribe for £29.90 for 14 issues and save 11%.




Leisure Painter or The Artist magazine subscription

Packed with handy painting and drawing tutorials for both beginner and advanced artists, Leisure Painter is the ideal art magazine to help you explore your creative side. Each issue will inspire, guide and encourage you to enhance your artwork, helping you to create stunning pieces at home.

Leisure Painter can help anyone to learn to draw and paint, and have fun learning a new, lifelong hobby, whilst making new friends with a similar passion. Simple step-by-step demonstrations, in every issue, make it easy for anyone to create drawings and paintings to be proud of!

Readers will also learn about which art materials to buy and how to use them, courses, and holidays to go on, books to read, events to attend and how to paint your dog, or cat, or a successful portrait of a loved one.


Subscribe for £41.99 for 13 issues, saving 33% and receive a FREE supplement; Sketching & Painting Guide.




RCM&E magazine subscription

With information on everything from engine choice to in-air acrobatics, anyone who enjoys radio-controlled modelling and engineering should sign up for this great magazine. RCM&E is full of practical tips and tricks, easy-to-read guides, and entertaining and opinionated comments from seasoned experts. With your subscription to RCM&E magazine, you will get a free high-quality plan every month, with an accompanying build article, making it easy to get started on an impressive collection of remote-controlled planes. You will also be introduced to a welcoming group of fellow modellers, with regular events for readers up and down the country.

Subscribe for £47.99 for 13 issues and save 36%.




Permaculture magazine subscription

Each issue of Permaculture is handcrafted and offers a quarterly dose of solutions and money saving ideas from permaculture's worldwide community.

Permaculture offers the tools to create productive and sustaining gardens, farms and communities. It provides for the needs of people whilst also integrating the needs of wild species. Subscribers receive digital access to all 30 years of back issues totally FREE!

Subscribe for £15.95 for 4 issues and save 19%.



Railway Modeller magazine subscription

Every month it features the best from the hobby for those modelling Britain's railways in all the popular scales and offers a unique blend of articles by experts and beginners alike, including a special section for newcomers wanting to learn all about the hobby and model making in general.

Each issue includes featured layouts, scale drawings, layout plans, shows-you-how constructional articles and prototype surveys. Plus all the regular sections; product reviews, up-to-the-minute news, book reviews, reader's letters and the UK's most comprehensive model railway events diary.

Subscribe for £23.00 for 6 issues and save 20%.