Welcome to Merryn; here to celebrate independent artists, makers, creatives, businesses, charities and meaningful community connections from around the UK and Ireland.

This year’s Christmas Gift Guide is now live! Featuring over 1,400 brilliant gift ideas over 36 categories, from over 100 amazing small and independent creators, makers and retailers from around UK and Ireland

If you’d like to support the work that I do, and help me to do this full-time, therefore enabling me to help even more people, then you can find out how here

Catch up on all of my news, latest interviews and the UK and Ireland businesses that have been added
to the Merryn Directory

Find out how Merryn started, who is credited for the stock images I use across the website, what my privacy policy is and what my social media accounts are

Writer Wednesday interviews with self-published authors. I will soon be featuring independent bookshops

Find out which small and independent businesses, music artists, charities and self-published authors are local to you

Charity Tuesday interviews with charities, community groups/projects and not-for-profit companies. I will soon include campaigns and crowdfunding

I spot cool and brilliant products from small and independent businesses all the time, so soon I’ll be bringing you 12 of my favourite finds of the week!

Monthly new music YouTube playlists featuring music videos released by signed and independent music artists

Monthly new music Spotify playlists featuring signed and independent artists, themed playlists and my Top 20 songs of the week playlist, updated every Saturday

If you’d like me to feature your music, business, charity or books, or you’d like to contact me for a different reason, you can find all of my submission forms here in one place

A place to find small and independent businesses where you can view all businesses or view by business type


