The Journey - Company Information

As most know TSP started with Alex Dick Read having an idea for a different surfing magazine, one that covered real people doing real things in surfing not the usual sponsored rubbish. Travel, environment and tales. He eventually found a home with Permanent Publishing, where The Surfer’s Path resided for almost two decades before it became absorbed into Factory Media.

Factory was all about mass ad sales, and TSP sat poorly, and eventually after years of not breaking even was abruptly ended, and that it seemed was it.

Then Factory Media it self-went bust, and through a chance meeting Tim Nunn got the administrators number and started a six-month process of pitching for the magazine. It failed, mainly because they didn’t realise they owned it, and also because they wanted to sell everything in one lump, in this case to Internet Fusion, another massive conglomerate of shops and publishing and the game was up. Tim was undeterred and spent another four months trying to wrestle The Path back, and eventually in a E Leclerc car park in central France, he was given The Surfers Path.

The relaunch then took everything Tim had, and with the support of subscribers The Path was back, and the magazine was incredible. What happened next was a mixture of misfortune with Covid, some poor business advice, and in the end, Tim breaking down. Dark times all round, and The Path was on its knees again, we would say no matter how dark things get a surfing magazine is not worth this sort of mental anguish. But Tim managed to pass it on to a new collective of people led by Stuart Bird, who made sure it got to issue 110. It was tricky, was far from perfect, but it made it.

Now it passes into some new hands, with Stuart still in there and five new directors, all of whom were subscribers, and we transition to a bi-annual hard backed version. It’s been a journey and we feel at last close to some stability.

You’ll find total transparency here with company news, accounts etc. and all past ones as well. We exist for you, that is the reason we have kept TSP alive. We will be publishing our accounts here, and if you’d like to contact Tim about past company we can pass on his details.

The details of accounts for The Surfer's Path Ltd. are about to go live on there, the company technically ended trading in January 2023, however due to the ongoing tax issues, where we got a large refund, they are made up to the end of March 2025, although there is no income/outgoings/cash in there since 2023 as it was with new company.