So you want to have a stall at the market?

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

We regularly get asked what you have to do to get a stall at the market - so here is a quick guide!

If you’re interested the first thing to do is to read the market rules, and make sure that you fulfil them.  We’re interested in new stall ideas that will help improve the range of produce on offer - we usually won’t consider a stall that reproduces something allready on offer, but if in doubt contact us… or better yet, come to the market and have a chat.

We also prefer stalls that can be there all year round - so that our shoppers can rely on their favourite produce being available when they shop.  Clearly this doesn’t apply to all produce, we respect seasonality, so if you can only be there for three months because that is when your produce is available then that is fine.

You need to have basic food hygeine certification, appropriate insurance, and the person who sells the produce needs to be involved directly in production.

Note - we’re a food market!  If you want to sell crafts please contact Saint Nicolas Place, who run bi-annual craft fairs and who also sell crafts through their shop.

Unwelcome visitors

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Well, whilst we welcome most people to our market, we weren’t very impressed with the attendance of the BNP at the April market. On behalf of the market I want to make a couple of things clear:

1) We don’t allow any political parties to have a presence at the market.
2) The market is for all people, regardless of their race.
3) The market is run by the local community, and we don’t appreciate people who aren’t local coming here and spreading messages of hate (just to be clear, I’m referring to the BNP here).