Tetbury Gift and Craft Market - Weds

[daxia]

Good morning Tetbury,

we run a weekly (although not this coming Wednesday due to the Guild of Craftsmen using the hall) Gift and Craft Market in the wonderful Market House, right in the centre of town.

We're now in our second year, and would like to encourage local artisans, crafters, business people, schools, charities, local groups etc. to come along and take a stall - and start using the market place.

Currently shadowed by the Stroud markets, we'd like to see Market House bustling by the end of the summer - with amazing stalls both uptairs and down - making it a talked about market for all the right reasons!

South West Fairs run gift and craft markets right across the South West (cunning name that!) and we've invested our time mainly in Tetbury - as it's such a fabulous town!

Call us for more information - visit us (Wednesdays and the second Saturday of each month), visit our website www.southwestfairs.co.uk

We want the market in Tetbury - the downstairs as well as our craft market upstairs to be renowned for quality and choice... and we want to make it the hub for local information - we stock brochures from different Tetburian groups, leaflets from local organisations and we'd like to hear from as many people as possible.

Lovin the website btw - keep it going!

Dax

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[merlin]

Hi Dax,

Let me be the first to welcome you to Tetbury and wish you all good wishes for a successful venture.

I have recently been to the Stroud Farmer's market and just today visited Malborough market and have to confess that both put Tetbury's efforts to shame.

Considering how boastful we are about our wonderful historic Marketing past as a town we should be ashamed of just how little effort is made perhaps you are the welcome wind of change and I hope traders will get behind you and bring some pride back to our town.

[daxia]

thanks Merlin,

any ideas on where to contact about using the pedestrian street for market stalls? My requests to Steven Hurst have aparently fallen upon deaf ears as no response has been made (I first requested this in December LAST year!)

I'm eager to expand the market on Wednesdays and Saturdays as most of my vendors book with me through Tetbury first - and I have to admit sometimes they leave a little disappointed.
Stroud and Malborough markets are fabulous.

I wonder how Tetbury would cope with a real Farmers Market? I'm happy to organise one, and was granted permission by the Feoffees to run a market on a Monday too (although this was last year)
Perhaps I could re-instate the request and speak to the Cotswold Farmers Market Association?