| St
Luke's Community Market
at
St Luke's Parish Centre, Stone Cross
Further
Information for Stallholders
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Aims
To provide the community of Stone Cross and its neighbouring areas with:
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A source of local produce, crafts and services,
thus reducing 'transportation miles' and the need for excessive
packaging
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A regular and sociable meeting place for both customers
and traders
Sources
Food,
crafts, products and services sold at the Community Market will normally
be sourced from producers based within a 20-mile radius of Stone
Cross and, wherever possible, from within a smaller 10-mile radius
– which means (approximately) within the two circles below:
Type of Produce
We will consider applications for any type of produce or service but
reserve the right to refuse a stall if we feel it is unsuitable or does
not meet the criteria above. The aim will always be to have a good variety
of stalls so, normally, no more than two stalls selling fundamentally
the same type of product or service will be permitted on any one day.
(These rules will no doubt be open to interpretation, so the market
organiser’s decision will have to be final!).
Opening
Times
The market is held every Friday (except when Friday
is a Bank Holiday) and will be open for trading from 10 am until
12 pm. Stallholders will be able to start setting up from 9
am and will be required to have cleared away by 1 pm.
In order not to disappoint customers, all stallholders are expected
to be ready to serve at 10 am and remain serving until 12 pm. Clearing
away must not begin before 12.00 pm.
Charges
Admission for customers is FREE.
Stallholders pay £5 per large table (or equivalent). Tables can
normally be provided by the organisers.
Smaller, lower tables (if available & when used in addition to a
paid large table) are free of charge but we have limited numbers and
these will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
Stallholder fees are collected on the day and must be paid in cash please
Display
of Prices & Stallholder Details
Stallholders must clearly display their prices either on a
price list or marked on the goods themselves. They must also display
their name (or their company’s name) on the stall and their contact
details. Ideally the contact details should be available in a form that
customers can take away with them (e.g. a ‘flyer’ and/or
business card).
Insurance
Stallholders
should (where relevant) have their own public and product liability
insurance. One way to acquire these is to become a member of the National
Market Traders Federation . Membership for sole traders currently costs
£88 per year and this includes excess-free public, product and
employer liability insurance for any number of markets, anywhere in
the EU (see www.nmtf.co.uk).
The
market organiser is entitled to ask to see a copy of your insurance
certificate and may have to refuse a stall if this cannot be produced.
Food
Producers
Any stall-holder producing or providing food for sale at the market
must, by law, register as a food business with their local authority
(that is, the authority responsible for the address where they produce/store
the food). There is not normally an approval process – you just
have to register. The market itself is registered with Wealden District
Council and is required, periodically, to provide them with a list of
food stalls attending the market. They will then check that all such
stalls are registered with their appropriate local authority.
Allocated
Pitches
To make it easier for customers to locate them, regular traders (those
who book for at least two Fridays per month) will whenever possible
be allocated the same pitch.
If (without prior warning) an allocated pitch is not taken up by 9.30
am on the day of the market it may be allocated to another trader by
the market organiser. If the original hirer then appears before 9.45
am, they will be provided with an alternative pitch (which may not be
of the same size or similar location as the original one). After 9.45
am the allocation of any vacant pitches is at the discretion of the
market organiser and there is no guarantee that, even with a prior booking,
there will still be one available.
Parking
There is free car parking at the Parish Centre for around 20 vehicles
though, depending on whether outside pitches are required, some of this
hard-standing area may be used for stalls. Preference for use of the
remaining parking spaces will be given to customers, so traders (who
are not selling directly out of their vehicles) are asked to move their
vehicles out of the car park after unloading. Free parking is available
in the adjacent roads. Please do not park in the Memorial Hall car park
opposite the church as their parking is required for the daily nursery
school.
Refreshments
St Luke’s Church provide café-style refreshments inside
the main hall for both customers and traders and it is the general intention
that they will be the only providers of sold refreshments at the market.
However, stalls selling food and/or drink products are encouraged to
provide ‘free tasters’ for customers to sample their produce.
Stallholders are entitled to one free drink per market from the café.
Any
Suggestions?
St Luke’s Community Market has been running since March 2009 and
has evolved in that time often due to suggestions and advice from its
stallholders. We welcome this input so, if you have an idea, a comment
or a suggestion that you think might improve the market, please have
a word with the market organiser:
Steve
Carpenter Tel: 01323 767020 / 762254. E-mail:
market@stone-cross.info
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