January 2015
Well it’s the start of brand new year I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year.
All of this year’s fairs are now on the website so you can book the fairs you want to attend
throughout the year.
Loyalty Scheme
Alan has decided to reward traders for their regular attendance at fairs with
artsandcraftfairs.org so a Loyalty Scheme will operate for 2015/2016.
For every 10 fairs a trader attends will entitle the trader to a free fair at any
artsandcraftfairs.org fair up to the 31st October. Traders will not be able to claim a free fair
between the 1st November and 31st December or for certain other fairs. However,
attending any of these fairs’ will count towards the traders 10 fairs.
When a trader has attended their 10th fair they will be sent by email a Voucher Code which
can be used to claim the free fair.
The following terms and conditions will apply to the Loyalty Scheme.
1) A trader will be entitled to a free fair for every 10 paid fairs they attend
2) After attending every paid 10th fair the trader will be issued a Voucher Code which
can be used at any fair between the 1st February and the 31st October.
3) The issuing of a Voucher Code may take up to 7 working days.
4) When the trader wants to claim their free fair they will enter a valid Voucher Code in
the appropriate field during the booking process.
Artsandcraftfairs.org will check that the trader has entered a valid voucher code.
 If the Voucher Code is valid the fair will be updated as paid in the traders
account.
 If the Voucher Code is not valid the trader will be informed of the reasons by
email.
5) Where a trader books different table types at fairs the Voucher Code that is issued
will be for the table type that the trader has booked the most of.
The following table gives some examples of the type of table a trader is entitled to
based on the table types previously booked by the trader.
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Single
Marquee
10
Number of Table Types Booked
Double
Single
Double
Marquee
Stall
Stall
0
0
0
Pitch
0
5
1
3
1
1
4
6
0
0
0
0
0
5
4
1
5
5
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
7
Free
Table
Type
Single
Marquee
Single
Marquee
Double
Marquee
Single
Stall
Double
Marquee
Pitch
6) Vouchers can be carried forward to the following year for fairs between 1 st February
and 31st October.
7) There are certain fairs throughout the year that the Voucher Code cannot be used
for. These include the Bakewell Spectacular, Melton Days. However attending
these fairs’ will count towards the 10 paid fairs.
8) Single day fairs will not count towards the 10 paid fairs.
9) A Voucher Code can be used on fairs that have already been booked and not paid
for.
10) It will not be possible to use a Voucher Code for a fair that has already been paid
for.
11) The organiser of artsandcraftfairs.org will have the final say whether the Voucher
Code can be used at a fair
The details of the loyalty scheme are available on the website.
New Speciality Market for Ilkeston
This article appeared on Erewash Borough Council’s
website about a speciality Tuesday market for Ilkeston:
‘A move to hold speciality Tuesday markets in Ilkeston
has been given the green light by Erewash Borough
Council.
Councilors at Thursday’s (22 January) Executive
meeting have agreed that the council can establish and
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operate the new market – with the first one possibly being Shrove Tuesday speciality stalls
on Tuesday 17 February.
The idea is part of the council’s on-going programme to help regenerate Ilkeston town
centre through a wide range of initiatives.
Funds already available will be used to stage the proposed Shrove Tuesday market and if
that proves successful in attracting traders and visitors to Ilkeston opportunities for further
markets would then be explored.
Councillor Geoffrey Smith, Erewash Borough Council’s Lead Member for Regeneration
and Planning says:
Specialty markets can be very popular and add to the attractiveness and vitality of a town
centre. We need to put the framework in place to enable us to look at occasional speciality
Tuesday market for Ilkeston as we continue our drive to help boost our town centres.’
West Bridgford Halloween Fair
The West Bridgford Halloween fair was a great success with
approximately 6500 people going through the marquees during
the two days of the fair.
The entertainment provided by Alan was excellent with the stilt
walkers and fire eaters provided by the company Code Red.
The winner of the Halloween pumpkin competition for the traders
was judged by Code Red who chose Zena West as the winner.
Derby at Christmas
It was the second year of the Christmas fair in
the Market Place, Derby ran from 3rd to the 21st
December and again the marquees were
positioned next to the Ice Rink.
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Derby Live provided entertainment on each of the three
Saturdays and included Santa’s Band (above) and stilt
walkers in fancy dress (right).
On the first Saturday there were also four real
penguins on display for the public, although there was
a demonstration by animal rights activists. This did not
affect the trade in the marquees.
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Fairs & Events
All the 2015 fairs that have been booked by Alan so far this year are being entered onto
the website allowing you to plan your year. Here is a list of fairs up to the end of May.
Venue
Derby City
Ilkeston
West Bridgford
Market Harborough
Arnold
Beeston Square
Bingham
Lichfield
Derby Market Place
Mapperley
West Bridgford
Bakewell
Derby City
Lichfield
Market Harborough
Long Eaton
Melton Mowbray
Beeston Square
Date
13th & 14th February
17th February
6th & 7th March
13th & 14th March
20th & 21st March
27th & 28th March
10th & 11th April
12th & 13th April
17th & 18th April
24th & 25th April
1st & 2nd May
3rd & 4th May
7th to 9th May
10th & 11th May
15th & 16th May
22nd & 23rd May
24th & 25th May
29th & 30th May
To book a table at any of the above fairs go to www.artsandcraftfairs.org and select the
Book an Event link.
If any stall holders have any news or ideas for the newsletter contact Alan by email at:
[email protected]
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Puzzle Page
Can you answer these trivia questions?
1. Who sang the theme tune to the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies?
2. Eugene the Jeep featured in which comic strip?
3. Kulfi is a type of which Indian food?
4. Who discovered penicillin?
5. What is the collective name for a group of beavers?
6. In which English county is the ancient monument Stonehenge?
7. Who is the Roman god of fire?
8. Which band released an album entitled Wish You Were Here?
9. What does an acrophobic fear?
10. What is the capital of Peru?
11. What does a lepidopterist collect?
12. What product was the first to appear in a UK TV commercial (in 1955)?
13. What flavour is the liqueur cassis?
14. What was Tom Jones' first UK number one single?
15. In which country was ex-England cricket captain Tony Greig born?
16. Who wrote the novel, Treasure Island?
17. What does OPEC stand for?
18. Nephritis is the inflammation of which part of the body?
19. In 1960 which country had the first ever woman prime minister?
20. What acid is associated with muscles in the body experiencing lack of oxygen?
Answers to October Newsletter
1) Boy George, 2) His tools, 3) High tea, 4) Ear, Nose & throat, 5) Eastenders, 6) Cloud, 7) Italy, 8) Dover, 9) Swords, 10) Ein, 11)
Nicklaus, 12) Glasgow, 13) Michael Barrymore, 14) Louis Armstrong, 15) Margaret, 16) Member of the European Parliament, 17)
Aardvark, 18) Greece, 19) Cheese, 20) Germany, 21) Crawford, 22) Teeth, 23) Kingdom, 24) Vines, 25) Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs, 26) Scotland, 27) Torvill & Dean, 28) Do They Know It’s Christmas, 29) L S, 30) Birds of a Feather
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