Bedford Flea, Affordable Art & Local Produce Market

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Welcome! Thank you for your interest in Bedford Flea, Affordable Art & Local Produce Market 2024.

We pride ourselves on supporting and promoting local businesses with a focus on quality. Each event is carefully curated to ensure an exciting and balanced mix of vintage/flea sellers, local artists and local food and drink producers.

Even though our applications are always open, we do book our whole calendar of markets at the start of the year. So please tick all of the dates you think you'd like to attend now.

2024 PRICING:

FLEA

£50 for a single stall

Covered, charter market with blue canopies 3m x 3m

No tables are provided.

AFFORDABLE ART:

£40 for a pitch

Covered, approx 2m x 3m using our a-boards as main display

LOCAL PRODUCE:

£35 with your own gazebo, 3m x 3m

No tables are provided.

Your gazebo must be heavyweight, pop-up and not self-assembly - preferably with a hex frame - suitable for high winds and rain. You must use weights.

**If you sell alcohol, you will need to provide your own TEN licence**

CATEGORIES TO APPLY FOR:

Please read through these carefully before applying to ensure your products/business fits in to one of our areas:

FLEA: Quality, second-hand goods: vintage, antiques, retro, kitsch, collectibles, old books, second-hand vinyl, architectural salvage, oddities, curiosities and rarities, preloved vintage clothing (not fast fashion). Well loved items that have been repurposed/ given a new lease of life may be considered.

AFFORDABLE ART: 2D art mediums including painting, drawing, photography, illustration, print making, textiles and anything that can be displayed flat on an a-board/browser.

NB: we cannot accept jewellery, ceramics, knitting etc at this time. This is not just due to our display boards, but also because we work closely with other crafter and makers market organisers in the town and we are keen to differentiate ourselves ensuring all the markets have their own unique offering.

LOCAL PRODUCE: Locally grown, or locally handmade/produced food and drink items. (within 30 miles of the Square) Skincare and dining related items will be accepted such as candles, food boards, hand creams and soaps, wax wraps etc.

HOT FOOD: Meals prepared to consume in situ on the market. e.g. sourdough pizzas, curries, pancakes etc.

TO TRADE YOU WILL NEED:

> Public Liability Insurance

If this is new to you, then there are plenty of affordable options and if you're successful, we can help point you in the right direction. For the art section, this starts from as little as £2.50/month with someone like axisweb or a-n. Food, drink and Flea options are available for around £70 for the year.

> Local Produce and Hot Food only:

If applicable to your business, you will have to provide all the up to date paperwork to comply with council and food trading standards e.g. basic hygiene certification, gas safety, PAT tested equipment

WHEN WILL I FIND OUT IF I'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL?

All applicants will be contacted directly via the email provided. Please do be patient, as we receive an incredibly high volume of applications. If you are not successful this time around, please don't be disheartened. As much as we would love to, there is just not the space for everyone. We always recommend other options/other local markets that you might also like to apply to so you can keep going with your small business journey.

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS:

If you're successful, we will send through booking forms that will need completing and signing ASAP.

You will then be an official stallholder on our books, woohoo! You also get access to the Flea Family Community facebook page which is an awesome resource for small, grass-roots businesses like yourselves. You can ask all sorts of questions or post about your new products, or get feedback on your current ones.

Sound good? Then get ready to apply!

Any questions about the application process, do drop us an email over at bedfordflea@gmail.com or message us on social media.

We're super excited to get this show on the road and are very much looking forward to growing this together with you. Let’s showcase the best of Bedford and beyond!

Good luck, and, whether you're successful or not this time around, do come along to the markets and enjoy the atmosphere on our busy, bustling market square.

Laura

Team Flea

Email *

First we need to know the basics! Business or trading name: *

Where are you based? *

(place plus part of postcode please) e.g. Bedford, MK41

Full name: *

Contact number: *

Which part of the market would you like to apply to? *

FLEA: quality second-hand goods

AFFORDABLE ART: 2D (2 dimensional) artwork e.g. painting, prints, illustrations, drawings, photography, textile art etc..

LOCAL PRODUCE: locally grown or handmade food & drink items, skincare, candles or food related homeware

HOT PRODUCE: hot meals prepared in situ to eat such as on a food trailer etc

Can you briefly explain what types of work/produce/products or services you plan to sell if this application is successful and WHY? We'd love to know more about what you create/grow/sell and make. *

e.g. I'm a local food producer and I make raw chocolates using local ingredients and flavours where possible with unique flavour combinations. I am growing my business and would love to start selling wholesale and finding more people to sell to. I would like to sell bars, chocolate boxes and individual chocolates that people can mix and match by weight.

Do you already take part in any other markets around Bedfordshire and surrounding counties, or, do you have any booked in for 2024? *

If yes, please answer here and let us know which ones

Please provide a link to your website or, preferred social site that we can direct visitors to from our own website:

NB if you don't have an online presence, please email us with some images of the products that you'd like to sell to bedfordflea@gmail.com for us to consider your application. If we do not receive these, we cannot process your application.

Full Instagram address please (if you have one)

e.g. https://www.instagram.com/bedfordflea

Full facebook address please (if you have one):

e.g. https://www.facebook.com/bedfordflea

What is your price range? *

e.g. cards starting at £3, small originals at £40 through to paintings up to £300

Which markets do you want to/can you attend this year? *

12 May

9 June

14 July

11 August

8 September

13 October

10 November

Required

And we're there! Thank you so much for applying. Just hit 'Submit' to complete your application (it arrives to us to us immediately).

You will receive a copy of your answers to the email you have provided.

We have a very high volume of applications so we wanted to let you know that as well as having a few market regulars, we aim to have new faces each month to keep the market exciting. We prefer not to duplicate produce on the market, so popular categories like affordable art, cakes, candles etc we may have to rotate in order to showcase as many quality local businesses as possible. Please do appreciate that we are not a huge market and space is limited, so we do our best to be fair, whilst curating a lively and engaging market for visitors full of small, local businesses.

Don’t forget to email us on bedfordflea@gmail.com with any questions. Best of luck!

Laura x

Team Flea

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