Craft Festival Catch Up
Written: 19 August 2019
Recovering after Bovey Tracey
It's not exactly news, proclaiming that it takes the team a little while to process and recover from Craft Festival Bovey Tracey. It's by far our largest event, hosted in the small town of Bovey Tracey on the edge of Dartmoor. It's gained a powerful and fiercely loyal following and we're immensely proud of it. The applications open in mid September so look out for an email reminder or sign up to be reminded. We don't mind doing most of the work for you.
Nourish Festival
There are heaps of things coming up...on August 31st was are hosting Nourish Festival. In 2014, we started Nourish Festival with The Cheeseshed and Erica Steer, the then director of the Devon Guild. We wanted to create a free event located on Fore Street in Bovey Tracey. We founded Nourish which celebrates the best in food, craft and music and it’s been a great success bringing over 2000 visitors to Bovey Tracey in one day. This year’s date is August 31st. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS
Craft Festival Cheltenham
Time is running out! The deadline to be part of this special event in Cheltenham is 6pm on Friday September 6th. This event always sells out, with a HUGE waiting list so CLICK HERE TO APPLY. If you want a StartUP stand CLICK HERE
Preparing to Sell
We have been hositing Preparing to Sell days for 15 years and this Autumn, we're in a new city, Bath.
Are you a Maker who Wants to sell more? Wants to rock Instagram? How to sell online? Learn to write a press release and approach the press? Want tips on how to sell directly to the public?
Join us at Preparing to Sell on Tuesday October 8th at Bath Spa University's brand new Roof Top Pavilion. We will be joined by Craft Festival Director, Sarah James, madebyhandonline.com Director, Katie Honnor, Craft Festival Press Officer, Fran Moorhouse and Dr Kate Strasdin, Lecturer and Fashion Historian with over 108K followers on Instagram.
Preparing to Sell is a lively and stimulating day and offers advice from industry specialists to help you promote your business and sell more. Preparing to Sell is an ideal opportunity to network with makers, sharing experiences and make new connections. CLICK HERE TO BOOK PREPARING TO SELL
Craft Festival Cardiff November 1-3 at City Hall
This will be our 5th year at City Hall, Cardiff and you can meet over 130 of the UK's finest designers makers over two floors, in the heart of Wales' capital city. As well as meeting the makers, there are workshops for all ages, craft demonstrations and the great cafe. To Book your workshops and tickets CLICK HERE
Some more things that you might not know we do...
Our Community Fund
If we have any surplus from the Craft Festival in Bovey Tracey, some is invested back into the company and we also give money away to local charities. For many years we supported The Bovey Tracey Youth Café giving them, in excess of £8,000. Our director, Sarah James was also a Trustee for 5 years.
In 2019 we opened out the opportunity to charities, non-profits and local community groups in the TQ13 9 and Heathfield postcode area to be supported by us via our Community Fund.
2019 Craft Festival Award Recipients were:
Bovey Tracey Primary School Parents and Teachers Association.
Bovey Tracey Swimming Pool
Plastic Free Bovey
Bovey Futures
If you are a group, local to Bovey Tracey, applications will open again in January.
The Craft Festival Cup
In 2019, we gave our new Craft Festival Cup to craft enthusiast and Year 6 pupil Matilda Slee from Blackpool Prinary School, Liverton. Well done Matilda. Sarah James, Craft Festival Director presented our award at the Leavers Assembly in July, 2019. The cup we gave was made by wood turner, Adam Cornish who was a former pupil of Blackpool School.
