Events
Coming up in 2013!!!
The Grassmarket Festival Fair: 22 - 26 July, 31 July - 2 August, 4 - 9 & 25 - 30 August
Grassmarket, Edinburgh
The Grassmarket Festival Fair, an exciting, hugely busy, vibrant and positive event providing visitors and locals with a wide range of high quality Scottish and globally made crafts, fashion, accessories, home wares, jewellery, arts, foods and drinks as well live acoustic music and light comedy, so creating a feel good chilled out atmosphere on Grassmarket that will be filled with thousands of festival revellers as well steeped in history every day!
A FREE public entry market/event that will house maximum 14 exhibitors selling, making and showcasing high quality crafted products in a vibrant atmosphere and high footfall location. The market will consist colourful 3 meter x 3 meter gazebos supplied by Hand Up Media.
Fair Trade on the Fringe: 10 - 18 August
Castle Street/Princes Street, Edinburgh
This high profile event in it's fifth year, provides a unique platform for Fair Trade and ethically & locally sourced gifts on Princess Street in the very heart of Edinburgh during The Edinburgh International Arts Festival.
This vibrant event brings together the best of Fair Trade and ethically sourced gifts,food and drinks, crafts, fashion, jewellery as well as street performers and live music. Housed in a marquee with performers to the front and rear, this high profile and platformed event attracts thousands of shoppers each and every year.
The Real Scottish Christmas Fair: 30 November - 5 December
Castle Street/Princes Street, Edinburgh
The Real Scottish Christmas Fair is a huge event during the lead up to Christmas on one of the UK's busiest shopping streets. Housed in a marquee on Princes Street/Castle Street, this event is ideal for experienced exhibitors looking to sell and promote Scottish crafts, jewellery, fashion, arts, foods and drinks under one warm environment, shoppers in their droves will be seeking that special gift for Christmas. In 2012 this event had in excess 25,000 shoppers and a wonderful atmosphere created by our wonderful exhibitors.
The Ethical Christmas Fair: 7 - 15 December
Castle Street/Princes Street, Edinburgh
In its 6th year, The Ethical Christmas Fair is well established as the place to be this Christmas for fair trade, ethical, environmental businesses. Last year this event had more than 35,000 shoppers and exhibitors from across the globe returning each year to trade to sell and promote their beautiful products. Jewellery, crafts, homewares, foods and drinks, scarves and hats, music and much much more....
What a few of our exhibitors have said following our 2012 Christmas events
I'm happy to be part of your events- always so well organised and such a nice bunch of folks. Louise, Eclectic Shock
Thanks so much for everything Tania. The fair was lovely and so well organised". Jac, The New Earth Works
Hi Tania - thanks so much for organising another super event! It all went so well and the girls had a great time. Alison, Earth Squared
Thank you for organising a good event, its lovely to be involved again and hang out with such great people! I’m hoping to have forged a few new business relationships too, I’ll keep you posted there.:) Jean, Cherrididi
We wanted to thank you for a wonderful few weeks in Edinburgh this year. Your positive energy makes such a difference and we thoroughly enjoy your well organised events. Philippa, Firesticks
Our thanks are due to you – as I have said before; THE nicest event organisers ever. Eli, Ladywell Designs
If your business/organisation is interested in exhibiting at any of the above events, please get in touch. If you are interested in areas of our work, perhaps interested in volunteering then please also be in touch as our events are exciting, high profile and rewarding.
We also assist organisations with events, including the Edinburgh World Justice Festival in 2007, The West End Fair summer 2008 & assisting T in the Park with "Healthy T", an area supported by the Scottish Government that promotes healthy living in positive and inspiring ways through food, dance, therapies.
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