THE FEE & WHAT YOU GET
The cost of a table per day is to £60.00 for 2026 - so that's £60 for one day, £120 for two days. NB - we will only be asking for payment from successful applicants, and much nearer the time, to secure your place.
Please be aware that we have been victim to several scam markets of late so please be aware that any posts on Facebook will ALWAYS come directly from either Blue Magpie or Elmslie House and never a third party - if in any doubt about an event's authenticity - please contact us!
Your fee goes to fund the advertising, marketing and promotion of the Fair, which, year on year gets more ambitious; we also now produce an A5 brochure that visitors take away with a floor plan and your details. We started offering advertising to exhibitors in our brochure for the first time in March 2023, and we will be continuing this for our 2026 fairs.
In exchange for the relatively low cost to you, we ask that everyone involved in the Fair also helps to promote the event on their own website, Facebook page, Instagram and any and all other social media platforms out there. We will provide a marketing toolkit to successful applicants to utilise closer to the fair.
Blue Magpie is a family-run event within a family home and business. We really do care about the footfall and we also want for everyone exhibiting to be finanically successful too, so we also mind about the levels of your sales. It's not simply business - it's personal for us too, and, as an exhibitor, you automatically become an extention of our team. The more people that get involved, the more footfall we can hopefully attract. This, we hope, will translate into sales and is, therefore, a win-win situation for everyone.
Your £60.00 also gets you:
A 6ft x 2ft trestle table with white floor-length cloth
A chair (or two)
An entry band to the fair for your chosen plus one/guest/partner, etc.
Vouchers, each day, for a slice of Elmslie House's famous cake and a tea/coffee.
Access to power sockets (if required)
Access to a Gallery hanging system (if required)
Maker profiles and product images on the Blue Magpie website - which features a permanent online directory for makers.
Regular Facebook & Instagram posts - both of all individual makers and also group posts - with your product images accessible to the Elmslie House (@elmsliehousemalvern) and Blue Magpie FB followers and Instagram followers too (@bluemagpiecraft)
Weekly emails to our extensive mailing lists which will feature each Maker in their discipline group (Metal, Textiles and so forth)
Regional and National advertising in local newspapers, journals and websites, and other publications (i.e The Simple Things). If anyone has any suggestions as to where else we can look to advertise, then any ideas would be gratefully received
We look forward to hearing from you all!