THE FEE & WHAT YOU GET
This year the cost of a table per day is £70.00 - so that's £70 for one day, £140 for two days, etc. NB - we will only be asking for payment from successful applicants, and much nearer the time, to secure your place. This rise is due to all the rising costs assocaited with everything in life at the moment.
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 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.
Elmslie House is a historic and unique venue, therefore we have some unique stall locations like our bar area and our beautiful hallways. If you have not been inside the venue before, please make yourself familiar by looking at our Instgram and website for photos from past fairs.
Your £70.00 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.
We look forward to receiving your applications!