St Thomas Winter Market

✨ Thank you! ✨ Our crowdfunder is now closed and we're delighted to have raised £1090 to help towards this winter's festival. We're very grateful to all of you who donated or shared and helped spread the word.
Watch this space about the prizes! 🎁

✨ Last day to donate to the crowdfunder ✨
Our final prize to highlight is a dragon boat taster session for a boat full of people with .calibre.dragon.boat.club !! What an awesome prize!

Please help make this year's market the best yet! Just a £5 donation would mean so much to us 🙌🏼
🔗Link in bio

We've reached £1000 - amazing! Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far. One day to go, please give if you can!

One of our prizes is a voucher from - donate to be in with a chance of winning!

🔗 https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/st-thomas-winter-festival

✨ Just 3 days left for our Crowdfunder ✨

Please enter to help us afford to run our community festival. https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/st-thomas-winter-festival/

Wool on the Exe have donated a hand knitted hat and scarf as a prize. This shop does lots of courses help available for your first knitting or crochet project.

St Thomas Winter Festival We're running this prize draw to raise money for the St Thomas Winter Festival 2024. The best community event in St Thomas!

✨Win a pottery painting session for you and a friend! ✨

The Jolly Pottery have kindly donated a 'paint a mug' session for you and a friend to our crowdfunder prize list.

Just a few days left to donate to our crowdfunder - can you help us get over £1000? It would be amazing if you could! It'll be mean we can help fund the festival's wonderful lighting, or help contribute to some fabulous entertainment acts.

If you've been to the market before and loved it, please consider donating - just £5 will help! https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/st-thomas-winter-festival/

✨Win a pottery painting session for you and a friend! ✨

have kindly donated a 'paint a mug' session for you and a friend to our crowdfunder prize list.

Just a few days left to donate to our crowdfunder - can you help us get over £1000? It would be amazing if you could! It'll be mean we can help fund the festival's wonderful lighting, or help contribute to some fabulous entertainment acts.

If you've been to the market before and loved it, please consider donating - just £5 will help!

🔗link to crowdfunder in bio

✨ St Thomas is fantastic and this community event is for you.

If you live in or near pop the 16th November in your diary and join us.

This free entry event does cost thousands to run. If you would like to help make sure this event can go ahead please enter our prize draw.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/st-thomas-winter-festival

✨Another great prize in our crowdfunder raffle - four free exercise classes and merchandise!

Classes range from Pilates or yoga, to Vibe Cycle, Vibe Power, bootcamp and much more. Good Vibes is a friendly and welcoming, independently owned gym based in Marsh Barton. 'No egos, no beastings, no negative body image, no staring, just a friendly, happy studio and gym that encourages you to find the exercise you love', says Good Vibes owner Katie Thomas, who also runs Motortone on Cowick Street.

Donate to our crowdfunder to be in the chance of winning one of our great prizes! Check out the link in bio to see what you could win.

☕🥐Win coffee and pastries! 🥐☕

When you support our crowdfunder you'll be entered into a draw to win our fab prizes. Just £5 will get you an entry to win loads of prizes worth so much more!

☕🥐Our friends at Lilac Bakery have donated coffee and pastries for four people. What a lovely prize to win - to get the chance to treat yourself and three friends 💜 And your donation will help us run a fab festival with loads of great entertainment for you to enjoy!

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/st-thomas-winter-festival/

✨Will you donate? Every small amount makes a difference to our crowdfunder.

✨If you've come before and enjoyed it, why not put in a fiver as a thank you.
✨If you've brought your whole family and danced away at the kids silent disco, gone wild with the art activities and spend hours chasing bubbles under the twinkling lights, please consider popping on to the crowdfunder and donating what you can afford.

We've got some great prizes for those of you who donate - thank you to the businesses who are supporting us.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/st-thomas-winter-festival

✨ In support of the crowdfunder our friends at Topsham Brewery & Taproom have kindly donated a 'growler' (a 2 litre container) to fill with your choice of beer! Perfect for a summer BBQ!

When you donate in the crowdfunder, for every £5 donation you will be entered into the prize draw. (£20 for 5 entries, £70 for 20 entries)

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/st-thomas-winter-festival

For those of you who have been, you'll know our event is a welcoming place for all the community.✨We want to keep being able to run the market (festival) as an annual event, so we are considering how we can help fund it. Please could you take two minutes to tell us what you think in this survey? https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfQh_xKssedyyG6HXN8cdI1q-3-kSkdYsfLBWPareCCJZg8zw/viewform

Do you want to trade at this year's market as part of our winter festival (16 Nov)? We'd love to have you! It's not too late to apply - we still have a few places up for grabs.

We'd love to have some new traders this year too. Tag a maker you think should come to St Thomas Winter Festival 2024!

Link to apply is on the bio

Do you want to trade at this year's market as part of our winter festival (16 Nov)? We'd love to have you! It's not too late to apply - we still have a few places up for grabs.

We'd love to have some new traders this year too. Tag a maker you think should come to St Thomas Winter Festival 2024!
Apply here
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsnyyn-chSvBzoI1IUDwWFBmVv1lQ4U9GnYfi_ve2F8iSfbg/viewform

⭐⚠️Trader applications open! ⚠️⭐

If you'd like to be considered as a trader at this year's market as part of the winter festival, applications are now open!

We're looking for the best local artists, makers and foodie traders to be part of something special. There are opportunities for smaller pitches for emerging (or just smaller) traders, and full sized pitches too. Everyone is welcome to apply - come and join us!

Over the past three years we have been very lucky to have had applications from some wonderful traders and have been oversubscribed every year, so please tell us why we should choose you!

Link to application and trader info here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsnyyn-chSvBzoI1IUDwWFBmVv1lQ4U9GnYfi_ve2F8iSfbg/viewform?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaY0vts1c5hwsAqTfSDUGf0vuDxFH414f4GmXq3i0zTeF-_6mf-10IUWXJY_aem_AVsp5PDrqlTByDsOjTVHVrHacLEwb70ZubnBWzGR3mOOTmSmA1pJaBzL9sndH5-p3vCi4yDuzXiMTI_ayxA-bHZB

We can't wait to hear from you.

Look at these fab designs!

Another hugely successful Winter Market on Saturday, the rain stayed away, thousands of you turned up to support all our amazing traders and to enjoy everything that was on offer. From fantastic music to spellbinding storytelling, joyful entertainment and creative workshops galore. There was so much to see and do.

I’d like to thank everyone involved in making this such a wonderful community event. All the hard work behind the scenes and thankyou. Massive thank you to everyone at the church for their continued support in hosting this fantastic event. We raised just over £500 to help them with funding ongoing repairs. And a MASSIVE thanks to my wonderful friends and family for helping on the day and to the wonderful group of women who volunteered their time on Saturday to come and help. You did an amazing job, we are forever grateful.

Calling all traders!

You’ve all been very patient but we are pleased to announce that applications for this years Winter Market are now open!

We’re looking for all you wonderful food, drink and of course craft traders! Everyone is welcome to apply for this wonderful event in St Thomas.

Link for info below - please don’t forget to read the all important trader info!

We will leave the applications open for a couple of weeks so be sure to enter within that time. No matter if you're a seasoned market pro or just dipping your toe, we look forward to welcoming you all and offer lots of help and advice to anyone needing it.

https://linktr.ee/stwintermarket

Woooo hoooo! We’re very happy to announce that the St Thomas Winter Market is back!

Saturday 18th November 2023.

Get the date in your diary and rest assured we’ll be beavering away behind the scenes to bring you more fabulous market stalls, brilliant family entertainment, fun workshops and of course plenty of community spirit! It’s a cracker of an event in the lead up to Christmas. Just what you need to get the festive juices flowing! So get the date in the calendar and then you can forget all about it because let’s face it, it’s April and no one really wants to be thinking about Christmas quite yet 🤪

We’ll be opening trader applications in a couple of weeks time.

For the attention of those who entered the library 'guess where the spider is' competition!

Winner of the Spot the Spider competition is.... Kira P (no.14)!! If you would like to come to the library when you can, you can collect your chocolatey prize! Thanks to all those who entered our competition at .thomas.winter.market