Events
If you're gadding about North Yorkshire and environs, you might just
come across a craft fair or other event at which we've got a stall. If
so,
do come and say hello - whether you want to stock up on bath melts or
just want to see who on earth exactly made your soap.
Each entry should tell you where we're going to be and when, along with
links to an online map service showing you where the venue is and how
you can get there (after all, we don't want you getting lost). Where possible,
we've tried to use Google's Street View service, so you know what the
venue looks like.
Where we know that an event has an entry fee, we've tried to give details
- but please don't assume that because we've not quoted a ticket price
that there's definitely no charge for entry.
Last updated: April 15th, 2010
2010
April 22 - 25, Thursday - Sunday
Harrogate Spring Flower Show
Harrogate Showground, North Yorkshire.
Event open 09.30 - 17.30 (Sunday: 09.30 - 16.30)
Tickets: £12 in advance, £14 on the day (Sunday entry is £2 cheaper)
We will have a stand inside the Made
in Yorkshire tent. The Spring flower show is more plant oriented
than the Autumn show, and apparently is the first national independent horticultural
show of the season! So, if you like your garden - either working with
the soil, or just sitting and admiring it with a G&T, you'll find
plenty to occupy you - but make sure you visit our stall to say hello.
Directions
Harrogate
Spring Flower Show Website
May 1 - 3, Saturday - Monday
Dales Festival of Food and Drink
Leyburn, North Yorkshire. Fair open 10.00 - 16.00
Tickets: Adults £7 (3-Day pass £10) Unaccompanited U16s £4
(free if with adults)
Free Parking
We love this show. It's great fun and now a major event in the Dales calendar.
Okay, it might not be as big and swanky as the BBC's Good Food show in
Birmingham,. but it's a grand showcase for the hugely talented food and
drink producers all across the Yorkshire Dales, including cheese, cakes,
beers and wine, pickles, meat, bread ... oh, and fabulous soap and beauty
products (we get in under the tag of locally made sundries). It's a fabulous
event: just make sure you bring plenty of bags and your appetite.
Directions
(it doesn't look much in Google Street View, but it's held in this field)
Dales Festival
of Food and Drink Website
May 28 - 30, Friday - Sunday
St. Sampson's Square, York
Late-Spring York Event, organised by Made
In Yorkshire
Marquee open 10.00 - 17.00
Spring is a great time to see York before the summer crowds descend. The
flowers are out and the weather's usually lovely. Loads to see and do,
especially for families, in addition to visiting the Made In Yorkshire
tent, which is right in the middle of the historic and commercial centre.
Use the Park and Rides and avoid the hassle of parking.
Directions
July 13 - 15, Tuesday - Thursday
Great Yorkshire Show, Harrogate Showground, North Yorkshire.
Fair open 07.30 - 17.00
2008 tickets, on the gate: £21 adults (£20 conc.) / £10
children
(Family tickets are available. Advance booking gives reduced prices)
We will have a stand inside the Made
in Yorkshire tent: if you can find it!
TIP: The Made in Yorkshire marquee is always on the main
throughfare and opposite the steps down to the Food Halls.
There, now you've got no excuse.
This will be our fourth time at the Great Yorkshire Show, and we never
really get over the sheer size of the event (or the length of the working
days!) If you're going to be visiting the show on any day, do please pay
us a visit - even if it's just to say hello.
Directions
Great Yorkshire
Show Website
August 4, Wednesday
Thornton le Dale, North Yorkshire.
Thornton le Dale Show, Made
in Yorkshire Tent
Fair open 09.00 - 20.00
Tickets: Adults £6, Under 16s £3, Under 5s Free
A fine little show in what is perhaps the prettiest village in the Yorkshire
Moors. There's always lots happening in Thornton le Dale so when they
want to put on a show they do it really well. Plus, with the beautiful
North Yorkshire Moors and Dalby Forest right on hand there's plenty of
gorgeous countryside all about.
Directions
Thornton le Dale
Website
August 27 - 30, Friday - Monday
St. Sampson's Square, York
Summer York Event, organised by Made
In Yorkshire
Marquee open 10.00 - 17.00
Summer holidays are here, it's a Bank Holiday weekend, and what to do with the kids? York has masses
going on. The big wheel might have gone, but the National Railway Museum
is still there (and it's free), plus the Dungeon, the Jorvik centre and
the walls. As usual, use the Park and Rides and avoid the hassle and expense
of parking.
Directions
September 17 - 19, Friday - Sunday
Harrogate Autumn Flower Show
Harrogate Showground, North Yorkshire.
Event open 09.30 - 17.30
Tickets will go on sale mid-June
We will have a stand inside the Made
in Yorkshire tent. The Autumn Flower show is a little less
horticultural than the Spring one, so is a chance to do your Christmas
shopping early (brownie points and a lot less stress in December). But
if gardening's your passion, don't worry, there's still masses and masses
to distract you from your main purpose which is, of course, to visit the
Oakwood Aromatics stand and say hello.
Directions
Harrogate Flower Shows Website
September 20, Monday
Bewerley Park, nr Pateley Bridge
The Nidderdale Show - fair open all day (see website)
£8 Adults, Children under 12 free, Car Park on Site £5
The Nidderdale Show, held at Bewerley Park, is one of the biggest events
of the year in this part of the Yorkshire Dales. We have a stand in the
Small Traders' Marquee, so do come and see us if you're visiting the show.
Lots of stuff to do for all the family and a great day out if the weather
is nice (which - as everywhere - wasn't the case last year). Bouncing
back from 2007's event that had no livestock, due to national Foot and
Mouth restrictions, 2008 and 2009's were thoroughly good shows despite the rain.
In fact, rain is fairly traditional for this show, so make sure you bring
wellies just in case.
Directions
The Nidderdale
Show Website
September 25 - 26, Saturday & Sunday
Masham, North Yorkshire.
Masham Sheep Fair, Town Hall
Fair open 10.00 - 16.30.
Just up the road from us and the most local show we do. When you get tired
of woolly sheep, you can always head over to the Black Sheep Brewery ...
or Theakston's - such a lovely place deserves two of the land's finest
breweries, doesn't it?
Directions
October 28 - 31, Thursday - Sunday
St. Sampson's Square, York
York Autumn Event, organised by Made
In Yorkshire
Marquee open 10.00 - 17.00
Use this opportunity to grab your Christmas shopping before the hoards
make it almost impossible to keep your sanity! Use the Park and Rides
and avoid the hassle of parking.
Directions
November 11 - 14, Thursday - Sunday (Four days)
Crafts For Christmas
Harrogate Showground, North Yorkshire.
Event open 09.00 - 17.00 (Sunday: 09:00 - 16:00)
Prices: £8 on the day / £7 in advance / Student
£3 / Children Free
2009 was our third time at this event and we still thought it was great
(although shattered after four days). It's the perfect place to do all
your Christmas shopping, because not only do you get hundreds of stands
in one place full of stuff you're unlikely to see on the High Street,
but you'll find great prices, you can park within a couple of hundred
yards, grab a bite to eat and leave in the smug knowledge that Christmas
shopping is over for 2009 bar the wrapping. Plus, each ticket gets you
two days entry, so you can come back if you missed something, mooch one
day and buy the next, or pass your spare ticket on to a friend while enthusing
about the lovely Oakwood Aromatics stuff you've bought. Look out for the
Made in Yorkshire
umbrellas, because that's where we'll be.
Directions
Crafts
for Christmas 2010 Website (PDF of flyer available)
November 25 - 28, Thursday - Sunday (Four days)
The Guild Hall, York
Part of York's St Nicholas Fair, organised by Made
In Yorkshire
Hall open 10.00 - 17.00
The Guild Hall's probably not the easiest place to find (use our
directions if you've never been there before) but it's a really
beautiful place - almost worth coming just for the building - and there'll
be a wide range of arts and crafts to tempt you, all made by the people
selling them: from bath products (of course) to lovely silk bags, pottery,
paintings, photography and clothing. The St Nicholas Fair is a well-publicised
city-wide festival so there's masses and masses of stuff to do and see
during this long weekend.
Hint: come on Thursday if you don't like crowds in the city!
And remember - this time we're in the Guild Hall (off Lendel, near the
large Betty's Tea Room and the Post Office), not on Sampson's
Square!
Directions
December 2 - 12, Thursday - Sunday (Eleven days!)
St Sampson's Square, York
Christmas Shopping in York, organised by Made
In Yorkshire
Marquee open 10.00 - 17.00
Back in St Sampson's Square after our brief sojourn in the Guild Hall
for St Nics, Christmas Shopping is in full swing by now.
Last year, weather was fine and we had eleven excellent days (with one
or two spots of rain), but two days after we packed up it started to snow
and didn't seem to stop until March! But for these eleven days the streets
around the marquee are full of food stands selling gorgeous things to
eat and drink, plus all the lights and decorations are up making York
look even more beautiful. The Park and Ride is an even better idea than
usual at this time of year. As always with a Made in Yorkshire marquee,
you'll find a wide range of arts and crafts, all made by the people selling
them.
Last year we made many friends at this show who discovered us in the
first few days and came back several more times to stock up for Christmas.
So do come along and say hello, otherwise we might be just standing around
in the cold all on our own.
Directions
At present, this is our last event of the year (although that might change),
so if you miss it just order online and save yourself the hassle of shopping
altogether: we'll be mailing right up to the last postal dates for Christmas.
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