Shrivenham Farmers Market

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year

suzzi — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:42:43 +0000

On behalf of the stallholders I would like to thank all our customers for their support during 2007, and we look forward to seeing you again in the New Year. We hope you all have an enjoyable time with family and friends over the holiday season.Shrivenham Farmers’ Market will return on FRIDAY 18th JANUARY, after discussion with producers, it was felt that we would not have sufficient produce to offer you on the 4th, so we will return to our usual routine of 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month from February.

We look forward to seeing you in 2008.

Kind regards

Suzanne Crafer, Market Manager

Cancelled Market - 20th July 2007

suzzi — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:10:10 +0000

I would like to apologise for the fact that we had to cancel today’s market - unfortunately our producers were either stranded by flooding or in some cases mopping up because of flooding and couldn’t get to the market. I had to take the decision to call off the market at very short notice. We will be back as usual in two weeks time, and let’s hope that the weather is with us. Please call me with any queries you have on 0800 980 4896.

Thank you for your continued support.

Suzanne, Market Manager

Ed Nose Day!

suzzi — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:22:38 +0000

Stallholders of Shrivenham Farmers’ Market and our local MP joining in the spirit of Red Nose Day - and raising a little cash at the same time!

Red Nose Day

suzzi — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:45:29 +0000

Ed Vaizey wears a Red Nose!

Wantage and Didcot MP Ed Vaizey will be holding his surgery at Shrivenham Memorial Hall at the market on Friday 16^th March from 5.30 - 7pm. As part of Comic Relief Ed Vaizey has agreed to wear a red nose during his meeting with constituents for a donation to the fund raising event.

Market Manager Suzanne Crafer said “It is a great opportunity for our MP and locals to see the twice monthly market and we hope more will become regulars. Ed Vaizey is supportive of local produce for local people. At the same time, it is great that we can have some fun and help contribute to the wonderful work done by Comic Relief”

Happy New Year!

suzzi — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:47:20 +0000

The Shrivenham Farmers’ Market team would like to wish all our customers a very happy and healthy New Year and we look forward to seeing you at the market during 2007.

Our first market of the New Year takes place this coming Friday the 5th January.

Some of our stallholders will be taking a break until February this year, namely Bow-in-the-Cloud Vineyard and Cape Cuisine (cakes) and Ceri’s Cheese will now attend on the first Friday of the month only.

Birthday Success!

webmaster — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:16:17 +0000

Our Birthday market held on November 3rd was an absolute success! Distinctly more busy than usual it was a vibrant and enjoyable evening.

Great thanks go to Candida Lycett Green (and her daughter and grand-daughter) for attending and signing copies of her books, to the Stallholders and to our customers for sticking with us and making our first year such a resounding success!

For those interested, a number of photos of the day can be seen in the gallery.

It’s our 1st Birthday!

webmaster — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:57:25 +0000

That’s right, it’s hard to believe but we are one year old and to celebrate this milestone we are having a very special market this Friday 3rd November.

John Betjeman’s daughter, Candida Lycett Green, will be signing copies of her books and for those who haven’t yet had the pleasure, a few of them include…

“Over the Hills and Far Away”
“The Dangerous Edge of Things”
“Best Loved Poems”
“Collected Poems”
“Trains & Buttered Toast”
“Betjeman’s Letters”

We were expecting Bill Heine to join us from BBC Radio Oxford with an outside broadcast of his programme. Sadly Bill has gone down with a nasty bug and has asked me to apologise to all of you for having to cancel his visit and sends his wishes for a successful celebration. Bill is a great supporter of farmers’ markets and I am sure you will join me in wishing him in turn a speedy recovery. We hope to be able to invite him to join us in the New Year.

We will be cutting the birthday cake at 4.00 pm so do come and join us!

Our new website is LIVE!

webmaster — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:51:57 +0000

This has to be possibly the quickest turnaround for a new website since the internet was created (around 4 days). We thought it might be nice to have something new and a little more fresh in celebration of the markets 1st birthday coming up this Friday, and with a little help from the Word Press blogging platform and a little backward engineering I think we’ve come out with something quite good

So what do you think? We would love to hear any comments that you may have (so long as they’re nice ) so do feel free to use the comment link at the bottom of this post to leave a quick note, or if you have a private message then you can send it to us from the contacts page in the sidebar to your left.

And lastly, if you run a local business in and around the Shrivenham area and would like to get in on a little of the internet bandwagon then we are always looking for ways to spread the market message and would be happy to display a mutual link to your website.

I hope you all enjoy the new website, and look forward to seeing you at one (and hopefully more) of our future markets. Please see the links on your left for market days and our location.

Best wishes,
Shrivenham Farmers Market