- Here’s our flier about the September 30 market
Good News!
We have secured the following dates at the Tuggeranong Community Centre for our market:
- September 30
- October 28
- November 25
- Special Christmas Market December 16
Plus it is Family Fun Day at the Tuggeranong Community Festival Sunday November 25 so we expect this to be a big day for us.
Sunday September 30 is confirmed as the next market date.
Dates for October, November and our special Christmas Market in December to be confirmed and added to this site shortly
Please confirm your spot for the September market ASAP as sites are filling fast and we have limited space
The Community Centre is unavailable for us this month so unfortunately it looks like there won’t be a market in August but it will be back bigger and better Sunday September 30.
We did try alternative dates and locations around Tuggeranong but haven’t had any luck as yet. The Youth Centre near the Tuggeranong Bowling Centre & Southern Cross Club run by the same team as the Community Centre may be an option but we need to check out space and facilities.
We thank all our stall holders for their patience in setting up this new venture, as with all new ventures we have come across a few hiccups but hope to sort them out very quickly and have a regular market up and running by the end of September.
The very first indoor market was held in the Tuggeranong Community Centre on 29 July 2007.
Feedback from stall holders and buyers alike has been positive and many stall holders have booked for the next market day.
As always there were a few teething problems. The spaces for sellers had to be reduced in size in order to accommodate the overwhelming response.
The Samoan Church group graciously gave up the Main Hall for a smaller room and we are grateful that they did as we would not have been able to accommodate all the stall holders in a smaller room. As it was we were turning people away on the day who wanted to set up a stall.
Being stall holders ourselves, we know what it is like in Canberra where the winters are bitterly cold and the summers hot, dry and dusty. So an indoor market solves this problem and allows everyone to buy and sell in comfort.
We are a small group of sellers who were tired of sitting outside in the bitterly cold weather that Canberra metes out in the winter. So in March 2007 we held a small market that proved to be very successful and from there the idea to roll this concept out to other stall holders evolved.
We devised our operation over a few cups of coffee and the idea of an indoor market evolved. Paula wrote a press release and sent it to the Community paper. They ran the release and from there the phone didn’t stop ringing. Paula and I were in the US at a conference so it was up to Jennine to handle all the calls.
We sent out a number of flyers to colleagues and stall holders and had them strategically placed in shopping centres and we also painted signs that we placed on major traffic routes so they could be seen.
We received a desperate sounding email from Jennine saying that she had restricted the list to 38 sellers and was in the process of establishing a waiting list.
The local radio interviewed Jennine about the market on two occasions and the local paper ran a second press release that Paula had written. So thanks to the support of the local media we had an amazing turn out and an estimated 2000 people visited the market.
On 29 July 2007 the first Tuggeranong Indoor Market was held at the Tuggeranong Community Centre and due to its resounding success we have decided to start this blog to keep both stall holders and buyers updated on the latest events, locations and dates relating to the market.
We welcome your comments about the market.
