| Charlbury Market is a local food market held on Saturday mornings, with a small collection of stalls selling locally-grown and locally-prepared food. It supports local businesses; enabling people to buy a range of locally-produced good-quality food in one place; bringing more footfall to the town centre on a regular basis; creating a friendly, social and accessible event. |
Charlbury Market is BACK!!
We restart on Saturday 1st June.
Meet our stallholders:
Elliott Farm (the Sandy Hill Mob)
Come and meet one of our new businesses attending the market this year, Elliot Farm. they will be at the first one on 1st June and then the first Saturday of the month.
We are a small family farm, tenants of the National Trust on the Sherborne and Lodge Park estate in Gloucestershire. We are farming using nature friendly, natural, agro-ecological techniques which includes moving our animals regularly (mob-grazing). This helps us to increase biodiversity and improve soil health and the health of our livestock. As well as selling free range eggs which live in a mobile-hen house and move around our herbal leys, we produce and sell 100% grass-fed (Pasture For Life certified) beef and biltong and also honey from bees kept on our wildflower meadows. Visit WWW.SANDYHILLMOB.CO.UK to find out more!
Styan Family Produce
Styan Family Produce is an Evesham based market gardening business, we grow a wide variety of food crops on a small scale to supply our Farmers’ Market stalls. Our business started with plums and that is the only crop that we grow in sufficient quantities to consistently supply the wholesale market. We grow in excess of 20 varieties of plums and damsons and are always happy to explain the virtues of them all as we love people to understand that Victorias are not the only good plums!
The business is truly a family business now run by Roger and Liz, who started it in 1988, and James who is moving us forward all the time, but many other close family members help out and we are proud to regard our employees as part of the family too. We now farm about 35Ha of orchards and fields with 4 polytunnels and a greenhouse. Working through the seasons our main crops are asparagus in the spring, then the plums and stick beans moving onto apples and potatoes before a good dose of cabbage, purple sprouting broccoli and leeks to keep the stall full through the winter. We grow small quantities of many other things to keep the stalls as interesting as we can.
Indian Spice Company
The Indian Spice Company specialise in incredible single origin spices and recipe blends to take your Indian home cooking to the next level.
Camtali Pet Treats
Camtali’s is a dog bakery making delicious dog treats using natural and nutritious ingredients. We also handcraft rope toys and snuffle mats to keep your dogs happy and entertained too! As well as our own products, we offer a range of natural meat and fish dog treats, along with complete dog food, as well as a few treats for cats too!
Nutmeg & Thyme
Nutmeg & Thyme Plant Based Food are an entirely gluten free and vegan shop/cafe and catering business based in Burford.
Emily Weir returned from vegan kitchens in London during lockdown and quickly started delivering seasonal menu items around Oxfordshire which led to buying a catering trailer, still used daily to cook up all our goods for the shop and any markets and events we do!
We revolve all our dishes and menus around as much seasonal, local and homegrown produce as possible, alongside our Burford shop which is stocked full of talented local producers and makers, refill stations and freshly prepared dishes, salads, bakes and more.
Having pitched at Charlbury Community Centre for a few years with the trailer, it’s brilliant to be back trading with lots of brilliant local producers at Charlbury Market!
Evenlode Honey
Evenlode Honey are small-scale honey producers, based in Charlbury in the Cotswolds. We currently have about 50 hives and our bees forage nectar and pollen from local woodlands and hedgerows, meadows and fields. The resulting honey is thick and full-flavoured, sweet and tangy. It’s delicious raw on toast, in porridge, or to add depth and sweetness in baking and cooking.
Ben Cottam founded Evenlode Honey in 2023 following a move out of London to Charlbury and seeking an escape from the world of desks and screens, and a business based in the great outdoors. Fascinated by the natural world and with a passion for cooking and great ingredients, beekeeping became the natural path. For now we just sell raw honey, but in time we hope to expand the business, using not just honey, but the many other wonderful products that bees produce – watch this space!
Earth Ale
Earth Ale is an artisanal microbrewery specialising in foraged and natural ingredients, based at Bothy Vineyard. With roots in Michelin kitchens around the world, they’re passionate about quality ingredients and bringing people together with good food and beer.
They use ancient and modern fermentation techniques and focus on seasonal, limited batches, so they can give every brew the handcrafted care and attention it deserves. They’ve got beers like an elderflower champagne saison, where they create a natural champagne from the foraged elderflower, blend it with a spelt beer, pitch with champagne yeast and age for 12 months. They also have more classic styles like a Meadow Pilsner, American Amber and more.
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Exciting new opportunity :
Charlbury Community Market Co-ordinator
The Town Council is looking for a co-ordinator to support its vision for the market and to develop a vibrant, community-focused market.
The role is self-funded*: the successful co-ordinator will run a weekly stall at the market on behalf of small businesses unable to attend themselves and agree a percentage of the profits with each small business as commission. Experience to date shows that running such a stall is profitable. (* This is not an offer of employment by the Council)
Other responsibilities are listed below.
Charlbury Town Council invites expressions of interest for the following self-funded role:
Position: Charlbury Community Market Co-ordinator
Reports to: Town Clerk
Employment status: Self-funded
Summary
To co-ordinate and promote the Charlbury Community Market in line with the Town Council’s vision and objectives; enabling people to buy a range of locally produced good-quality food in one place; bringing more footfall to the town centre on a regular basis; creating a friendly, social and accessible event.
To run a regular stall on behalf of small local businesses.
Description of role
General:
Establish good relationships with local small food businesses
Book vendors onto the market
Maintain database to enable Community Centre to collect stall fees owed
Co-ordinate volunteers
Keep up to date polices (in conjunction with Town Clerk)
Act as liaison between businesses and the Town Council
Maintain database of vendors, their contact information, and insurance details or permits based on the products they are selling
Draw up location map of vendors each week
Arrange with small businesses to sell their produce if required
Negotiate commission percentage with each small business when selling their produce on the general stall
Generate regular social media content to advertise the market
Market days:
Arrive prior to market vendors and remain throughout the market day to:
Ensure vendors stalls are correctly located
Place market signs, parking signs
Ensure all rules and regulations are adhered to
Answer questions for vendors and consumers
Maintain market grounds in a safe manner
Operate general stall on behalf of small businesses
Conduct periodic customer counts each market day to assess the level of growth in market usage
Ensure the market site is clean once the market is closed and the vendors have left for the day
Work with volunteers to deliver all the above
Long-term plan:
Have nutritional education materials to distribute
Have recipes for seasonal, local foods that are available in the market
Solicit entertainment for market days, as well as sponsors for the entertainment
Work with the Town Clerk and Food working group volunteers to develop the market
Person Specification
Essential:
Good communication skills
Interest in local food production and consumption
Willing to work flexible hours including Saturdays
Willing to work within the Town Council vision of the market
Desirable:
Entrepreneurial
Have a good understanding of the Charlbury community
Expressions of interest to be sent to Lisa, Town Clerk at clerk@charlbury-tc.gov.uk. If you would like an informal chat about the role, phone Lisa on 07311 259412