What sells well at village fetes?

tpsjrm

The_Good_Fairy wrote: »

Lovely with the button tin, I'm already planning to pass mine down to any granddaughters and I'm only 32 lol

Unfortunately I've only got one granddaughter, and she's a butch punk who would rather poke her own eyes out than do any sort of craft work! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

There's still hope for the grandson though. lol

furrypig

earthmother wrote: »

Our local Building Society pays our school something in the region of £30 to display their banner on the front fence the week before a fair or fete - it basically says 'fete here next xxx' with the BS logo plastered across it.

I've also seen mentioned on other threads where a local Estate Agent has got involved by putting up their 'for sale' boards at various (parents) properties, but instead of 'for sale' it will say 'fete at xxx on xxx' - they also pay per board. We've not tried this one yet, but I am going to mention it at the next PTA meeting.

Just to say we used the for sale signs and we did 50 people (me included) and got paid about £700!! EAsy money and great for the school!

Sallys_Savings

If anyone is looking for bottle caps and dont have access to any used ones they are selling them in wilkinsons for 79p for 50.

tpsjrm

Sallys_Savings wrote: »

If anyone is looking for bottle caps and dont have access to any used ones they are selling them in wilkinsons for 79p for 50.

Thanks for that. This would probably be better for me as I tried taking a bottle top off carefully yesterday and it still ended up bent. Doubt if anybody would want a bent badge!

Sarahsaver

mollymunchkin wrote: »

How about making some fabric shopping bags? You could use cheap calico or lining material to keep costs down. Instructions here: http://www.morsbags.com/

Dont use the morsbags labels if you are selling them :eek: the point of them is to make reusable shopping bags FREE and distribuut them to people free of charge!

mollymunchkin

Sarahsaver wrote: »

Dont use the morsbags labels if you are selling them :eek: the point of them is to make reusable shopping bags FREE and distribuut them to people free of charge!

Oh sorry I didn't realise that Thanks for letting me know.

Sarahsaver

They promote themselves as a guerilla organisation organising mass handouts of free homemade shopping bags at major supermarkets

getting back to the village fete, are people still allowed to sell jam these days???

My Oh's brass band were going to have a sort of summer festival but cos of some health and safety/insurance thing they may not be able to go ahead

stormbreaker

The_Good_Fairy wrote: »

I'll probably forget lol so I stole some pics to give you an idea of what I mean...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22402881@N02/2213397592/

If you go through to the next pics there are 4 different ones there

Aw these have been deleted any chance of re posting them pleaee?

tpsjrm

Hi All,
Well, it's a couple of years since I last posted here - where has the time gone - and we have run two successful village fetes, with another one coming up next month.
Back to my original question on home-made stuff that sells well, I can safely say that the best sellers for us are cakes and jam. Boring, middle-England here, obviously! We made some bottle-top badges, which sold so-so with the youngsters but cards didn't sell at all. Haven't tried things like pinafores, fabric bags etc., so don't know if they would have sold.

Overall, our best money-spinner has been the local Garden Club's plant stall. The new Allotment group joined them last year and sold vegetable plants as well. And nearly everybody visits the Book stall to have a browse and buy one or two.

So, once again, thanks everyone for your original thoughts.

We have our fingers crossed for good weather on 20th June 2010!