Farmers' and Craft Market

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Our monthly Farmers’ and Craft Market offers the best in fresh, local, homemade and handmade produce from a variety of traders. The Market is held on the second Saturday of the month from 9 am to 2 pm, February to December.

Come along for a visit to our Market, explore the historic town centre with its independent shops and Marshall’s Yard retail destination within easy walking distance.

Here are some of our regular traders.

Remember our Traditional Retail Markets run on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

New traders

If you’re interested in trading on the Farmer’s Market please complete the online application form.

We welcome applications from local charities and community groups to have a free of charge stall on our Tuesday or Saturday market (conditions apply).

Please complete our charity market application form online to apply.

Specialist markets

We welcome interest from organisations and private operators to run specialist markets on a sub-let basis. We require a minimum of 8 stalls for a specialist sub-let market. Specialist market organisers bringing between 8 and 25 stalls will be offered a fee of £10 per stall. Specialist market organisers bringing more than 25 stalls to Gainsborough market on either a Tuesday or Saturday will be offered a fee of £7.50 per stall or pitch. Please get in touch with the Market Officer via email market.officer@west-lindsey.gov.uk to discuss. 

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Fees for traders

Farmers' and Craft Market fees for traders

All prices are per stall (3 meters by 2 meters) or pitch (3 meters by 3 meters)

Saturday Market

Registered Trader

Saturday Market stall fees for registered traders
Number of stalls Total fees
1 stall £10.00
2 stalls £20.00
3 stalls £25.00
4 stalls £30.00
5 stalls £35.00

Casual trader

Saturday Market stall fees for casual traders
Number of stalls Total fees
1 stall £16.50
2 stalls £33.00
3 stalls £49.50
4 stalls £66.00
5 stalls £82.50

Other units (Vending vans, trailers and similar)

For Saturday markets we charge registered traders £15.00 per other unit, and casual traders £20.00.

Incentives to traders

Young Market Traders (Traders from 16 years old to 25 years old) will get a 50% discount when trading for 12 continuous weeks.

New traders will get a 50% discount when trading for 12 continuous weeks.

Specialist market organisers bringing between 8 and 25 stalls will be offered a fee of £10 per stall. 

Specialist market organisers bringing more than 25 stalls to Gainsborough market on either a Tuesday or Saturday will be offered a fee of £7.50 per stall or pitch.