Our Policy on Stalls

    

 

  
 
Does The Feast have a spare pitch for our stall?
    This is a question The Shelford Feast Committee are often asked by people who attend craft fairs selling their own goods or doing face painting, for example.
Our policy   Our policy is that we do not have commercial stalls at the Feast, because we raise money for the whole community.
This is based on the organising committee’s decision that stalls must be run for no personal gain and all profits from any stall or event go into the common pool which is later disbursed to local organisations at the committee’s discretion.
Exceptions  

The committee has agreed and made rare and specific exceptions for:

  • ice cream sales, where it has neither the manpower nor equipment to provide ice creams;
  • specific children's fairground rides, which the committee selects quite specifically to cater for young children

In both cases the owners agree to pay a proportion of their income into the Feast fund and even here we reserve the right to sell, for example, ice cream in tubs from our own freezers, and hire bouncy castles where we can arrange insurance and supervision. Beyond these two items nothing has nor will be considered.
Our reasons   By adopting and adhering to such a policy the committee believes that it helps to retain the community atmosphere of the Feast and readily allows the enjoyment for a Playgroup or Brownie pack to organise a bran tub or a pin the tail on the donkey game irrespective of whether it makes a profit or not.
   

Participation and involvement by local people is as important to the committee as making money for distribution to the village organisations and charities.

The committee believe that the people of Shelford agree with and support this philosophy wholeheartedly.