Our Policy on Stalls
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Does The Feast have a spare pitch for our stall?
- ice cream sales, where we find we do not have the manpower or equipment to provide ice creams ourselves;
- children's fairground rides, which attract and retain our younger customers.
This is a question we are often asked by people who attend craft fairs
selling their own goods or doing face painting for example.
Our response is that there are plenty of other outlets for these activities
but that we do not have commercial stalls at the Feast, because we raise
money for the whole community.
We have made the decision that stalls are run for no personal profit
and all profits from any stall or event go to the common pool which
is later disbursed by the organising committee.
We have made rare exceptions for:
In both cases the owners agree to pay us a proportion of their income and we have to trust them to do that.
Of course there is a place for commercial activities at other fairs,
but we try to retain the community atmosphere of our Feast and are happy
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 significant
profit or not.
Participation and involvement by local people is as important to us
as making money. We believe the people of Shelford agree!
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