The Linden Square Christmas Market (sample) is run by a small not-for-profit trust and the stallholders themselves.
The first market was twelve borrowed huts and a brass band on the Corn Exchange steps (sample). Today forty stallholders, most of them from within an hour’s drive, come back every winter.
Hut rents pay for the lights, the stage, the cleaning and the security. Whatever is left goes to the square’s trees and benches.
Four people in the market office all year, and about thirty volunteers in December (sample names).
Market manager (sample)
Stallholders and huts (sample)
Stage and programme (sample)
Site, safety and lights (sample)
Volunteers run the information hut, the lantern parade and the quiet hour. Two evenings in December make a real difference.