This weekend
Saturday, 7 October & Sunday, 8 October

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Faversham Artisan Crafts and Gift Fairs 2023

Faversham Artisan Crafts and Gift Fairs 2023

The Alexander Centre, Faversham, Kent

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Surrey Villages Craft Fair

Surrey Villages Craft Fair

Shere Village Hall, Shere, Guildford, Surrey

Sunday, 8 October 2023

Simply events...Autumn craft market

Simply events...Autumn craft market

Venture Centre 2000, Lawford, Manningtree, Essex

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Lyndhurst Craft and Gift Market

Craft Fair

Lyndhurst Community Centre, Lyndhurst, Hampshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Godalming Craft and Gift Market

Craft Fair

Godalming Borough Hall, Godalming, Surrey

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Guildford Craft and Gift Market

Craft Fair

Guildford Guild Hall, Guildford, Surrey

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Gordale craft and gift fair

Craft Fair

Gordale Garden Centre, Burton, South Wirral, Cheshire

Friday, 6 October 2023 (3 day event)

Handmade Only Craft Fair

Handmade Only Craft Fair

Field Place, Worthing, West Sussex

Sunday, 8 October 2023

Stotfold Mill Working Steam Weekend

Stotfold Mill Working Steam Weekend

Stotfold Watermill and Nature Reserve, Stotfold, Bedfordshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023 (2 day event)

Portsmouth Autumn Fair

Portsmouth Autumn Fair

St Marys Church, Fratton, Portsmouth, Hampshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

London Makers Fair at Ealing Broadway

London Makers Fair at Ealing Broadway

Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre, London, London

Sunday, 8 October 2023

Craft and Gift Fair

Craft Fair

Stokesley Town Hall, Stokesley, North Yorkshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Folk and Bespoke Artisan Craft Fair

Folk and Bespoke Artisan Craft Fair

Firstsite Colchester, Colchester, Essex

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Lymington Makers Market by NFMM

Craft Fair

The Lymington Masonic Hall, Lymington, Lymington, Hampshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Rutland Pet Festival

Craft Fair

Oakham Castle, Market Place, Oakham, Rutland

Sunday, 8 October 2023

Frome Showground Flea Market and Craft Fair

Frome Showground Flea Market and Craft Fair

FROME SHOWGROUND FLEA MARKET AND CRAFT FAIR, Bunns Lane, Frome, Somerset

Sunday, 8 October 2023

Wensleydale Craft Fair

Wensleydale Craft Fair

The Market House, Hawes, Wensleydale, North Yorkshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023 (2 day event)

Fluid Art Workshop

Fluid Art Workshop

Salvation Army Building, Eston, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

The HandCrafted Market - Parkgate and Neston

The HandCrafted Market - Parkgate and Neston

Parkgate and Neston United Reformed Church, Parkgate, Cheshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Farnborough Craft Fayre

Farnborough Craft Fayre

Queensmead Farnborough, Farnborough, Hampshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Heritage Morning

Heritage Morning

St Andrews Church, Soham, Cambridgeshire

Saturday, 7 October 2023

The Craft Calendar explained

The craft calendar is a great way of searching for content by date. When a member lists an event, it automatically appears here. The calendar pages group all event types together in one place, you can look for a specific day or use one of the saved searches like, this weekend or next weekend, these are always at the top of the page and are scrollable. When we first put together the calendar for the site it was quite a simple affair, you could just search one day at a time.

The calendar is flexible, so can be used on multiple screen sizes. In addition, the information in the calendar is SEO friendly.

The calendar has a few extras too. We have key dates throughout the year like, bank holidays, national days, religious days and other special days. You may also see information about famous British artists and crafts people born on the day you are looking at.

We like to start the working week on a Monday but in the craft community the weekends are when almost all craft fairs take place, often extended by bank holiday weekends. Courses however, tend to be at different times, so as not to impact on selling days.

Understanding the calendar

At the top and left on larger screen is the calendar itself, it shows a month at a time with weekends highlighted, along with the dates selected. Old dates (dates in the past) are greyed out. You can use the dropdown to view the key, so you understand what the colours mean.

As a UK company promoting UK events, we use the standard Gregorian calendar. 365 days in a year plus an extra day in leap years. This calendar is based around the sun, to help keep seasons the same or similar each year. It has been around since 1582, so we think it is here to stay. This was a Christian calendar that made a very small change to stop the Easter celebrations moving further away from the equinox. The changes were made by Pope Gregory VIII (the eighth), a lot of countries adopted this new calendar immediately, but none Catholic countries followed later with the Greeks only adopting it in 1923. The calendar was based on the earier calendars from the Roman empire.

Things to come

We are interested in new ways of searching and the types of search people may want to make in this structured page. We are looking to add weekly, and monthly searches.