Launched in 2004, UKCraftFairs is a website that connects and promotes its members. It is aimed exclusively at the UK Craft Community. Members contribute unique, up-to-date content relating to their events, products and or services. The site adds value and structure to the submitted content to create a unique, simple, powerful and fast tool for the whole community to use.
Who is the site aimed at?
If you are in the UK and involved with or interested in Craft, then this site is for you.
Visitors and attendees
The life blood of all craft events. You can use the site for free and get direction to the fairs, courses, workshops, exhibition and classes. If you have a mobile you can use m.ukcraftfairs.com whilst on the move to find local craft events.
Craft Event Organisers
Every day lots of exhibitors contact the craft event organisers
about booking tables at their fairs. Over the years, the site has listed many thousands of fairs.
You can add any event that is craft related or where
there will be a significant number of handcrafted items on sale.
This would include agricultural shows, craft fayres, craft shows,
county shows or country fairs etc, where a there is a Craft Hall
or Craft Marquee.
Craft Exhibitors
Add your listing to promote you and your work to potential customers and organisers. You can contact organisers directly too.
Craft Event Venues
This is the newest section of the site and we hope that it will prove really useful for fair organisers looking for venues that actively encourage craft fairs.
Craft Suppliers
Promote your services and materials to the thousand of craft people using the site.
Craft Groups
Promote your group and the work of your members on the site.
The founder of UKCraftFairs, Michael Riley wrote:
We believe in the craft community and our aim is to build a site that helps the community to connect and grow. We feel that the individuals in the craft community can make a real difference to the fortunes of the nation.
Our motto is 'fortitudine et prudentia,' which means courage in pain or adversity and discretion in practical affairs. We pride ourselves
on the quality of the site and we strive for excellence.
We hope the site will serve you well.
Click this link to sign up as a member of the site
2003
The original idea for creating the site came from exhibitors asking other exhibitors, "What other fairs are you attending?" We felt that the site should meet that need and it does.
2004
Site was launched.
2010
The site moved over to being fully membership focused.
2011
This year saw the introduction of many new features and technologies within the site. It was also the first full year of events we ran ourselves.
2012
In addition to running fairs we will also be running courses and workshop to help grow the craft community in our area.
Plus lot of new, exciting and practical features are in the pipeline.
