Wirral Farmers' Market News

Next Market: February 11, 2012

News

High Seas supply fish to Masterchef. No better recommendation than being asked by to supply fish for the contestants to cook with. High Seas were pleased to supply the fish at a recent filming but were not allowed to reveal the choice of fish and were asked to leave when the judging took place so no inside information on the results - so you'll have to wait for the new series!

June 29: Dragon's Den Results
Click here for the photos.

Recent press coverage- June 6

Following recent press coverage in the Liverpool Daily Post – the Market Committee wants to reassure both traders and customers that Wirral Farmers' Market is not in danger of closing.

The article highlighted the rent increase and we want to reiterate the background to this decision. As with many village halls across the region these are moving out of council control and will in future need to be self financing – the rents will therefore no longer be subsidised.

Our market, which itself is a community project, has a charter to support the New Ferry Community and the Village Hall is an integral part of that community and therefore the committee agreed that paying additional rent was in line with our charter. We all need to react to the current financial times and we felt this was an appropriate use of the money raised at the market.

Both the market and the hall are run by volunteers who give up their time to support this community resources and in any vote taken on funding the members who are also on the Hall management committee abstain in those votes.

Contacts

The market is run by a committee of volunteers, please contact the committee with any questions or for any publicity related questions:

Email: admin@wirralfarmersmarket.co.uk

For questions relating to the monthly set up of the market please call Steve Niblock on 07939 578 041.

Links

Good Food Blog about the market.

WFM Background

Wirral Farmers' Market is one of the country's leading Farmers' Markets

• Established in 2000
• Winner of many Awards including the BBC Food & Farming Farmers' Market of the Year 2007
• Over £32,000 invested in the local community
• Recent FARMA survey in Q4 2010 showed:
  • High consumer spend with 70% of shoppers coming every month
  • Typically 1,000 customers per market
  • 25% of shoppers also shop in local community

Photos

We have a library of photos available for use by any organisation that wishes to write about the market.

Please click here for the Photo Library.

Click here to download a high resolution JPG file of our logo.