Book Community Stall here At the checkout, use code: Community to deduct the $5.00 admin fee.
'We believe in empowering community through supporting each other. That's why Methven Arts & Growers Market is offering a free Fundraising stall at every market. We’re a new venture, locally owned, and have deep roots in our community. We like to lend a helping hand where we can, helping our community to love living in Methven & Mid Canterbury.
If your school, kindergarten, sports club, or other organization needs to raise money please complete the booking form. We'll let you know if your selected dates are available to you. Depending on stallholder attendance, in some instances we may be able to offer you more space.
The Methven Arts & Growers Market (MAGM) has a free 2m x 3m stall space, which we may upgrade to 3m x 3m available at each of its Markets for registered charities, not for profit community organisations, and local schools, clubs and community organisations to use. This is to enable the charity or organisation further access to the community and for the Market to acknowledge and help to promote our community.
Community Stall Rules
The purpose of the following rules is to protect stallholders’ interests, our customers experience of the market, the Methven Arts & Growers Market brand and its’ public image.
As an approved Community Stallholder, the charity/organisation/school/club must arrive by 8am and assist other stallholders and the general setup of the market, and remain after market closing to assist stallholders with packdown and clean up & rubbish removal of the site and any other tasks that need doing.
1. May not occupy a site at the Market for any longer than 2 markets in succession and not more than 4 markets in any one calendar year.
2. Must operate out of its own stall.
3. Must not approach customers outside of their stall area. Community Stallholders must wait to be approached by customers at their stall rather than approach customers themselves.
4. Must not sell any product or thing or combine one’s own side hustle items in the stall, other than raffle tickets and receiving of donations or approved fundraising items (by the organiser), unless given prior written approval by the MAGM Organiser.
5. Must not sell or give away, or hand out for tasting or sampling, any food item. Due to the nature of the market, this would conflict with the regular stallholders aim to sell food.
6. Must be a registered charity or not-for-profit organisation or be fundraising where funds are guaranteed to be going back into the community i.e School group or club for the overall benefit of its members.
7. Must have non-political objective.
8. Methven Arts & Growers Market Organiser retains the right to accept and deny applications to occupy the community stall at any time.
9. All workers/volunteers must adhere to the Methven Arts & Growers Market Code of Conduct at all times.
10. Must not ‘flyer-drop’ on car windows of either customers or stall holders cars parked at or near the Market without prior permission.
11. Must at all times conduct business in the same manner as any other paying owners/occupiers of stallholders at the Market.
12. Approved stalls shall receive a site free of charge.
13. Every worker/volunteer must be briefed of these rules before commencement of trading (i.e. before 8.00 am on Sunday morning) The market site is opened at 6.30am on Sundays for food trucks & stallholders to access and setup. Like all the stalls, the Community Stallholders must arrive by 8am and have their stall set up and ready for customers no later than 9.45 am. Failure to do so will see you excluded from the market.
14.You must provide your own Gazebo; it is the Community stallholders responsibility to erect and dismantle it).The organisation must provide their own weights to tie it down, and they must provide their own trestle tables, seats and all other resources required for the successful running and management of that stall, (including staff).
15.The stall must be overseen at all times by a responsible and senior member of the charity, club, school or organisation. That person must make themselves known to our Market Organiser and be available to speak with the Organiser at all times throughout the duration of the market should any problems occur. This person shall take sole responsibility for any problems that do occur. No person under the age of 18 may be left alone at the stall.
16. Stalls cannot leave the market until after the market ends at 2.00pm. As stated above, community stallholders are expected to assist other stallholders with packdown, general cleanup and rubbish removal of the site. Please also provide all appropriate contact details by completing the registration form the same as any other stallholder on the website.