Teenage Market returning to Horncastle this Saturday

Published on 30 April 2024

The ever-popular Teenage Market will be returning to Horncastle on Saturday (4 May) from 9am to 3pm, providing young traders from the local area a unique opportunity to showcase their products and try market trading for free.

The Teenage Market is a growing national initiative set up by teenage brothers Joe and Tom Barratt to transform town and city centres with the creativity and entrepreneurship of young people.

The energy, diversity and vibrancy of the young people taking part provides a fantastic boost to high streets, town centres and market areas across the country, as well as providing a vital platform to help showcase the business owners of the future.

The traders in attendance will be predominately from Horncastle and the surrounding area, covering a wide range of different products and services:

·       ZEC Crafts: A range of different crafts such as crochet, wood pieces, paintings and embroidery

·       Paper Crafts: Origami and quilling cards and pictures

·       Paige's.Crafts: Handmade crafts

·       Miss Quirk Dermy: Anthropomorphic taxidermy and needle felted creatures

·       Megan's Cool Creations: Making and selling bracelets and rings and scented bath salts

·       Lola's Treasures: Handmade fabric bookmarks, key rings, scrunchies and book sleeves

·       Henna By Rhi: Henna Artist

·       Handmade Jewellery by Meghan Lilly: Bespoke, handmade jewellery

·       Cuties by Lola: Crotchet items

·       Charlottescozystitches: Crotchet crafts and home baked goods

As well as the Teenage Market, Splats Entertainment are bringing their Circus Day to the town centre, where visitors can learn skills including how to juggle scarves, balls and clubs, spin plates, balance peacock feathers, ride fun wheels, walk on stilts and more.

Councillor Adam Grist, portfolio holder for Market Towns and the Rural Economy, said: "I'm delighted that our Teenage Markets are getting back underway for 2024, and will be a regular fixture in our market towns over the coming months, helping create a fantastic atmosphere and providing talented young people with a platform to show off and sell their creativity.

"This great initiative helps to provide our market towns with new vibrancy and ideas, now and in the future, and can inspire and enable the next generation of market traders in East Lindsey."

Further Teenage Markets will be taking place across the following months, visiting Spilsby on 18 May and 14 September, Louth on 1 June and 24 August, and returning again to Horncastle on 10 August.

If you are aged 25 or under and want to get involved in Teenage Markets in the future, please visit https://theteenagemarket.co.uk/sign-up/trader.

You can 'Like' The Teenage Market on Facebook and follow them on Twitter through their account: @teenage_market.