and a happy New Year!
Many thanks for all your support over the year and we look forward to seeing you again in 2025.
Our first farmers markets in 2025 are:
Lavenham Farmers Market on Sunday 26th January
Sudbury Farmers Market on Friday 31st January
Plus Hadleigh Street Market returns on Friday 3rd January
See you there!
Come along to our Christmas Artisan Evening Market on Saturday 14th December on the piazza outside The Mercury Theatre. From 4pm we will have a great range of local produce, street food and crafts with a very festive flavour.
Look out for stalls selling freshly baked cakes, brownies and cookies from The Alabama Biscuit Company, The Essex Bakery and Crumbs Alive. Donuts and patisserie from local favourite Victoria Yum, there’s handmade pies and local cheeses from Hoskyn’s Deli plus jams & chutneys from Karen’s Kitchen and Sticky Pickle Company as well as Chunky chocolate from Temprd, fudge from Woodlands Bakeaway plus wine from Bromley Brook Vineyards as well as craft ale from Jack Rabbit Brewery and gins and spirits from Meadow Oak Distillery and kombucha from Scobys Ferments.
There’s great craft stalls selling a perfect selection of unique gifts including Hare Cottage Crafts, soaps from Evergreen, upcycled block print accessories from Charlotte, hand crafted chopping boards from Arubis and stunning jewellery from Sage & Seasalt and Andrew Wright.
Bring your dogs as we have special treats from Boos Bakery!
Join in with some carol singers at 5pm with a glass of mulled wine from the theatre bar and make sure you bring an appetite as we have delicious Street Food including Neapolitan style pizzas from The Little Pizza Oven, Indian Street food from Tikka Tonic and chicken burgers from Peck.
It all kicks off at 4-8pm on The Piazza, outside The Mercury Theatre
Saturday 14th December
Applications to trade with us in 2025, open on Monday November 4th and can be submitted directly via the Work with Us page on our website.
Our events in 2025 include three Clare Craft Markets, two extra markets in Lavenham held over two days, our Suffolk Farmers Market in Trinity Park, a Hidden Gardens Market, Market in the Barn and extra Evening Markets in Colchester.
Our monthly Farmers Markets in Lavenham, Bury St Edmund’s, Sudbury and Lavenham are largely full already as we don’t ‘start from scratch’ at these events each year.
Applications for the Taste of East Anglia Food & Drink Festival on Saturday 14th June 2025 will open in the next couple of weeks.
Please only apply for the markets you definitely want to attend and DO NOT MAKE PAYMENT until we confirm you have a place. The dates are already on the Calendar page of the website – https://www.suffolkmarketevents.co.uk/calendar/
For many this is a monthly date in the diary – to visit this lovely village and over 40 local traders who make up the farmers market. On Sunday 27th October we’re back at the village hall with a wonderful selection of food, drink and crafts.
As always there will be street food from Beats & Bagels, barista coffee to keep you fortified whilst you enjoy shopping and sampling the range of artisan food, drink and crafts on offer. We’ve got chilli jams, honey, jams and pickles, sourdough and focaccia, samosa and bhajis, apples and apple ciders & vinegars, craft ales and local spirits, vegan pastries and chocolate brownies, fresh handmade pies, local cheeses, fresh pork and beef, sausages organic vegetables and fresh lamb from Brook Farm who are returning to the market for the first time in many years. Plus candles, soaps and hand creams as well as plants and herbs.
It all starts at 10am at Lavenham Village Hall – dogs very welcome and free parking (voluntary donation welcome)
Sunday 27th October
Same great event with a new name and a brand new local sponsor!
Following the great success of the Taste of Sudbury last year, in its new home at Kentwell Hall in Long Melford. We are proud to unveil our new name Taste of East Anglia with plans are already well in place to ensure 2024 is even better.
`Supporting local producers and celebrating local food and drink has been the core focus of the festival for several years. It is important, and indicative of the success of the festival, that we have several local businesses supporting it and this year we are thrilled to announce that Mauldons Brewery will be one of main sponsors of the festival’ states Justine Paul who is part of the team at Suffolk Market Events that the runs the festival. `Mauldons is such a perfect fit for the Taste of East Anglia; they represent all the best values of our local food & drink sector which this festival will always want to showcase.’
Mauldons Brewery forms part of the Nedging Hall Estate, crafting award-winning real ales since 1795. Nedging Hall Estate is a family-owned country estate in Suffolk. The Estate comprises of The Bildeston Crown, Lindsey Rose, The Brewery Tap Sudbury and Nedging Hall.
Charlie Buckle of Nedging Hall Estate stated; Mauldons is Suffolk’s oldest brewery and we’re proud of its history and heritage in East Anglia. We are delighted to sponsor Taste of East Anglia and be part of an event that showcases the very best food and drink that the area has to offer.
The festival has always attracted all the family to attend. There is something for everyone this year. Over seventy stalls will be selling a wonderful selection of regional, artisan food and drink products as well as delicious Street Food, local Craft Ales and lager and plenty of fizz.
The popular main kitchen theatre will be running all day showcasing a range of Suffolk’s best chefs and bakers, there will be music from Bedford45 and free activities for children.
Tickets are just £6 for adults (18 years +)
Children go free (17 years and under)
10am – 5pm
15th June 2024
Dogs are welcome.
Tickets can be bought via the festival website – www.tasteofeastanglia.co.uk
FREE parking
We are back in The Cattle Sheds at Trinity Park on Saturday 9th December for our gorgeous Christmas Farmers Market and it is looking delicious! Over fifty producers and makers will be filling this fantastic venue including brewers, butchers, bakers, pie makers, gin distillers, sewers, artists and candle makers. We’ve even got top notch, handmade dog treats for your four legged friends and there’s no chance of us humans getting hungry with a choice of amazing street food. And, as if it couldn’t get any better – it’s totally free of charge to enter and to park. Happy days.
Watch out for more details on the who’s going to be there.
The Cattle Sheds, Trinity Park (Suffolk Show Ground)
Saturday 9th December
10am – 2pm
Free entry and parking.
Make sure you diary date our two farmers markets later this month.
Lavenham Farmers Market on Sunday 22nd October where we will have forty local artisan traders surrounding the village hall with wonderful range of delicious food & drink. 10am – 1.30pm
And the final one is our popular farmers market on Market Hill in the centre of Sudbury. Over 25 stalls will run down Market Hill with local and fresh produce on Friday 27th October. 9.30am – 2pm
See you at one or the other or both!
Our first applicants for Innovate Local 2023 are now getting booked in to attend Sudbury and Hadleigh Markets in 2023 and we have more spaces still available so, if you are a business owner and you would like to try market trading, free of charge then please get in touch.
Innovate Local really is a wonderful opportunity to see if market trading works for you without having to invest financially in any way. We supply all the equipment needed including a Pop Up 3m gazebo with tables, chalkboards and market stall lights and all the market pitch fees, covering four weeks on two markets, are paid for too. All you have to bring is your business (which can be a product or a service) and your enthusiasm and passion to dip your toe in the market world. We even supply small business mentoring and a free space on the Virtual High Street!
Spaces are limited but we do have blocks available so if you would like further information, with absolutely no obligation to take part, then please get in touch.
justine@suffolkmarketevents.co.uk
We are delighted to be bringing a fantastic Food, Drink and Craft Market to The Saints in Ipswich on Sunday September 10th as part of the Heritage Weekend and Thomas Wolsey 550 celebrations. The market will be run in collaboration with Ipswich Borough Council, All About Ipswich and The Saints and will feature over forty stalls filling St Nicholas Street including delicious Street Food, local produce and gorgeous handmade crafts.
Entry will be totally free of charge and well behaved dogs on a lead are welcome! 10am -4pm
We have a handful of spaces still available to book so if you would like to join us then please get in touch. Just email alex@suffolkmarketevents.co.uk
There were so many fab stalls at The Taste of Sudbury Food and Drink Festival on Saturday and the best bit of all? Every stall at The Taste of Sudbury is genuinely local. Yep, they are all based in Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire or Essex and travelled an absolute maximum of 50 miles to be with us (most are based within 30 miles)
So, which stall was your favourite? We’d love to hear!