Secret Vintage Event raises £200 for local Evergreen Charity!
A charity which supports the
Elderly in Stamford and surrounding areas has benefitted from almost £200
raised by us at our inaugural event on the Cambridgeshire/Lincolnshire Border.
The last Secret event was held on Saturday 20th September at the Stamford Arts Centre, and hosted a wealth of vintage, retro and handmade traders, alongside a professional swing DJ Pinball Paul, a live Singer Kathryn Peacock, covering well loved vintage and retro songs from the Silver Screen, and live Lindy Hop dancers too! Despite the event location only being revealed a few weeks beforehand, the event attracted over 500 people through its doors, and was so busy the onsite tea rooms provided by the Stamford arts Centre Coffee shop ran out of cake!
As all good Secret Vintage Fair
fans know, The Vintage Fairs, are held in different ‘secret’ locations each
time, and support a different local charity too. Founded in Essex in 2012, the
events are now expanding to cover Cambridgeshire, Northampton and Lincolnshire,
and since its inception, The Secret Vintage Fair has raised over £4500 for a
variety of charities.
Founder Lucy, together with her colleague Charlie Stone,
chose to support Evergreen Care Trust this time around as it was aptly in
keeping with the Stamford location.
Lucy said: “There is still a huge affection from younger
vintage lovers to celebrate the 1930s, 40s and 50s, by wearing clothing from
the era, listening to music of the time, and we’re now seeing a soaring trend
with teens and adults alike learning swing dances like the Lindyhop, and so the
tie-in with the Evergreen Charity was brilliant, as they care for the
generation who of course grew up in those eras and had first hand experience of
it all!”
Suzanne
Wheatley, chief operations officer for the trust is thrilled that the Secret
Vintage Fair team chose Evergreen as their chosen charity for their September
fair. "It's an exciting concept and we were so pleased to benefit from such a glorious day of unique shopping
entertainment and treats. We’re so grateful to all the prizes kindly donated by
stallholders and of course to the Secret Vintage Team!”
The team from the Sue Ryder Charity shop in Peterborough also had a stall and raised over £700 for the charity, which is fantastic and helps towards the £6million they need to raise to get their new hospice built at Thorpe Hall! We are thrilled for them.
More photos from the event can be seen on our facebook page!
2 Forthcoming Festive
Vintage Fairs!
The Secret Vintage Fair team
are currently busy organising 2 Festive vintage events
1. Central Colchester- Saturday 29th November in a secret location!
1. Central Colchester- Saturday 29th November in a secret location!
2. Northamptonshire- Saturday
6th December, location TBC!
Traders applications are pretty much full for our Essex event, but still open for 6th December, those interested in
having a stall at the event should contact us on stallholders@secretvintagefair.com.
Local
charities are welcome to get in touch to apply to be supported by one of our
future events!
You can keep you to
date with The Secret Vintage Fair events in the following ways:
WEB: www.secretvintagefair.com where you can sign up to our mailing list!
Original Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/TheSecretVintageFair
Local Facebook Page:
www.facebook.com/SecretVintageCambridgeshire
Twitter:
@Secret_Vintage
Email: info@secretvintagefair.com
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