Hosting a Craft Fair.

[baschram645]

Has anyone ever hosted a Craft Fair as a fund raiser for their unit?

We've been throwing this idea around and I was just looking for some feedback/insight.

 

Thanks

Bryan

[FScouter]

Sounds good. What is a craft fair?

[GKlose]

My wife has participated in several, working for a spice-related food vendor. Although I'm sure there are variations, a typical craft fair is a large room with tables, where each "booth" is leased to a crafter. Sometimes individuals selling crafts they've made (handmade jewelry and trinkets, woodcarvings, etc; one of the saddest I've seen was a guy selling digital photographs he had taken, printed on his inkjet and framed -- but they weren't very good photographs), other times it includes craft supply vendors, people who make food products, and all sorts of other things. Big fairs are big business, where booths are leased for hundreds of dollars, and vendors jockey for position (some pay more for a prime location, for example).

 

I'd assume Bryan is looking at something much more small-scale than that. My impression has always been that the organizers, after expenses, don't clear very much at all. It has to be well-promoted, with good traffic, for such an event to make enough for crafters. If a crafter makes a couple hundred dollars, what can you charge for a table? 25 or so?

 

Guy

[baschram645]

We have been looking at this for just a short time now. We have been seeking a Crafter list for folks in our area and could probably sweet talk our chartering org into letting us use their hall for nothing.