A street market is being held in the north Harrow shopping centre is the answer!

Date: Friday 9th – Sunday 11th March 2012 Venue: Station and Pinner Road North Harrow

Traders

This is a taster event for a regular market in the area. The taster will mean you get a FREE stall for the three days The stalls will be put up for you and will be taken down at the end of the day; each stall will have a table and be covered. All you need to do is bring your products, pricing and dress your stall.

Stall information Each stall will be approximately 7x3m

Marketing

The event will be heavily promoted and will give you access to a vast selection of new Customers.

• We are starting to market this now • In local papers • Harrow Website • Facebook • Twitter • Radio • Newspapers • Through Residents association • Universities • Schools • Banners in Streets • Advertising boards • Through word of mouth • Harrow in Business • Local Chambers • Federation of small businesses.

As over 17,000 residents live within a one-kilometre radius and 6,000 people use North Harrow tube station every weekday. Almost 30,000 people live in the three wards around North Harrow.

We are looking for a wide variety of traders please contact Rachel or Louise for further information and to book a stall.

A briefing will be organised before the event

This assessment will look at product and go through the look of each stall and we will need to have clear pricing from each stall to coincide with trading standards policy.

We are currently looking at arranging courses post the event to help businesses progress in areas such as:

• Marketing • Finance • Business Planning

The event will a create vibrancy in the area, support existing traders and will increase the footfall by creating more reasons to shop here and increase your customer base and customer awareness of your brands.

Contact Points

Rachel Jenman North Harrow Town Centre Manager 020 8736 6083 07887 938 341 Rachel.jenman@harow.gov.uk

Louise Baxter Project Officer 020 8416 8959 Louise.baxter@harrow.gov.uk