Opportunities
There are lots of ways to get involved at the Stone Food and Drink Festival, helping to promote your business along the way...
Gourmet Marquee trade stands
The real 'heart' of the Stone Food and Drink Festival, the Gourmet Marquee represents a truly special opportunity to showcase your produce and wares to an pre-qualified, food-loving audience. Last year's marquee saw over seventy stalls congregate to create a truly special atmosphere - to ensure you don't miss the opportunity to be among them this year, complete our enquiry form.
Farmers' Market stalls
When we first held a Farmers' Market as part of the Stone Food and Drink Festival back in 2005, we had no idea how big it would become. It now overflows the market square with stalls lining the entire length of the High Street, offering local farmers and producers the opportunity to engage with and sell direct to the public. The market now takes place on the first Saturday every month (except January) and the October Food Festival market runs over both the Friday and Saturday.
Stone Farmers' Market is managed by Stafford Borough Council. All trade enquiries should be directed to Bev Allerton, St. John's Market, Earl Street, Stafford ST16 2DF. Telephone 01785 245935
Beer Festival
New for 2011! We're planning to extend our ever-popular 'Titanic Beer Tent' into full-blown beer festival; helping to build on our already impressive following of Real Ale fans. Whether you're a Midlands-based brewery or a local artisan producer of beer, cider or ale and would like to showcase your wares alongside the regions' finest, contact us to find out more - make sure you highlight that you are interested in the Beer Festival!
Demonstrations
The Stone Food and Drink Festival is renowned for its varied programme of interactive cookery demonstrations from top local and celebrity chefs - over the years, we've enjoyed the talents of Mary Berry, Gino D'ACampo and the Hairy Bikers to name but a few! We're always interested to hear from chefs (and talented home cooks!) with the personality and talent to inspire - so, if you are a pub or restaurant and think that your chef has 'star appeal' or simply want to share your unique ethos and recipes with a live audience, please contact us.
Event Sponsorship
From multi-base three course meals in our famous 'Manger a Trois' evening event to our legendary 'Real Ale Trail', cookery demonstrations and shopping marquees, there are plenty of events at Stone Food and Drink Festival that need support. For details of how you can get involved by sponsoring an event or section of the festival please fill out our exhibitor enquiry form.
Competitions
We're always looking for new ways to engage visitors and this year we're planning a number of competitions both in the run-up to, and during, the festival itself. You can get involved and enjoy added exposure for your business and products by offering competition prizes - from invividual products through to signed cookery books, 3 course meals or visitor 'experience' days - if you have a prize in mind you'd be willing to donate, please get in touch.
Online advertising and directory
Our new, dynamic website offers various opportunities for pubs, restaurants, exhibitors and producers to promote themselves to festival goers. From profiles in our new online directory, which will allow visitors to find your contact details quickly and easily throughout the year, to advertising space on key pages that will help to build your profile and provide links to your own website, there are options for all budgets.
Directory
Directory entries include logo/image, description, contact details and website address and inclusion in up to three categories - not only in the run-up to the festival but until the directory is renewed ahead of next year’s festival at the end of July 2012.
The cost is just £25.00 per year (31st July 2011 – 31st July 2012) so, the sooner you sign up, the better the value.
Advertising
Every page on our new website carries the opportunity to promote your business - you simply pay £25.00 a year (31st July 2011 – 31st July 2012) per advert/per page and we'll upload an advert to help promote your business that links direct to your own website. Adverts can be provided as either jpegs or animated gif files, and must be sized 121 x 120 pixels. To enquire about online advertising opportunities, email info@stonefooddrink.org.uk |
