Featured Stallholder - Nicki Cawood of Precious Parcels

Our latest Featured Stallholder is Nicki Cawood from Thirsk who is the North Yorkshire representative for Precious Parcels.

Precious Parcels makes beautiful handcrafted plaques, gifts and items for the home. Mum of one Nicki juggles her new role with Precious Parcels with her other business, Mumsworld Events.

Our Featured Stallholder section on Stallfinder gives an insight into some of our stallholders and their businesses. To read more about Nicki and Precious Parcels please select this link.
http://www.stallfinder.com/featured-stallholder-c750.html

To find out more about Mumsworld Events and their forthcoming events see
http://www.mumsworldevents.co.uk/

Good Web Guide Feedback Needed

Stallfinder has entered the Good Web Guide Website of the Year award. We'd really appreciate it if you'd send any nice comments/feedback to the judging panel at

http://thegoodwebguide.co.uk/awardfeedback

Many Thanks,

Gail

Stallfinder - http://www.stallfinder.com/

Paint A 'Zappy Pot' in aid of Starlight Children's Foundation

One of our stallholders, Lynn Bingham from Zappy Designs, is holding evenings where you can learn to paint your own "Zappy" style pot in her new studio in Altrincham, Cheshire. These evenings will take place on the 4th Tuesday of every month with a percentage of all bookings being donated to Starlight Children's Foundation (registered charity).

The evening begins at 7.45pm. All materials needed are supplied with plenty of 1-2-1 from Lynn. These evenings are designed to be great fun with plenty of learning thrown in. The cost is £10 per person & includes a glass of wine & homemade nibbles. You can book individually, with a friend or book the evening for your own private party.

To contact Lynn and find out more please see her Stallfinder listing below

http://www.stallfinder.com/lynn-bingham-i5242.html

Featured Stallholder - Lisa Hicks & The Pookey Boutique

Our latest Featured Stallholder is Lisa Hicks of The Pookey Boutique. Based in Staffordshire, mum of one Lisa aims to offer the most exclusive clothing and accessories for babies, toddlers, mums and even four-legged friends. The Pookey Boutique stocks individual designs sourced from all over the world and Lisa has also made her own brand of clothing to add to the ranges.

Our Featured Stallholder section on Stallfinder gives an insight into some of our stallholders and their businesses. To read more about Lisa and The Pookey Boutique please select this link.
http://www.stallfinder.com/featured-stallholder-c750.html

Featured Stallholder - Balloonbaboon

Our latest Featured Stallholder is Julie Hayward of Balloonbaboon. Based in Essex, Julie offers balloon flowers, animals, characters and other truly unique balloon deliveries nationwide. Balloonbaboon can bring examples to your workplace, event or home and take bookings for birthday, anniversary, new baby or any other special delivery.

Our Featured Stallholder section on Stallfinder gives an insight into some of our stallholders and their businesses. To read more about Julie and Balloonbaboon please select this link.

http://www.stallfinder.com/featured-stallholder-c750.html

Featured Charity - DEMAND

DEMAND Design & Manufacture for Disability is the latest charity to be added to our Charity Feature section on Stallfinder. Based in Hertfordshire, with an additional branch in Yorkshire, DEMAND was established in 1980 to create bespoke items of equipment for children and adults with disabilities. DEMAND is an independent charity that doesn't charge for its services. It aims to help all disabled people, no matter what their circumstances or ability to pay.

To find out more about this charity and the others featured on Stallfinder please see http://www.stallfinder.com/charity-feature-c559.html

My Secret Kitchen joins Stallfinder Partner Programme

Stallfinder is delighted to announce the latest addition to the Stallfinder Partner Programme. Launched in 2008, My Secret Kitchen is the UK’s first nationwide food and drink tasting company. If you're a My Secret Kitchen consultant, you'll now benefit from the special offer available to all the My Secret Kitchen team for advertising your independent business on Stallfinder.

You can find out more about My Secret Kitchen and view their Partner Page on Stallfinder here

http://www.stallfinder.com/partner-my-secret-kitchen-c794.html

Linen at Home joins Stallfinder Partner Programme

Stallfinder is delighted to announce that Linen at Home is the latest Direct Sales Company to join the Stallfinder Partner Programme. Our Partners benefit from a dedicated Partner page where they can give a detailed description of their products and services and also explain the business opportunity they offer. Linen at Home are a new and exciting home linen company and we already have two representatives listed on Stallfinder http://www.stallfinder.com/linen-at-home-c779.html They are already benefitting from a special extended listing period which Stallfinder offers to Partner Programme listees.

Linen at Home's Partner Page can be viewed here http://www.stallfinder.com/partner-linen-at-home-c788.html

If your company is interested in joining our Partner Programme, please drop us a line to info@stallfinder.com.

Featured Stallholder - Lily-Rose Designs

Our latest Featured Stallholder is Nanette Foulkes of Lily-Rose Designs. Based in Northamptonshire, Lily-Rose Designs is a website business offering handmade personalised gifts to customers throughout the world. Nanette named her company after her daughter and she designs and makes affordable gifts for every happy event including births, weddings, birthdays, hen parties, baby showers and christenings.

Our Featured Stallholder section on Stallfinder gives an insight into some of our stallholders and their businesses. To read more about Nanette and Lily-Rose Designs please select the link below
http://www.stallfinder.com/featured-stallholder-c750.html

Featured Charity - Yorkshire Cancer Centre Appeal

The Yorkshire Cancer Centre Appeal was launched to replace the Cookridge Cancer Appeal and help support the world-class St James's Institute of Oncology, Leeds.

YCC is aiming to raise £10 million by 2010 to make this facility in Leeds a world class force in the fight against cancer.

To find out more about the appeal or to get involved, visit the Charity Feature page on Stallfinder.com

http://www.stallfinder.com/charity-feature-c559.html

Featured Stallholder - Swings and Pretty Things

Our latest Featured Stallholder is Jayne Bradshaw of Swings and Pretty Things. Jayne has 2 children, 2 Basset Hounds and is based in Coalville, Leicestershire. Swings and Pretty Things stock a range of Garden & Outdoor living products including carved oak swings, Pocket Gardens, handmade sunflower soap, recycled horse tyre swings and Burgon & Ball products. Jayne offers a free gift wrap service and her website is an excellent place to find lots of unusual gift ideas.

Our Featured Stallholder section on Stallfinder gives an insight into some of our stallholders and their businesses. To read more about Jayne please select the link below

http://www.stallfinder.com/featured-stallholder-c750.html

Jessica's Trust

Jessica's Trust is the latest charity to be added to our Charity Feature section on Stallfinder.

The charity was setup by Ben Palmer after his wife Jessica died in June 2004, at 34 years old, of childbed fever caused by Group A streptococcus, six days after the uncomplicated birth of her second child. Childbed fever is an infection of the womb in new mothers which can lead to septicaemia.

Jessica's Trust would like as many people as possible to sign their Maternal Health Petition to the Prime Minister to ensure that every new mother has regular observations recorded on a Modified Early Obstetric Warning System (MEOWS) chart in hospital and in the community and is given clear information and advice on the recognition of childbed fever (also known as puerperal fever and genital tract sepsis) and that doctors and midwives are given clear sepsis guidelines.

You can sign the petition here http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/maternalhealth/

To find out more about Jessica's Trust please visit http://www.jessicastrust.org.uk/

You can also read about Jessica's Trust and other charities in our Charity Feature section on Stallfinder http://www.stallfinder.com/charity-feature-c559.html

Friends of Stallfinder News

We have been delighted by the response to our Friends of Stallfinder programme since its launch in November. We now have 20 Friends scattered all over the country, helping us to promote www.stallfinder.com.

To help raise the profile of Stallfinder stallholders who have joined the Friends programme, we have revamped the Friends of Stallfinder page on the site to show all the Friends' adverts, including some special highlighted ones.

www.stallfinder.com/friends-of-stallfinder-c755.html

We've also added a map to show how well they are spread around the UK.

www.stallfinder.com/friends-of-stallfinder-map-c777.html

By using Google MyMaps for this, Friends of Stallfinder can now be found by users of Google Maps and we hope this will provide a further boost to their businesses.

Friends of Stallfinder is a programme which allows our stallholders to earn free advertising in return for promoting the site to their friends and colleagues and at events they attend. If you are a Stallfinder stallholder and would like to join the programme, please contact us on info@stallfinder.com.

Everyclick for Fundraising

Stallfinder has added Everyclick into our section on Fundraising.

Everyclick is a one-stop fundraising website which features over 200,000 registered UK charities. It is free to use for both fundraisers and charities and means that even the smallest charity has a means to collect donations and fundraising online.

There are six ways you can fundraise with Everyclick:

Search the web – Everyclick is a search engine, powered by Ask.com, which gives 50% of its revenue to charity

Create an appeal – fundraisers can set up a fundraising page and collect sponsorship for their chosen charity.

Make a donation – you can donate to any of 200,000 UK charities by debit or credit card using Everyclick’s secure payment system.

Send greetings – in exchange for a donation to the charity of your choice (or the recipient’s choice) you can send greetings cards.

Send eVouchers as a gift – buy an eVoucher and the recipient can then choose the charity they would like the donation to go to.

Go shopping – shop online and a percentage of your purchases goes to charity.

Charities receive their own homepage URL which their supporters will see – they can customise their homepage with images and text. Charities can also add details and news stories to their information pages.

There are several tools and widgets for both fundraisers and charities to encourage people to help them raise money across the web.

To learn more about Everyclick, visit www.everyclick.com

Action for Children

Action for Children are the latest charity to add their details to our Charity Feature section on Stallfinder.

Action for Children helps nearly 170,000 children, young people and their families through nearly 450 projects across the UK. Their aim is to help the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people achieve their full potential. They also promote social justice by lobbying and campaigning for change.

You can find out more about Action for Children and the other charities featured on Stallfinder here http://www.stallfinder.com/charity-feature-c559.html

Stallfinder & School Together Now.com

Many thanks to Esther at School Together Now.com for promoting Stallfinder on her site. We've added School Together Now to our Useful Websites section:

http://www.stallfinder.com/useful-websites-c673.html

As seen on BBC Breakfast, School Together Now.com is a free social website aimed at school children and their parents. It aims to unite the local community surrounding our schools whilst revolutionising the way education is funded in Britain. Parents and children are grouped by the school they attend and can send and receive messages, play fun online games and chat in the forum. For the parents there's also a Job Board and Classified Ads directory where they can source local products and services. Schools benefit as 20% of the advertising revenue from these Classified Ads is donated back into the school fundraising pot. The website is very safe and child security is the number one priority. In addition the scheme has been designed to run with no administration burden on the schools or the PTA. For more information please visit http://www.schooltogethernow.com/ or email esther.guy@schooltogethernow.com.

PayPal Payments Now Accepted on Stallfinder

From today, anyone wishing to advertise on Stallfinder will be able to pay using PayPal. The bank which handles all our credit and debit card transactions, WorldPay, have enabled PayPal transactions as part of the payment process.

We hope you find this useful as many people are still concerned about using their personal credit or debit cards online.

Friends of Stallfinder Earn Free Advertising

Are you a Stallfinder stallholder? Do you want to qualify for free extra advertising time on Stallfinder?

By becoming a Friend of Stallfinder, you can earn up to a year of free advertising just by recommending us to your stallholder friends. Plus there are other benefits too, worth as much as £45 a year. Anyone with a stallholder business listing on Stallfinder can become a Friend of Stallfinder and it's absolutely free.

Many of our stallholders have been recommending Stallfinder already so this is just a way to thank them for their efforts and encourage others to do the same.

To take advantage of this offer, simply e-mail info@stallfinder.com and let us know you want to become a Friend of Stallfinder. To learn more, visit www.stallfinder.com/friends-of-stallfinder-c755.html.

Noodle Jewellery Joins Stallfinder Partner Programme

Stallfinder is delighted to announce that Noodle Jewellery is the latest Direct Sales Company to join the Stallfinder Partner Programme. Partners benefit from a dedicated Partner page where they can give a detailed description of their products and services and they can also explain the business opportunity they offer.

Noodle is a young and exciting jewellery company and we already have two "Noodlers" on www.stallfinder.com. They are already benefitting from the special extended listing period which Stallfinder offers to Partner Programme listees.

If you are interested in your company joining our Partner Programme, please drop us a line to info@stallfinder.com.

Griffin Designs

Stallfinder was recently contacted by Griffin Designs to help them to promote their products to event organisers. Karen at Griffin Designs came across Stallfinder through our friends at Giant Potential. Griffin Designs' products are perfect for the sort of event organisers who use Stallfinder as a resource, but a normal stallholder listing wasn't quite what was needed to help them to grow their business.

We worked with Karen to establish the best spot on http://www.stallfinder.com/ for her advertisement to attract the attention of event organisers who visit the site. We also created a banner ad based on her own logo, font and colour scheme.

To find out more about the re-usable, re-designable advertising banners available from Griffin Designs, go to www.griffindesigns.co.uk/banners or call Karen on 01243 528384.