Reflection on our market

Overall I think the market went really well.

Setting up, we initially had just the tables with fabric over them, but then we found some sticks from a previous market that we combined with stools so that we could rig up some bunting (leftover from a previous market, and some from the vibes team). Then we found a roll of cardboard to put in front of the tables which made our entrance link more to the internal decorations.

We were worried about having a bottleneck when people came in, and also between markets when people were both leaving and entering, but it turned out to work a lot better than expected. We managed to get the bag drop working really fast, and only the first stream ended up doing that – everyone else didn’t bring bags, which meant there was no stress about that. The booklets worked well too – the people who used the bag drop brought them back, because that was the system we used, but nobody else did – and we had about the right amount left for the next stream. In the end we only had about 8 left, which we recycled.

The fact that the entrance and exit were in the same place worked in our favour, since a lot of people went in the last stall before they were finished – and then they just went inside again, so the flow of it worked quite well.