You can sell any items you have made.

You can sell homemade food that is designed to be eaten away from the market. Click here.

Due to past experience, cooking on-site or preparing food on-site is not allowed, this means no sausage sizzles, etc. 

Have a poster or banner saying which school you are from and where the funds are going. The pubic will support you.

Just like any business, there is a cost to have a site. If you wear your school uniform, the cost is $15.00 per single site, otherwise it will be $20.00. 

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General Pointers

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Think about what you want to sell.

Visit the market and see what is selling and what isn't being sold. There are some opportunities for those who think outside the box.

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Many students want to sell food because it is easy. Be aware, there is also high wastage and costs in packaging, etc. If you make crafts, then they can be sold later or given away as gifts. 

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Could your product soften or melt". Consider keeping them in a chilly bin and only have samples on show.

Allow your customers to try before they buy, so have sample sizes available.

List the ingredients as some people may be allergic to some of them, either on the skin or if they eat it.

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Parents​

Please ask your parents not to leave their cars in the market while they help you set up. They are stopping us doing our job.

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Parents do come up with some good ideas about how we should run the market, but at 5.30am in the morning, we are too busy too take these on board. 

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Your rubbish

Like when you visit the beach, you must take everything away with you when you leave and this does not mean putting it in the local rubbish bins. We have contacted schools in the past because students did not take their rubbish home. The bins at the market are for the public, not stallholders.

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Coastguard volunteers

The people setting up and running the market are all volunteers with Coastguard North Shore and we use the site fees to help run our dedicated rescue vessel, North Shore Rescue. If you are interested in volunteering, visit our website here. While you can join the unit, you are not able to go on patrol until you are 16.

 

We also fund projects in the local community, such as the Sherwood Reserve playground, sun shades at Waiake and the seats in the Phoenix Plaza.

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Like you, we are also up early, so if we can help each other, it would be awesome. ​

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