Multicultural Day, Prestongrange Museum

On Sunday 10th October, two of our volunteers manned a stall at Prestongrange Museum's Multi-Cultural Day.

Our marquee neighbours were the Edinburgh Chinese Culture Association, and East Coast FM.  It was really nice to meet our fellow Fair-Traders from The Green Gift Company and the One World Shop. 


We would like to attend more of these type of events.  It's a learning curve and notes for next time include:

• A 'bag of tricks' including hooks, sellotape, scissors is very handy.
• Take a flask of Traidcraft hot chocolate and a geobar or two.
• Taking orders (on a pay on collection basis) for higher priced items worked well.
• We need to think of ways to utilise the space around us (i.e. not just the table)
• The things with very obvious price signage sold well - people don't like picking things up to see price.
• People are genuinely interested in the origin of craft items - it pays to know about your stock and have some producer info

The Multi-Cultural Day was very well organised and widely publicised thanks to the efforts of East Lothian Museums Service.  We met potential customers, networked and learned a few things.  We were so glad to have been part of it!