Local produce in Wednesday Market

On Wednesday 8 April from 9am to 3pm, Beverley’s Wednesday Market will be a scene of festive fun for all the family to enjoy – and it’s free to attend. It’s a special event to launch the first of six monthly local produce markets to be held in the town between April and September.

The event will include 18 local produce stalls offering the very best in locally-produced food and drink, cooking demonstrations from a mobile kitchen, Beverley Garland Dancers, acoustic young musicians Grand Theft Audio, Professor Fiddlesticks will be entertaining children with circus skills and the Beverley Minster Youth Group will be organising lots of fun Easter activities for children to enjoy. Children can also get involved decorating cookies with Lakeland, the home of creative kitchenware.

One of the cooking demonstrations in the mobile kitchen will be given by Luke Underwood, sous chef at the Star @ Sancton. Speaking about Luke, chef Ben Cox said: “The hard work is certainly paying off for hard-working Luke. He started with us as a school leaver five years ago and now he is one of our key members of staff. He is dedicated to using the best of local produce. He is definitely a great “Star at Sancton” thoroughbred chef. It’s great that Beverley Town Council is offering this showcase for young local chefs and promoting locally grown and produced food and drink.”

Other cooking demonstrations will be given by Patrick’s Macarons, Side Oven Bakery, The Hull Pie and Beverley Tickton Grange.

The dates for all of the local produce monthly markets, each held on a Wednesday, are: 8 April, 13 May, 17 June, 15 July, 19 August and 16 September.

There will be up to 20 stalls at each market, with a real variety of food and drink on offer. Stallholders include: Staal Smokehouse, Patrick’s Macarons, White Rabbit Chocolatiers, Rose Cottage Farm Products, Side Oven Bakery, Yorkshire Crisps, Fabulously Fruity Wine, Brown & Blond, Mr Huda’s and The Hull Pie – who recently won the ‘Remarkable Food Provider’ category at the Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards 2015.

The event is being organised by Beverley Town Council in a bid to regenerate the Wednesday Market area of the town. It is hoped that the pilot project, running over six months, will bring more visitors to the town to shop and enjoy all that Beverley has to offer.

Mayor of Beverley Councillor Paul McGrath will be officially opening the event at 10am, and he said: “Beverley Town Council is delighted to be officially opening the first Local Produce Market on Wednesday 8 April. There will be a lot of activities on the day to please everyone, from cookery demonstrations, music, circus skills workshop, garland dancers, to Easter crafts for the children to enjoy. 

"We will also be giving away a local food hamper on the day, so we would encourage people to support this new market and come to join in the fun. Beverley Town Council envisages that this mid-week local produce market will attract people who live or work in Beverley along with visitors to the town, to sample the mid-week delights that Beverley has to offer.”

Beverley Town Council will be working in partnership with Beverley Minster, Beverley FM Radio and East Yorkshire Local Food Network (EYLFN) to deliver the local produce monthly markets project.

For further information, please contact Beverley Town Council on 01482 874096 or visit www.beverley.gov.uk