Pop this date in your diary and tell all your friends…
National Creative Market Day is back on Saturday 4th October!
What is National Creative Market Day?
Created by Pedddle in 2024, National Creative Market Day (NCMD) is a day dedicated to celebrating markets. The vibrant UK market community comes together to raise awareness, make some noise and draw attention to fantastic markets and events, encouraging everyone to visit them and shop locally. And it’s back again this year!
We love when the creative community unites. Get involved! #communityovercompetition
How do I join in on National Creative Market Day?
Thanks for being part of the movement! Here’s what you can do.
Use our National Creative Market Day assets:
Download our NCMD graphics, or use the Canva template below to design your own.
For Organisers & Stallholders
Share an NCMD graphic. You can create one using these templates – then pin it to your social media grid, to show your support for markets leading up to NCMD.
Use the NCMD sticker graphics on your social media/market posts, and let us know why you’re celebrating NCMD. To access the GIF version, search GIF’s section by typing in ‘Pedddle’ and use on your stories.
Put a link in your bio to a blog – either our NCMD blogs, which can be found here, or write one yourself to explain why NCMD is important to you.
Create a reel about your upcoming markets and tell us why you love them – whether you organise them or trade at them.
Host an IG live with other makers or organisers, to chat about an event/anything market related!
Ask someone (organiser or stallholder) to collab with you on a post about markets. Co-create the content, have one of you post it and add the other as a collaborator. It will appear on both grids!
Send out an email to your audience about NCMD – you could even have a special “NCMD” offer, which may encourage some sales – heck yes!
Remember to use hashtags #NCMD, #NationalCreativeMarketDay and #Pedddleuk.
On Instagram, tag us @pedddleuk.
For Customers
Tell your friends and family that you love to visit markets, and invite them with you to one!
Share any of our NCMD graphics from the links on this page and share what you visit markets for.
Visit a market on this day, if you get a chance! Post about it on social media, telling us why you love the event.
Don’t forget to use hashtags #NCMD, #NationalCreativeMarketDay and #Pedddleuk.
On Instagram, tag us @pedddleuk.
We have multiple marketing materials and assets for sharing across your channels. You may even come up with an idea of your own! Whether you choose to post about it on your socials, write a blog, tell friends, or visit a market – it’s making National Creative Market Day a community effort, in every way.
We believe this will help many shoppers discover something new: local markets across the country, encouraging them to support local stallholders, and in turn, their own local economies. Shopping small truly benefits us all.
We’ll also be posting lots about NCMD on our Instagram page, so look out for IG Lives, posts and Stories where we’ll be including lots of fun, facts and brilliant businesses you need to know about.
We’d love you to join us in celebrating these things, and ensuring that British markets remain as welcoming, friendly hubs of our local communities for many years to come.
What makes Creative Markets so important?
National Creative Market Day celebrates market heritage, cultivating entrepreneurial spirit and helping local economies, all which benefit the great British public.
Creativity is shaped and inspired by diversity. Britain’s markets are brilliant because of their cultural and creative diversity, and we want to keep them growing as welcoming spaces for everyone, for many years to come.
In terms of economic, social, sustainable, and perhaps even technological development, creativity allows us to express ourselves, seek solutions and solve problems, leading to further innovation. Creativity, therefore, is essential to improving our world.
We know that arkets are the ideal place to inspire creativity, for visitors, customers and organisers.
Want to know more? Look for our other NCMD blogs, where we talk more about the 3 pillars of this awareness day.
We really hope you join us this year to shout loudly about markets!
What is Pedddle?
Here at Pedddle, we offer an online directory of markets and their stallholders, all across the UK. Promoting markets is both our passion and our aim. As well as our publicly-available directory, we offer a private subscription service for both markets and their stallholders, to help them maintain and grow their businesses in new ways.
We are re-imagining markets by helping traditional events to be discovered online, and actively encouraging shoppers to visit them in person. We provide connection, linking our own creativity, authority, and expertise with other businesses, and cultivating connection between them too.
Markets are our bread and butter, so we’re always looking for new ways to promote the many events happening throughout our beautiful country. We want to shout about the amazing markets and stallholders you can find in the UK, and the many ways that visiting and shopping from them benefit everybody.
Our latest efforts to do this have culminated in NCMD, and we’d love you to join in too!
