Manchester News

5th and 6th of October sees the Mind, Body & Spirit Weekend at Manchester.

We wanted to let visitors know that the seating is back in the marquee.  As you may remember last year a late fire inspection led to all of the stands being taken out of the Cloisters and put into the catering marquee. It was not an ideal situation but it was impossible to let down all those exhibitors at the last minute. Consequently there was limited space for refreshments and relaxing.

This year we have had enough time to sort out these issues and the situation with the Cloisters has been resolved and the seating is back to normal!  It's a busy and exciting show so somewhere to rest up from time to time is vital and makes the day even more enjoyable.

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Programme Update

For some weeks now I have been driving miles, much of it in this heat looking at venues to add to our programme.  We had a ‘consolidation’ year this year, we cut back to our core shows, many of which are 10 to 12 years old and still strong, plus the two wonderful Monastery shows and Wood Green Animal Shelter in Cambridgeshire.  We kept that one because a) I think it showed potential, particularly with the amount of e-mails and telephone calls post show last time and b) Chris is such a dog lover!

The idea was to use this year to plan and decide on the direction we wish to take BSSK next.  Planning done, I have just completed the programme on Friday.  Next year we have 16 shows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sudden rush of blood to the head????  Most definitely!  All very exciting stuff and I hope to have the exhibitor pack prepared and e-mailed out by Wednesday latest, which is the last day of July.

The programme includes the return of the Grimsby/Cleethorpes summer show – you would not believe how many visitors have e-mailed and phoned about it – it is clearly sorely missed this year – so back we go next year with a slightly smaller show (50 stands) in another new location for that area.

In these difficult times we have decided to add some more 50 – 60 stand size shows, rather than trying to make them all 80+ in size.  We think this is a sensible move when starting a new show and then letting it build – rather than aiming too high to start with.  Pity they can’t all be Monastery shows – it flew from day one, but as long as we can see potential in a new show, we will work with it to build it up.  These slightly smaller shows will have slightly reduced spaces for readers, crystals and jewellery  - the three categories that we are always inundated with enquiries for, so we do not wish our regular exhibitors to take offence if they are turned down for the odd one or two – we will try and distribute them fairly across the enquiries, but it is in all our interests not to have too much of any one type of stand.

Angie

Back to Blogging...

As some of you know, blogging is a tricky act.  Many are born but not many keep going.  It has been a little while since we at BSSK  have posted, however it is time to get back to it!

The intent is still there to keep everyone informed in the "behind the scenes" workings at BSSK, updates on events and happenings and generally keep in touch.

We're also intending to post news, interesting stories, interviews and articles all relating to what we do. While in these early stages we have made a few changes to our social media which we want to make you aware of.

We have a new Twitter profile - twitter.com/AngieBSSK  and we have also created a Pinterest profile at http://pinterest.com/ajury1111/boards/  If you haven't been on Pinterest, have a little look.  It's a very energising  website with a great exchange of ideas, inspiration and even recipes.

We are looking forward to posting more often on here, and especially sharing our stories and reading your comments!

BSSK @ Stoke Mandeville

Grimsby Auditorium is host to the BSSK Mind, Body & Spirit Event this weekend

Grimsby is always a favourite with us - the summer show can be a bit of a challenge as there are so many other things to compete with in the summer - fetes and galas, county shows, fun days and so on.  This time the challenge may well be that the forecast is for the first nice weekend for so many weeks, I think we have forgotten what sun looks like! 

We are hoping that not everyone heads for the beach or the garden centre however, as we have a wonderful show lined up,.  Take a peek at http://www.bssk.co.uk/ and click on the moving picture of the auditorium to go to the Grimsby home page.  There you will find a list of exhibitors attending and another list of the talks and workshops for the weekend.

We hope to see you there!