Welcome to our web site. You have arrived at our Home page where we try, without boring you, to give you a bit of information about our organisation.

The Creative Crafts Association have been organising Craft Fairs for over 22 years and have grown to become one of the most successful Craft and Gift Fair Organisers in the country.

Each year we try to bring variety to our craft fairs with new ideas and some new venues. In 2012 we have new fairs at the Booths Hall at Knutsford, the Dunkenhalgh Hotel at  Clayton Le Moors in Lancashire and two brand new events at the well known Arley Hall in Cheshire.  Our Garden Centre events were once again very successful in 2011 and we hope to further build on that success during 2012.

Some of our most popular venues are Gawsworth Hall near Macclesfield where we incorporate a dedicated Food and Drinks Marquee within our Craft and Gift event and the Reebok Stadium Exhibition Centre, which is part of the Bolton Wanderers Football Club. Also, Capesthorne Hall where as well as the two major Craft, Gift and Food Fairs in May and October, which are exclusively marquee events, we are organising the Christmas Craft and Gift section of ‘Christmas at Capesthorne’ where we will have exhibitors both inside the hall itself and in an adjoining heated marquee. The Arley Garden Festival is in June and we also have two new shopping events planned for Arley Hall at Easter and the first week in November.

Some weekends we exhibit in built up areas and others in glorious countryside and sometimes as part of a large festival or a County Show..

At some events we include demonstrations or workshops and even recreations of a Medieval way of life in our tented villages. We try to make our craft fairs interesting for all our customers. That’s why we have lots of different venues in lots of different areas. We add unexpected extras wherever possible and we try our best to encourage top quality exhibitors to every fair.

Our long experience has taught us the value of researching all of our craft venues very carefully and also the massive importance of top rate advertising to make a successful event. Wherever we are exhibiting, each and every craft fair is preceded by massive advertising. We pride ourselves in putting out more road signs, often backed up with ‘AA’ type signs, than any other organisers in our area. We advertise on a large scale in all newspapers in the local areas and this almost always includes the Manchester Evening News when appropriate.

The Creative Crafts Association are once again keeping stall fees and customer admission charges lower than those of any other major organiser throughout 2012 and this is despite continuing increases in venue hire charges, advertising, sign posting and printing costs for all our posters, leaflets and brochures.

Whether you are one of our many visitors or exhibitors please feel free to look round our web site and we look forward to meeting you at one of our events in the near future.

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