People often say there’s nothing to do in our area, but on Friday 11th December from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. there will be a Christmas market on Market Street in Goldthorpe, and we’re getting involved!

At the market, there will be a variety of craft stalls (including one selling Christmas wreaths) and in the car park at the bottom of Market Street, there will be a variety of rides. So far, the following things have been booked:

  • Rodeo reindeer
  • Mega Jungle Christmas Trailer
  • Coconut Shy
  • Tin Can Alley
  • Bungie Trampoline
  • Six Bed Trampoline
  • Mini Waltzer Ride
  • Ball in the Bucket
  • Santa’s Grotto

Inside the church building, we’ll be selling refreshments (to keep everybody nice and warm!) and we also hope to run some craft activities and sell some Christmas crafts, with money raised from this going to the Salvation Army Christmas Appeal (to buy presents for children of needy local families.) We’ll also be running a Christmas present wrapping service, a bargain at 10p per present, so if you’re one of the many people who hate wrapping Christmas presents, why not come along, buy some presents at the Christmas Market and then bring them along to the building to have them wrapped while you enjoy a cuppa?!

All the local churches will be involved with this, and at 6 p.m. we’ll host the ‘Churches Together’ carol service, singing carols outdoors in the car park so that everyone can enjoy the festive spirit!

How can you be involved?

  1. Come along at some point between 4-8 p.m. to support the event!
  2. Get involved in running a stall or looking after some of the activities (if you’re a crafty person, please offer ideas and suggestions as well as your expertise!)
  3. Provide some craft items to sell
  4. Make refreshments or wash up
  5. Join us for the carol service at 6 p.m.

We’ll have a variety of Christmas literature available to give out and we hope this will be a great way of serving our community as well as enjoying all the festive activities ourselves.

Christmas market