Embankment Summer Market

Embankment Summer Market will take place in Victoria Embankment Gardens from Friday 29th May to Sunday 31st May 2015. Created by City Showcase: Markets, the UK’s premier organiser of artisan and designer crafts events, the unique new three-day event follows last year’s Soho Flea Market which saw over 18,000 people visit Dean Street, London.

Bringing together up and coming artisans, artists, fashion designers, jewellery designers and musicians, Embankment Summer Market will also feature gourmet food, drink, farmers’ market, lawn games and entertainment for all ages. The event is in support of The Connection at St Martin’s charity, which helps the homeless in the heart of Central London.

City Showcase: Markets will present a handpicked selection of stallholders as well as the performers on the outdoor stage. The deadline for submissions is 31st March 2015. For more information please visit www.cityshowcasemarkets.com

City Showcase, the not-for-profit organisation, supports and nurtures new creatives from all disciplines. They look to feature high quality, distinctive, talented and quirky designers, showcasing their products alongside top quality street food and live entertainment.

The distinctly glamorous Embankment Summer Market is a unique, must-go event in a wonderfully scenic location on the Northbank of the Thames between Embankment Station and the Royal Courts of Justice and Somerset House.

Nanette Rigg, Founding Director of City Showcase: Markets added: “Building on the success of Soho Flea Market over the past three years, we’re excited to be holding our first Embankment Summer Market in the beautiful Victoria Embankment Gardens alongside the Thames. The three-day event will feature a handpicked selection of innovative products by the UK’s best creative and design talents, alongside stalls from this summer’s hottest food and drink vendors. The City Showcase stage will host the best emerging musicians and bands, and there’ll be lawn games and entertainment for all ages”.

Sonja Ashbury, Fundraising Officer at The Connection at St Martins-in-the-Fields says:
“Being the Charity partner of Embankment Summer Market is a fantastic opportunity for us to raise awareness and tell people about our work with rough sleepers in Westminster, the borough with the highest rates of homelessness in the UK (a quarter of rough sleepers are located here). We will be making sure our clients get the most out of this opportunity by displaying some art work and photography they have produced through the Centre, which is a massive confidence boost for them and a source of income for them too!”