Broadway gets bigger: market teams up with London Fields primary
New stalls at Broadway Market will raise funds for London Fields Primary School. Photo: © Hackney Citizen
This month sees a major expansion of the highly successful community street market on Broadway Market, London Fields. In defiance of economic gloom and the Government’s budget cuts, it has opened around 30 new stalls in the local schoolyard of London Fields Primary, opposite the park on Westgate Street.
The aim is to generate a steady income for the school and a platform for students and community groups to demonstrate their skills.
Broadway Market traders believe this is the first time that a street market has teamed up with a school to benefit the whole community – especially the children. It will be their biggest social investment since it revived the street market six years ago.
Open on Saturdays from 9am- 5pm, most of the stallholders will be high quality Hackney-based designers offering jewellery, handmade clothes, hats, textiles, cards, ceramics, engravings, maps – and even carnivorous plants.
Broadway Market Projects Community Interest Company, the non-profit operating company of Broadway Market Traders’ and Residents’ Association, has already begun selling cotton shopping bags designed entirely by students at London Fields Primary, with surplus income going back to the school.
It believes this initiative is another first, which forms part of the neighbourhood campaign to persuade people to give up plastic bags.
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