By Violet Li
1st Cranbourne Scout Group had its first Christmas Market in six years on Saturday 7 December.
The market day attracted more than 300 people, featuring 26 stalls with everything ranging from Christmas gifts, homemade sweets and jams, chutneys, candles, and Christmas paper wraps.
Committee chairperson Skye Nevill said the day received a lot of positive feedback.
“It was our very first market that we ran as the new committee, so, a lot of positive feedback from the stallholders as well as from people coming to attend the market,” she said.
Ms Nevill said the last Christmas Market from the group was held before Covid and it was really good to be able to bring the whole community together after six years.
“We sell Christmas trees every year, and we thought it was a really good opportunity to add a market to that because we already have people who come for our trees.
“So why not add a market to it as well? There’s also a really good opportunity for our venture unit to raise money to upgrade.”
It was very challenging to hold everything together after a six-year pause, according to Ms Nevill.
“The biggest challenge I suppose we had was not knowing what sort of foot traffic we’d get through, just making sure people actually could attend the market and really trying to advertise it,” she said.
“The advertising was the real challenging part, making sure people knew it was there.”
