I hope you all had a fabulous break and are now ready to plan 2019. I have some dates for you.
Summer Fair - Sunday 14th July
Autumn Fair - Sunday 6th October
Christmas Fair - Sunday 1st December
As you probably know the VAT on hospitality has now been restored to it's old rate before the discount so we were expecting an increase in room hire charges this year which we got. There was also an increase in advertising costs in the latter part of last year that we covered ourselves as many of the bookings had already been made and we wouldn't charge different rates in the same year, but reluctantly we have to increase the table charge for 2019 to €30. We hope you will still want to book with us but if you feel you can't make it work we totally understand.
The website has been updated for this year and as always our regulars are getting first dibs on the spaces available. The booking application form page is password protected until Monday 21st January when it will go live on the site, our Facebook page and sent to the rest of the event mailing list. If you'd like to secure your space before then you are very welcome and can access the form using this link https://downlandcrafts.ie/events/book-an-event/ the password is members. You may have seen this posted in the events group on Facebook already but I like to email too just in case.
