Applications for 2025 are now open!
Applications for 2025 are now open and we would be delighted to here from you. Please note that we will not have space for all businesses and have to make hard decisions to select stalls in all categories and not duplicate what is on offer to our shoppers.
For Stall Holders joining us in 2024 please click below for more information
2025 Application Form
Some background information
Our Committee has run a Christmas Fair for over 20 years. We are very well-established and have become a fixture in people’s diaries. We are in a good catchment area, attracting shoppers from Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Hampshire. Our venue is The Oxfordshire Golf Hotel and Spa, situated just off the M40 with great parking and lots of space. We select approximately 50 stalls ensuring we have a great selection of gifts with no duplicates. Each year we try to change our stall offering by about 50% to rest some popular stalls and ensure we always have something new for our loyal shoppers. We mail (postal) our shoppers, from our mailing list of previous attendees, plus an email campaign to a growing list of supporters, plus local media etc. ensuring that the fair is attended by over 500 people. We aim to be the friendliest fair on the circuit and are dedicated to enjoying planning our annual fair and for making it fun for everyone – despite the early starts!!!! As a one day fair, we try to maximise sales and have very few quiet moments – and you get to go home to sleep in your own bed. Lunch is provided for all stallholders plus lots of coffee / tea supplies to keep us all going.
Our Christmas Fair is being held in 2024 with a few changes:
A new name – South Oxfordshire Christmas Fair – new branding to follow
Watlington Hospital Christmas Fair is being replaced by South Oxfordshire Christmas Fair
This enables us to support a wider range of deserving South Oxfordshire-based charities.
In 2024 we will continue to support Watlington and District Hospital Charitable Trust and in addition raise money for Sobell House Hospice
In future years we will develop our giving to other South Oxfordshire-based charities in response to a huge need to support smaller charities with significant funds raised at the Fair
Timing – well we’ve added an hour of extra shopping and our new hours are 9:30am until 4pm