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Fleet Food Festival 2018 is a huge success

           Crowds flocked to the Fleet Food Festival on the weekend of 23rd and 24th June with over 11,000 people coming to enjoy the sunshine, artisan food producers, cookery demonstrations and family activities. The event was organised by the Fleet Business Improvement District for the first time with a culinary feast of fabulous food, cookery demonstrations and masterclasses, tasty talks, children’s activities and an appetising menu of live music. For the first time the event included an accompanying car show of supercars and stunning classic cars organised by United Classic Cars on Saturday and craft show
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Fleet welcomes back Hampshire Farmers’ Markets

Fleet BID is thrilled to announce that Fleet will be hosting two Farmers’ Markets in 2018 offering a delicious range of Hampshire food and drink. Run by Hampshire Farmers Markets, the Markets will be held on Sunday 22nd April and Sunday 23rd September in Gurkha Square on Fleet high street and will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Be sure to get these dates in your diary! Please come along to enjoy the great tastes of Hampshire!  Savour truly local food that is reared, grown, baked, caught and brewed locally. Home reared meats and game, pies, plants, breads, chocolate, wines,
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Fleet Food Festival 2018

Visit the Fleet Food Festival website here. 2018 marks the fifth year of the Fleet Food Festival and the first organised by the Fleet Business Improvement District. Extending across the entire weekend of 23-24 June this will be two full days of food and drink delights and a fun day out for all the family. There will be something for everyone to enjoy including: The amazing food market celebrating the best in food and drink. Find out more here. Specialist food producers including vegan, gluten free, street food and more. Find out more here. Demonstrations, tastings and cookery masterclasses to tantalise your
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Congratulations to the Nutcracker Trail winner

In January Fleet waved goodbye to its royal visitors!  The ten 6’5” Nutcracker Kings who came to the town to help with the Christmas celebrations have now returned to their home in the north. The brightly coloured festive figures were hosted by businesses spread around the BID area and children were invited to complete a Nutcracker Trail to discover their location and names. Many families took part and 387 trail booklets were completed and posted in the special post boxes provided in The Harlington and the Hart Shopping Centre. All the entries were then checked for accuracy and a winner
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Fleet Continental Market

Fleet Business Improvement were delighted to bring Savoir Fayre’s Continental Market came to Gurkha Square in Fleet on Sunday 1 October. Touring the UK annually for over a decade, Savoir Fayre has carefully selected international stalls run by international traders selling top quality artisan-produced foods and craft products from around the world. Stalls and Stallholders included: La Bagette Croustillante for french bread (baguette,polka, pain olive, pain noix,baguette bio,pain cereale) viennoiseries (croissant, pain au chocolat) and patisserie (tarte fraise, mille feuille, flan, tarte citron)l Terre at Mer Tartiflette: pomme de terre-lardon-reblochon-crème and their speciality garlic prawnies. Nuts and Baklava for dried
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Putting Fleet First this Christmas

This will be Fleet’s first Christmas as a  Business Improvement District!    Your new BID Board want to make sure that it is one to remember and demonstrate to you how being a BID can really make a difference to our town. So, what’s happening? What’s the BID providing?  Saturday 2nd December is Small Business Saturday and we have organised entertainment and activity on the day: Street performances A children’s grotto in the Hart Shopping Centre Musical entertainment Launching a magical Nutcracker Trail that will entice our young visitors, their parents, grandparents into the town over a 6 week period from 2 December. Hart
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