Independent businesses will be coming together to make Christmas shopping even easier for you.

The Poundbury Christmas Market returns to the Buttermarket with a range of gifts, crafts, food, drink and more, as well as Father Christmas in his grotto.

A small independent market has been held in Poundbury since 2015 and has grown each year.

It always falls on Small Business Saturday, the first Saturday in December, which this year is Saturday, December 4.

There will be more than 30 stalls to browse, including:

Food and drink

• Lizzie Baking Bird
• Pizza With love
• The Book and Bucket Cheese Company
• Fordington Gin
• Oxford Bakery
• Winfrith Bakery
• Mure
• The Dorset Forager
• Stoney Groves
• Vegan Magda
• Farm Girl Sausages
• LT Bars
• Liberty's Cottage Bakery

Crafts, gifts and retail

• Bramblewood Soap
• Ama Design
• Tide Dorset
• Sophie Natasha Bunting
• Cherry Garth Beeswax Wraps
• James Frames
• Silver Star Jewellery
• Kits & Ko
• Ridgeway Potters
• The Poundbury Potter
• Brothers Make
• Bay Craft
• Jura Organics
• Malleable Designs
• Casterbridge Art Society
• By.Bonhomie
• Galiani Glass Art
• Floral Couture by Jay
• My Scented Home
• Orris Leather
• Clare A Beau's Wax Company
• The Shoal
• Bella's Bespoke Pottery
• SW Coast Refills

• Dorset Wildlife Trust
• The Prince of Wales School PTA
• RSPB
• Damers School PTA

Poundbury Christmas Market takes place on Saturday, December 4 from 10am to 4pm.

For more information, visit poundburychristmasmarket.co.uk

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