{"id":20764,"date":"2022-11-23T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=20764"},"modified":"2022-11-23T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T14:54:08","slug":"festive-christmas-market-featuring-over-20-local-businesses-set-to-take-over-mallusk-enterprise-park-on-december-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2022\/11\/festive-christmas-market-featuring-over-20-local-businesses-set-to-take-over-mallusk-enterprise-park-on-december-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive Christmas Market featuring over 20 local businesses set to take over Mallusk Enterprise Park on December 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Antrim business Hoddmimirs Wood Craft join the Mallusk Enterprise Park team to launch the Mallusk Christmas Market. Designed to support over 20 local businesses and 3 charities the Market takes place on 1 December 2022 from 5pm to 8pm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An indoor market of over 20 stalls is set to transform the local enterprise park at Mallusk with some yuletide cheer on Thursday 1 December, offering visitors the chance to pick up presents and festive fare and enjoy an\u00a0<\/span>evening out supporting the business community in the countdown to Christmas.<\/p>\n

Hosted and supported by Local Enterprise Agency – Mallusk Enterprise Park, as part of their 30th birthday celebrations, the\u00a0Christmas Market<\/a>\u00a0affords an opportunity\u00a0for local enterprises to showcase their businesses and wares to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Market will see\u00a0over 20 local independent businesses<\/a>\u00a0offering products ranging from crafts and novelties to Christmas gift ideas, with an outdoor food stall serving hot pizzas and the team at the enterprise park providing festive nibbles & drinks. There will also be live music by\u00a0tenant of Mallusk Enterprise Park – Audio Level DJ store<\/a>\u00a0and folk band The Rogues.<\/span><\/p>\n

A free Christmas Grotto experience is being delivered to 90 local kids on the night and 3 charities are being supported – from a raffle in aid of NI Children’s Hospice to the building of a festive food mountain of donations for Newtownabbey Food Bank and a mountain of toy donations for Cash for Kids NI – visitors and traders are being asked to play their part in helping the worthy causes by bringing donations on the night or sponsoring\u00a0raffle prizes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Market will opens it’s doors at 5pm and kick off in artistic style with the announcement\u00a0of the winners and runners up to a\u00a0Children’s Art Competition for primary school kids in the local area<\/a> – the original artworks of favourite local businesses and social enterprises will be on show, gallery style, in the brand new Enterprise Hub at the business park.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CEO of Mallusk Enterprise Park, Emma Garrett said:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very much looking forward to holding the inaugural Mallusk Christmas Market in the Enterprise Park. This event will kick off a year of celebrations to mark our landmark 30th<\/sup>\u00a0Birthday.\u00a0 Since 1992 we have strived to\u00a0promote, support and develop enterprise and wealth creation within our local community through free advice, training and mentoring to individuals and small \/ micro businesses.\u00a0 We look forward to welcoming members of the local community into the Park to show them the facilities we have on offer whilst they shop small and local with our wide range of market traders.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Iain Patterson, Chairman Mallusk Enterprise Park added: \u201cThe team at Mallusk Enterprise Park have been working hard behind the scenes to make this event special in every way.\u00a0 The Enterprise Park is very much part of the community in Newtownabbey; helping over 100 people every year to establish their own business and assisting many more to survive and even thrive during the last few challenging years of Covid.\u00a0 We have been heartened by the kind and generous donations of local businesses to the raffle and the event itself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Mallusk Enterprise Christmas Market takes place on Thursday 1 December from 5pm to 8pm, is free to attend and a list of traders and the entertainment line up can be found online at: at\u00a0www.mallusk.org\/events<\/a>. The Santa’s Grotto experience is fully booked but a waiting list is in operation and can be joined via\u00a0eventbrite<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An indoor market of over 20 stalls is set to transform the local enterprise park at Mallusk with some yuletide cheer on Thursday 1 December, offering visitors the chance to pick up presents and festive fare and enjoy an\u00a0evening out supporting the business community in the countdown to Christmas. Hosted and supported by Local Enterprise … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1642],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20769,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20764\/revisions\/20769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}