Caterers:
Ally & Joe’s Chocolate y Churros
BloomberryJuice Fruit juice, smoothies, hot drinks and a bicycle-powered smoothie maker!
Blue Fuchsia – fresh strawberries & cream
Cotswold Canal Trust’s own tea, coffee and cake stall
Cotswold Pizza – Local pizza-makers with a wood-fired oven
The Country Chef – Lee Cox – a food producer and outside catering company specialising in rare breed pork and beef from Cowshill Farm. Pig roasts and barbecues.
Fiona’s Fudge – crepes, cakes and fudge
Kuskus Foods – great vegan and vegetarian food with a Mediterranean / N African flavour, now appearing in Gloucester farmers’ market.
mmm Coffee – selling milkshakes
Munday Catering – doughnuts, Fairtrade coffee
Niang’s Thai Snacks – popular stalwarts of Gloucester & Stroud farmers’ markets. Proper Thai grub.
R&B Soul Foods – Caribbean Cooking from Bristol
Urban Jungle Sausage Company – a unique range of freshly cooked sausages from Australia and Africa – includes kangaroo, bison, antelope, crocodile and more…!
Urban Jungle Coffee – proper speciality coffee from a Piaggio coffee “car”
General Traders, Charities and Community Organisations:
Bandana Workshop – DIY bandanas
Beez Neez – Mens & Ladies Hats & Scarves
Bohemian Beads – handmade jewellery & accessories
Bowl of Beauty – knitting demonstrations, knitwear, clothes, giftware
Brimscombe & Thrupp Womens Institute
Butterfly Ball – gifts, fairtrade, handmade artwork
Cloud Cover – hand drawn gift wrap, greetings cards & associated products
Cotswold Canals Knowledge – educational games and information
Cotswold Canal Trust – bringing the canal back to Stroud!
Designs on Craft – hand made craft goods and supplies
Fairy Goodies – wands, feather boas, fairy dust etc
Friends of Purton – Maintaining and researching the boat graveyard at Purton
Gerbrands Pants to Poverty – 100% Fair trade underwear, plus handprinted art cards
Granny’s Attic – handmade crafts, jewellery & children’s toys
The Hat Stand – local makers of hats for all (they will, of course, be doing a great trade in sun hats!)
Herefordshire & Gloucestershire Canal Trust – Restoring the H&G
Herewood Gabriel – tree calendars, storytelling gift packs, clock sculptures & more
The Horseboating Society – with horses, and a horse drawn boat display
Kennet & Avon Canal Trust – Looking after the Kennet & Avon Canal
Kim’s Painted Shirts – hand painted pictures, t-shirts, pots and all sorts
Matico – Fairtrade clothing, knitwear, jewellery, hiking sticks
Marnhull Leathercraft – leather goods made by themselves
Melton & Oakham Waterways Society – restoring the Melton Mowbray navigation
Narrowboat Art – hand painted canal giftware
Phoenix Trading – cards and stationery
R&B Canal Art – canalia, and running workshops at the festival in painting Roses & Castles (booking form here)
RNLI – the charity that saves lives at sea
SARA – the Severn Area Rescue Association with one of their lifeboats
Severn Cider – Gold award-winning traditional cider & perry from Gloucestershire
Shiva Foods – Greek olives, nuts, Turkish delight, baklava
Slimbridge Soaps – handmade soaps and soaks
South Glos Diabetes UK Group – awareness and support
Stroud Beekeepers Association – beekeeping display and local honey & honey cakes
Tipsy Fruit Gins – fruit flavoured gins
A Touch of Peru – luxury alpaca goods and Peruvian gifts
Track to Trail – bicycles
Stroudco Foodhub – shopping made fair. Stroudco is Stroud’s only not-for-profit social enterprise providing a wide range of local produce at affordable prices.
Transition Stroud – a network for local people and groups working on the transition to a locally based low carbon lifestyle
Upton Chilli Company – chilli sauces, chocolate and anything chilli related…
Usborne Books – children’s books
Waterways Recovery Group – The IWA group that restores canals. Come and join them!
Wiltshire & Berkshire Canal Trust – working to restore their waterway
