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Hamilton Wenham Children's Business Fair
Sunday, September 19, 2021
12:00PM - 5:00PM
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About the fair
Observe the opportunity for children to launch their very own startup business!
Kids develop a brand, create a product or service, build a marketing strategy, and then open for customers at our one-day marketplace. **At this time, we cannot accept applications for food or foodstuff that will trigger a health department approval. This includes: cupcakes, pre-packaged goods, home made candy or anything consumable. sorry, we just don't have the bandwidth for the extra process in our first year!
We will host approximately 25 booths for children vendors ages 8-18 years old at the upcoming Shop Local HW Fall Festival event on Sunday September 19th, from 12:00pm – 5:00 pm. We are charing a $15 booth fee which will cover the cost of our DJ and entertainment for the day. Children Vendors must start to set up at 11am and start to take down at 5pm. All children vendors should have an adult accompanying them for the duration of the event and in addition, there will be on-site volunteers who can help you.
This event is sponsored by The Towns of Hamilton and Wenham, The Wenham Museum, Shop Local HW, and our national partner, Acton Academy, the Acton School of Business. We all believe that principled entrepreneurs are heroes and role models for the next generation.
Whether an entrepreneur is famous like Elon Musk or Oprah Winfrey or they are one of the thousands of unsung business owners across this country, these are the people who make sacrifices to innovate, create jobs and serve their communities. This event could not be possible without the generous grant provided by the State of MA with a focus to help welcome our businesses back after a pandemic year.
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Natalie Bowers
🗓️ Started hosting in 2021
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We are a team of passionate entrepreneurs, mentors, and parents, who want our children to learn about entrepreneurship in a practical and fun way. We are Shop Local HW and our local non-profit works to promote and support our local business community through events and networking opportunities. But we also value the next generation of entrepreneurs, which is why we are hosting our first-ever children's business fair, in partnership with our towns, The Wenham Museum and the Acton Childrens Fair organization, a national entity that promotes youth entrepreneurialism across the country! We urge you to take this opportunity and be a boss for a day, and even make a little money doing it! ***Please note that for this year, we cannot host food items or perishable foodstuff as products or else the health department will make this a lot more complicated ;) Thank you and we hope you apply!
22 booths participating
Bewees Barkin Biscuits
arthurs house of challenges
And 20 others.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Hamilton Wenham Children’s Business Fair?
The Hamilton Wenham Children’s Business Fair inspires children to discover their inner entrepreneur. This one-day market gives children the opportunity to showcase their very own businesses on the same day as our two-town wide Fall Festival that spans the entire length of the 1A corridor. We anticipate 1,500 attendance, so your business idea is bound to make an impression!
How many businesses will you host?
We anticipate 25 children businesses and hope to have approximately 200 adult businesses participating in the larger festival.
Where should I begin?
Start with our resources page. Read inspiring stories about other young entrepreneurs and play games to hone your business skills.
How do I apply? Can I apply as part of a group?
Application must be submitted online. Please submit one application for each business. Children working as a group should submit one application that includes each child’s information. No more than 3 participants per business.
What is on the application?
The application asks kids to think through some simple, but important elements of their business:
- What product or service do you plan to sell?
- What price will you charge for each product/service? How much will each product/service cost you?
- How will you pay for your startup costs? If someone is helping you with your startup costs, how will you pay that person back?
- How will you advertise/market your business before the fair?
- At the end of the fair, how will you determine if your business was a success?
What if someone else has the same business idea?
Two pet rock businesses? Not a problem. In general, we will let market forces play out, though we will let later entries know if another applicant has a similar idea so the later entrant can decide what to do.
How will the fair be set up?
The fair will be an outdoor event with your own chairs and booths and/or tables - it's a BYO party and each business will be given an approximate space of 8x8 feet on the front lawn of the Wenham Museum - cool right? We are not able to accommodate provision of electricity and businesses should give consideration to their method of taking payment - cash is always awesome but most people have and want to use their credit cards or Venmo!
Will electricity be available?
Unfortunately, we are not able to provide electricity to the booths.
What are the rules?
This event is designed to give children the experience of selling a product or service. If a parent is found selling or promoting a child’s product or service, their child’s business will be disqualified from any competitions that are held on the day.
Parents of younger children may sit in the booth, but the children should be responsible for set up, customer interaction, and sales.
Parents may help their child fill out the application, but we expect the children to do as much as possible by themselves.
Who is the Acton Childrens Business Fair?
Who is the Acton Childrens Business Fair?
They are an amazing national non-profit that supports children business fairs across the country with an awesome toolkit for producing the event, including this website! They want kids to exercise their inner entrepreneur and encourage efforts like ours through amazing support. We are super lucky to have them as one of our sponsors.
