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£400 raised by Air Ambulance volunteers at car boot sale
Congratulations to the staff of John Taylor Funeralcare who raised money for the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance at a recent car boot sale.
Selling from no less than five vehicles including a camper van, the staff members managed to raise more than £400 for the local air paramedic operation that is voluntary run.
Nurses hold car boot sale to raise money for hospital in Nepal
Two nurses from the Isle of Arran in Scotland are holding a car boot sale on Easter Sunday (March the 22nd) to raise funds to help set up a hospital in Nepal.
The boot sale takes place at the Balmichael Visitor Centre in Shiskine on the Isle of Arran (KA27 8DT for all you sat navvers) between 10am and 12 noon, with sellers arriving from 9.30am ( £5 per car pitch).
Sally Bambridge and Pearl White will spend three weeks in Baruwa, in the Helambu region of Nepal, north of Kathmandu, helping set up a hospital for people who currently have no such facilities in the area.
£2 car boot sale LP sells for £4,000
An autographed Rolling Stones album bought at a car boot sale in Derbyshire has sold at auction for £4,000!
The 1976 Black and Blue LP Experts think the album was bought at a car boot sale for just £2 - after the buyer managed to get a pound knocked off the asking price. It was only later that he realised that thje sleeve had been signed by not onlty members of the Stones, bnut also John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul and Linda McCartney and George Harrison.
The LP was sold at auction last month by Bamfords auctioneers for £4,000.
Is your boot sale buy worth a small fortune? Ask Flog It!
The BBC's popular antiques programme, Flog It, is out and about over the coming months, looking to value your boot sale finds and unearth some hidden gems that can go forward to auction.
Previous programmes have seen a ceramic bowl bought for £4 at a car boot sale selling for a whopping £1,500 at auction - so if you think you have unearthed a hidden treasure at a boot sale why not take it along to one of the forthcoming Flog It valuation days?
Sunday 13 January - Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon
Sunday 20 January - St Albans Town Hall, Market Place, St Albans
Sunday 3 February - Kings Hall, Stoke-on-Trent
Sunday 10 February - Pannier Market, Tavistock
Doors open at 9.30am until 4pm.
Woodley Shopping Centre boot sales to end?
The monthly car boot sales held at Woodley Shopping Centre in Woodley, Berkshire, may be at an end with no plans in place to hold them there in 2008.
Normally ten sales are held every year - none take place in November or December because of the Woodley Winter Extravaganza and Christmas. The current organiser pays Woodley Town Centre’s Management Initiative £200 a year to hire the site, but has no plans to run boot sales at the shopping centre next year.
Three sales have had to be cancelled this year because of bad weather and that together with competition from other local boot sales meant that the organiser actually lost money during 2007 - hence the decision not to continue when the sales are due to restart in January.
Football medal bought at car boot sale sells for £6,400
A Champions League winning football medal that was bought for £10 at a car boot sale in London has sold at auction for a whopping £6,400!
The medal, which dates from Manchester United's Champions League winning 1996-97 season, was bought as part of a box of trinkets for just £10 at a boot sale in Peckham, South East London.
After discovering the medal in the box, the anonymous buyer took it to an auction house who confirmed it was genuine.
And when it went under the hammer at an auction in Ludlow, Shropshire, at the start of October it sold for £6,400!
Keep 'em peeled as Shaw Taylor used to say!
Kidderminster boot sale gets go ahead at Swan Centre
The Swan Centre in Kidderminster is to be home to a new boot sale following approval from Wyre Forest District Council for car boot sales to take place on Sundays throughout the year with the exception of Easter Sunday.
The car boot sale will be held over three floors of the multi-storey car park between 8am and 1.30pm. As well as 62 pitches for cars and small vans, space will be made available for tables for anyone without a car to set up stall.
The boot sales will start from January 2008, but there will also be two sales in November - on the 4th and the 18th. To pre-book a pitch call 01562 753210.
Car Booty TV show looking for car boot addicts for new series
If you're addicted to car boot sales and never come home empty handed, or just love to fill your home with collectables, then BBC 1's Car Booty is looking for you!
The highly successful show Car Booty is returning for an astonishing 10th series and the team are looking for people to empty their lofts and garages of antiques and collectables and turn them into a veritable fortune!
So if you'd like some expert help to really get your money’s worth from your bargain buys and family heirlooms, call the Car Booty team on 0207 704 3300.
Council says no to extra car boot sale dates at Wigginton
A request to increase the number of car boot sales held at Home Farm in Corban Lane, Wigginton, has been turned down by City of York Council.
Organisers, Ken and Adele Roberts, had wanted to increase the number of boot sales held on their farm from 14 to 20 a year, but council officials opposed the move on the grounds that it would lead to traffic problems in the area.
When the proposal was put to the vote at the startof June, the planning committee was split down the middle, with seven councilors voting to allow more car boot sales and seven voting against - includingthe committee chairman who had the casting vote.
The Roberts have held car boot sales at Home Farm in Wigginton for 16 years and regularly attract 200 stallholders and 2,000 buyers.
Suffolk car boot sale organiser wanted!
The landlord of the White Horse in Whepstead, Suffolk is looking for someone to help organise regular car boot sales at the pub.
Mr Crook wants the White Horse, which is just four miles from Bury St Edmunds, to become a regular venue for car boot sales, with the pub's car park and land at the rear perfect for such events.
"I think the location and facilities I have would be ideal, " Mr Crook told boot-fairs.co.uk, "but running a pub doesn't give me the time to organise this type of event."
Interested? Then give Mr Crook a ring on 01284735542.
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Latest Boot Fairs Added
Rainbow Farm Car Boot Fair
A22 Lower Dicker E Sussex BN27 3RH
(Entrance in Camberlot Road)
Tel 01323 729430
2008 Dates: Sundays 20th July, 3rd August, 17th August, 31st August, 21st September, 28th September, 12th October and October
Times: 0600
Pitch: £8 Car / £10 Van, overnight camping available
Entry: 40p Adults/ 20p OAP & Kids
listed under Sussex boot fairs
Cottage Farm Boot Sale
Dales Lane, Rushall, Walsall
Phone 07963350834
Times: 06.00
Pitch: £10
Room for 250 pitches, refreshments and toilets available on site
listed under Staffs car boot sales
Shooting Star Children's Hospice Grand Car Boot Sale
Brenley Playing Fields, Tamworth Lane, Mitcham, Surrey, CR4 1DB
Phone: 07813 052539
Fortnightly from 15th June 2008 until October
Sellers 10.30 Buyers 11.00
Pitch: £8 Car £10 Van
Entry: £1 before 11am, 50p after 11am
Toilet and refreshments on site. Free parking on site large venue. No booking required.
listed under Surrey car boot sales
Ottervale Car Boot Fair
Ottervale Service Station A30/A303, next door to Yarcombe, Chard turn off EX149NE
Phone 01404 831357 or 07886 718163
Starts 28th June and then every Saturday
Times: 6.30am
Pitch: £5 car, £7 van
Entry: 50p
This bootfair is helping to raise money for Tearfund and various other Christian organizations, which is why it's on a Saturday
listed under Devon car boot sales
Countess of Chester Hospital Car Boot Sale
Countess of Chester Hospital, Liverpool Road, Chester, Cheshire
Phone 01244 365 0000
March to December
Times: Sellers 6am, Buyers 7am
Pitch: £8
Cannot sell Plants, food or crafts. All funds raised go to buying new hospital equipment.
listed under Cheshire car boot sales
California Car Boot
California Sands Estate, California Rd, California. Near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
NR29 3QL
Phone 01493 732121
June-September
Times: Sellers 8am, Buyers 9am
Pitch: £4.00 Cars, £7-00 Vans
Entry: Free
No Caterers. Facilities inc cafe, toilets, supermarket, swimming pool, amusement arcade, 10 Pin Bowling
listed under Norfolk car boot sales
West Sussex Showground Boot Fair
West Sussex Showground, Thistleworth Farm, Dial Post, Horsham, RH13 8NR
on the A24 to Worthing next to Old Barn Nurseries.
Phone: 07804202378
Starting again 18th May 2008 and every Sunday thereafter
Sellers arrive 9am - Cars £7, Vans £10
Entry: Free
Beautiful Surroundings, hot and cold food, toilets
listed under Sussex car boot fairs
Bicester Giant Car Boot Sale
Stoke Lyne Road, off B4221 near Caversfield
Phone 01869 241708
Oxfordshire
Every Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday till October
Times: Gates open 7.30am for Sellers and 8.00am for Buyers
Pitch: £6.00 per car and £8.00 per van
Entry: 25p children free
Refreshments and toilet on site
listed under Oxfordshire car boots
For one-off boot sales taking place this month see further down this page
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One Off Boot Fairs And Car Boot Sales for July 2008 including this weekend!
Saturday 14th June
Carboot
Kinson Primary School, School Lane, Kinson, Bournemouth
Gates Open 12.00 Noon - Sellers from 10.30am
Cars £ 5.00, Vans/Trailers £ 7.00, Trade (no caterers) £10.00
Entry 20p. Strictly no buyers entry before Noon.
Our school has a NO DOGS policy. Refreshments including drinks, crisps, burgers and hotdogs will be on sale in the studio.
Sunday 15th June
Newbury Radio Rally & Boot Sale
Newbury Showground, next to Junction 13 of M4, Berkshire.
Times: 0800hrs
Pitch: £10
Entry: £2 per person
Opening time for visitors is 09.00 and for sellers is 08.00.
Admission is £2 visitor, or £10 for a sellers pitch.
Massive new venue for this popular annual event for people who like radio communications, electronics or computing.
Themed around a 'boot sale' but with much more, including a live 'Ham Radio' station on-air and the ideal opportunity to find out about the hobby of Amateur Radio. Catering and disabled facilities available. Free car parking.
Sunday 22nd June
As Good As New Sale
Thatcham Childrens Centre, Lower Way, Thatcham, Berkshire
Phone Sue on 01635 861455
From 10.30am-12.30pm
'As Good As New' sale of childrens clothing, equipment and toys all in excellent condition, to raise funds for Thatcham Childrens Centre Pre-School.
Donation for entrance.
Sunday 22nd June
Indoor Bootsale & Fun Day
The Arts Centre (Dunmow),
1 Haslers Lane,
Great Dunmow,
Essex
CM6 1YQ
Phone 01371 878020
Times: 8am set up. 10am till 4 pm buyers
Pitch: £10
Entry: free
Saturday 28th June
Hemington Summer Fair
Hemlock Sports Field,
Lockington Lane,
Hemington
DE74 2RB
Phone 01332810447
Times: 2-5pm
Pitch: £5.00
Sunday 29th June
Slingsby Car Boot Sale
Slingsby Sports Field,
Off Church Lane
Slingsby
York
Times: 7am-12 noon
Pitch: £5
Sunday 6th July
South Yorkshire Transport Museum Car Boot
South Yorkshire Transport Museum, Unit 9 Waddington Way, Off Aldwarke Lane, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S65 3SH.
Phone 07504263807
Times: 7:30am start
Pitch: Cars £5 Vans £6
Entry: Free for public
Sunday 13th July
Thomas Rotherham College Boot Sale
Thomas Rotherham College,
Moorgate Road,
Rotherham
S60 2BE
Phone 01709 300600
Times: Sellers 7.30am Buyers 8.30am
Pitch: £10.00
Entry: Free
Help us to raise £15,000 for home dialysis for TRC student.
Every now and again a car boot sale is cancelled for one reason or another so always check first with organisers, particularly if you are planning on selling or will be travelling to attend.
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Please note!
Information published on boot-fairs.co.uk is believed to be correct at the time it is prepared, but please bear in mind that details do change and that some of the content on this website may no longer be correct. Always check with organisers before setting out, particularly if you are planning to sell at a car boot sale and / or will be travelling some distance to attend. And if you spot a mistake please let us know! Some of my favourite finds around the internet this month!
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