Arts & crafts events around the UK. We also have our own craft range, as seen on HobbyMaker TV
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Please email [email protected] for all bookings and enquiries and for our full diary of events. We are usually busy at events at weekends and endeavour to answer all emails as soon as we can Monday to Friday.
01/08/2024
It’s been bought to our attention that people are pretending to be us or represent us on Facebook and possibly other social media platforms.
To be absolutely clear, we only accept bookings and enquiries via our email address [email protected] ( if you contact us via our website www.bertandgerts.co.uk it will raise an email to us.)
We will never send messages via social media for payments. If you are contacted by anyone purportedly from Bert & Gert’s via other social media accounts, please report them.
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26/11/2023
25/11/2023
Our pop up Christmas Shop at Ankerside Shopping Centre is now open. We’ve lots of Christmas goodies in store.
16/03/2023
You may notice a small change to our page, we’ve updated the page from Bert & Gert’s Markets to Bert & Gert’s. We will post info on all our business activities via this page, our events, our craft range and our shop. Each of those areas of the business will still retain its own group, via its original page and the majority of events content will be posted in our events group. This change will help us simplify our social media visibility, for all enquiries for our events, please continue to contact us via email [email protected]
03/09/2022
Join us tomorrow for our next car boot, traders arrive from 7:30.
Don't forget this Sunday is our Monthly Car Boot Sale with Bert & Gert's Markets 💥
The Car Boot will be held on Level B of our multi-storey car park from 9:00am - 2:00pm 🚗
Spaces start from just £10.00 payable on the way in, no prebooking required. Height restrictions will therefore apply, the car park height limit is 1.75 metres.
If you have any questions about the events please email [email protected]
17/03/2022
We have spaces to join us every month at our regular events which from April include West Bromwich at New Square and in Burntwood too.
Our schedule is
1st Saturday of the month, Sutton Coldfield (outdoors)
2nd Saturday of the month,Kingfisher
Shopping Centre, Redditch (indoors)
2nd Sunday of the month, Burntwood (outdoors)
3rd Saturday of the month, Sutton Coldfield (outdoors)
4th Saturday of the month, Ankerside Shopping Centre, Tamworth (indoors)
4th Sunday of the month New Square, West Bromwich (outdoors)
For all outdoor events we provide gazebos and tables, for all indoor, we provide tables.
Please email [email protected] for all enquiries for these or any of our other events, including the NEC and much more.
Arts & crafts events around the UK. We also have our own craft range, as seen on HobbyMaker TV
12/03/2022
Find us in Kingfisher in Redditch today. Lots of great stalls with us. Perfect to grab your Mothers Day gifts.
11/09/2021
We are delighted to be back at Ankerside Shopping Centre today. Here today and then back on Saturday 23rd October and Saturday 27th November. Please email [email protected] for all enquiries for this or any of our other events.
11/05/2021
Good afternoon all, we hope you are all safe and well.
From July, our Sutton Coldfield event will be returning to being the first and third Saturdays of the month, as we being to open up again at other venues.
We have events in the diary for Henley, Exeter, Glasgow SEC, Birmingham NEC, Peterborough and more being confirmed all the time.
For our latest event diary, please email [email protected]
Please also remember to update us of your PLI renewal information to ensure you are able to trade with us.
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Creative Craft and Simply Christmas Show at Birmingham NEC
Bert & Gert's in Sutton Saturday 5th May 2018
We are proud to support small businesses across the country. We have a fabulous selection with us today in Sutton Coldfield. You can find us here in Sutton twice a month, on the first and third Saturdays of the month.
Please email [email protected] for details of this or any of our other events. #suttoncoldfield #Bertandgerts
Lichfield 08/04/2018
The good people of #Lichfield couldn’t wait to come see us this morning, we’ve had warm receptions before but never like this one.....
A huge thank you to everyone at Crafting Live for hosting us last weekend at another fantastic event in Malvern. If you would like to join us to sell your work in the Artisan Area at any of the other Create & Craft TV Crafting Live shows, please email [email protected]
Bert & Gert's at Kingfisher Redditch 9/9/17
Really great to have Afci.uk and Channel 4 filming with us today at our event at Kingfisher, Redditch. We are here till 5:00, pop down and see us.
We are delighted to confirm we will be returning to The Black Country Living Museum for the Christmas events this year. Limited spaces are available on Friday 8th, Saturday 9th, Friday 15th, Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th December. Please email [email protected] for all bookings and enquiries for these or any of our other events.
Would you like to join us at Crafting Live shows with Create & Craft TV to sell your handmade work ? We have opportunities in Belfast, Bolton, Coventry, Doncaster, Peterborough and Sandown Park. Please email [email protected] for all enquiries and bookings.
We are set up and ready to go at Crafting Live with Create & Craft TV in Peterborough.
Huge thanks to everyone for the support in Sutton Coldfield today. We will be back in Sutton on Saturday 3rd Decmber for the last time before Christmas. For information and bookings for all events please email [email protected]
We are previewing some of the remaining events we have for 2016 and the lead up to Christmas. Tonight we are looking at our events in WestQuay, Southampton. Please email [email protected] for all bookings and for all enquiries.
Remaining 2016 Dates
23rd September - Spaces available
24th September - Fully booked
25th September - Spaces available
14th October - Spaces available
15th October - Spaces available
16th October - Spaces available
4th November - Spaces available
5th November - Fully booked
6th November - Fully booked
Please email [email protected] for all bookings and for all enquiries.
Bert & Gert's in Sutton Coldfield 16/07/2016
We are here in Sutton Coldfield till 5:00 pm today. We are really honoured to be one of the Jazz Festival host locations again this year and we have been joined today by the Chase Jazzmen
Just a few quick pics from this weekends Crafting Live in Doncaster. Huge thanks as always to everyone that supported us. We will be at the next Crafting Live at Sandown Racecourse in two weeks time. If you haven't got your tickets yet, use the discount code BERTGERT to get 25% off. W,e still a couple of spaces for traders to join us please email [email protected] for all bookings and for all enquiries.
Bert & Gert's in Sutton Coldfield 18/06/16
Come and join us in Sutton Coldfield today,we are here till 5:00 pm. We are here twice a month from May to October. Please email [email protected] for all enquiries and for all bookings to trade with us here in Sutton or at any of our other venues.
Bert & Gert's Goodbye to The Pavilions
Huge thanks as always to everyone that came out to support us Friday and Saturday as we said good bye to The Pavilions, in Birmingham.
Bert & Gert's at Highcross 07/02/16
We have had a great weekend in Highcross Leicester, huge thanks to everyone that made us feel so welcome. Please email [email protected] for information on any of our events.
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We are in Coventry today with the #smallbizsatuk bus tour, it's our day in the #smallbiz100 today, we are extremely proud to have been chosen
We can't promise to have this affect on all our traders. Someone is a very happy man.
Its popcorn time again, another Bert and Gerts production
The fun has started at The Square Birmingham with Kerrang Radio and live bands and loads of great stalls
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Our Family Story
The one single question Mark and I get asked more than any other is which one of you is Bert and which one of you is Gert. I’m sure it’s like comedians who have their catchphrases shouted at them in the street. We really like it, it gives people an easy way in to talk to us and usually results in a really interesting conversation. Our standard answer to the question, which you may have heard before, is that we are brothers Jason (myself) and Mark (my older brother by 3 years, 3 months and 2 days) and that Bert and Gert were our grandparents. We’d like to give you a bit more of an insight in to who we are, who Bert and Gert were and why they are our inspiration in everything we do.
Mark and I were born to proud parents Tony and June, we were their only children, so far so good and sounding like the set up of a standard 1970’s sitcom. I was born 10 days late, I should have been born on our Mothers Birthday on July 12th. Most people who know me really well, say that I set a precedence for the rest of my life by being late, time keeping is something I really have to work at.
Mark would certainly agree with that, if we are not somewhere an hour early, we are late. That might be his military training, with him being ex Navy, hence “The Merchant Stores” part of our craft range name. Like all parents, ours worked hard to give us the things they hadn’t had in their own childhood, like their parents had before them. Mom and Dad were born at the very end of the second world war and Mark and I can appreciate now, much more as adults, how tough those times would have been, the end of rationing not coming until a good while after the end of the war. The times of Make Do and Mend, utilising many of the skills we now call crafts, which then were necessity.
Our dad Anthony, known as Tony was born to Bert (Bertram) and Florence. One of two children, his younger sister, Rosaleen. We know very little about our Dads side of the family, unfortunately they all left us way to early and our father sadly passed away very young too. We later discovered through researching our family tree that on Berts side of the family if we went back a few generations, that his family had been Hawkers, street market people. It must be in our blood, it’s funny that so many years later, we now run our events and that includes a good many street markets. Since we began in 2012 we have provided over 3,500 spaces to crafters, designer makers and artisan food traders to sell at our events.
Our Mom, June was the second youngest of 5 children, 3 elder brothers and one younger sister, born to Dennis and Gertrude (Gert). Through circumstances which we won’t go in to here, Gert found herself alone and bringing up 5 young children, she worked multiple jobs and did her absolute best for her children. She didn’t suffer fools gladly and like many women of her generation, fought to be taken seriously in a man’s world. She ran a tight ship, worked hard and still found time to pass on the skills she’d learnt to her children. Later in life, when she could take things a little easier, she passed on those skills to her grandchildren, she was a keen knitter, I still have a warm woollen hat she knitted me shortly before she died and it keeps me warm in winter and brings back warm memories of learning to knit, French knit and sew with my grandmother, or Nan as she was to us kids. Nan was also a keen baker and I knew my way around a kitchen at a young age, Nan always had a slice of cake for us whenever we visited. To this day, my favourite cake is homemade sponge cake with glace cherries in, no one makes it quite like Nan did.
Jason
Please email [email protected] for all enquiries and bookings. We are usually busy at events at weekends and endeavour to answer all emails as soon as we can Monday to Friday.