We love to pop down to the Hope Street Markets when they’re on.  There’s always some inspiring local design products for sale and we usually walk out with  empty pockets and heavy bags.  If you’ve never been before, we definitely recommend you pop down and see them when they’re on next.  Except, don’t be looking for the name ‘Hope Street Markets’ - because they’ve moved on!

Hope Street Markets is now known as The Finders Keepers.  Due to their popularity, they’ve also moved out of their old home - the Hope Street building in Surry Hills and have now moved in to the larger and rather impressive location of  the new contemporary art centre in the CarriageWorks.

From The Finders Keepers website:

Why the change?

The Finders Keepers change of name was based mostly on our decision to work in association with CarriageWorks. Our original start was at the Hope Street building at Surry Hills with only 20 stalls, we have now grown to support over 60 stalls! HopeStreet is a charity based in Sydney so we were originally based under their name. We are very excited to announce that the CarriageWorks is the new home of the markets in Sydney and we also plan to expand our markets into other areas of Australia, we now have our own name and will become relevant Australia wide not just based in Sydney. Due to the overwhelming growth and response of the original markets in its first year, we have successfully built a strong following in which we hope to grow and foster under the new name.The Finders Keepers aim is to continue to provide new innovative product, through our news, networks and market events. The Finders Keepers also aim to connect with others through resources and projects.

Finders Keepers will continue to remain as a non-profit organisation that gives back to its supporters by putting every cent that our designers pay in stall fees, back into our events.

We are community minded and still aim to help those less fortunate by us. Over the past year we have donated over $8,000 to Hope Street via raffles at our market events and will continue to donate to other causes via our markets.

The next market is to be held on the 5th and 6th December 2008.  If you want to get a stall, the applications close on 25th October.

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