The future of the Yorkshire Business Market has been secured following The Yorkshire Society taking a two-thirds stake in the organisation. Co-founders Brian and Beryl Dunsby, who have been at the helm of the annual event since its inception 14 years ago, are handing over their shares to The Yorkshire Society
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Driving Force Behind Harrogate Christmas Market and Yorkshire Business Market announces retirement
The driving force behind two of Harrogate’s most successful annual business events have announced their retirement. Since 2005, Brian Dunsby OBE and his wife, Beryl, have created and organised the Yorkshire Business Market, and, for the last six years, the Harrogate Christmas Market. Yesterday’s YBM, held at Pavilions of Harrogate, saw almost
Records set to be broken as demand for stalls rises again
More than four months before Harrogate Christmas Market opens, organisers are already predicting another record-breaking year. More than two-thirds of the 200 places available for traders have already been booked, putting the 2015 Christmas Market ahead of its previous record set in 2014. Brian Dunsby, who leads the organising team with his
Booings open for popular Harrogate Christmas market
Bookings have opened for the fourth annual Harrogate Christmas Market – and places are already being snapped up. Organisers were surprised to receive their first completed application within half an hour of opening bookings. A few hours later, four more completed forms arrived and, in just a week, 28 had been
Harrogate Christmas Market set to sell out in record time
Harrogate Christmas Market set to return for third year
The organisers of the successful Harrogate Christmas Market are delighted to announce that it will return for a third year in 2014 in the same attractive location, St Mary’s Walk at the bottom of Montpellier Hill. After being given permission by Harrogate Borough Council to go ahead again, Harrogate Christmas Market