Taxis: Arun Fairs recommend Station Taxis (Chichester) for your ride to Goodwood Racecourse from Chichester Station at a reasonable cost of approx. £11.00 one way (return journey bookable). They are Hackney Carriage vehicles with room for your shopping (excess chargeable) and they have ramps for disabled passengers. Cabs can be hailed from Chichester Station or you can prebook on freephone 0800 036 3036 or phone 01243 774948 www.stationtaxis.org.uk
Entrance is £3.00 for Adults, £2.50 OAP's and free entrance to children under 15. Don’t forget even if it is raining and there are fewer stalls outside there are still 120 stalls to peruse inside the two Grandstands so plenty for our visitors to see.
Please note:
If you wish to have a stall at the Goodwood fair or the Fontwell fair, you can download the booking forms and all the details from the main menu. To book all our other venues please give us a call and we can arrange your booking over the telephone.
Fontwell Racecourse Antique & Collectors Fair
Taxis: We recommend Barnham Station Taxis for your ride to Fontwell Park at a cost of approx. £6.50. Cabs can be hailed from Barnham Station (nearest to the racecourse) or pre booked on 01243 551753.
Great news we had a very successful first fair at the Fontwell Park Racecourse on 30th May and are very pleased to announce we have booked three fairs for 2012 including a celebratory event for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Please see Calendar page for full details.
There are two cafes and ample free parking. Stallholders exhibit in the new Grandstand and the permanent marquee as well as around the outside hard standing areas.
Assembly Hall & Cisswood House Fair
We have decided to part company with the Assembly Hall for now. We have had a good 5 years at this lovely venue but we feel the fair is not supported as well as it should be and lacks the support of the Worthing locals. Our loyal Arun Fairs followers came to the fair on a regular basis and visitors from other areas have supported it well but we feel a good size fair like the one we had at the Assembly Hall deserved more attendance than it was getting.
We are also parting company with our small but good quality fair at the Cisswood House Hotel at the end of this year. We have been at the hotel for a couple of years and although always enjoyable we feel small fairs (30 stalls) have a limited life and we are finding it difficult to have the dates we request. We now have bigger fish to fry as shown above. However we do have one last fair at the Cisswood House Hotel on Sunday 30th October which will be full of stallholders and we hope will spark off the Christmas shopping rush - there will be many bargains to be had and we hope to see you there.
As promised in our last 'NEWS' update we have been researching our future within our West Sussex encatchment and have decided to tweak the business which we believe will suit both our stallholders and visiting public. The plan is to carry on with our ever popular monthly fair at the Woodlands Centre, Rustington (now celebrating our 16th anniversary) where so many people have made friends, made good sales and found bargains across the board from small collectables to top drawer antiques. Combined with the lovely catering, great atmosphere, free parking and cheap entrance, this is our great monthly get together where sellers collect their Racecourse fairs booking forms, catch up on the latest 'Fairs' gossip and all sorts.
The next part of our plan which we are very happy to report is that Arun Fairs will now be holdng 3 fairs at the Fontwell Park Racecourse and 3 fairs at the Goodwood Racecourse in 2012 and hope to follow this formula well into the future.
All details of dates and times can be found on the Calendar page and of course if you wish to sell at a racecourse fair our booking forms can be downloaded from this website or if you prefer please call and we will send you the forms and all the details you require.
Please visit us regularly to catch up on our news and feel free to email us with any news you yourself have or with any comments you would like to make. If you have any interesting facts that you would like us to add to our website for the benefit of our great industry let us know and we will add it to our News Page.