{"id":218536,"date":"2025-10-12T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/218536\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:30:11","slug":"hopes-carlisles-teenage-market-will-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/218536\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopes Carlisle’s “teenage market” will expand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pamela BilalovaNorth East and Cumbria<\/p>\n

\"CumberlandCumberland Council<\/p>\n

Aiden Thompson has traded at about five editions of the market<\/p>\n

There are hopes a market for teenage traders could expand next year after its success in a city.<\/p>\n

Carlisle’s teenage market has been taking place for up to four times a year since launching in April 2023.<\/p>\n

Helen Tickner, who coordinates the event for Cumberland Council, said it had “captured young people’s imagination and enthusiasm” and there were hopes to roll it out across the area.<\/p>\n

Aidan Thompson, 17, who has been trading at the market, said it had helped boost his confidence.<\/p>\n

The most recent staging of the market took place in Carlisle city centre on Saturday. <\/p>\n

It featured 20 stalls run by traders aged between eight and 25 and Ms Tickner said there was a waiting list.<\/p>\n

\"CumberlandCumberland Council<\/p>\n

The event also featured performances<\/p>\n

Mr Thompson, from Whitehaven, said he had traded at five of the markets so far.<\/p>\n

“I was a bit nervous, but over the past couple of years I’ve definitely built my confidence and I’m fine now,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It’s allowed me to meet different people and different customers from the area, which has helped my business grow.”<\/p>\n

The teenage market is part of a national initiative that was created in 2012. <\/p>\n

Ms Tickner said there were plans to expand the Carlisle event to other parts of the county. <\/p>\n

“We definitely want to bring this kind of market to other communities across Cumberland,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Nothing’s set in stone yet, but it’s something I’m working on to develop it into 2026.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pamela BilalovaNorth East and Cumbria Cumberland Council Aiden Thompson has traded at about five editions of the market…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[28,112],"class_list":["post-218536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}