Regional Program

We are really happy to launch a brand new Regional Stallholder Program in 2025!

Open to rural and remote designers, makers, artists, collectives and food & drink makers, we want to help more creatives get access to the wonderful community at The Finders Keepers, filled with market-goers who love to support small, find unique wares and meet the makers.

Our aim is to: 

• Create more opportunities for creatives in regional, rural and remote communities to access our design markets as stallholders (see definition of regional below).
• To bring more diversity to the markets and allow our market visitors better access to rural-based creatives and their wares.
• To expand our community to regional areas across Australia.

We offer one position to a remote-based creative at each of our design markets each season (AW and SS).

The program includes:

• A sponsored 3m x 2m (or 2m x 2m if you prefer) stall space at a design market.
• Up to $1000 in travel expenses covered (this may include accommodation, car hire, flights etc on an as-needs basis - we’ll work with you).
• A marketing package including a blog feature, EDM feature, social media posts and inclusion in a press release.
• Complimentary basic furniture hire.
• TFK team support for stall set up, decor, design, and logistics.

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible for the program applicants must be based in Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia or Very Remote Australia as defined by the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Remoteness Structure, outlined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). To check if you are based in an eligible location, please visit the ABS website which includes a map here.

Application eligibility: 

• Applicants must meet our standard designer criteria or food & beverage criteria to be a stallholder at our markets. Our markets are curated and all applications will go through our standard stallholder curation process.
• Applicants must live within the ASGS’ defined areas: Outer Regional Australia, Remote Australia or Very Remote Australia.
• Applicants must be first-time stallholders with The Finders Keepers.
• Collectives are also encouraged to apply.

If you are an Indigenous-owned business, please consider applying for our Indigenous Program, which you now apply for via our standard application process.

Organisations or individuals based in metropolitan locations are not eligible to apply for the Regional Program (classified as Major Cities and Inner Regional by the ABS).

APPLICATIONS

We can’t wait to see your application!

Applications are submitted in the same way as all our design markets - please check out our Apply section for more info and to check when applications are open.

Please apply during our application open periods, approximately November - Jan/ Feb for the Autumn/ Winter markets and March - May/ June for our Spring/ Summer markets. 

If you have any questions about this program, please contact our team.