Sunday 8th November 2026: All the brands trading at our Christmas market at The Ministry in London Bridge

We’re buzzing to bring you a small business Christmas market, this time in an incredible centra London location! So you can shop with more amazing small businesses and makers even more easily than ever before. Find Salad Days Market at The Ministry, which is a private members club right in the heart of London. Just a few minutes walk from Borough tube, London Bridge and Elephant & Castle stations.

Especially for our popup market, The Ministry will be opening its doors to the public, which means anyone can attend our market and you don’t need to be a member!

This venue has a cute courtyard and a cafe serving cocktails, iced coffees, pastries and sarnies on site. There’s also a Salad Days themed photobooth in the basement which we are absolutely buzzing about! The perfect memento on a fun day out with friends.

We’ll have different traders with us each day. Find below the full list of traders who will be with us on Sunday 8th November, and a little more info about exactly what they’ll be bringing. Lots of brands will have festive items like decorations, cards, wrap and gifts. 17 of the 35 brands are totally new to our lineup, which is so exciting!

THERE ARE THREE SEPARATE ROOMS OF TRADERS AT THIS VENUE, ONE TO YOUR LEFT AS YOU ENTER AND TWO TO YOUR RIGHT! Walk through to find them all!

The info:

🌀 Salad Days Christmas Market

📆 Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th November 2026

📍 The Ministry, 79-81 Borough Road, London, SE1 1DN

⏰ 11am - 4pm

🎀 35 different small brands each day

🩵 Three separate rooms of traders! Walk through to find them all

☕️ There’s a cafe on site with coffee, matcha, cocktails, sarnies and pastries

✨ Free entry, no ticket required

The brands taking part on Sunday 8th August 2026:

Live activations and personalisable items:

NEW! Live chain-stitch embroidery with Gerry’s House Embroidery: Jerry will be bringing her 150 year old chain stitch machine (that’s operated by hand!) to personalise all manner of things in the moment. Choose from her flash sheet of options to have added to a blank pennant, patch, decoration, or choose for Gerry to personalise your own item like a shirt or tote bag instead. (If you want to have your own item personalised, please speak to Gerry ahead of time to confirm she’ll be able to do this)

NEW! Shop customisable ceramic necklaces with Gabby Wong Ceramics: Choose from a selection of handmade ceramic pendants, cute charms and coloured cord then Gabby will make up your custom necklace on the spot! The jewellery also comes with matching mugs in the same glazes and colours.

NEW! Sit at the live drawing photobooth: Inspired by old fashioned photobooths. Sit at the live illustration photobooth, and artist Melinda will draw your portrait, but as a cute photo-strip! Then buy one of the handpainted fridge magnet frames or handpainted tassel bookmarks to display your photo strip artwork. How cute.

NEW! Buy a personalised paracord keychain from XMadeByM&EX: Sarah can spell out a name or word of your choice using chunky letter beads on colourful paracord rope. Such a fun personalised gift that can also be styled as a bag charm.

NEW! Commission an ink portrait with Inky Layla: Sit for artist Layla as she completes your detailed portrait using colourful ink.

Design a patch-covered tote bag or charm-filled phone case with The Charmé Edit: Choose your accessory then the personalisation. Taylor and Fiorenza have so many options to make your item perfect for you. They will also have new bag charms too.

Use the mini-print vending machine from Eva Illustrates: Simply insert a coin, and turn the handle to receive one of Eva’s exclusive Salad Days Christmas mini prints! Her whole market stall is heaven for anyone that loves to journal with tons of gorgeous stationery and artwork, plus new baubles.

Design a personalised embroidered accessory with Santai: Choose an accessory like a stocking or makeup bag and the cute embroidered symbols you’d like added! Muski will make your item at home to be shipped out after market day.

Commission a pet portrait with a difference from Tobacco Dogs: Artist Iso is well known for her pet portraits with a difference, as she paints your beloved pup smoking a ciggy! Shop alongside an ever-changing collection of other animal and sport inspired artworks and accessories that feel really original.

Fashion, accessories and handbags

NEW! Daisy Bernard Art: Shop wearable art including hand painted tank tops, made to feel like a page straight out of artist Daisy’s sketchbook.

NEW! By Sophia: From quilted makeup bags, pouches, and trending statement scrunchies to new stockings, these cute accessories are all handmade by Amy in South London.

NEW! Kikina Designs: Shop bestselling embroidered caps, new scarves with hand-drawn lobster, stripe and wavy designs plus handpainted Christmas cards.

Love at First Sight Vintage: Expect preloved vintage designer bags and accessories in excellent condition including vintage striped Paul Smith items which Lottie is known for sourcing.

Pom Shanty Knitwear: Handmade lambswool accessories like striped triangle scarves, made by Sandra in her London studio.

Grandmamma: You’ve probably seen these on TikTok! Viral and weather-proof rain bonnets for all seasons. Aisha will have new designs for market day.

Knot Today: Shop Charmaine’s little crochet corner for cute, whimsical things. For the Christmas market, She’ll be bringing my handmade crochet Christmas ornaments and decorations alongside her usual range of playful trinkets and personalised pieces.

Jewellery & watches

NEW! Mishandle: Gabriella makes glass blown jewellery and objects. From wine goblets to chunky blown rings and trinket dishes her pieces have an ethereal quality taking inspiration from antiques, Gothic forms and organic shapes found in nature.

Forage & Find Antiques: Alice is known for curating the most spectacular selection of vintage and antique jewellery. Every piece is solid gold, carefully chosen and equisitely amazing.

Atypical Thing: One of your favourite jewellery brands of all time returns to our market lineup.

Really Nice Shiny Things: As well as carefully curated vintage and antique jewellery we’re so excited you’ll be able to shop Misty’s handmade lighter holders too. These are insanely cool.

Tink’s Jewellery: Shop vintage, antique and silver jewellery creations with a modern twist.

Adored Again: Adored Again is awatch brand specialising in beautifully restored vintage watches and thoughtfully designed new timepieces. Enjoy complimentary watch resizing on the day so you can leave with a watch fitted exactly to you at no extra cost.

Ceramics

NEW! Marg & Luna: It was Margaret’s strawberry matcha bowls that really drew me to her brand! Every item is handmade in East London.

NEW! Ellie Perry Design: I think South East London potter Ellie’s ceramics are so chic. She’ll have new things on market day too.

Zoe’s Clay: For this Christmas market, Zoe will be bringing a selection of hanging ceramic biscuit decorations to adorn your Christmas tree, including the return of her hanging hot chocolate baubles, complete with whipped (clay) cream and a tiny gingerbread man. She’ll also be bringing her new biscuit dishes alongside her bestselling biscuit mugs and an array of other handmade ceramic treats.

Clare Paton Ceramics: Clare mixes the vibrant paint colours for ceramics herself and uses them across the collection because all the pieces are designed to mix and match. Shop new baubles and bag charms at this market.

The Modern Factory: Shop a collaborative offering between three small and indie brands, The Modern Factory, Kikabespoke and Quite Nice London with lots of gorgeous ceramics and homeware.

Journal supplies & stationery

Claire Paul Illustration: The cutest originally designed stationery and gifts, including stickers, washi tapes, cards, keyrings and artworks.

Not Just A Planner: Super cute stripey stationery and notebooks designed with slowing down in mind. Shop the collection of new planners on market day.

Art, prints & cards

NEW! Artsy Nish: Hong-Kong raised artist Nisha paints very joyful, vibrant and floral abstract artworks that’s totally viral across social media. As seen in her recent solo exhibition at The Hoxton Hotel.

NEW! Little Potato Studio: As Christmas is the season of the spud, you won’t want to miss Phoebe’s entirely potato-themed illustrative cards because they’re so original, cute and funny. Shop new carby-Christmas cards on the day too.

Amelia Hamlet: Artist Amelia creates bold, colourful illustrations of everyday moments, focusing on still life around the table. She’ll have new calendars and festive paper-chain packs made from offcuts.

Natalia Bagniewska: Shop beautifully bold prints and cards from South London artist Natalia. Her artworks joyfully celebrate moments of leisure, play and relaxation.

Homeware

NEW! Deadhead: Deadhead have created four scents to help us navigate the emotional turmoil of living in 2026. There’s candles for anger, burnout, creative block and connection.

NEW! Behind The Oak Tree: Rachel makes colourful, fun punch needle soft furnishings in shapes like fish, birds and Monster Munch.

Food & drinks

There is a cafe inside The Ministry that serves hot and cold drinks and some food. This is owned and operated by The Ministry. All food and beverage served here is the responsibility of The Ministry so please speak to their member of staff about any requirements or allergies.

All of the images above show specific brands who will be trading at this market.