Carlisle Cathedral, Cumbria. Saturday 06-December-2025.
We had booked a slot at the Christmas Farmers' and Makers' Market in the grounds of Carlisle Cathedral for a charity stall supporting Friends of Carlisle Victorian and Turkish Baths. The market is held once a month from 9am to 2pm.
The objectives, as always, are raising awareness and raising money. The first consists of buttonholing passers by and asking if they knew of the baths, to then start the conversation about its history and our plans for the future. The second was to make use of tombola prizes which we had set up ready for Penrith Winter Droving in November. Unfortunately, that was cancelled due to a forecast of high winds so we had boxes of prizes all numbered up and ready to go.
It turned out to be a pretty damp day so the turnout was not nearly as good as we might have hoped and the ground around our gazebo was a mud bath. Nevertheless, we did have lots of interest in the baths, some very useful chats with locals and were happy with the amount raised considering the conditions.
The Friends also decorated a Christmas tree in the crypt (along with various other charitable organisations such as the Round Table) as part of the cathedral's Christmas Tree Festival 2025. Yet another way of making people aware of the Baths.
Much of Sunday we spent cleaning the mud off the gazebo, tables and chairs, and boxes.
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