Matfen Hall Hotel Northumberland Events

Saturday Swop Shop

Due to the success of the last Swop Shop, Styling Consultant Jenny B will be back on Saturday 24th April

How does Saturday Swop Shop work?
On your arrival you will swop the number of items that you have brought with you for the same number of tokens, up to a maximum of three. (This does not include items destined for the designer rail). The items will be placed on rails or in specific areas e.g. shoes, hats, jumpers, scarves will have their own places for viewing.
Guests are invited to hang, or place, their items and then to browse and partake of refreshment until 11.00pm.
A Style Talk by Jenny Bersin gives you the chance to relax and to gather your loins for the hard work of trying on, deciding and swopping - hopefully, having collected some helpful hints about what best to choose along the way. It will also give us the opportunity to put the final sorting touches to our Swop Swag.
At 11.30 you have a whole hour to try on clothes you like the look of and to choose accessories, shoes etc to take home with you. Professional advice will be at hand but a good friend is always a help here too!
The Designer Auction begins at 12.30 providing you with another opportunity to take home a bargain.

Q. What happens if I bring along 3 items that are snapped up but I can't find anything for me?
A. In the unlikely event of this happening you will get a free invitation to the next Swop Shop.

Q. What if I have paid my £15.00 registration fee and I can't make the date?
A. The £15.00 will guarantee you a place at the Swop Shop but it is non-refundable. If poor weather prevents the event from taking place it will be re-scheduled at the earliest opportunity.

Q. What can I bring and how do I bring it?
A.
• Skirts, dresses, coats, jackets and trousers should arrive freshly laundered, in good condition and on a hanger with a label firmly attached stating dress size.
• Shoes should be clean and freshly polished and tied together with a label attached, or the label pushed into the shoe, prominently showing their size.
• Handbags, scarves, gloves, hats and jewellery - clean and ready for trying on.

Q. What is the Designer Auction all about?
A. If you have a designer label item worth over £100.00 at point of sale gathering dust in your wardrobe why not bring it along to take part in our Auction. Someone else is bound to benefit. There will be a Designer Rail specifically for these items. Guests can look, touch, try on and then make their bids. You give us a reserve price if we match it, even better - if we better it - the sale is yours minus 20% auction fee.

10.30 - 11.00 Arrival, Browse and Refreshment
11.00 - 11.30 Style Talk. These Clothes are made for Swopping!
11.30 - 12.30 Browse, Try On & Swop
12.30 - 1.00pm Designer Auction
1.00pm on Home or stay and enjoy a 2 course Matfen Lunch in The Print Room at the special price of £15.00.

Tickets are £12.00.

To book your place please call Sue Edwards on 01434 602476.

To book lunch - contact Stacy Belshaw on 01661855729, quoting Saturday Swop Shop as your reference.