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shoppers’ paradise
H aving come on in leaps and bounds in recent years, opportunity for a little raceday retail therapy, where there is something special for everyone on offer. With Christmas twinkling away around the corner,The November Meeting is the perfect opportunity to work your way through your Christmas shopping list. Cheltenham’s Shopping Village offers a relaxed and effortless tasked with striking the right balance of variety and quality to ensure that the shopping experience is first-class. The range of goods on offer is unique to Cheltenham, offering a shoppers’ paradise of carefully sourced and curated goods from art and clothing to exclusive gift ideas that are generally not available on any high street, and there is something for every generation. And the famous Prestbury Park ambience is prevalent throughout the shopping village, With an impressive number of stalls and an overriding country theme, exceptional exhibitors have been carefully selected by trade stand manager Maddie Webster,
where traders – many with a longstanding history of selling here, are delighted to meet customers. Fiffa Phipps, owner of quality children’s clothing company Startsmart, thoroughly enjoys selling at Cheltenham. “I think Maddie has stepped it up a notch, and the standard has gone up and up, it’s very high. Racegoers are walking into something that’s a really enjoyable experience for them. People go to Cheltenham for a fun time and it’s great if
Sally, they’re great to be opposite because theirs are such beautiful pictures as well. “At other meetings, I’ve been next to Graham McCartney with his hats, he’s quite a character!” Fiffa is proud to play a part in the Prestbury Park experience. “We are a keen racing family anyway and we were brought up going to Cheltenham races, so to be able to have a stand at Cheltenham knowing it’s the best racecourse in the country is absolutely fantastic. “And just getting such a diverse range of customers through the door. I love selling to anybody and everybody, but it’s always fantastic when I see Tony McCoy’s children or Ruby Walsh’s children coming in wearing my clothes. “I love it when children turn up year after year. I had one little boy who, the year before, had seen a really smart tweed jacket and he’d really wanted it but he was too small. “He came back the following year – he’d saved up his money and he came and bought it himself. “He knew what he wanted and he loved it. That’s marvellous.”
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they can do some shopping as well. If the favourites come in as well then it’s free money, isn’t it really, which is nice!” Fiffa exhibits at every meeting at Cheltenham and has built relationships with many loyal customers. “If people come in November then they invariably come
on New Year’s Day and certainly for The Festival, and they know I’m going to be there and they like that. I think people really like the personal aspect to it.” There is also a unique camaraderie among exhibitors. “It’s fantastic. In November, I think I’m opposite Daniel Crane and his lovely wife
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