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Things to do, independent businesses, groups and markets in and around Newark.

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Every one you choose keeps more money, work and opportunity close to home.

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In the shops

Buy local in Newark: 6 independents

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Local Meat, Eggs & Seafood

A&a poultry ltd

A&A Poultry, based in Newark, sells poultry of all kinds and supplies the feed, housing equipment and advice…

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Also here: Sting Cider Ltd, Wild Jasmine Florist and Flower School, Chestnut Farm Alpacas.

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Drinks, Brewing & Distilling

Sting Cider Ltd

Sting Cider Ltd makes cider near Newark. The business can be reached by phone, though its…

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Fresh Produce & Growers

Chestnut Farm Alpacas

Kay and Daron run Chestnut Farm Alpacas on the Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire border near Newark. They…

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The money

Where your money goes

£10 → £25

What a tenner spent with a local independent can be worth to the town before it leaves. Totnes has measured what that means in practice: somebody counted the shopkeepers, growers and makers, and worked out what the town keeps.

Totnes figures

£30mspent a year on food and drink to eat at home, across the town and its parishes
£22mof it imported from the rest of the UK and overseas
£2mmore a year stays here if we buy just a tenth of that imported food locally instead

Source: Economic Blueprint for Totnes & District, local food & drink section (2013). Choosing local isn’t charity. It’s one of the ways we decide what our towns get to keep.

What we stand for

  • 0% commission, at every tierYou buy direct. Money never passes through Understead.
  • Nobody pays to move up this pageNothing on this page is ordered by who pays. Adverts sit in their own marked spaces.
  • Free, for goodMarkets, clubs, groups and community organisations never pay to list.
  • Your customers stay yoursFollowers and reviews belong to the business, not to us.

Why buy from a Newark independent?

Small choices, close to home

When the bread, the veg or the birthday present comes from someone who lives here, the money goes round the town again before it leaves.

  • It stays in the townMore of every pound goes on to pay local growers, tradespeople and Saturday jobs.
  • You know who made itThe person who grew it, baked it or threw it is usually the one selling it, and will tell you how.
  • It keeps the town a townIndependents are owned by neighbours. Their shopfronts, stalls and workshops are what make Newark look like Newark.
  • Work for the next lotTrades, apprenticeships and first jobs live in independent businesses.

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Why this page exists

This page belongs to Newark

A place is made by its local people and the independent businesses, groups, clubs, markets, activities and networks they create. Yet much of this local life is hard to find, scattered across word of mouth, social media, small websites, noticeboards and people’s memories.

Understead exists to make what’s local easier to see, easier to find and easier to take part in. What you see is the understead: the smaller, independent and community life of your town that can otherwise be remarkably easy to miss.

Every time you buy locally, join a group, recommend a place or share this page, you’re taking part in local life, and you make it easier for the next person to find.

Further down this page

Shops and makers, by category

Shops and makers

Buy local, by category

Makers & Crafts

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Home, Garden & More

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Food & Drink

Makers & Crafts

  • Ceramics, Pottery & Glass
  • Jewellery & Accessories
  • Wood, Metal & Fine Craft
  • Textiles, Knitwear & Fibre
  • Art, Prints & Stationery
  • Candles, Soap & Home Fragrance
  • Homewares & Gifts

Home, Garden & More

  • Flowers, Plants & Gardening
  • Health, Beauty & Wellbeing
  • Farm Shops & Local Retail
  • Zero Waste & Eco Household
  • Pet Products
Classes & activities

Classes & activities

Find local teachers, classes, workshops and experiences around Newark, from yoga and pottery to music, cookery, dance and outdoor skills.

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Health & movement

Music & performance

Art, craft & making

Food, growing & outdoors

  • Cookery Classes
  • Gardening & Growing
  • Foraging & Wild Food
  • Horse Riding Lessons
  • Climbing & Bouldering
  • Paddleboarding & Kayaking
  • Sailing & Watersports

Children & families

  • Baby & Toddler Classes
  • Gymnastics Classes

Dance Classes

Salsa & Bachata Newark

Salsa and bachata classes run on Tuesday nights at the Swan and Salmon bar in Newark-on-Trent, starting with beginners' salsa at 7.05pm and moving through beginners'…

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Pilates

Pilates with Geraldine

Geraldine teaches Pilates one to one from a small studio a few minutes from the centre of Newark. Her sessions use the reformer, wunda chair and…

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Pilates

Align & Revive

Julie Simpson has worked in the fitness industry for more than thirty years and now runs Align & Revive, a new Reformer Pilates studio in Newark…

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Dance Classes

The Studio at Averham

The Studio at Averham teaches ballet from Averham near Newark-on-Trent, run by principal Christina, a graduate of London Studio Centre and the Crescent Academy of Dance…

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Pottery Classes

Kate Pakeman Arts

In Farnsfield, near Newark, Kate Pakeman runs pottery and art workshops from her own workshop, having…

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Pottery Classes

The P Pod

The P Pod is a small pottery studio near Newark where visitors can watch bespoke ceramics…

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Markets

Market day

Markets

We haven’t found the local markets here yet. Know a market or food hub people around here should be able to find?

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Trade counter

Trade counter

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Around Newark, and search nearby

Around Newark

Newark is your starting point, not your boundary.

Local doesn't stop at the town sign. The growers, makers, markets and clubs in the villages and towns around Newark are part of the same local life. Open a neighbouring town's page to see who's there, or put in your postcode, choose how far you're happy to travel, and search everything local within that distance: shops and producers, classes, what's on, groups and markets.

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Reader questions

Reader questions

Quick answers

Independent businesses, classes and activities, groups and clubs, markets, and what’s on in and around Newark. Understead brings together the local things that are otherwise scattered across websites, social media and word of mouth, so they’re easier to find and discover. There are 19 independent businesses and 0 markets listed here so far, alongside local groups and organiser-published dates.

Local life doesn’t stop at the town boundary. Understead follows the useful local catchment around Newark, so relevant places in nearby towns and villages can appear here too. Each result tells you where it is, and the Nearby search lets you enter your own postcode and decide how far you want to look.

Use Add something local to tell us about a business, class, group, market or event we’re missing. If you run it yourself, use the appropriate listing or organiser route there. If it’s already on Understead, use its claim or update option where available.

Businesses can show their own website, phone, social channels, enquiry and booking links. Understead doesn’t get between you and the business. Where a business has opened a Shop here, you can also buy through Understead.

Eligible businesses can list free. Understead charges no listing fees and takes 0% sales commission on Shop sales. Shop and Trade subscriptions are optional and pay for extra tools, not a cut of each sale. Normal payment-processing fees may still apply when an online payment is taken.

Not on this page: nothing here is ordered by who pays, and adverts sit in their own marked spaces. Paying never puts a business into results it doesn’t belong in. In search, where several businesses match equally well, one on a paid plan can be listed above a free one.

How this page was made

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How this page was made

There’s more here than you think, and none of it was ever hidden. It just wasn’t indexed. The businesses on this page listed themselves or were found in public records; neighbours pointed to the rest. Made by Ollie and Lucy.

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Updated 11 Oct 2026. Listing counts refresh from live data.