Hill's Farm Shop and pop up Cafe
Hill's Farm Shop and pop up Cafe in Newark sells home baked cakes, coffee and seasonal produce, along…
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What’s on · Buy local · Markets · Groups & clubs
Things to do, independent businesses, groups and markets in and around Newark.
Every one you choose keeps more money, work and opportunity close to home.
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In the shops
Hill's Farm Shop and pop up Cafe in Newark sells home baked cakes, coffee and seasonal produce, along…
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Local Meat, Eggs & Seafood
A&A Poultry, based in Newark, sells poultry of all kinds and supplies the feed, housing equipment and advice…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
Hill’s Pick Your Own Fruit Farm is a pick-your-own farm in Newark.
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Also here: Sting Cider Ltd, Wild Jasmine Florist and Flower School, Chestnut Farm Alpacas.
Drinks, Brewing & Distilling
Sting Cider Ltd makes cider near Newark. The business can be reached by phone, though its…
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Wild Jasmine Florist and Flower School in Newark combines a florist with a programme of floristry…
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Fresh Produce & Growers
Kay and Daron run Chestnut Farm Alpacas on the Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire border near Newark. They…
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The money
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
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
Why buy from a Newark independent?
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.
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Why this page exists
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
Wanted in Newark
Nobody has listed yet for microgreens, gourmet mushrooms, cheese & dairy, baking, preserves, pickles & ferments, pantry goods, tea, coffee & confectionery, honey & bee products, herbs & botanicals, ceramics, pottery & glass, jewellery & accessories, wood, metal & fine craft, textiles, knitwear & fibre, art, prints & stationery, candles, soap & home fragrance, homewares & gifts, flowers, plants & gardening, health, beauty & wellbeing, farm shops & local retail, zero waste & eco household and pet products. That doesn’t mean nobody’s doing it. It means they’re not on here.
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Find local teachers, classes, workshops and experiences around Newark, from yoga and pottery to music, cookery, dance and outdoor skills.
Swimming Lessons
Platypus Swim School - Private Swimming Lessons for All Ages. is a swimming school in Newark.
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Dance Classes
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
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
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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Guitar Lessons
Newark Guitar Classes is a guitar teacher in Newark.
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Dance Classes
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
In Farnsfield, near Newark, Kate Pakeman runs pottery and art workshops from her own workshop, having…
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Horse Riding Lessons
Dukeries Riding Centre is a riding school in Newark.
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Yoga
Sacred Garden has taught yoga and run sound baths around Lincoln and Newark since 2013. Classes…
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Horse Riding Lessons
Sherwood Riding School is a riding school in Newark.
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Art Classes
Dean Robert Allen teaches clay sculpture near Newark, taking students from complete beginners to more experienced…
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Yoga
Sarah runs Wild Earth Yoga and Reiki from her home near Newark, teaching classes across nearby…
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Pottery Classes
The P Pod is a small pottery studio near Newark where visitors can watch bespoke ceramics…
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Market day
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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Markets and food hubs list on Understead free, forever.
Trade counter
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When more suppliers match than one request can go to, those on paid plans are sent it first.
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.
Neighbouring town pages
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Reader questions
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.