New Sunday market provides boost to Anglesea weekends

A CELEBRATION of community spirit and creativity was on display at Anglesea’s Beach Clean Up and Market.

The event, hosted by Anglesea indoor market and local not-for-profit Cleaner Coast, drew a crowd of people from across the Surf Coast and beyond who helped clean up Anglesea Beach and Foreshore on Sunday.

When the clean-up work was done attendees enjoyed live music while perusing a variety of market stalls, food trucks and even refreshing beverages from Bells Beach Brewing Company.

 

“Following the beach clean people had the chance to sit back, relax and listen to some music which has been a common procedure recently with everyone getting back out into the community,” Cleaner Coast’s Kate Griffin said.

“It’s really fun to get together afterwards and feel like you’ve made a difference.”

Market organiser Max Stone said the turnaround was short, only getting the go ahead to hold the event two weeks ago, but through her determination and events management background she was able to get several stalls and musical acts together for the day and the timing could not have been better.

 

“I’m really big on community events and bringing community together,” Ms Stone said.

“I volunteer a lot in the community and when I was living in Melbourne last year before moving down the coast, I was doing a lot of community work and I really love doing it, so this was just the perfect way to tie that all in together with restrictions easing.”

Ms Stone said she hoped to make the market a regular monthly occurrence, switching up the musical artists and stallholders for each event.