Company Timeline..

2005 – Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair sets up stalls in a bar in East London, the event was then called ISM: The Indoor Sunday Market and was promoted as something unique to do on a Sunday. With an array of vintage and handmade stalls, food, drinks and live music, the event was picked up by The Evening Standard and Judy was interviewed on BBC breakfast news as the founder of a new breed of vintage fashion events. The event ran as the ISM for 1 year.

2006 – Judy moved back to her home town of Leeds and decided to bring the event with her, a new name was chosen: The Affordable Vintage Fair and the newly branded event opened to the public at Leeds University Student Union.

2007 – With the ever rising popularity of The Affordable Vintage Fair 4 new cities were launched – Manchester, Hull, Liverpool and Sheffield.

2008 – The Affordable Vintage Fair became a firm favourite with the vintage fashion lovers of Liverpool, Sheffield and Leeds and decided to expand to Newcastle, Durham, Nottingham and Lincoln.

2009 – Now with 7 cities and a popular following The Affordable Vintage Fair heads back to London launching a sell-out event with over 1300 customers and a queue that snaked round the block. More cities were added including Derby, Cambridge and York. The vintage fair wagon showed no signs of stopping there when it became the first ever vintage fair to tour the UK festivals. Beach Break Live festival, London’s Lovebox, Standon Calling and Offset festival were included in the summer of 2009’s vintage festival tour.

2010 – A sell-out London launch and 11 cities now in full swing The Affordable Vintage Fair launches Oxford and Leicester to complete the England vintage map and follows suit with two huge events in Edinburgh and Glasgow which see’s yet more queue snakes as the people of Scotland clamour for an affordable vintage fix. As copycat fairs are set up the Affordable Vintage Fair is re-branded to ease confusion with customers. Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair now gives an unique edge and helps customers find the event more easily. At the start of 2010 Judy was selected by Wayne Hemmingway to help launch his new Vintage venture – Vintage at Goodwood. Judy is titled ‘marketplace curator’ and in charge of selecting 150 traders to take part in this unique new offering. Vintage at Goodwood is a huge success and Judy is selected to stay on as curator to organise 2011. Judy’s Affordable Vintage fair takes on new festivals to provide vintage villages at Radio 1’s Big Weekend, Beach Break Live, Hop Farm, LoveBox and V festival.