Founders Keepers Market

A small, design-led market in the courtyards of The Woodstock Foundry, on the first Saturday of every month.

Some markets you do once, tick off the list, and never quite get round to again. Founders Keepers is built for the opposite. It is small on purpose: a short list of independent artists, makers, vintage collectors and flower sellers tucked into the corners and courtyards of The Woodstock Foundry, with a few food trucks parked up wherever there is room.

The trade-off is the whole point. Fewer stalls means you can stop properly, pick things up, and ask the person behind the table how they made it. Less shuffling past, more actually finding something.

It lands on the first Saturday of every month, which is easy enough to remember and a good reason to make a morning of it rather than a quick dash. The Foundry’s resident studios stay open while the market runs, VRVO jewellery and Beagle + Basset among them, so there is more to wander through once you have done the stalls. Bring the dog, bring the kids. It is undercover, step-free, and there is parking close by.