Newcastle Christmas Markets 2024

Newcastle’s Christmas Markets are back!  NE1 and Newcastle City Council have worked together to provide a bigger and better market than ever before!

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00:00We're at Newcastle's Christmas Markets and we're in the brand new part of it, Newcastle's

00:03Christmas Village which is taking over Old Elm Square from today until the 22nd of December

00:08and it's got a host of family activities added to the stalls around the monument.

00:12You might be able to hear a carousel in the background so we have a glorious carousel

00:16I think it's from the 1890s so it's a real vintage one.

00:19We have Santa Stories which is over to my right which is a Santa storytelling experience

00:23with the elves and Mrs. Claus and then in the other corner we have something called

00:27the Elf Workshop where you can go to elf school and get your certificate and be certified

00:32as a naughty or nice child and we have the Rock and Reindeer Stage where people will

00:36find performances, Christmas screenings and all sorts of other pop-ups throughout the

00:40next six weeks.

00:43The Christmas experience is extended through Old Elm Square, Grey Street and Granger Street

00:47with stalls alongside the returning Alpine inspired bar.

00:50Due to popular demand, the area around the monument is filled with market stalls and

00:53is the host to the city's very own North Pole, a brand new attraction for 2024 with

00:58unique igloo pods raised above the stalls.

01:01I'm calling it the best view in the city but I think if you get up there and you have a

01:05look the view down Grey Street, around Granger Street, seeing everyone coming and going while

01:09being protected in your nice cosy dome, people bringing you food and drinks, it feels like

01:14it's going to be the Christmas party destination of choice hopefully this year.

01:18The sort of street food and the experience of coming in and trying something new and

01:21maybe something festive so we've got some food traders over here in Old Elm Square who

01:25a lot of people will recognise, people like Geordie Bangers, Acropolis, you know all the

01:29sort of favourites that people look for.

01:31So it's a project that anyone in Newcastle City Council work on together and we have

01:35done for the last few years.

01:37This year we've also worked with a company called Event Inspirations and they're behind

01:40a lot of the new items.

01:42So they came on board in April time and we're going to be working with them for a few years.

01:45So it's so important to the city that I think it's essential that Newcastle City Council

01:50prioritise it as they have been doing and we do the same.

01:53I think it's such a huge opportunity to have a bumper six week spell before Christmas for

01:58businesses here.