After facing the threat of closure and a massive community fundraising effort last year, the Rural Life Living Museum opened its doors for the Surrey Hills Spring Fair on April 5 to 6, 2025. Held in partnership with Surrey Hills Enterprises CIC, the Surrey Hills Spring Fair celebrated the very best of the county’s food, drink, art, and crafts, supporting local independent artisans, craftspeople, and stallholders. Visitors enjoyed two days filled with activities, live entertainment, countryside traditions, and delicious food and drink. The fair offered a perfect opportunity to experience the museum’s fascinating collection, with volunteers bringing the exhibits to life through demonstrations, crafts, and hands-on activities.
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00:00Hi guys, hi guys, we're going to the Surrey Fair
00:30Come back, come back
00:39There's South Africa
00:41I want to see what that flying thing is
00:52She's missing, she's lost her feet, where did her feet go?
00:54I don't know
01:00So this is Surrey Hills Enterprises Spring Fair which is produced in partnership between
01:13Surrey Hills Enterprises and the Rural Life Museum, so we provide the site and the equipment
01:19to do the event and Surrey Hills Enterprises look after all the traders and makers, so
01:23there's over 80 traders and makers here, there's 20 different activities around the site to
01:28We're really pleased to have welcomed about 3,000 people so far today, as many people
01:32will be aware the museum found itself in financial crisis in about August last year and we raised
01:38over £150,000 to keep the museum open, so we're here, we're open and we're running for
01:442025 which is really great, we're not completely out of the woods yet, that got us through
01:49it but we're hoping to build our visitor numbers and move forward into the future
01:57This is the mouth of Etiquette at last, and there was a Sophia Patel
02:27Thank you