About 80 independent stallholders made up of mostly mums selling or promoting their home business will fill the Bethlehem Hall tonight.

The hall will host the Mum's Market, which will start at 7.30pm.

The Mums Market on tonight. The market is the brainchild of Vanessa Henderson-Jones.

A way for mums to bring their homemade goods to the customer that's what Mums Market aims to do, says organiser Vanessa Henderson-Jones describing the market.

Vanessa says Mums Market 'is all about mums supporting mums, helping to give each other a boost up to be able to stay at home, doing what we love, and earning some money”.

She had the idea while driving one day, thinking about how it could be hard to branch out in a small business.

'Once you've sold to your friends it's hard to get further.”

She posted on a local Facebook page about the idea for a market for mums and says the response was great.

Vanessa created an event, 'with no date”, and within one week 800 people had registered as interested.

Within two weeks that number had grown to 1500.

'When I first thought of the idea I thought there'd be five or six mums I could invite them to my house, and I quickly realised that wasn't ever going to happen.”

Vanessa says the aim of her market is to promote mums and their businesses.

'I know there's a lot of mums that do some amazing things and that's what I wanted to get out there.

'All these people, local to you, can make anything you want, and they're doing it to try and support themselves.”

Debbie Allan is one of these mums.

Debbie runs a service called Supermum Support.

Supermum 'will come in and do whatever a mum would do”, says Debbie.

'It's not just cleaning, it's support. It's doing all those little extra bits and pieces that we do as mums that we're sometimes too busy to do ourselves when we've got young children.”

Debbie has three children of her own, a six-year-old, a three-year-old, and a two-year-old, and says Supermum was an idea she'd wanted to start when her youngest settled into kindy.

The reaction from mums who use Debbie's services is one of gratitude, says Debbie.

'They think it's absolutely fantastic, it takes away a lot of the stress of everyday things and just the peace of mind that someone's going to come and do it, it takes a lot of the pressure off.

'It's great to see the difference in these women's lives as I go each week.”

Siobhan Dennis will also be at Mums Market, selling classy ties for little boys.

She says the market is a great way for her to sell the ties without the pressure of a store.

'I'm hoping to use this time to get TwoBoys ties out, get information from mothers and find out what they like.”

She first had the idea of ties for boys – TwoBoys Ties – when she wanted her two-year-old son to attend church in a tie.

Siobhan took a black tie from her husband, cut it down and hand stitched it.

'A lot of people commented on it, saying there weren't enough little boys ties around.”

Siobhan says her sister-in-law, and now business partner, Brittany Hirawani was the one to push Siobhan to get into the market and to sell the ties.

Brittany and her husband have encouraged Siobhan to really push TwoBoys ties.

She says they are hoping to keep the ties for the middle market – 'We want them to look classy and expensive but at a reasonable price”.

The ties are made for children aged two to eight.

The current range – the Carter range – is named after her son Carter, who was born with a cleft palette and is partially deaf in both ears, meaning he was 'in and out of hospital” a lot.

Vanessa says they are hoping to hold another Mums Market in the middle of the year.

'It's a competitive world, but let's just support each other and help make it a nice place!”

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