Page 46 - Market Times April 2024

46 MARKET TIMES • APRIL 2024 NMTF’s Spring Into Markets guide for new
traders is online — and completely free
TO ACCESS THE GUIDE CLICK HERE
YOU’RE never too young or old to become a market trader — just look at our highly successful Young Traders Market campaign, and the many stories we carry in our Market Times features of entrepreneurs who have joined the industry later in their lives.
The NMTF’s comprehensive guide to retail market trading aimed squarely at mature people looking for new livelihoods is well and truly out there.
The fully interactive Spring Into Markets is available now, completely free to view and use — just click here.
NMTF CEO Joe Harrison said: “This incredibly useful guide was born out of the Covid crisis and is meant as practical encouragement to think about trading on markets as a living.”
He said that for a number of years the NMTF had nurtured many young traders from starting on markets to growing their businesses.
“Our major project is the Young Traders Market for 16 to 30-year-olds who have an idea to sell,” he added. “Culminating in a national final it has worked extremely well — even in the difficulties of the pandemic — but we see no reason why older people cannot spread their wings by springing into markets.”
This means that the guide is not exclusively for new traders, since the help and advice it contains will also benefit those who are already well established.
But for those interested in becoming a trader it describes how a business can be built up gradually, and about the flexibility of being able to work different
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skills and building a network of
starting up to monitoring performance.Each section is linked to assessment modules which can be downloaded and completed at the trader’s own pace.
markets on different days.
The guide also outlines how customers.
market trading can help develop business skills and stresses the importance of communication
In total there are 15 topics spread over more than 100 pages, covering all manner of subjects ranging from
Scottish market man Keith Payne dies after battle with cancer
KEITH PAYNE, a popular character on the Scottish market scene, has died of can- cer after raising £34,000 for charity in just six months.
A father of five, Keith wrote a memoir covering his 50 years in the market industry including his successful role developing Ingliston and Kinross markets, and the past 10 years he spent building up Errol Market to become one of Scotland’s premier Sunday markets.
For a number of years he was part of the Manchester Market management team, and in 2011 was awarded the NMTF’s Dennis Williams Market Manager of the Year trophy.
Diagnosed with prostate cancer and advanced gastric cancer in 2022, Keith
launched a fundraising appeal — Keith Payne, The Big C and Me, in the spring of 2023, with the aim of raising £15,000 for three cancer charities.
He exceeded the target substantially which meant he could also donate to his favourite charity CHAS, Children’s Hospices Across Scotland.
Lee-Anne Wilson, his colleague at Morris Leslie Group’s Errol market told the local newspaper, the Evening Courier:
“Keith had been with the business over 10 years and was known and loved by all his colleagues due to his friendly, helpful and generous nature.
“He built Errol Sunday Market from the ground up. But he built strong foundations to ensure the market will continue to grow and thrive.”
Keith Payne was 2011’s Market Manager of the Year