Our Impact & Our Future
Get involved in the conversation of what happens next with Vegan Business Tribe
This is our activism
This is our way to move the vegan cause forwards, by helping vegan businesses skill-up and scale-up. Founded in 2020, Vegan Business Tribe has grown to over 2,000 registered users and has had a direct and significant impact on the success and growth of hundreds of vegan businesses.
Our impact document showcases our impact over the past two years and outlines what’s needed to continue into the future. We invite you to download the document and get involved in the conversation about what happens next with Vegan Business Tribe.
- Download our 20-page impact document
"We’d have never looked at our business strategy as hard if it hadn’t been for the push from you two. It’s been a total game changer."
Kayleigh Nicolaou,
Kakadu Creative, UK
"Your advice really gave us a wake up call. You guys made us recognise the value of what we are doing."
Jackie Norman,
Vegan FTA, New Zealand
"You have built something valuable and unique that is relevant to vegan business owners anywhere in the world."
Annette & Graham Henry,
Henry & Henry, Germany
"It’s like we’re now part of this new big family. It’s so good that you do this! We were blown away by our session with you."
Ed & Natasha,
BReD, Canada
SOME STATS
2K
registered users
250+
paid members
1.2K
unique podcast listeners per 90 days
130+
online articles & guides
Increasing Representation
Some examples of how we’ve put vegan business on the agenda and created opportunities for vegan companies.
Launched Vegan Business Tribe Live, the UK’s first vegan business conference. Two days including more than 20 speakers and panellists at the London Olympia, as part of VegfestUK.
We also subsidised 12 stands for our members creating a ‘Vegan Business Tribe Village’ – meaning our members could have a presence at the UK’s largest vegan consumer show at a hugely reduced price.
Worked with Chris Evans’ Carfest to include a ‘vegan village’ at their North and South events. Helped source vegan businesses to exhibit at the event and secured several vegan companies (including VBT members) free stands. Event footfall estimated to be 150k+ people.
Partnered with CrowdfunderUK to take 18 vegan businesses through their first crowdfunding campaign as a supported group project. Collectively raised over £20k for Vegan Business Tribe members and created an online resource centre for crowdfunding on the VBT website.
Worked with producers at South Shore Productions to find vegan food manufacturers to apply to be featured in their new ITV television programme.
Provided statistics and information to BBC journalists for features on vegan businesses in Scotland.
Positively championing the vegan business scene and getting the topic of vegan businesses on the agenda at many events, virtual and physical.
Including the Vegan Finance Summit, VegfestUK, and Vegan Interior Design Week.
National exposure for our members
Through our partnership with Vegan Food & Living Magazine (the UK’s biggest vegan publication) we have been able to feature more than 30 of our Vegan Business Tribe members in our monthly business column.
Funding & Future
To become financially self-sufficient we need to reach the level of 450 paying members. This will require aggressive growth in 22/23 plus extra finance.
2021
Income: £11k
Member growth: 0 to 116
(Based on August financial year end)
2022
Income: £29.2k
Member growth: 116 to 200
(Based on August financial year end)
2023
targets
Income: £50k
Member growth: 200 to 400
Currently, we are funded by the other consultancy work that Lisa & David undertake to financially support Vegan Business Tribe. VBT requires an additional £35k of funding in 2022/23. To achieve this, we are looking at the following options:
- Financial funding or backing
- Expanding into new territories, such as the US
- Sponsors & partnerships
- Other self-funding models such as paid 1-2-1 coaching & mentoring
We would love you to join the conversation about the future of Vegan Business Tribe
VBT will require an additional £35k of funding in 2022/23 so we would love your feedback and ideas on ways to achieve that.
Or if your company or organisation would like to discuss partnering with or sponsoring Vegan Business Tribe, we would love to have that conversation also! Email us on hello@veganbusinesstribe.com or download our impact document for more information.
- Download our 20-page impact document
