Interviews with vegan businesses
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Every month we interview one of our Vegan Business Tribe members for Vegan Food & Living Magazine, the UK’s biggest and best-selling vegan publication. Read the full, unabridged interviews as we go behind the scenes with the best of vegan business.

Behind the Scenes with Khepera CIC
Khepera created a Community Cooking and Wellbeing Kitchen in High Wycombe. We talk to their founder Charmaine Fyffe, about how they are improving their local community through teaching plant-based cooking skills.

Behind the Scenes with Vegan Fairs
Daisy Botha started Vegan Fairs after being asked to organise a vegan event at a venue she was working at in 2017. 6 years later, Vegan Fairs now run over 40 events a year. We talk to Daisy about giving vegan companies a local shop window and surviving the pandemic as an events business.

Behind the Scenes with Yumfu
Yumfu’s founder, Callum Weir, is a certified plant-based nutritionist but also a ‘digital nomad’. Lisa catches up with Callum to find out the realities of running a company from the road, and asks if you can successfully combine business and travel.

Behind the Scenes with Muse Music & Love Cafe
Muse Music & Love Cafe seems like a typical small cafe, nestled in the Yorkshire market town of Hebden Bridge. But through the doors you will find a love of vinyl records, great coffee and a passion for the vegan cause. Lisa catches up with owners Lou and Paul Blacklock to discover the realities of running your own vegan café.

Behind the Scenes with Left Coast Culture
Ella Clarke left Canada for Scotland to start her own vegan cheese company. Lisa finds out more about Ella’s (accidental!) business journey and if the Scottish Highlands were ready for vegan cheese.

Behind the Scenes with BFriendly
Ian and Cathy Haywood of band BFriendly use their love of reggae music to promote the vegan cause. Lisa caught up with Ian during their ‘Peace Love & Reggae’ tour to find out how they use music as their form of activism.

Behind the Scenes with Ray Star
Ray Star is the author of the Earthlings trilogy, young-adult fantasy fiction with a vegan message at its core. Lisa talks to Ray about her journey as an author and writing fiction as a form of activism.

Behind the Scenes with The Bloody Vegans Podcast
Jim Moore has interviewed countless vegan athletes, activists, authors, chefs and businesspeople on The Bloody Vegans Podcast. Now he also helps people grow their own podcasts through his production company Bloody Vegans Productions. Lisa talks to Jim about becoming one of the UK’s most popular vegan podcasters.

Behind the Scenes with The Vegan Chef School
What started as a course to help keen home cooks progress their careers has now become a fully industry-accredited school for vegan chefs led by Chef Day Radley. Lisa catches up with Day to find out how she has trained more than 100 vegans to become professional chefs.

Behind the Scenes with Air Safaris 269
Following a successful career as a commercial airline pilot, JC De Klerk returned to Africa with a mission to make his home country of Namibia more welcoming to vegan travellers. Lisa talks with JC about taking vegans to see the wonders of Africa by light aircraft.