It’s not just vegan products or foods that need to be sure they can claim they are vegan. In this second of this two part article, Lisa looks at the vegan hospitality and service sector and how you can make sure your business can fairly claim to be cruelty-free.

Brought to you by the team behind Vegfest, Summerfest is going to be the UK’s largest online vegan event and we want to see you there! As a VBT member you can join us at the trade-only day before the event to network with other vegan businesses.

As a vegan business owner it’s your responsibility to ensure that all of your ingredients and manufacturing processes are vegan. Your company might not even survive the loss of trust that comes from accidentally selling someone a non-vegan product. In the first of this two-part article, Lisa looks at how you can be 100% positive your product is actually vegan.

This new Government scheme is aimed to kick-start people’s return to dining-out as the lockdown eases. David explains how your food business can register to allow anyone to claim a 50% discount when eating-in with you during August, which you then claim back from the Government.

Faced with being unable to trade as a vegan hairstylist because of the Covid-19 lockdown, Vieri Wikes went from having an idea for a new business to getting paying customers within a couple of weeks. David talks to Vieri to find out how she managed to get a business off the ground so quickly by following her mantra ‘good is good enough’.

Beth is an artist who makes what looks like antique anatomical studies out of all-vegan fabrics which you can buy to add a little macabre humour to your life! However, she also uses her creations to open up conversations about veganism with the public who see her work. Lisa talks to Beth about how she first tested, and then created, such a unique business idea.

To build a successful business, you need a group of followers who absolutely cannot live without your product and believe in your vegan mission. These people will help you spread your message and attract more people who also love what you are doing. They will become your brand ambassadors. They will become your ‘tribe’.

Before the world got turned upside down with Coronavirus, Vegan Business Tribe was going to launch as a paid-for content site. However – in the few months since we’ve opened up the site for free to help business during the lockdown, we have been overwhelmed by the amount of humbling feedback. How can we put up a paywall if that means only a fraction of vegan businesses would get access to this content that’s helping so many?