Toria Brightside founded VauHaus as an ethical model and creative agency. Since her own conversion to veganism, Toria has been transitioning the agency towards working with more green and vegan brands, which led to one of her models being the face of a new Meatless Farm advert.

Vegan Business Tribe have teamed up with Crowdfunder UK to support a group of our members through a crowdfunding campaign. We needed 20 companies to sign up to the programme – BUT WE GOT MORE THAN DOUBLE THAT! If you signed up, here’s what you need to do next.

Video has become a large part of digital marketing, and it’s never been easier to create high-quality video yourself using equipment you already have. In this workshop, David is joined by vegan film-maker and producer Darren Cavanagh, also known as The Very CreatiVegan, to talk about how you can create better videos to promote your business.

Livestreamed as part of VegfestUK Online. You may have been told that vegan is too much of a niche or a fad to launch a new product into, or it’s too small a marketplace to grow a successful business. But what’s the truth about that, and if that’s the case why are so many vegan businesses growing so quickly right now?

Natasha and Ed Tatton swapped the UK for British Columbia, opening a vegan organic sourdough bakery in a Canadian mountain resort village. Lisa talks to Natasha of BReD about their adventure of opening a plant-based bakery in the Whistler mountains, winning over the locals and what it’s like running a business with your partner!

Many of our Vegan Business Tribe members have been running offers throughout Veganuary. From tips for the new vegan in your life, through to improving your diet, vegan knitwear and tools for your business – here are four of our favourites!

If you have developed a new product or process in the UK then you can claim money back for your research and development costs. And this isn’t just white coats and clipboards in laboratories. As a vegan business, there are lots of ways that your company might have been involved in research without you realising it. We talk to Michael Newnham from Quantum R&D Tax Ltd to find out who qualifies.

What’s the one thing you want to achieve to move your business forward this month? Join Lisa each month to MAKE IT HAPPEN. If you missed the live workshop session with Lisa, you can now watch back (and join in with!) the session on our website. Paid members can take part with the goal-setting and accountability session live each month.

If you have visited a vegan fair there’s a good chance you will have seen a Viva La Vegan clothing stand. Or you may have seen a number of animal activists proudly wearing the Viva La Vegan brand. Lisa talks to founder Jay Charlton about how she created a brand that embraces fashion as activism.

Recorded live at VegfestUK online, David brings together three experts in funding to answer all your questions about how to fund a vegan business. Are you wondering how to raise finance for your business? Should you launch a crowdfunding campaign, should you get a bank loan, or maybe you should try and attract an investor? Our expert panel answers all these questions and more.