Charity work.
We offer significantly reduced pitch rates for national charities and non-profitable organisations and also offer a number of free pitches to local or vegan charities and non-profits. At all our events we always try our best to have a fair balance of local and national charities represented.
Offsetting our carbon emissions.
We are delighted that people travel far and wide to support our events and the businesses who trade at them. Although we always encourage people to walk, cycle or take public transport where they can, more often than not this isn’t a practical option for people.
We've become more and more aware of the Co2 emissions caused from our events so we've decided to do something about it. If you've traveled to one of our events and would like to offset your carbon emissions why not donate a tree to our grove today?
As a general rule of thumb, four mature trees will offset one tonne of Co2e.
A medium sized petrol car produces just over 1 tonne every 3,500 miles.
Working with ethical businesses.
We select our stall holders to ensure variety, quality and to support independent traders and companies with sustainable, ethical and environmentally sound practices.
We have always made the conscious decision to favour companies that are 100% vegan, however in some occasions we do have traders that aren’t 100% vegan at our events. We believe that it is important to show all businesses the value and importance of veganism and we have many stories of non-vegan business owners turning vegan after attending our events.
We also work with a vegan accountant, a vegan designer, vegan photographers and use a insureance broker who gives money to animal charities.
Reducing waste.
REDUCING PLASTIC.
We have always favoured businesses who use ethical packaging for their products but in 2019 we took it one step further and banned the use of plastic straws, bags, serving dishes, cups and utensils.
FOOD WASTE.
In 2018 we ran The Vegan Food Collection’s in partnership with local food banks at both Frome and Weston-Super-Mare which were both a great success. For 2022 we are hoping to run The Vegan Food Collection across even more of our events!
Postes and flyers
We only print on recycled card with plant-based inks. We also make sure to reuse any of our leftover print as signage for traders or as card for children to use in our craft areas. We even make our business cards out of leftover card!
DO YOUR BIT!
However, the responsibility of reducing waste isn’t just on us and our traders! If you are coming along to one of our events make sure you bring your own tote/canvas bag and if you’re planning on buying fresh goods why not bring your own lunch box or container to take your treats home in?