February Events

🔵 BLUE MOUNTAINS VEGAN MARKET 🔵 Sunday Feb 9, 2025 • 9am - 3pm • The Hub, Springwood This event is very popular with visitors and stallholders alike! Held in Springwood, only 50 mins drive from Inner West early Sunday morning, this event attracts both Sydney-siders on a day trip, and vegans from throughout the Mountains. Local stalls are prioritised but all stalls are welcomed.

🩷 Chatswood LOCAL 🩷 Sunday, Feb 16 • 10am - 4pm • Chatswood Mall, Chatswood

Back at Chatswood, where there is an abundance of foot traffic, public transport just metres away, and parking stations 2-3 mins walk away. Yes, we're introducing new venues in the north, but we'll still come back to Chatswood every 2-3 months. Especially good for those who's food suit the East Asian population, but we also need variety to keep all our punters happy! 

We may also have an event on Saturday Feb 2 - the Parramatta site is unavailable but we'll book something else in the next week if we can!

March Events

🧡 Parramatta LOCAL 🧡 Sunday, Mar 2 • 9am - 3pm • Centenary Park, Parramatta

After 2 months break (lots of people away in January and site being used for Chinese New Year in February), our return to Parramatta should be welcomed!  

🩵 ALIVE FEST 🩵 Saturday, March 8 • 9am - 3pm • Leagues Club Park, Gosford

In Coordinator Glenn's word's, Alive is Ready to Party! Perfectly located near to a tidal pool kid's area, public transport, and with great support from council, Alive Fest is more of a Festival than a market!  Live Music • Yoga • Talks • and more. Apply via your profile below or email Glenn.

Welcome, it's great to see you here!

Vegan NSW is a charity organisation that promotes veganism and supports vegans.

We run The Vegan Directory and regular weekend events that help to showcase the incredible world of veganism, bring the vegan communities of NSW together in a safe, fun and delicious way, and centre the importance of being eco conscious and sustainable.

• Are all of your products vegan or plant based?

• Are you vegan with a cool service to offer?

• Do you want to be part of something that is changing the face of veganism in NSW?

If yes, we want to hear from you!

We bring community together

• The Vegan Directory is our newest offering to help keep the community connected with vegan businesses and organisations between events and during lockdowns

• Sydney Vegan Market is our biggest monthly event, and runs on the third Sunday of every month at The Entertainment Quarter

• SVM Nights is Sydney Vegan Market for the afternoon and after dark

• Newcastle Vegan Market was our first regional event but is currently on hold

• Alive Festival is a celebration of everything plant based on the Central Coast and runs twice a year in Gosford

We are vegan

All our events are 100% vegan!

We prioritise stalls that are 100% vegan all the time - wherever they trade, and in all their comms.

We are eco responsible

All single use service ware must be compostable and certified to the current version of AS 4736 - The Australian commercial compost standards in Australia. All other plastic is not permitted.

We are safe for all

Vegan NSW is committed to veganism, evidence-based information, social justice, and supporting the communities that engage with our events, the directory and social media. We want everyone to feel safe and included in our spaces!

We do everything we can (& ask you to do the same!) to support the physical safety of all of our stall holders, volunteers, staff and event attendees, and we make sure our events are welcoming for everyone by ensuring all of our venues are accessible, and by providing free activations including live music, talks and yoga classes.

We use inclusive language and avoid language, ideas and products that may cause offence or harm to others such as:

• People of colour/black people/Aboriginal/First Nations or non-white people (racist or colonialist language)

• People from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans & non-binary, intersex, queer or asexual communities (homophobic and transphobic language)

• People with disability or chronic illness (ableism)

• People in specific age groups (ageism)

• People of different body sizes, appearance, or dress (fat, thin, fashion or other appearance shaming)

Please be open to feedback about this.

We are respectful

Vegan NSW supports open discussion of ideas and encourages people to make their own well-informed decisions. However, our mission is to be in a position to advocate for veganism, so we are careful about which debates we engage in or prioritise. 

We ask you to behave in ways that support our vision by:

• Ensuring that you engage in discussions that have the potential to turn to conflict with respectful dialogue

• Not playing any graphic or violent video or audio content in plain view and ensuring there is a trigger warning located within your stall

We are product responsible

We are careful that the information and products sold at our events are safe, effective and responsible.

We are curated

We would love to invite all applicants to our events, however with a focus on ensuring that there is a wide range of products available you may not be successful the first time you apply. If you aren't successful the first time, please update your Profile with the next event date you would like to attend and we will be in touch.

We are outdoors

All of our weekend events are held in the great outdoors. Our attendees love sitting on the grass (weather permitting!) and lazing the day away surrounded by vegan heaven! Unless it is unsafe we will go ahead regardless of the weather.

So please ensure you are prepared! We have seen a marquee tumble across the site and we don't ever want to see that again, eeek! All stall holders need to bring all of their own equipment to safely and legally trade in an outdoor setting including marquee and 20kg weights for each leg, equipment, tables, displays and power leads.

We are social

We know that social media is a key driver for businesses and events, and we have worked hard to build a big and engaged social media following. Our combined audience across our channels is now over 60K! Oooft! To help promote your inclusion at our events we do one post for every approved stall holder, and one general post for The Vegan Directory each month. We also offer various social media opportunities for posts across our social media platforms.

GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR APPLICATION!

STALL FEES

• Standard stall site is 3m x 3m

• All prices inclusive of GST

Food Stall (ready to eat)

• Casual $280

• Regulars $260

Pantry Stall

• Casual $240

• Regulars $220

• Pantry stalls that attended in 2023-4 may be eligible for fee reduction.

General Stall

• Casual $180

• Regulars $160

• General stalls that attended in 2023-4 may be eligible for fee reduction.

Larger stalls

• 4.5m x 3m ( 1.5 x stall sites) is 25% extra stall fee

• 6m x 3m (2 x stall site) is 50% extra stall fee

Registered NFP/Charity

• 50% discount off stall fee

• NFP stalls that attended in 2023-4 may be eligible for further fee reduction.

POWER

• Up to 30 amps (eg up to  3 x 10amps; or 2x 15amps; or 1 x 10amps & 1 x 15amps): $30

• Up to 60 amps: $50

• Up to 90 amps: $70

• If more power or plugs needed please contact us  - it will depend on availability and cost to provide additional power

PROMINENT Stall Site

• Want to stand out on the day? 

• We have limited prominent spots but you can reserve one for yourself!

• Prominent Site (within your category): $80

DEDICATED PROMO

• Let everyone know you are attending and what you have to offer.

• Grab your very own post completely dedicated to your business or stall

• Own post on FB, IG and stories (that’s right - on all of them): $80

MAJOR SPONSORSHIP

Please contact svm@vnsw.org.au to discuss Major Sponsor options. 

Final bits:

• Event applications close two weeks before the event - late applications may be accepted if space allows however we can’t guarantee!

• If you have applied in the past and haven't been successful because your business or organisation was not vegan, feel free to try again - often a vacancy has come up for your stall type.

By clicking the below you agree that, if accepted, you will respect and follow the above policies.