🌍 Buy Local, Buy Social – Empower Your Community! 🌍
For the second annual Enterprise Fair, the Park Ecovillage in Findhorn became a lively marketplace that truly celebrated Buy Local Buy Social Empower Your Community!
There were many firsts as the Fair built on the success of the previous year:
- It burst out of the Universal Hall into venues all around the Park
- It was livestreamed to a global audience, who had their own schedule of events in parallel with the onsite Fair, with roving reporters sharing live
- Exhibitors were region-wide, coming from the broader Moray area as well as the Park
- The brand new local Enterprise Directory was launched
- All-new activities included taster sessions from various healers, nature game sessions for kids (giving their parents a break), theatre processions, and a great many burgers!
The Honouring Lifecycles of Organisations session returned, with a heartfelt sharing by local entrepreneurs of their lived experience of a business’s cycles – the beginnings, transitions, and endings. This was a rich session, allowing other entrepreneurs to learn and support each other more effectively.
The second Ekopia Lifetime Achievement Award went to Alex Walker, who was honoured for his contribution to the community and further afield.
If you missed out, you’ll find the full story, recordings of the event, awards and presentations on our our community archive, Celebrating One Incredible Family. You can also take a look at the 2024 Enterprise Fair here.
ENTERPRISE FAIR 2025 by numbers
60+ Eco-products, renewable energy projects, social enterprises, healthier living practitioners, food suppliers and a variety of inspiring community initiatives.
45 Individual stalls for exhibitors
2 Keynote speakers: Ariane Burgess, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Highlands and Islands, and Co-Convener of the Social Enterprise Cross-Party Group; and Donnie Maclurcan, Findhorn Fellow and Co-founder and Director of Strategy at the Post Growth Institute
7 Zones, grouping enterprises together – Community; Education; Eco; Healthier Living, Food; Arts, Craft & Performance; Foodies
4 Venues spread around the Park– Universal Hall, the Moray Arts Centre, the Sunshine Room, and the Hive Courtyard
Would you like to be involved next year, as an exhibitor, sponsor, organiser, marketer? Talk to us! celebratingenterprise@gmail.com
Would you like to list your business in the Enterprise Directory? Email celebratingenterprise@gmail.com
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Together we can build a stronger, greener, more connected community.