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Stirling Traders Village
Highland Games Overview
Stirling Highland Games continues to attract thousands of visitors from around the world to our annual gathering in August.
The Gathering has become a destination event for visitors to enjoy an authentic Scottish experience in one of Scotland’s most historic cities, steeped in history and rich in culture and heritage. If you believe your product can add value to our Traders Village event experience, we are interested in receiving an EOI application from you to consider.
The majority of last year’s visitors to the event were from the UK, Europe and the Rest of the World. Our visitors are interested in seeing and buying quality produce and products directly from the people who make them, as well as hearing about their provenance.
If you wish to be part of the day and believe you can help provide the positive visitor experience we aim for, we would love to hear more about what you offer. Check out more details below to see which part of our event your business could be part of.
COULD YOUR PRODUCTS BENEFIT THE TRADERS VILLAGE EXPERIENCE AT STIRLING HIGHLAND GAMES?
Last year’s Traders Village scored a rating of 57% as excellent or very good by visitors.
48% of last year’s visitors were from overseas.
49 visiting countries at last year’s event.
Visitors spent £45 on average per person at the event last year.
Be Part of our Traders Village Experience
We appreciate your interest in trading at the Stirling Highland Games on Saturday, 15th August 2026.
We are looking for suitable Market Traders [arts/crafts/business], sports clubs or groups [Community Sports Area], Food & Drink producers [Artisan hot food or drinks producers], including craft distilleries, street food and hot drinks trucks. Successful applicants will be allocated an outdoor trade space within the site. Our aim for you on the day is to help maximise customer dwell time and encourage engagement, allowing you to promote your product.
We want to approve a diverse range of quality traders to showcase the widest possible choice to our visitors. We want to hear from traders who can tell our visitors about how you source and produce the products you create. As such, we encourage traders to apply from Scottish Arts and Crafts, Scottish food and drink producers, Scottish clans and local sports that would appeal to both a Scottish audience as well as other visiting nations.
We will carefully select our traders to ensure our visitors take home the best quality and variety of Scottish products, and priority is given to traders who uphold the principles of our event ethos.
We would recommend that Traders should offer a variety of payment options, giving you more opportunities to generate income. Please note we do not provide a wifi connection on-site.
Stirling Highland Games is delighted to once again choose Ceangail CIC as our good cause to support this year. They aim to inspire young people into tourism through their training academy programmes. The Stirling Highland Games is therefore not looking for EOI applications from other 3rd Sector organisations [charities, social enterprises or voluntary organisations], but we can offer a limited number of entry tickets if of interest. You can contact us for more details about this.
Application Process Outline
- Stage 1 – Complete and submit an Expression of Interest [EOI] application.
- We will review all ongoing EOI applications, and those that are of interest will be notified about moving on to stage 2, where the relevant paperwork will be requested.
- Stage 2 [Round 1] – Traders that have been asked to provide further details should submit them immediately with all paperwork required before 31st March.
- Payment – our organiser, Ceangail CIC, will invoice for full payment based on your application. Please pay within 14 days or sooner, or the trade space will be allocated to the next trader on our list.
- Stage 2 [Round 2] – Traders that have been asked to provide further details should submit them immediately with all paperwork required before 30th June.
- Payment – our organiser, Ceangail CIC, will invoice for full payment based on your application. Please pay within 14 days or sooner, or the trade space will be allocated to the next trader on our list.
- Stage 3 – Traders paperwork is the Traders Responsibility
- Our aim by the 30th June is to formally submit our proposed Traders attending this year’s event to Stirling Council. It is your responsibility to ensure that all paperwork required by Stirling Council is with us by the above dates so that the relevant checks on your paperwork can be made.
- Stage 4 – All approved Traders will be emailed the exact event details approx a fortnight before the event – w/c 3rd August.
Trader Overview and Forms
- Stage 1 – submit an EOI for our consideration
- Stage 2 – submit the paperwork requested
- Stage 3 – We submit all traders’ paperwork to the Local Authority for review and permission to trade at SHG 2026.
Traders clicking the Submit button confirm reading and fully accepting the SHG Traders T&C 2026.
Stirling Highland Games and International Gathering is on Saturday, 15th August 2026.
- Trader Fees start at £95
- 2 Trader Pass Tickets [for staff]
- Promotion on social media
- Listed in the online Games Programme
- Listed on web site
Stirling Sports Village, Borrowmeadow Farm Road, Stirling, FK7 7UJ
Traders Set Up
15:00 to 21:00 – Friday 14th August
07:30 to 08:15 – Saturday 15th August
08:30 to 09:15 – Saturday 15th August
09:30 – no further vehicle movement Saturday 15th August
Stirling Highland Games: Saturday 15th August
Gates Open 10:00
Gates Close 17:00
Traders Derig from 17:00 – Saturday 15th August
2026 Trader Expression of Interest Application OPEN
Creating Memories in Stirling
SATURDAY 15TH AUGUST 2026
For the best authentic highland games experience, we are looking to showcase the very best traders Scotland can offer to our visitors. 67% of last year’s visitors rated the event as Excellent or Very Good.