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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 event in August.
Stirling Highland Games is a destination event for visitors to come and enjoy an authentic Scottish experience in one of the most historic cities in Scotland, steeped in history, and full of culture and heritage. If your product can add value to our Traders Village event experience, we would be interested in receiving your EOI application.
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 that make them as well as hearing about their provenance.
If you wish to be part of the day and believe you can help provide that positive visitor experience we are aiming 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.
Creating Memories in Stirling
SATURDAY 16TH AUGUST 2025
For the best authentic highland games experience, we are looking to showcase the very best traders Scotland can offer to our visitors. 72% of last year’s visitors rated the event as Excellent or Very Good.
Be Part of our Traders Village Experience
We appreciate your interest in trading at the Stirling Highland Games on Saturday 16th August 2025.
We are looking for suitable Market Traders [arts/crafts/business], sports clubs and groups [Community Sports Area], Food & Drink Traders [Artisan Food or Drink 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 clubs or associations with a view to appealing to both a Scottish audience as well as other visiting nations.
We will be carefully selecting our traders to ensure our visitors take home the best quality and variety of Scottish products and priority is given to traders that uphold the principles of our event ethos.
We would recommend that Traders should offer a variety of payment options, giving you more opportunity to generate income. Please note we do not provide a wifi connection on-site.
Stirling Highland Games is delighted to once again choose Ceangail 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 charities, social enterprises or voluntary organisations but you can contact us and ask for more details about our 3rd Sector marketing package.
Application Process
- Stage 1 – Complete and submit an Expression of Interest [EOI] application.
- We will review all EOI applications and those that are of interest will be notified and asked to supply the relevant paperwork as part of the next stage of this process.
- Stage 2 [Round 1] – Traders that have been asked to provide further details should have all paperwork submitted before 31st March.
- Stage 2 [Round 2] – Traders that have been asked to provide further details should have all paperwork submitted before 30th June.
- Trader Fees – an invoice will be emailed to you for full payment. Please pay within 14 days [or sooner] otherwise the space will be allocated to the next trader on our list.
- Stage 3 [Trader’s paperwork]: It is your responsibility to ensure that all paperwork required by Stirling Council is submitted by the above dates so that checks on your paperwork can be made.
- Stage 4 – Traders will be briefed about the event details from 4th August.
Trader Overview and Forms
- Stage 1 – submit an EOI for our consideration
- Stage 2 – submit the paperwork requested
- Stage 3 – We submit all Trader’s paperwork to Local Authority for review and permission to trade at SHG 2025.
Submitted Expression of Interest [EOI] applications accept the event T&Cs to trade at Stirling Highland Games on Saturday 16th August 2025. Please download SHG Traders T&C 2025
- Trader Fees start at £95
- 2 Trade Pass Tickets [for staff]
- Promotion on social media
- Listed in online Games Programme
- Listed on web site
Stirling Sports Village, Borrowmeadow Farm Road, Stirling, FK7 7UJ
Traders Set Up from 15:00 – Friday 15th August
Stirling Highland Games: Saturday 16th August
Gates Open 10:00
Gates Close 17:00
Traders Derig – Saturday 16th August
If you wish to discuss any matter before applying please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
2025 Expression of Interest Application
Creating Memories in Stirling
SATURDAY 16TH AUGUST 2025
For the best authentic highland games experience, we are looking to showcase the very best traders Scotland can offer to our visitors. 72% of last year’s visitors rated the event as Excellent or Very Good.