24/08/2022
After six years of magazines, events, food pics, coffees and Vegan Queen everything, it’s time for us to close this chapter.
It will come as no surprise that the last 2-3 years have been incredibly hard for most of us, and especially hard for small businesses like ours.
We have tried everything we could think of for the past two years, and we had big aspirations for the future, but there is only so far that grit and determination can take you.
In what can only be described as an economic and environmental crisis, many of the things that used to sustain the business no longer can, and we have not been able to find a way to move forward and keep afloat.
We had planned to stay open for a couple more weeks to say goodbye properly, but sadly we are out of time and will not be able to reopen The BRIGHT Store.
What started as an idea for a small DIY zine turned into a quality print magazine, a brand, a coffee shop and an ethical lifestyle store, and the journey has had many amazing moments. We’ve met incredible people, made lifelong friends, and achieved things we could never have imagined.
What’s next for us? The team will all continue on as vegan queens, discovering whatever the world has in store for us after BRIGHT. We will move and archive our online articles so that our work can live on, and if we have any updates, we will put them on the Instagram, which we will keep live.
We are so grateful to every single one of you who has joined us on this journey. If you’ve read a magazine, worn a Vegan Queen t-shirt, bought something online, come to an event, worked with us, written an article for BRIGHT, collaborated with us on a project, shared your opinions and experiences with us, or come to our shop for a coffee and a croissant, it has meant the world to us.
We have a stack of BRIGHT print magazine back issues that would love new homes. If you would like to complete your collection, or if you would like any back issues of BRIGHT for free, please email us at [email protected] and we will get them to you.
Thank you, with infinite gratitude,
Laura & The BRIGHT team
