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2025 CRITERIA

Slice of Haven is an event to bring the community together over a feast of local food, drink, and entertainment. It’s about showcasing the best local produce and food restaurants, cafés, and vendors from the Camden Haven region to thousands of visitors. It’s an event organised by volunteers from the Camden Haven Chamber of Commerce.

Due to the limited number of sites, stallholders are encouraged to “wow” the volunteer organisers with their ideas for eye-popping and mouth-watering food morsels and the best will be invited to attend.
Please be well-prepared and creative with your menu and dress up your stall – let us know your ideas (so we can avoid too many food double-ups) and have FUN.

Successful stall applicants will:
• Embrace the Slice of Haven ethos of using local produce (within 100 miles of the Camden Haven region) and offer a top quality, gourmet/fine food menu to festival visitors

• Embrace the ‘Dollop of Indulgence and a Dash of Quirky’ theme of SLICE.

• Dress up their stall and team members to make their business stand out and give the festival an eclectic, fine food festival feels

• Be environmentally friendly and as carbon neutral as possible, e.g. recyclable plates, utensils, and require minimal or no electricity

• Be prepared – tagged electrical cords and appliances (no power boards without circuit breakers, no double adaptors), self-sufficient in setting up and have enough staff, food and supplies to last the whole festival (in 2019 around 13,000 visitors attended)

• Be local businesses – based within 100 miles of the Camden Haven region. (The committee reserves the right to accept a stall outside criteria in extraordinary circumstances)

The festival invites visitors to bring their picnic blankets, chill out with the finest, local food and beverages, enjoy the relaxed atmosphere, and stay for the duration of the event. If you embrace these requirements, are prepared, creative, gourmet and use the festival as a key marketing tool to entice customers to your business, you will reap the rewards on the day and beyond.

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* 1. Contact details:

PRODUCT -
We ask that all stallholders offer a tiny free sample and/or a small reasonably-priced ($8 or under) tasting/ tasting plate option for a few of your specialties. Our visitors love being able to do “food shouts” and buying from many businesses. Large meals are not encouraged.
Preference will be given to businesses that prepare small, gourmet servings of locally-grown produce which creatively meet this year’s theme. Bring plenty of marketing material so that your fans from Slice can find your business in future and have a full feed!

The "$8 or under Menu"
In 2025 each stall is required to have at least one item that is $8 or under. These will be advertised in the Slice promotions and will need to be available from your stall/ truck on the day.
Please note: Not everything on your menu has to be under $8, but at least one item please!

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* 2. Please provide a description for at least one $8 or less offering for a sample plate/tasting plate or small serve. We will use some these items in SLICE marketing to whet the appetite of food lovers. Please identify if it is gluten free, vegan or vegetarian.

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* 3. Please upload a GOOD QUALITY picture you are happy to share of your product or stall. (This may be used in Slice promotions)

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* 4. LOCAL PRODUCE - Please list local produce included in your menu or products for sale. This is a key criterion of the event. Sorry, Coles or Woolworths are not local producers.

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* 5. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS- Please list all special requirements you have, (eg you have your own mobile cool room which needs to be close to your site or your stall is a trailer that needs a smidge more room than the site sizes we have). We will endeavor to accommodate these requests as best we can.

PACKAGING - We ask all Stallholders to consider the environment with their preparation of food and food packaging. The Slice event is also subject to Port Macquarie Hastings Council Waste Management Guidelines. You must use compostable or 'green' packaging where ever possible. And you must remove your own waste from the site. The bins on site are only for the use of visitors.

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* 6. POWER - Do you require access to power on the day?
(If you select yes you must complete the next question also.)

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* 7. POWER – limited availability ($30.00 per outlet)
NOTE: ONE outlet per TAGGED appliance. ALL extension cords and appliances MUST be tagged.

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* 8. ICE - I require ICE (unlimited supply to your stall all day $30.00)

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* 9. I WISH TO REGISTER FOR THE FOLLOWING:
* Early-bird rate applies to EOI Forms received by 2nd August 2024.

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* 10. Are you a current Camden Haven Chamber of Commerce member?

Final applications close 30 April 2024. You will be notified of your successful application and invoiced at this time. DO NOT include payment with this application. You will be invoiced for your site fees and events cost prior to the event and all fees must be paid before 20th May 2024.
All applications must include copies of the following;
● Public Liability Insurance certificate
● Food Safety – where applicable
● Food Safety Supervisor Certificate – where applicable (All food stalls will require a Food Safety Supervisor onsite)

● RSA – where applicable
● Mobile Food Stall/Truck/Temporary Food Vendor Approval from Port Macquarie Hastings Council.

Completed EOI forms and other documentation (as above) can be submitted via this online form, emailed to enquiries@sliceofhaven.com.au or posted to Slice of Haven Event Committee PO Box 428, Laurieton, NSW, 2443.
Applications will not be considered until the relevant documentation is provided.

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* 11. Public Liability Insurance

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* 12. Food Safety Certificate

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* 13. Food Safety Supervisor Certificate

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* 14. Food Vendor Approval from Port Macquarie Hastings Council

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* 15. RSA cards for those serving alcohol on the day

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STALLHOLDER TERMS & CONDITIONS - please read as some have changed

  1. The sale of generic branded water or soft drink is discouraged. All beverage products should be sourced from local producers or suppliers e.g. Mount Seaview Spring Water, Saxby’s soft drinks.
  2. NO other generic products may be sold e.g. packet chips or chocolate bars.
  3. Wineries and breweries stall staff MUST have current RSA cards on their person.
  4. Wineries and breweries MUST display appropriate signage as per licensing requirements.
  5. Stalls must be occupied by 8am sharp on Sunday. We recommend setting up the afternoon before. We will have security on-site overnight.
  6. ALL vehicles must be removed from the event site by 9am Sunday. No parking in the LUSC car park – this area has been set aside for disabled parking and emergency vehicles.
  7. No vehicles will be permitted to return to the site before 4pm – NO EXCEPTIONS. The committee reserves the right to extend this time if it is deemed unsafe for lingering patrons.
  8. No tobacco or cigarettes are permitted to be sold.
  9. Vendors must behave professionally and courteously.
  10. Stallholders must take direction from the Stalls Coordinator/Slice of Haven Committee executive.
  11. Cancellations must be notified in writing 14 days before the event.
  12. No refund will be offered to stallholders who do not turn up on the day.
  13. All tents/marquees/structures MUST be weighted or pegged for safety.
  14. All stallholders MUST minimise waste and use recyclable or compostable materials as much as possible. No single-use plastics.
  15. All oils must be removed from the site at the end of the event – do not pour oil/wastewater down drains or onto the grass.
  16. Your site must be left as you found it. Bins are provided for public use only, please remove ALL rubbish.
  17. Food outlets with a deep fryer must have a dry chemical powder fire extinguisher on site.
  18. All stallholders must have current $20 million Public Liability Insurance.
  19. All electrical appliances must be in safe working order and have a current compliance testing tag. Any appliance without a current tag will not be permitted to be used.
  20. Stallholders must provide their own current tagged and tested power leads and power boards with circuit breakers.
  21. Failure to comply with the above will result in exclusion from future Slice of Haven events.
  22. The Stallholder Coordinator will allocate your site location and advise you before the event.
  23. The event will proceed in any weather unless it is deemed dangerous to the public, e.g extremely high winds. Unfortunately, we cannot offer a refund for a last-minute event cancellation due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control. We’ve not cancelled the event at the last minute since it began in 2008.

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* 16. DECLARATION:

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* 17. By submitting this application I agree that the information I have provided is correct to the best of my knowledge and that I have read, understand and agree to the terms and conditions.

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