PUT ON YOUR OWN EVENT

If you have enough help and suitable premises, consider organising a public event such as a cookery demonstration, a talk with a buffet, a veggie pot-luck supper (get people to send the recipe they are cooking in advance so you can photocopy them to hand out) or a barbecue.

If you want to try something really ambitious, why not put on a local "Vegfest" with food, entertainment and information stands. You can offer stalls to local branches of organisations like Animal Aid, Friends of the Earth, local organic gardeners, health food shops or veggie businesses. For more information on how to organise something on this scale, send for our guides "A bit of a do" and "Organising a large event".

If you are on your own, or if your members are spread out over a large area and can't come together easily to organise a single, larger event, try thinking up some smaller activities that people could do on their own. For example:

• Invite two or three non-vegetarian friends round for a veggie meal.
• Cook some veggie food and take it in to work for your non-veggie colleagues.
• Persuade your colleagues to go out for a veggie lunch one day during the Week.