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North East Essex
Veggies hold 2 stalls to celebrate NVW |
We
had two outdoor stalls for National Vegetarian Week - yes, we braved
the weather (made of strong stuff us Essex lot)
On Sunday 27th May we had a stall at The Redbridge Green Fair,
where we gave out samples of veggie foods, kindly donated by
Redwood Wholefoods Ltd, Plamil and Munchy Seeds.
Then as if one day of getting soaked wasn't enough we followed
this on the Bank Holiday Monday by another stall at our local
Wivenhoe May Festival.
Both events were well attended, despite the weather, and the
free sausages and chocolate were particularly well received.
Lots of people were saying they were vegetarians and lots of
meat eaters pleasantly surprised at how tasty the sausages were
- and also that vegan chocolate is as nice, if not better, than
the usual kind.
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Wellbeing
Info Centre - vegan buffet filmed for BBC 2 |
BBC 2 filmed a vegan
buffet on monday 21st may.
We were all so busy didn't get pictures of the food, but everyone,
including the carnivores, thought it was wonderful, and although
the evening should have finished by 8.30, they were all eating
and chatting till gone 11.
The program goes out in the autumn. Will let you know details as
soon as i get them. (how to relax and meditate - and naturally
included relaxing the intestines....)
Beanies and redwood company sent us lots of goodies which were
appreciated.
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Fenham library display, Newcastle |
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Milton Keynes
Vegetarians & Vegans & Animal
Rights |
On the May Day Bank Holiday we had our annual stall
at the Leight Buzzard
Fayre in the High Street. We received
the NVW
posters in time for this event and made use of the large amount of
market
stall space. Our main theme
was the
environment including the devastation to the oceans.
Attached are some photos from 15 May
where MKVEGAR was present at the
Community Desk, theCentreMK, Milton Keynes. The main supply
of literature
arrived after I had left that morning but we still had copies
of the
previous NVW recipe booklets. With plenty of space available
we had on
display a wide range of VegSoc's information sheets that proved
useful. The
morning was slow but it picked up in the afternoon with most
of the recipe
booklets and magazines taken by the end of day. As normal we
were giving
publicity for the local Veggie World Restaurant in Bletchley
and
distributing a voucher for their half-price offer on the Tues & Wed
of NVW.
The topical subject of Mar's retrograde step was raised time
and again.
Overall it was a useful day.
Monday, 21 May, we were out leafleting houses in Bletchley for
two hours,
using up postcards and literature from previous years and publicising
Veggie
World and their offer.
Tuesday, 22 May, MKVEGAR was outside the Food Centre and in particular
near
Waitrose with a stall for the afternoon where there is a good
location for
passing shoppers. There was a fair amount of interest and we
managed to
distribute all recipe booklets taken and generally it was a good
day.
Wednesday, 23 May, we were in
Bletchley Centre during the afternoon with a
stall near the old Co-op entrance and the Brunel Centre. Despite
the quiet
shopping day there was a good response helped by the posters and
other
signs. The supply of recipe booklets again proved popular as ever.
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