Nottm AR has regular work days here - fence building, staining, aviary building, mucking out, rabbit run building and more. Transport approx 6.30pm from City Centre - call Danny to confirm: 07593 375270. (Also possibly on Tuesdays from Beeston - call Lee 07599 282851)

Nottingham Animal Rights have to educate people about the suffering of racing dogs, leafleting at Nottingham Greyhound Stadium, usually on alternate Friday evenings, from 6pm. If you live in or near the East Midlands area and would like to help, please email to confirm or call c/o 07870 861837.

See recent Nottm Evening Post Article: Protesters ignite debate National Greyhound Awareness Week

Saturday September 4th 12-7pm & Sunday September 5th 12-6pm at 16 Vernon Avenue, Carlton, Nottingham NG4 3FX.

Full details at Event Web Site.

Can you help with jobs to do?
See notes from the past meeting.

We've got to get organised!

Join Nottingham Food Not Bombs group for community meals, campaign catering, free food giveaways, catering for destitute refugees, wholefood co-operatives etc.

See "Sumac Garden Project" photo report at Notts Indymedia.

As well as the contact address, fffgcmail@gmail.com, there is a discussion group: fffgcmail@lists.aktivix.org

Veggies Catering Campaign (established 18th October 1984) moved in from Earthwise (the FoE Shop next door) when it closed, later taking on the day-to-day running of the centre.

From the Rainbow Centre base plans were hatched for the purchase of a permanent campaign base, which was opened as the Sumac Centre, in Forest Fields/New Basford on June 22nd 2002.

Full details at Event Web Site.

In between these meetings at Broadway there is also a meeting at the Sumac Centre in Forest Fields.

Upcoming events and campaigns are listed at the NAR News List

All welcome - hunt sabs, AR activists, people who want to get involved, and people who just want to know more about what we do, including supporters of Animal Aid, Greyhound Action, Hunt Sabs, SHAC, VIVA!, Vegan Society, Vegetarian Society, and the many other groups that we aim to support locally.

The Park is 200 yards from Newstead train station and 15 minutes from Junction 27 of the M1.

Full details at Event Web Site.

Full details at Event Web Site.

Now at 9pm at The Thomas Leaper, 27-28 Iron Gate, Derby DE1 3GL

Full details at Event Web Site.

Full details at Event Web Site.

Before the meeting there may be leafletting from 6.30 at KFC, Lower Parliament St (or McDonald Clumber St).

In between the meetings at the Sumac Centre there is also a meeting in the city centre.
Upcoming events and campaigns are listed at our Riseup News List.

Transport from London. Organised by Campaign Against Climate Change, Biofuelwatch, Food Not Fuel and NOPE.

There is to be a rally in Central London to mark World Day for Farmed Animals.

Meet 12noon at Cavendish Square, W1G OPR (nearest Tube: Oxford Circus), to march through the centre of London, taking the message to large numbers of shoppers, tourists and residents.

Anyone interested in helping with the planning of the march, please get in touch. You might help to make the march a success with publicity, internet networking, fundraising, admin etc.

A planning meeting is to be held on Sunday 18th July at 12noon in Holborn, London. If you're interested in attending the planning meeting, please contact info@farmedanimals.org.uk asap.

October 2nd is World Day for Farmed Animals, whilst 1st Oct is World Vegetarian Day and 4th Oct is World Animal Day

Protest against everything that's wrong with McDonald's - animal cruelty, exploitation of workers, damaging the planet, promoting unhealthy food, marketing to young children and much more. For a summary of the issues surrounding the McLibel Case see the European Court of Human Rights ruling at http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/trial/verdict/Echr.htm

Were You There?
Check out our website archive : Veggies 1984 - 2007 - and counting and please send your reports, pictures or comments. See event feedback here: http://www.veggies.org.uk/page.php?ref=866

Full details at Event Web Site.

Love Food? Love Animals?

10am - 4pm at Trinity United Reformed Church Hall, Garmston Street, Lincoln, LN2 1HZ
Volunteers for the day would be great and to should contact lincoln-animal-friends@hotmail.co.uk.

Organised by Lincoln Animal Friends and Vegan Lincs, with the support of Animal Aid and Veggies Catering Campaign.

Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX.

Nearest underground: Kensington High Street (3 minutes).
Buses 9,10,27,28,52,70,328,452. Underground car park.

Entrance £2 adults, £1.50 pensioners, under-10s FREE. All profits to the animals.

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=111836932292

2.30pm – 8.30pm at Friends Meeting House, Hill Street, Coventry, CV1 4AN. A donation towards the £58 cost of room hire would be appreciated. Dinner will be provided for a donation.

Please call 07812 180146 for more details.

If you campaign in the Midlands, even if you are a group of one, please ensure that you are in the network by adding you details to the Directory at http://www.veggies.org.uk/directory/dirbrowse-288.htm

Uncaged co-ordinate events across the world, calling for fundamental rights to be bestowed upon non-human animals by 2048 (100 years after the Declaration of Human Rights on this date). Groups are encouraged to hold candle-lit vigils outside local sites of animal abuse, (eg. vivisection facility, abbatoir, butcher's etc.) to highlight links between human and animal rights.

Submit your events to the Animal Rights Calendar here

So far, events are scheduled at the following UK locations: Reading, Enfield, Wandsworth, West Wickham (Kent), Cheshire, Truro, Leeds, Belton (Leics, outside Harlan), Hastings, Scarborough, Huntingdon (outside HLS), Newton Abbott, Plymouth, Exeter, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Sheffield, Cambridge, Stoke, Liverpool, Bristol, Newcastle, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Wickham, Hampshire (outside the vivisection lab) and Southampton. PLUS, many more people are having displays at work or college, or distributing campaign literature door-to-door in their local communities.

See also the Annual October 16th Worldwide Day of Action Against McDonalds.

Please get involved by organising or helping with a Boycott P&G event in your area. Actions can include protests, stunts, street theatre, stalls and leafleting in town centres and at supermarkets/personal care stores (e.g. Boots). You can also help by organising protests at P&G sites, or displays and information events at your college, library, health-food shop, or workplace, and/or by firing off letters to all your regional media and online forums.

Full details at Event Web Site.

Why not get involved and make the week an even bigger success? Regular newsletters will keep you up to date with everything as events develop.

~ Sign up for our NVW e-newsletter at http://www.nationalvegetarianweek.org/twitter.asp.
~ Local Event Map - http://www.nationalvegetarianweek.org/events_map.aspx.

Full details at Event Web Site.

Possible Nottingham Free Food Give-Away at Exchange Walk. Details: nar@veggies.org.uk

Food by Veggies

Our crew places are committed long in advance, but if you are at Glastonbury already you are welcome to hang out with us! We are in the Green Futures Field, at the opposite end of the site from the Pyramid Stage, towards the 'Stone Circle'. Cross the 'Old Railway Track'; the Green Futures field is on the right - take the sidetrack through the entrance arch and see us as short way along on the right.

"It's 167 miles to Glastonbury, we've got a tank of veg oil, 10 sacks of Veggies burger mix, it's dark and we're wearing sun glasses, Hit it"

We set out from Sumac in

Join us in 2011 for more discussions, training and debates on nonviolence, education and the anti-war movement, fueled by "wonderful (vegan) food from Veggies of Nottingham" - 2010 Camp Report.

Please keep this date free and avoid organising other gatherings at this time.

We've got to get ready!