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Brinsley Animal Rescue Fundraiser

Yep folks we re back, the Brinsley Animal Rescue Meal, cooking up fresh, homemade plentiful Vegan food, main meal a fiver, not many if any are there places you can eat fresh, made from scratch food for a fiver! Homemade puddings at additional cost, music, raffle and vegan bar too.

All proceeds go to saving the animals from despair and suffering, we hear them, we see them, we care.   So come along, eat cheap food, laughter at cheap jokes, and have a cheap beer !! 💖🐐🦆🐔🐭🐀

All the proceeds are donated to Brinsley Animal Rescue

Bar opens at 7.30pm

Sherwood Exchange Community Day

The Sherwood Exchange are proud to announce that they will be part of The Place Sherwood Community Open day on the 20th of April and what a fantastic day this will be too!

Get yourself down to donate or take free stuff from The Sherwood Exchange or enjoy a Rebel Brew coffee or tea and listen to music and poetry. Or perhaps enjoy a free class or two!

Its all going off at the Place Activity Centre on April the 20th from 10 till 4!

Please share to everyone you know!

Support initiatives for positive social change in Nottingham.


 
Welcome to The Place Activity Centre where you can enjoy social and creative activities in the heart of Sherwood: the place for art, music, dance, fitness classes and more.

Also home to the Sherwood Exchange, The Place is an important asset to Sherwood and hosts many fantastic community events throughout the year, including craft fairs and exhibitions for Sherwood Art Week.

 Click here for directions and replace our start point with yours.

Call on Broxtowe Council to reject Trowell Zoo application

 


A date has been set for Broxtowe Council to discuss the controversial Trowell Zoo application and we need YOU to help the Council reject it.

It is up to us to show that this green belt flood plain land should remain undeveloped, and that authorising NEW zoos is a step backwards in 2024.

Our Animal Rising supporters in the midlands have worked tirelessly throughout 2023, and into 2024 to call on Broxtowe Council to reject the zoo application.

This is your chance to join our efforts as we gather outside of the Town Hall, Foster Avenue, Beeston, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG9 1AB at 5:30pm on Wednesday 13th March and call on the Council to decline plans for further animal exploitation, and to protect our local wildlife and green spaces

For more information see the statement from Born Free Foundation

Born Free strongly opposes the exploitation and keeping of wild animals in captivity and campaigns to Keep Wildlife in the Wild.

Find more campaign events on the Animal Rights Calendar Animal Rights Calendar

Broxtowe Green Festival 2024

 
Veggies Catering Campaign will be at the Broxtowe Green Festival on 21st September at Coronation Park, Eastwood. We are delighted to bring #FoodByVeggies, including #samosasforsocialchange!
This follows Nottingham Green Festival on Sunday 8th September for which we at Veggies are key organisers. Both events are great opportunities for us to show why vegan food has such an important role to play in any efforts to mitigate  #climatebreakdown

More event details to follow. We hope you can join us!

Nottingham Animal Rights Planning Meeting at Sumac

Nottingham Animal Rights meeting at the Sumac Centre in Forest Fields, to plan forthcoming campaign activities.


All welcome – hunt sabs, vegan campaigners, 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, VIVA!, Vegan Society and the many other groups that we aim to support locally.

In between the Sumac meetings, there may also be meetings in the City Centre.

We recognize that turning up to a meeting of complete strangers can be daunting, but the atmosphere at NottinghamAR meetings is always very informal, and by all means bring a couple of friends with you if it makes you feel more confident, everyone is welcome!

The planning meetings are where you can obtain support from like minded people for campaigns against all forms of animal cruelty.

There is no hierarchy, our broad scope is a consequence of a broad demographic of proactive members. Whether your interest is in countering the fur trade, factory farming, vivisection, blood sports or (most commonly) all animal cruelty, you will find campaigning opportunities as part of both local and national initiatives.

We have members from all backgrounds, from experienced activists to those who are new to animal rights or have been appalled by YouTube videos of animal experiments and joined us to do something about it. So don’t worry if you are new to campaigning, there truly is something for everyone. 🙂

All our activities are 100% legal and non-violent, we do public protests and other direct action, we do information stalls, we do free food give-aways, we do sanctuary work, and in fact anything else we can think of, including trips to demos elsewhere.

More Nottingham Animal Rights activities on Veggies Animal Rights Calendar.

See also details on Sumac Centre Diary.

 

Veggies 40th Anniversary

Veggies was established as a fully vegan volunteer-led cooperative on 16th October 1984

Watch this space for events at Nottingham’s Sumac Centre and beyond.

This is what we got up on our 37th Anniversary Weekend in 2021


The Vegetarian Society says:

“Veggies Catering Campaign was set up in Autumn 1984 by four friends who were frustrated about the lack of vegetarian fast food available in Nottingham. Their intention was both to provide an ethical fast food stall in the city, and to take the veggie message to a wider audience by participating in demonstrations and gatherings. One of the first things the founders did was to take a giant veggieburger along to a Vegetarian Society protest outside the infamous Royal Smithfield show!

“Veggies has grown and evolved quite a lot over the last [26] years, but the ethical message has remained the same. All food served has been vegan from the start, and as minimally packaged and locally-sourced as possible and practical.

“In addition to producing the famous frozen burgers and sosages which are widely popular in Nottingham, compiling the Animal Rights calendar and Contacts Directory, helping run the Sumac Resource Centre, and fundraising for a range of good causes, Veggies has a tightly-packed events diary. The co-op provides food in all sorts of situations, from carrying boxes of samosas and cakes on protest marches, to cooking up a posh spread for a weddings and other parties. New volunteers are always welcome.”

From The History of Veggies:

In 1984, Tom and Clare from Nottingham’s animal rights group had the idea of presenting the manager of a local McDonalds with a huge veggieburger to represent an ethical alternative to the products of death and destruction sold there.

This was such a success that the logical next step was to do the same thing for the public every day, first from a mobile food van, then from early 1985 from a daily market stall, literally on the next street to McNasty.

Veggies has been a streetwise catering campaign ever since, reaching a highpoint with the 2006 Vegan Society Award as ‘Best Vegan Caterer’.

Many years of ‘campaign catering’ has kept Veggies on the front line. Whether driving along a drainage ditch to support campaigners protecting a peat moor, or jumping the barriers onto a reclaimed motorway, Veggies food always gets through.

From Peace News:

“While there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields”, said Tolstoy. This is why the vegan and peace movements are two sides of the same coin. “One struggle, one fight”, as they say in the animal rights movement.

Veggies has been seen at Molesworth US military base on a snow-strewn February morning in 1985; at Menwith Hill, Fylingdales and Aldermaston; at Faslane 365 and at Heckler & Koch offices in Nottingham, putting a spotlight on the world’s second largest supplier of small arms.

Veggies and Peace News have woven a path together through the decades. From PN’s time in Nottingham, not 100 yards from Veggies’ base at the Rainbow Centre – now evolved into the Sumac Centre, one of the emerging network of independent social centres – to catering for the first Peace News Summer Camp. Veggies’ summer tour also takes in the Animal Rights and Earth First Gatherings, Climate Camps and DSEi protests against the arms trade.

… and this is what we got up to in 2009

Friday 16th October to Sunday 18th October 2009
Veggies 25th Anniversary Weekend! Feeding the hungry without exploiting animals since 1984!

Friday 16th
* What’s Still Wrong With McDonalds – demos everywhere, including Vegan Free Food Give-Away in Nottingham.
* Benjamin Zephaniah Gig. 7pm-9pm at Djanogly City Academy, Sherwood Rise.
* Open Decks Disco. 9pm – Midnight.

Saturday 17th – Campaign Catering at these events:
* National Anti Fur March and Rally, London
* The Great Climate Swoop, Nottingham
* Target Brimar, Manchester Arms Trade Action
followed by:
* Saturday at Sumac : Party Like It’s 1984!
Food, music & drinks at the Sumac Social Club.
Acoustic jammers, Bedroom DJs and other musicians and entertainers welcome!

Sunday 18th : All Day Veggies Bunch and Workday at Brinsley Animal Rescue.

25th Anniversary T- Shirt (from 2009), featuring key events since 1984.

Diary dates t-shirt from Veggies 2009 tour

 

Sumac Centre Anniversary Weekender

sumac/images/dovelogo.gifNottingham’s Rainbow Centre opened at 180 Mansfield Road on 9th September 1985, the co-operative having been established on 9th April 1984 by campaigners for peace, animal rights, human rights, civil liberties and the environment. /moving/oldrainb.jpg

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.

 

Veggies Food is Here

💥 *12th,13th, 14th April*

Three days of peace, love and music at the  Sumac Centre

Friday 12th April

*LGBTQ+ night Community Festival*🏳️‍🌈 *Sex, drag and rocking roll

  • Rites of Hadda – Pampered fists punching out a likeness of a Hawkwind and X-Ray Spex.
  • Anarchistwood – Prank rock. Theatrical, with face paint and props.
  • Jan Doyle band – Bowie meets Sigue Sigue sputnik*.

 Saturday 13th April

  • *2 stages*🙊🙈
  • Electric inside accoustic outside.
  • Food, bar
  • Peoples kitchen.

Sunday 14th April

  • Accoustic acts
  • Sunday Brunch
  • Campaign stalls, support for direct action groups, exhibitions and community networking opportunities.

Full details:

https://sumac.org.uk/event/sumac-anniversary-festival-weekender/

 

Nottingham Green Festival Sunday 8th September 2024

‘Warning: time is running out limit climate chaos – share skills to save the planet’

Nottingham Green Festival is organised by grass routes community based volunteers, with no statutory funding. The ethical standards and environmental / human / animal rights ethos of the event are long established, having evolved from the pre-history of the Nottingham Peace Festival from which it has grown.

Nottingham’s own Green Festival provides the place for the whole family to learn, explore and try the latest in everything environmentally friendly and ethical, whilst also having lots of fun in the beautiful setting of the Arboretum Park.

Veggies has catered and campaigned at the Green Festival, and the Peace Festival before it, for our entire 40 year history. We were pleased now to be joined by many other vegan caterers and other artisan food producers, supporting the events’ vegan ethos and building on a forty+ year meat-free policy.

GreenFest by Tash

Celebrate our 40th Anniversary Green Festival on Sunday 8th September 2024.

You are encouraged to support the regular fundraising events and join in with the planning group meetings.

Find full details at www.nottmgreenfest.org.uk/, find us on facebook and follow us on twitter.

 

Nottingham Green Festival Sunday 10th September 2023

‘Warning: time is running out limit climate chaos – share skills to save the planet’

Nottingham Green Festival is organised by grass routes community based volunteers, with no statutory funding. The ethical standards and environmental / human / animal rights ethos of the event are long established, having evolved from the pre-history of the Nottingham Peace Festival from which it has grown.

Nottingham’s own Green Festival provides the place for the whole family to learn, explore and try the latest in everything environmentally friendly and ethical, whilst also having lots of fun in the beautiful setting of the Arboretum Park.

Veggies has catered and campaigned at the Green Festival, and the Peace Festival before it, for our entire 39 year history. We were pleased now to be joined by many other vegan caterers and other artisan food producers, supporting the events’ vegan ethos and building on a thirty+ year meat-free policy.

GreenFest by Tash

Celebrate the 30th Nottingham Green Festival on Sunday 10th September 2023.

You are therefore encouraged to support the regular fundraising events and join in with the planning group meetings.

Find full details at www.nottmgreenfest.org.uk/, find us on facebook and follow us on twitter.

 

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