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Sherwood Vegan Market – Monthly vegan market in Nottingham

We are looking forward to Sherwood Vegan Market. It’s organised by Adrian Bhagat, owner of The V Spot vegan supermarket, who has been vegan since 1994.

Everything sold or promoted at the market is suitable for vegans. Therefore we can enjoy a relaxed shopping and dining experience without having to worry about checking every product.

Our Aims & Values

Sherwood Vegan Market aims to:

  • Spark interest in veganism and encourage the adoption of a vegan lifestyle. This is kinder to animals and better for the environment
  • Provide access to a wide variety of vegan products
  • Give the community in Sherwood and beyond a chance for a day out
  • Help create a friendly and supportive vegan community
  • Promote Sherwood as a shopping destination and bring customers to local businesses
  • Promote the growth of vegan business through by providing trading opportunities
  • Encourage the generation of new vegan businesses. Providing an affordable, low commitment trading opportunity for vegan entrepreneurs.

2nd Saturday Monthly

The Sherwood Vegan Market is now established for the 2nd Saturday of every month at Sherwood United Reform Church.

While you are in Sherwood don’t forget to visit the local vegan shops, The V Spot and Faux Butcher.

Venue

Sherwood United Reform Church, 1 Edwards Lane, Sherwood, Nottingham. NG5 3AA MAP

Traders

Stallholders are listed on the Sherwood Vegan Market Event Page.

12th February 2022 stallholders

8th January 2022 stallholders

If you are a trader and would like to book a stall, please see booking information here.

 

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For a directory of vegan market traders in Nottingham see Veggies’ Nottingham Vegan Market page (not associated with this event).

Other Street Markets in Sherwood

Note that Sherwood Street Market also organise markets at this venue at other times, including their Last minute Festive Gifts & Food Market on December 11th.

They are not involved in the organising this Sherwood Vegan Market.

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The venue, Sherwood United Reformed Church, is also available for hire.

Sherwood Vegan Market – Monthly vegan market in Nottingham

We are looking forward to Sherwood Vegan Market. It’s organised by Adrian Bhagat, owner of The V Spot vegan supermarket, who has been vegan since 1994.

Everything sold or promoted at the market is suitable for vegans. Therefore we can enjoy a relaxed shopping and dining experience without having to worry about checking every product.

Our Aims & Values

Sherwood Vegan Market aims to:

  • Spark interest in veganism and encourage the adoption of a vegan lifestyle. This is kinder to animals and better for the environment
  • Provide access to a wide variety of vegan products
  • Give the community in Sherwood and beyond a chance for a day out
  • Help create a friendly and supportive vegan community
  • Promote Sherwood as a shopping destination and bring customers to local businesses
  • Promote the growth of vegan business through by providing trading opportunities
  • Encourage the generation of new vegan businesses. Providing an affordable, low commitment trading opportunity for vegan entrepreneurs.

2nd Saturday Monthly

The Sherwood Vegan Market is now established for the 2nd Saturday of every month at Sherwood United Reform Church.

While you are in Sherwood don’t forget to visit the local vegan shops, The V Spot and Faux Butcher.

Venue

Sherwood United Reform Church, 1 Edwards Lane, Sherwood, Nottingham. NG5 3AA MAP

Traders

Stallholders are listed on the Sherwood Vegan Market Event Page.

12th February 2022 stallholders

8th January 2022 stallholders

If you are a trader and would like to book a stall, please see booking information here.

 

http://sherwoodveganmarket.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/stallzones1.png

For a directory of vegan market traders in Nottingham see Veggies’ Nottingham Vegan Market page (not associated with this event).

Other Street Markets in Sherwood

Note that Sherwood Street Market also organise markets at this venue at other times, including their Last minute Festive Gifts & Food Market on December 11th.

They are not involved in the organising this Sherwood Vegan Market.

https://venues4hire.org/Photos/e361f339d0a041caa54b733cd07b3af2.jpg

The venue, Sherwood United Reformed Church, is also available for hire.

Sherwood Vegan Market – Monthly vegan market in Nottingham

We are looking forward to Sherwood Vegan Market. It’s organised by Adrian Bhagat, owner of The V Spot vegan supermarket, who has been vegan since 1994.

Everything sold or promoted at the market is suitable for vegans. Therefore we can enjoy a relaxed shopping and dining experience without having to worry about checking every product.

Our Aims & Values

Sherwood Vegan Market aims to:

  • Spark interest in veganism and encourage the adoption of a vegan lifestyle. This is kinder to animals and better for the environment
  • Provide access to a wide variety of vegan products
  • Give the community in Sherwood and beyond a chance for a day out
  • Help create a friendly and supportive vegan community
  • Promote Sherwood as a shopping destination and bring customers to local businesses
  • Promote the growth of vegan business through by providing trading opportunities
  • Encourage the generation of new vegan businesses. Providing an affordable, low commitment trading opportunity for vegan entrepreneurs.

2nd Saturday Monthly

The Sherwood Vegan Market is now established for the 2nd Saturday of every month at Sherwood United Reform Church.

While you are in Sherwood don’t forget to visit the local vegan shops, The V Spot and Faux Butcher.

Venue

Sherwood United Reform Church, 1 Edwards Lane, Sherwood, Nottingham. NG5 3AA MAP

Traders

Stallholders are listed on the Sherwood Vegan Market Event Page.

12th February 2022 stallholders

8th January 2022 stallholders

If you are a trader and would like to book a stall, please see booking information here.

 

http://sherwoodveganmarket.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/stallzones1.png

For a directory of vegan market traders in Nottingham see Veggies’ Nottingham Vegan Market page (not associated with this event).

Other Street Markets in Sherwood

Note that Sherwood Street Market also organise markets at this venue at other times, including their Last minute Festive Gifts & Food Market on December 11th.

They are not involved in the organising this Sherwood Vegan Market.

https://venues4hire.org/Photos/e361f339d0a041caa54b733cd07b3af2.jpg

The venue, Sherwood United Reformed Church, is also available for hire.

Sherwood Vegan Market – Monthly vegan market in Nottingham

We are looking forward to Sherwood Vegan Market. It’s organised by Adrian Bhagat, owner of The V Spot vegan supermarket, who has been vegan since 1994.

Everything sold or promoted at the market is suitable for vegans. Therefore we can enjoy a relaxed shopping and dining experience without having to worry about checking every product.

Our Aims & Values

Sherwood Vegan Market aims to:

  • Spark interest in veganism and encourage the adoption of a vegan lifestyle. This is kinder to animals and better for the environment
  • Provide access to a wide variety of vegan products
  • Give the community in Sherwood and beyond a chance for a day out
  • Help create a friendly and supportive vegan community
  • Promote Sherwood as a shopping destination and bring customers to local businesses
  • Promote the growth of vegan business through by providing trading opportunities
  • Encourage the generation of new vegan businesses. Providing an affordable, low commitment trading opportunity for vegan entrepreneurs.

2nd Saturday Monthly

The Sherwood Vegan Market is now established for the 2nd Saturday of every month at Sherwood United Reform Church.

While you are in Sherwood don’t forget to visit the local vegan shops, The V Spot and Faux Butcher.

Venue

Sherwood United Reform Church, 1 Edwards Lane, Sherwood, Nottingham. NG5 3AA MAP

Traders

Stallholders are listed on the Sherwood Vegan Market Event Page.

12th February 2022 stallholders

8th January 2022 stallholders

If you are a trader and would like to book a stall, please see booking information here.

 

http://sherwoodveganmarket.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/stallzones1.png

For a directory of vegan market traders in Nottingham see Veggies’ Nottingham Vegan Market page (not associated with this event).

Other Street Markets in Sherwood

Note that Sherwood Street Market also organise markets at this venue at other times, including their Last minute Festive Gifts & Food Market on December 11th.

They are not involved in the organising this Sherwood Vegan Market.

https://venues4hire.org/Photos/e361f339d0a041caa54b733cd07b3af2.jpg

The venue, Sherwood United Reformed Church, is also available for hire.

Sherwood Vegan Market – Monthly vegan market in Nottingham

We are looking forward to Sherwood Vegan Market. It’s organised by Adrian Bhagat, owner of The V Spot vegan supermarket, who has been vegan since 1994.

Everything sold or promoted at the market is suitable for vegans. Therefore we can enjoy a relaxed shopping and dining experience without having to worry about checking every product.

Our Aims & Values

Sherwood Vegan Market aims to:

  • Spark interest in veganism and encourage the adoption of a vegan lifestyle. This is kinder to animals and better for the environment
  • Provide access to a wide variety of vegan products
  • Give the community in Sherwood and beyond a chance for a day out
  • Help create a friendly and supportive vegan community
  • Promote Sherwood as a shopping destination and bring customers to local businesses
  • Promote the growth of vegan business through by providing trading opportunities
  • Encourage the generation of new vegan businesses. Providing an affordable, low commitment trading opportunity for vegan entrepreneurs.

2nd Saturday Monthly

The Sherwood Vegan Market is now established for the 2nd Saturday of every month at Sherwood United Reform Church.

While you are in Sherwood don’t forget to visit the local vegan shops, The V Spot and Faux Butcher.

Venue

Sherwood United Reform Church, 1 Edwards Lane, Sherwood, Nottingham. NG5 3AA MAP

Traders

Stallholders are listed on the Sherwood Vegan Market Event Page.

12th February 2022 stallholders

8th January 2022 stallholders

If you are a trader and would like to book a stall, please see booking information here.

 

http://sherwoodveganmarket.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/stallzones1.png

For a directory of vegan market traders in Nottingham see Veggies’ Nottingham Vegan Market page (not associated with this event).

Other Street Markets in Sherwood

Note that Sherwood Street Market also organise markets at this venue at other times, including their Last minute Festive Gifts & Food Market on December 11th.

They are not involved in the organising this Sherwood Vegan Market.

https://venues4hire.org/Photos/e361f339d0a041caa54b733cd07b3af2.jpg

The venue, Sherwood United Reformed Church, is also available for hire.

Nottingham Green Festival Sunday 11th September 2022

‘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 38 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

With the covid-19 crisis behind us we hope that the Green Festival will continue to break records in terms of visitors & stalls.

With your support the 29th Nottingham Green Festival will return bigger & better on Sunday 11th September 2022.

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.

 

Samosas for Social Change? Food Activism and Media Ecologies

By Eva Giraud

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The title of this blog is a tribute to local Nottingham collective Veggies Catering Campaign, who – along with Brighton’s Anarchist Teapot – are two of the UK’s most well-known ‘campaign caterers’. This post isn’t focused purely on Veggies, though, but a long-standing food-activism campaign that some of their members have been involved in, which draws together some interesting issues about how we conceptualise protest media and what the political significance of these conceptualisations is.

In general I want to highlight three things: The first is the difficulty of engaging in what Pollyanna Ruiz (2014) describes as ‘polyvocal’ protest, or mobilizing behind a range of interrelated issues as opposed to campaigning on a single-issue basis; the second is a body of work that explores how activist media practices can be understood as information ecologies (e.g. Treré 2012). The third, and final, thing I’m going to discuss relates to work by Anna Feigenbaum who (both individually and with Frenzel and McCurdy 2013) expands the definition of media beyond conventional communication platforms, in order to explore how other material entities can express (or sometimes constrain) meaning, from the symbolic use of tents in occupations of public space to the repressive use of tear gas to silence dissent. The work engaged in by these researchers has helped me to think through both the conceptual and tactical significance of issues I’ve looked at in my own work, in relation to food activism.

Movements local to me, such as Food Not Bombs and Nottingham Animal Rights, have regularly used food to draw attention to interconnected issues. There are, for instance, regular ‘free food give-aways’ in Nottingham city centre, where vegan food is cooked and served outside fast food outlets as part of long-standing anti-McDonald’s campaigning. What I want to reflect on in a little more depth is how the role of food can be conceptualised in these contexts, as a tool for polyvocal protest.

Veggies’ own What’s Wrong with McDonald’s? pamphlet is still distributed today as a defiant marker of the anniversary of the McLibel trial, and for the past twenty years has worked in conjunction with the McSpotlight website to articulate the series of problems drawn together by McDonald’s. While the pamphlet succinctly listed a range of issues – including worker’s rights, animal welfare, environmental destruction, littering, exploitative/misleading advertising, and unhealthy food – the website provided an in-depth archive of evidence to flesh out these concerns (see Pickerill 2003), with ‘mirrors’ in other countries to avoid fear of libel. The site also contains PDFs of the pamphlet in multiple languages, to enable people to develop local campaigns of their own.

It more recent times, however, the campaign has faced difficulties in maintaining its polyvocal dimensions. Though McDonald’s was initially a useful emblem for drawing together issues and problems, this had its downsides; while the campaign tried to make clear it wasn’t just McDonald’s that was the problem, but what it stood for, the sight of people flyering outside of the restaurant can lead to assumptions that the restaurant is the main target. This is especially problematic in light of McDonald’s recent emphasis on ‘local’, ‘organic’ produce in its marketing campaigns within the UK, which make it seem like any criticisms have been addressed. Though this has been responded to with a new McGreenwash pamphlet, pamphleteering in a specific site doesn’t always make criticisms of the restaurant resonate with broader criticisms of the agricultural-industrial complex or of the commercialisation of public space. In contrast, though McSpotlight does have the capacity to elaborate on connections between different issues in depth, twenty years after the site’s initial buzz, the website tends to be used as a helpful archive of information for activists rather than a platform to communicate with publics.

Food, however, can be a way of overcoming the limitations of both the pamphlets and web-media. Food sharing, for instance, is useful in de-familiarising commercial rhythms in ways that pamphlets alone might not. Quite often if you’re distributing political pamphlets this just seems part of urban rhythms, something to ignore in the same way that you might ignore commercial flyers. Food give-aways, in contrast, evoke surprise that people are giving something away within a commercial space without trying to sell the product, which often prompts further questions and creates space for dialogue. While I have reflected on these campaigns in the past, in a range of contexts (e.g. Notts Free Food 2010, Giraud 2015), I’ve struggled to articulate exactly what food’s value was in more concrete terms. Yes, different tactics reach different audiences (with specific web-platforms appealing to different sectors of the activist community, whist pamphleteering directly engaged with consumers) and, yes, food distribution was a good way of breaking down barriers and chatting with people, but I felt there was something more to say.

When listening to Feigenbaum’s research at the last SoME seminar, however, I reflected that I was drawing artificial distinctions between food sharing (which I saw as a practice) and pamphlets, websites and social media (which I saw as communication). I also often found myself treating these things separately, and reflecting on the strengths and weaknesses of each platform, or how they could work together to compensate for these limitations, rather than taking the more holistic approach that is offered by understanding these practices as being interrelated (as in Treré’s work). If, instead, food is – firstly – understood as media in its own right and, secondly, situated as part of a complex communication ecology, then it becomes possible to grasp its role, and protest potentials, more clearly. In the context of the give-aways, food can be understood as a media which has affordances that emerge through its relationships with the other media involved. To clarify what I mean by this, burgers served in McDonald’s clearly convey different meaning to the burgers cooked outside, which – due to their location, being free and being vegan – communicate oppositional ideas about public space, commercialisation, and animal rights (to give a few examples). The specific resonances the veggie burgers assume, moreover, shift depending on their relation with the other media involved in the campaign, which doesn’t just include the pamphlets that are being distributed but the way the stall is arranged, who is present and what discussions are had.

Thinking through food’s role as part of a broader media ecology, of on- and offline communication practices, is a helpful way of reflecting on the different affordances and constraints of the varied platforms being used, and how tinkering with these relationships could alter these affordances to reach new audiences or make communication more effective. Food, in this context, can be seen as a powerful communicative tool, which both expresses critical meaning, and enacts new – if temporary – forms of social relations. Whilst, in themselves, pamphlets, websites, social media, burgers, or verbal discussion might have their limitations, by refusing to isolate these media and understanding them as part of a complex ecology of communicative practices, the value of different tactics for polyvocal protest can become clearer. The theoretical framings of media discussed here, therefore, are not just helpful for conceptualising activist media practices, but for assessing the context-specific value of different media for communicating complex, interrelated, issues to diverse publics.

Alternative Organizations: The Case of Premium Cola  

Premium Cola are an organization without investors, offices, bosses, advertisement, fixed working hours and contracts.

Growing from a social movement committed to enjoying particular recipe of cola, a collection of avid customers morphed into a soft drinks organization.

Only selling to companies with similar values, making decisions democratically and sidestepping capitalistic imperatives of “profit above all”, Premium Cola have managed to sustain themselves over a decade and through radically different ways of organizing and working.

Nottingham University Business School and Nottingham Business School are delighted to host Miguel Martinez from the Premium Cola collective who will talk us through the history and unique ways in which cola can be made in a collective and non-hierarchical way.

Alongside Miguel will be a panel of academics and practitioners who will offer insight and commentary to the Premium Cola collective and the typical issues and possibilities facing organizations refusing hierarchy and adopting counter-capitalistic ideas.

We invite you to join us for an evening of debate, discussion and refreshments.

Thursday, 27th February, 5:30 pm-7pm 

Room C76, Business School North Building, Jubilee Campus

With:

Miguel Martinez, Premium Cola collective

Cath Muller, Radical Routes

Professor Daniel King, Nottingham Business School

Hosted by the OB/HRM division. To book your free spot or for any further information, please contact:Fabian.Maier@Nottingham.ac.uk

 

 

 

Animal Rebellion

International Rebellion – UK Action – Continues 7 October 2019

In partnership with Extinction Rebellion, Animal Rebellion will mobilise 10,000 animal advocates for a two-week Rebellion in London, beginning October 7th. We will take part in nonviolent civil disobedience to demand system change, and make sure the need to end animal farming and fishing, and transition to a plant-based food system is central to this conversation. 

We are partnering with Extinction Rebellion because they are growing more powerful every day. We believe that this movement is the route to ending the industries of animal farming and fishing and achieving justice for animals, because we know that climate catastrophe and ecological collapse cannot be averted while these industries continue to exist. 

 

Neighbourhood Food Growing Festival

Nottingham’s first Neighbourhood Food Growing Festival

Free admission. Sunday 9th June ’19 1pm-4pm

Nottingham’s community gardens are busy growing plants and seedlings for you.

Come to Nottingham Arboretum and buy to grow on at home, take part in growing activities, visit the plants for free stall, see growing and cooking and other food related demonstrations. Activities for the children, music, guided tours of the Arboretum and much more…

Contacts Lynn Taylor 07960 164448 . Lynn@farmgarden.org.uk
Shona Munro 07585 773664 . nottinghamgoodfoodpartnership@gmail.com

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