Join us at #Nottingham Sumac Centre for meals/snacks, unlimited hot drinks, free wifi (laptop available) and a warm space. Just £3 for food (at 1.30pm).
Also radical book stall, library & archives, community food hub for wholefoods & zero waste supplies, free share foods, informal meeting space with zoom & big screen facilities.
Every Wednesday 11am – 4pm, with shared meal at about 1.30pm.
Join us at #Nottingham Sumac Centre for meals/snacks, unlimited hot drinks, free wifi (laptop available) and a warm space. Just £3 for food (at 1.30pm).
Also radical book stall, library & archives, community food hub for wholefoods & zero waste supplies, free share foods, informal meeting space with zoom & big screen facilities.
Every Wednesday 11am – 4pm, with shared meal at about 1.30pm.
There will be a vigil for the lives lost in the genocide against the Palestinian people. This will take place outside the Elbit factory in Meridian Business Park, LE19 1WZ
Join us at Elbit at 2.00pm, or meet us outside Volpo Lounge at Fosse Park food court at 1.00pm and march to the factory. Please bring banners, flags, candles, poems etc.
Vegan Camp 2025 will be at …….
The Chyan Cultural Centre, Penryn, TR10 9BT
Grid ref: SW 744 316
Lat/Long 50.141461 , -5.1586999
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Saturday 2nd August to Sunday 17th August 2025
Vegan Camp UK, the original vegan camp established 1981, is a friendly and enjoyable annual social gathering for singles, couples and families, not to be confused with any other similar named group.
(Please note that all booking must be done through us rather than the venue.
Families, Couples & Singles all welcome. You can come for any period of time between 2nd and 24th August 2024.
Prices and booking forms to follow soon. Book time off work/put it in your diaries! Please see https://vegancampuk.org/ for the latest details
There is a facebook group to discuss things of interest to the Vegan Camp community, who organise the camp collectively.
Shambala is a creative, non-commercial, ethical and family-friendly festival with a wild side and completely independent from advertising and sponsorship!
In 2016 Shambala went Meat and fish free, to continue their mission to keep Shambala at the cutting edge of sustainable event organising.
“… we’re setting ourselves a challenge: to provide the most eye-popping, mouthwatering, colourful, hearty array of cuisine at Shambala without a single bit of meat or fish on sale. Not a sausage. Instead, keep your eyes peeled for … a range of delicious food from around the world, debates, talks and creative exploration of the wonderful world of food.
Shambala HQ is a mixed bag, with vegans, veggies and meat eaters co-existing harmoniously together. However the whole team agrees that it is important to be bold with our environmental stance, and encourage this debate.”
Rebel Soul
Whilst not catering at the event, Veggies will assist again with facilities for the Rebel Soul space. Whet your appetite with #SamosasForSocialChange, home-baked cake, fair trade teas & coffees and tuck shop.
Whether it’s on the dance floor or in our workshops, Rebel Soul is a place to feed your fire and reconnect with your hope.
During the day you’ll meet activists on the frontline, racial justice campaigners, and liberation visionaries.
At night we’re a musical haven: expect queer & ability-inclusive musicians, proper punk values, and DJs playing techno and its derivatives. Our dance floor is focused and friendly.
Check out our vegan cafe and radical bookshop too – your money goes directly to the campaigns and activists we host.
2023 it was fundraising for @lgsmigrants in solidarity with all migrants & refugees; Dope Magazine: an anarchist alternative to Big Issue and Abortion Support Network: helps people who need to access safe abortions.
In 2024 £600 each went to @RedFlare, , @antiraidssheff, & Energy Embargo for Palestine, and then a little bit towards Ultimate Thunder to help them with their next album.
Meat and fish-free Shambala has ‘Gone Off Dairy Milk Too
For 2022 Shambala say:
In 2016, we made the decision to remove meat and fish from our on-site food offering, for both the public and our festival staff.
For us, the decision was an environmental one. If we’re serious about being the most sustainable festival on the planet, we can’t ignore the undisputable evidence that a diet predominantly based on meat and fish is having a devastating effect on this little blue and green marble we call home.
AFTER YEAR ONE OF BEING A VEGGIE PARADISE, 77% OF RESPONDENTS TO OUR 2016 POST-EVENT SURVEY VOTED TO KEEP SHAMBALA MEAT AND FISH FREE. THE FOLLOWING YEAR, THAT FIGURE ROSE TO 94% – A RESULT BEYOND OUR WILDEST IMAGININGS!
Even more incredible was that 33% of you reporting reducing your meat and fish intake since the festival (that’s not counting the 30% of you that were already veggie or vegan).
World Day for Animals in Laboratories was instituted in 1979 and has been a catalyst for the movement to end the suffering of animals in laboratories around the world and their replacement with advanced scientific non-animal techniques.
On April 26th, the animal freedom movement and the wider public are coming together outside the notorious puppy factory MBR Acres to remember the countless animals killed inside laboratories in the UK and across the world. More at https://unoffensiveanimal.is/2025/03/10/world-day-for-animals-in-laboratories-demo-uk/
If you attend just one event this year, make sure it is World Day for Animals in Laboratories at MBR Acres in Cambridgeshire! The protest starts at 12pm @ MBR Acres, Huntingdon PE28 2DT
This will be the largest event outside of MBR in recent memory; not just a protest against their violence, but a celebration of our movement and our power.
Start planning and book your coaches and minibuses; this is a moment for our movement to come together and rise, and all of us are needed.
If you can`t attend the march we hope you can demonstrate outside your local labs, or shops with links to vivisection. Tag #wdail2025 in your social media posts so we get to see you in action. Let`s make it the biggest range of demonstrations against animal testing held in one day!
Glastonbury Festival takes place from 25th – 29th June 2025
Subject to confirmation, Veggies may be catering & campaigning at Glastonbury Festival from 10am-3am Wednesday/Thursday, until 4am Fri/Sat/Sunday AND on Monday 10am-4pmish.
Find us in the Green Futures Field, at our long established location at the crossroads from the Old Railway Track, towards the Stone Circle (Sacred Space).
Look for our new stall launched in 2024!
Our crew places are committed long in advance, but if YOU are at Glastonbury you are welcome to hang out with us and support our campaign catering & vegan outreach with the Food For A Future workshop space.
See the special Veggies Glastonbury archive webpage and follow our news – together with many more Vegan (& vegetarian) caterers – at the @GlastoVegan Twitter feed.
Join us for four days of low impact living at the Green Gathering in an area of outstanding beauty, every nook and corner bursting with music, creativity, natural abundance and community spirit.
The original off-grid, non-profit festival: we’re powered by sun, wind, people and passion for change.
As well as #FoodByVeggies the Green Gathering features many free workshops, including free vegan cookery demonstrations – with samples – by Food for a Future.
Intimate solar stages showcase up and coming acts, legendary festival favourites, DJs and spellbinding raconteurs. Share wisdom and skills; find friends old and new; weave, weld and tell stories.
Have a party – then wake up and put the world to rights. This festival’s impact lasts longer than a weekend.
If you’ve been before or not, given a workshop before or not, we encourage anyone engaged in the struggle for a better world to send us a proposal for one or more workshops in the Campaigns area on your cause. We always give priority to direct action campaigns that are looking to mobilise people, but we are open to all kinds of related topics around that. Please get in touch with any questions or just email your proposal to greengatheringcampaigns@gmail.com
Here at Veggies we are continuing to push forward our minimal packaging policies – extending the use of proper mugs to serving soft drinks in returnable beakers, to reduce use of single use plastics & straws. We have now established distribution of our Ethical Consumer Best Buy Burger/Sosage Mixes to many other caterers to help raise their ethical sourcing and ended the production of frozen foods.
Veggies was established as a fully vegan volunteer-led cooperative on 16th October 1984
Book Here for Saturday’s Anniversary Gig from 6pm – only £12 including food (+ fixr fee).
Unfortunately Seize the Day are no longer able to be part of the event. Instead we will use the time for a campaign networking go-around, inviting reminiscences and celebrations of continuing activism.
We’re also planning the (free) Nottingham premier, at Sumac Centre, of the documentary the “The Spys who Ruined Our Lives“, a film lead by women affected by the #spycops scandal, including those close to Sumac (3pm)
… and “highlights from #McLibel” with co-defendant Dave Morris (2pm)
Plus all the other activities detailed below, at Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham NG7 6HX [directions]
Please share the message that everyone is invited to share our 40th Anniversary Celebrations, at Friday’s Party, Saturday’s film screenings, vegan dinner & gig and at Sunday’s Acoustic / Campaign Garden Party & Brunch.
Friday 18th October
Veggies Reunion.
Hundreds of Veggies Volunteers have helped cater for thousands of campaign events since 1984, feeding up to a million people!
But, in the words of Earth First: “We Are All Crew“.
JOIN US! Everyone who has ever cooked, washed up, invited Veggies to their events, supported Veggies at a demo or campaign, or supported Veggies as a customer anywher, any time, is invited to join our Party from 6pm on Friday 18th October at the Sumac Centre!
Have you ever helped at a Veggies Event?
Contact Us with your reminisences and pictures, and join Fridays reunion party!
Documentarian Franny Armstrong explores the infamous “McLibel” case, a lawsuit filed by the McDonald’s Corporation that targeted two members of the London Greenpeace environmentalist collective who distributed a brochure denouncing the products and business practices of the massive fast food restaurant chain. Employing courtroom reenactments directed by prominent British filmmaker Ken Loach, the film reveals the extreme financial lengths McDonald’s goes to in order to win the suit. [100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes film review site]
The story of the fightback for justice by those affected by the #Spycops scandal, at Nottingham’s Sumac Centre, where much of the story unfolded. Followed by Q&A with those involved in the film & the wider issues.
4.30 – 5pm . #Spycops Q&As
“The spies who ruined our lives” is a not for profit feature length documentary film, Produced, Directed and edited by Justyn Jones and Madoc Roberts with Jason Kirkpatrick as associate producer . It has been made to raise awareness and give a comprehensive and historical perspective of the Spycops scandal.
5pm . Break for bands sound check before dinner.
6pm . People’s Kitchen dinner by Veggies
Including reflections and celebrations of past campaigns, and other Veggies anecdotes.
There will also be #FoodByVeggies from the iconic Veggies Trailer, now retired from active service in the fields and residing as our Sumac garden cafe kitchen.
Celebrations will continue at the Forest Fields Social Club, here at the Sumac Centre, with DJs, possible fun & games, and of course there will be Samosas For Social Change and Vegan cake!
This is what we got up to for our 25th anniversary in 2009
Saturday 17th 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.
