West Midlands Vegan Festival - Sat 27th October 2012

[mvc94]

One of the biggest vegan festivals in the world returns to Wolverhampton in October and looks set to dwarf last year's event!!

The West Midlands Vegan Festival keeps on getting bigger and better! Every year there are more stalls and more new attractions and every year more people flood through the doors of the Wolves Civic!!

This year's mega vegan extravaganza takes place on Saturday 27th October. It's the 5th year of the event, but for the first time stallholders and visitors will spread out throughout the entire venue, as we've hired both the Civic and Wulfrun Halls which provides an extra 400 square metres of floorspace!! And that's not all, the event will be open an extra hour until 6pm. So that's lots more space and more time to celebrate and promote compassionate, eco-friendly, healthy living on a massive scale!

You can expect to find over 100 stalls, the best vegan caterers from across the UK, cookery demos all day, approx 20 talks, live entertainment from start to finish, a licensed all vegan bar, free goodie bags for the first 200 visitors, an after party and so much more!!



2011 FESTIVAL REPORT and PHOTOS

Last year's festival was an incredible success. It was attended by a record 1,700 people and the venue was bursting at the seams all day, hence why we've hired the whole venue this year! You can find a report and 50 photos on our website here http://www.veganmidlands.org.uk/fest...1festival.html

According to the completed feedback forms, half of our visitors the last 2 years were non-vegans! With your help, we have no doubt that even more meat-eaters and veggies will be attracted to this year's event!


LEAFLETS and ONLINE PROMOTION!

We have 1,000's of colour leaflets which need distributing far and wide! Can you leave some in your local health food shop, cafe, library, university, community hall, church etc? Please contact us with your address and the number of leaflets you can use and we'll post them to you.

There are lots of ways you can help to promote the festival online. Why not share this email with your friends?! If you have a website/blog etc, please consider displaying a web banner or a simple text link to our festival website (see various banners here http://www.veganmidlands.org.uk/festival/banners.html ) Please join us on Facebook/Twitter and encourage your friends to do likewise, share our event updates etc.


http://www.facebook.com/events/417809864898883/

http://www.facebook.com/veganmidlands

http://twitter.com/WMVeganFestival


　

VOLUNTEER YOUR TIME ON THE DAY!

One major reason for the growing success of the festival is that so many of you have given your time on the day in many varied ways, from setting up/packing away, to leafletting and handing out free programmes. We will need your help more than ever this year! If you can help for a while, please contact our volunteer coordinator Dean at dean_bracher@yahoo.co.uk


　

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS!

We are extremely grateful to the following companies for sponsoring the festival. Without their support, this event would not be taking place.

Moo Free Chocolates - http://www.moofreechocolates.com

Yaoh - http://www.yaoh.co.uk

Animal Aid - http://www.animalaid.org.uk

Femmecup - http://www.femmecup.co.uk

Lakeside Ethical Treats - http://www.ethical-treats.co.uk


　
That's all for now but stay tuned for lots more news and updates over the coming months and we look forward to seeing you in October!

Thanks in advance for your help promoting the event.

Best wishes,
MVC

Midlands Vegan Campaigns
For the benefit of animals, people and the planet

[mvc94]

The festival website can be found here http://www.midlandsveganfestival.org.uk/

Best wishes,
MVC

[mvc94]

There will be an after party from 6pm - 1am at The City Bar (a very popular restaurant/bar with local vegans), so when combined with the festival itself the event now runs non-stop for 14 hours!! We have hired the entire venue - all 3 floors! There'll be a fully vegan menu, live bands on one floor and acoustic acts on another. More details to come. There's a Facebook page for this event here http://www.facebook.com/events/396862977043691/

As well as all the attractions mentioned above, there will also be a push-up competition, a fitness challenge on a stationary bike/rowing machine, an hour long yoga session, a raw food demo/talk and probably more footwear/clothing stalls than you've seen at any other vegan festival!

This is also a chance to have your photo taken for 'The "Why?" Project' which hopes to snap over 1,500 vegans and then display them with their reason for going vegan across their chest! Read more here http://www.facebook.com/events/384703191583598/

Best wishes,
MVC

[Frank]

Time to bump this thread as we are only a month away now.

Please make an effort and come to one of the biggest Vegan fayres in the UK.

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Volunteers are needed to run a Vegan Society information stall at the forthcoming West Midlands Vegan Festival.

This will be the first event where volunteers have manned the stall for the Vegan Society and this ensures much needed funds are pushed down to local groups and their local events.

Please come along and be part of this unique chapter in the history of the Vegan Society. Help make that history!

Please drop me a message or post your interest here.

[BellaTanie]

Wishing I lived in the UK so I could attend!

[Frank]

Every vegan princess gets a wish come true now and again

Hopefully another year BellaTanie.

[Hel]

wow its in both venues this year! eeek! im so excited

[Gwydion]

Behemoth Bumpage!

http://www.veganmidlands.org.uk/festival/home.html

Are we seeing you there? Please say we will be seeing you there - it just wont be the same without you.

Yes, you.