Thank you to everyone who attended our fundraising vegan banquet for the 350 Global Day of Doing on 10/10/10. The grand total raised for Friends of the Earth is an amazing £1130.64!

Read a report of the evening on the Friends of the Earth website, or see a selection of photos below:

PLEASE NOTE: We are sorry to announce that our Vegan Banquet is now full to capacity (although we are absolutely chuffed about the positive response!) As we don’t like to stop people coming, we will have room for more after 9pm for the after-dinner entertainment for which we are asking £5 donation. If you can’t make it and would like to make a donation anyway - please do! It’s all for an excellent and important cause. Thank you.

Surely the most pleasurable way to voice concerns about the environment must be to tuck into good healthy low carbon fare! As you may know, we’re organising a 3 course vegan banquet and swap shop at the Pirate Castle on Oval Road to celebrate the 10/10/10 Global Day of Doing on the 10th of October. It will be one of 5978 events taking place around the world.

We are all aware that modern commercial animal husbandry is a major contributor to global greenhouse emissions. As the organisation that ran ‘The Big Ask’, the campaign that brought about our Climate Change law, we’re keen that people understand that the food choices that they make have a direct impact on the size of their carbon footprint.

An International menu, including superb desserts and wine, a swap shop to exchange your oldies for someone else’s oldies, and live entertainment awaits attendees! The evening promises to be one of much merriment coupled with participating in a powerful International day of climate campaigning and awareness.

A minimum donation of £10 is requested, all proceeds to Friends of the Earth. Places can be booked and donations can be made at:
http://www.justgiving.com/veganbanquet

We look forward to seeing you there!

We were out and about last Saturday 25 September campaigning on Fix the Food Chain with stalls at two fairs on one day.

At the Belsize Green Fair, organised by Transition Belsize, we were surrounded by locally-grown fresh fruit & veg stalls, farmyard animals in the street, and greenhouse-making from old plastic bottles (see photos here). The Festival of Life in Holborn attracted people from all across the country to find out about creating a healthy future, including nutrition, yoga and conscious partying, so we got quite a varied audience for our campaigning. Joe even did a spot of cow-mask-modelling, as you can see in the photo!

We got over 100 postcards signed in total to send to MPs to ask them to support a Sustainable Livestock Bill, which is being read in Parliament on November 12. Hopefully we will get lots more MPs on board as a result! We also got lots of interest in our upcoming Vegan banquet on Sunday 10 October. Thanks to everyone who came along and helped to make our stalls such a success!

We’re off to another green fair this week, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Bloomsbury, 12-2pm on Wednesday 6 October. If you’re free to help out please get in touch!