http://www.redditchveggies.makessense.co.uk Promoting compassionate, healthy, eco-friendly living in Redditch en Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:56:24 GMT 0123456891011121314151617181920212223 1 daily 1970-01-01T07:00+00:00 1440 admin@makessense.co.uk http://www.interglacial.com/rss/about.html http://www.redditchveggies.makessense.co.uk/events/1070.html Redditch Vegetarians and Vegans will be 3 years old in November 2008! Join us at our birthday party to celebrate, with great vegan food, music, raffle and lots more...! A scrumptious vegan buffet will be provided by the recently formed Green Garden Cafe of Coventry. Children are welcome. More details, including the cost per head will be available here shortly. Please put the date in your diary now! Where: St Georges Community Hall St Georges Road, Redditch, B98 8EE on Sat 29th Nov 2008 @ 19:00 until 22:00. Contact: Redditch Vegetarians & Vegans via website. http://www.redditchveggies.makessense.co.uk/events/1069.html Whether you`re vegan, an aspiring vegan or just vegan curious, there`s only one place to be on Saturday 1st November 2008! The West Midlands Vegan Festival in Wolverhampton will make World Vegan Day 2008 a day to remember!! Learn why it`s healthy and eco-friendly to go vegan! There`ll be delicious vegan food & 40+ stalls offering cruelty-free clothes, toiletries, cosmetics, campaign info etc. Also a full programme of speakers, films, cookery demos, a veggie/vegan dating session and much more... World Vegan Day is an opportunity for vegans and their friends across the world to celebrate and promote veganism. The world's first Vegan Society (here in the UK of course!) was born on November 1st 1944 - started by Donald Watson and friends. So each year on November 1st (since 1994), vegans everywhere celebrate World Vegan Day. The Vegan Society have of course now found a new home, right here in the West Midlands. How many more reasons do vegans need to flock to the West Midlands Vegan Festival and celebrate in style!! The festival is being held at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall in the city centre, 10 minutes walk from the train/bus stations. Several people from RVV will be attending this event, both to enjoy the day and to volunteer their time to help! For further details, check out the event website www.midlandsveganfestival.org.uk Where: Wolves Civic Hall , Wolverhampton, on Sat 1st Nov 2008 @ 19:00 until 21:00. Contact: Midlands Vegan Campaigns via website. http://www.redditchveggies.makessense.co.uk/events/1068.html www.worldveganday.org Happy birthday to vegans, a day of celebration for vegans everywhere!! Lots of people from Redditch and across the Midlands will spend the day at the West Midlands Vegan Festival in Wolverhampton, see Where: Nationwide , Towns & cities across the UK, on Sat 1st Nov 2008 @ 00:15 until 23:45. Contact: Vegan Society via website. http://www.redditchveggies.makessense.co.uk/events/1067.html If you`re veggie or vegan(or moving in that direction), why not come along to our meeting and get to know other veggies/vegans from across Redditch! We`re a friendly bunch, of all ages, from assorted backgrounds. We have one thing in common - we want to live a healthy, compassionate, eco-friendly lifestyle by not eating meat/animal products, and we want to promote the many benefits to others! Guest Speaker - Lyn Tudor of Hillfields Animal Sanctuary Hillfields is home to over 300 animals, everything from goats and horses to rabbits and turkeys. It is a colourful & peaceful menagerie where the residents can live out the rest of their days in relative freedom. Lyn will talk to us about her tireless work rescuing animals for the past 30 years, the joy that helping animals gives her and the many problems encountered along the way! Read more about Hillfields on their website www.hillfields-animal-sanctuary.com  FREE ADMISSION - Everyone Welcome - Doors Open 7.15pm Vegan biscuits and refreshments will be available for everyone from 7.15pm. As always, there will be a range of factsheets and leaflets to browse and take home. There will also be a `library` of interesting books regarding veggie/vegan diets. Everyone will be welcome to borrow books and bring them back next time. Where: St Georges Community Hall St Georges Road, Redditch, B98 8EE on Wed 1st Oct 2008 @ 19:30 until 21:30. Contact: Redditch Vegetarians & Vegans via website. http://www.redditchveggies.makessense.co.uk/events/1066.html Friends of the Sanctuary Buffet and Social Evening This has been organised as a fundraising event for Hillfields Animal Sanctuary, and it looks set to be a great night out for veggie/vegans!! The event will take place at the church hall opposite the sanctuary, on Greenhill, Blackwell, near Bromsgrove. See map here Spend an enjoyable evening in the company of like-minded people, meeting old fiends and new. From 7.30pm till late. Catering by the recently formed Green Garden Cafe, with all profits going to support the sanctuary. Just £9 per head for this great night out! Please book early to avoid disappointment. Call 02476 686252 or 07860 433906 or via the website www.hillfield-animal-sanctuary.com We hope that this fantastic evening will be well attended by RVV members, particularly as it`s a weekend event when more people are likely to be free. RVV would like to help promote/organise more weekend social events, meals, rambles etc. Would you like to get involved?? Are you holding a local veggie event that we can promote?? Read more here   Where: Hillfields Animal Sanctuary Greenhill, Blackwell, Bromsgrove, B60 1BL on Sat 13th Sep 2008 @ 19:30 until 22:00. Contact: Redditch Vegetarians & Vegans via website. http://www.redditchveggies.makessense.co.uk/events/1065.html This Redditch Borough Council event has a loose environmental theme with story tellers, coppice crafts, traditional gypsy bow top caravans and stalls from Redditch Friends of the Earth, waste reduction group Redditch Freecycle and our own veggie/vegan information and food sample stall. In line with the organisers wishes to 'promote the whole organic, fair trade and meat free experience', the council have booked a vegetarian/vegan caterer - The Warehouse Cafe of Digbeth, Birmingham. For our photo gallery from last year`s event, which was attended by approx 3,000 people click here  Where: Morton Stanley Park , Redditch, on Sat 6th Sep 2008 @ 11:00 until 16:00. Contact: Karl Stokes at Redditch Borough Council via website. http://www.redditchveggies.makessense.co.uk/events/1064.html If you`re veggie or vegan(or moving in that direction), why not come along to our meeting and get to know other veggies/vegans from across Redditch! We`re a friendly bunch, of all ages, from assorted backgrounds. We have one thing in common - we want to live a healthy, compassionate, eco-friendly lifestyle by not eating meat/animal products, and we want to promote the many benefits to others! Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Talk & Film Showing - with Darren Collis Established in 1977, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization whose mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. Sea Shepherd uses innovative direct-action tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas. By safeguarding the biodiversity of our delicately-balanced ocean ecosystems, Sea Shepherd works to ensure their survival for future generations. Sea Shepherd UK was recently registered as a charity in the United Kingdom. Join us at this meeting to listen to a talk and watch a short film about this wonderful organisation. Read more about Sea Shepherd below. As always, Red Kite Health Foods will have a stall at the meeting, offering a wide range of tempting treats from the shops shelves. FREE ADMISSION - Everyone Welcome - Doors Open 7.15pm Vegan biscuits and refreshments will be available for everyone from 7.15pm. As always, there will be a range of factsheets and leaflets to browse and take home. There will also be a `library` of interesting books regarding veggie/vegan diets. Everyone will be welcome to borrow books and bring them back next time. More about Sea Shepherd Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was formally incorporated in the United States in 1981 in the state of Oregon. Previous to this, the idea of Sea Shepherd was formed when Captain Paul Watson founded the Earth Force Society in 1977 in Vancouver BC, Canada. The original mandate of both organizations was marine mammal protection and conservation with an immediate goal of shutting down illegal whaling and sealing operations, but Sea Shepherd later expanded its mission to include all marine wildlife. With financial support from Cleveland Amory of the Fund for Animals, the society's first ship a North Atlantic sea trawler "the Westella" was purchased in Hull, England (UK) and renamed the Sea Shepherd.  It's first mission was to the ice floes of eastern Canada to interfere with the annual killing of baby harp seals known as whitecoats. In the same year, 1979, the Sea Shepherd hunted down and rammed the notorious pirate whaler the Sierra in a Portugal harbor ending its infamous career as the scourge of the seas. The success of the seal campaign and the ramming of the Sierra was the start of Sea Shepherd's historical 160 voyages over the next 2 decades, enforcing international laws where no law enforcement existed - on the high seas. Sea Shepherd continues to accomplish its mission by upholding and enforcing international treaties, laws and conventions of world governments. Sea Shepherd is committed to the eradication of pirate whaling, poaching, shark finning, unlawful habitat destruction, and violations of established laws in the World's oceans. To that end, Sea Shepherd assists national and international bodies in the enforcement of international law under authority of the United Nations World Charter for Nature. Where: St Georges Community Hall St Georges Road, Redditch, B98 8EE on Wed 3rd Sep 2008 @ 19:30 until 21:30. Contact: Redditch Vegetarians & Vegans via website.