Your News
Let's tell eachother what we get up to as contacts and celebrate eachother's activity. We can all be an inspiration to eachother, whether what we do is small or large.
use our own special discussion forum
post anything relevant on the Vegan Society contacts' forum - there exclusively for us and VS staff. Ideas which build there might well be used as source material for website articles in future.
annual reports
Vegan Society contacts submit annual reports telling of what they and their groups have done during the past year.
Many are happy to have their reports linked in here, we'll be making a montage of them.
special events news
Tell us about upcoming and just gone special events, such as vegan festivals, World Vegan Day events, National Vegetarian week activities, etc. We'll post current news right on the front page of this website! Photos too please.
news clippings
Have you made it into the local or national press with the "vegan" word? Do tell us, and if possible email us a scanned in press cutting, or post us a clipping.
- East Riding vegans
in the news
East Riding
again!- Alex Bourke in the Guardian Feb 2005
Aberystwyth's new
group leaps into activity and is in the Cambrian News
Radio & TV
Many Network contacts get on local radio and even sometimes on TV. Please tell us about your few minutes of stardom - you never know who you have reached and whose minds you have changed. It's wonderful stuff.
Alex Bourke is one of the Vegan Society's leading media contacts. Take a look at his list of appearances.
your photos
It would be great to display photos of contacts and their activities on this website. So if you have any digital photos, please email us your choice few and tell us something about them. We'll build them into a gallery on this site and use them as illustrations for articles.
Here's Sheila
McCrossan after a sponsored walk for Dr Hadwen Trust surrounded by
line dancing friends who were raising money for a cancer charity.
Well done Sheila!
contribute what you can
If you are not sure something of yours is worth contributing, please tell the forum anyway or contact us, as the shy often have the best stuff to contribute!
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