Categories

• Accommodation
• Activities you can join in with
• Animal rescue and sanctuaries
• Artists and Photographers
• Books - novels with a veggie message
• Contacts listings of veganisers and vegitators
• Dating, meeting and networking
• Holidays and Travel - listings and events
• National and International Veggie Organisations
• Places to publicise your stuff
• Publications
• Raw food
• Regional veg*an sites (more under LVW sites)
• Special interest groups
• Vegan and vegetarian catering guides and recipes
• Vegan and veggie internet shopping
• Vegan Environment
• Vegan food products and manufacturers
• Vegan parenting, babies and children
• Vegan Shoes
• Vegan skin, hair and body care
• Vegan-friendly music and arts festivals
• Where to get veggie inspiration and entertainment
• The ActiVeg Network

Links

Accommodation

• BunnyGo - Free vegetarian and vegan guide to the UK and beyond. Both on-line and as an iphone app.
• Vegan Village Noticeboard - A great place for both offered and wanted vegetarian accommodation notices. Many notices are for flat-shares, but they also sometimes include new B&Bs, vegan communities, vegan live/work opportunities and more.

Activities you can join in with

• ActiVeg News & Action Alerts - ActiVeg has its own email list of people to alert with the latest news and action you can join in with. Emails are sent every few weeks plus when there is a big bit of breaking news. If you'd like to sign up for this, email Sophie vegancc.
• Animal Aid Action Alerts - up to date alerts by Animal Aid to help you get active
• McDdemos - Regular and special anti-McDonald's demonstrations you can join in with, run by a lovely bunch of people
• Viva! Events - a wide range of events all around the UK

Animal rescue and sanctuaries

• Algernon Trust - Cat and dog rescue and re-homing. Adopt a pet for your loving home in the Northamption area.
• Blue Cross Tea Party - Providing direct support to needy animals and their owners in many ways.
• Green Meadow Animal Sanctuary - A long-standing animal sanctuary near Wolverhampton.
• Greyhound Rescue - Rescuing and rehoming thousands of unwanted racing dogs with lovely natures who would otherwise be killed. A lovely dog to have in your home - they will help you adopt greyhounds with a nature to suit your life.
• Hillfields Animal Sanctuary - Long-standing vegan-run animal sanctuary.
• Hugletts Farm Animal Sanctuary - Farm animal rescue sanctuary in East Sussex.
• The farm animal sanctuary - Britain's first farm animal sanctuary

Artists and Photographers

• Jackie King - Freelance photographen and photography coach, with photography workshop weekends throughout the year.
• Shirlaine Forrest - Freelance photographer
• Vegan Faces - Face painter for parties, fairs, fetes, weddings, festivals and other events. Metala is vegan and uses cruelty-free products, so no more worrying about all the animal-based nasties in the paint.

Books - novels with a veggie message

• Youth Market by Barry Tighe - Comedy fiction, it shows what happens when a concerned group of ordinary people decide to fight back against the factory-farm industry and the way such protestors are portrayed in the media

Contacts listings of veganisers and vegitators

• Vegetarian Society Network - information centres and groups affiliated to the Vegetarian Society of the UK
• Veggies' Animal Contacts Directory - - a comprehensive vegan, veggie, animal rights and animal welfare contacts listing. If you are on this listing we recommend you ask that your email address not be shown as the spam protection is currently not adequate.
• Viva! Campaigners - supporting the work of Viva!

Dating, meeting and networking

• Ethical Singles - an online dating service specifically for singles that care about animal welfare, human rights and the environment. Vegetarians, vegans and animal lovers can meet other like-minded singles in their local area. Free sign-up!
• Vegan Chat Room - A place for vegans to chat
• Vegan Singles - UK site for vegans and vegetarian singles run by a vegan for like-minded people. It is intended to help enable people to get to know each other, for friendship, companionship, romance or marriage. It's free!
• Vegans 4 u - Meet other vegetarian and vegans online.
• Veggie Romance - Veggie Romance is the place for vegan singles, vegetarian singles, vegetarian dating, friendships, finding pen pals and generally networking with the vegetarian, vegan and environmentally aware community.
• VMM Veggie Match Makers - Not just a 'dating agency', VMM offers friendship, social events, and a commitment to develop other services of interest not just to straight and gay vegetarian singles but also to the whole vegetarian/vegan community

Holidays and Travel - listings and events

• Bicycle Beano - Cycling and walking holidays in the UK with veggie catering
• Eating Veggie in the French Pyrenees - a useful site with links to places to stay, eat & shop
• Vegan Village travel listings - 100% vegan places to eat, stay and shop in the UK and Ireland
• Vegetarian Guides - excellent, extensive and well researched guide books which have vegan accessibility at their heart
• Vegetarian Travel Guide USA - an on line travel guide to the USA and beyond
• Vegetarian Vacations - A guide to healthy breaks with vegetarian or vegan food – many of the tours are also organic and GM-free
• Veggie Snow Club - holidays and travel info for skiing and snow-boarding people who love vegan & vegetarian food
• VegiVentures - Group holidays worldwide with vegetarian food.

National and International Veggie Organisations

• Action for our planet - Campaiging for animals, the environment, politcs and evolution.
• Animals Count - A political party whose mission is to establish a voice for animals, a party whose focus is respect and compassion for all living creatures
• Evolve Campaigns - EVOLVE! is a non-profit organisation dedicated to embracing and expanding the vision of animal liberation
• The Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation - a UK charity set up to monitor and to explain the increasing amount of scientific research linking diet to health – providing accurate information on which to make informed choices.
• The Vegetarian Society - the Uk's long-established vegetarian support and campaigning organisation. Join to get a good quality quarterly magazine and to support their work.
• Vegan Outreach - excellent and effective campaigning organisation based in the USA. Look and learn, and use their materials.
• Viva! - Excellent and effective campaigning organiation to highlight the plight of farmed animals in the media, and expose the environmental damage caused by livestock production. Join to support and get active, as well as to receive intereting magazines.

Places to publicise your stuff

• Animal Rights Abolitionists - A Vegan Forum
• CookingVilla Vegetarian Forums - Vegetarian Forums and Resources
• Groups Near You - Helps people in your neighbourhood get to know each other
• The Vegan Forum - International Vegan Forum - has a UK section
• Vegan Buddies - Forum run by RealFood
• Vegan Fitness - Many active vegans use the site
• Vegan Village - Has a very popular notice board

Publications

• Vegetarian Living - Monthly paper based high quality veggie magazine. Great for recipies. Available from selected Asda, Boots, Budgens/Londis, Eason, M&S, Morrisons, WHSmith, Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose and all good newsagents across the UK

Raw food

• Passion for Health - Mike Kinnaird got his life back by adopting a raw plant-based diet. Here's how.
• RawInTen - Bryan Au's of RAW IN TEN MINUTES raw organic recipe book.

Regional veg*an sites (more under LVW sites)

• East Riding Vegans - active group in East Yorkshire, based in Kingston-upon-Hull
• LeedsVeg - Leeds Vegetarian and Vegan Society - an informal and friendly group who meet a couple of times a month usually in each others' houses
• London Vegans - vegan social, information and media-contact group
• Mid Gloucestershire Veggie Friends - a new Vegetarian/Vegan group, whose first event will be held on 9th January 2007 in Dursley, Gloucestershire
• ScouseVeg - Liverpool area local group
• Veg Chat Midlands - A forum where you can chat about food, friends, TV, books, health, current affairs, sport or just vegetariansim/veganism with likeminded people across the Midlands. There is also a campaigning section and a section for your town or local group to have you
• Vegan 3 Counties - The vegan's guide to Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire
• Vegan Campaigns (London based) - highly active vegan group enlightening the world
• Vegan Herts Forum - a friendly forum for vegan interest in Hertfordshire and beyond
• VegCom - new UK VEG*n acCOMmodation service supported for free by London Vegans and Veggies

Special interest groups

• Students Against Animal Cruelty (SAAC) - Veggie, vegan and AR site and forum for students in the UK
• Vegan Fitness - Vegan Fitness is a community driven message board which seeks to provide a supportive, educational and friendly environment for vegans, vegetarians and people seeking to go vegan. The subject range covers all matters relating to nutrition, food, diet and
• Veggie Students Forum - a discussion forum for veggie students anywhere - use this and build your effectiveness and friendship circle
• VIP Network - for vegans working professionally in film, TV, theatre, radio and other forms of media

Vegan and vegetarian catering guides and recipes

• Chew the Cud - Very large veggie and vegan recipe database.
• Every Day Dish TV - Crammed full of vegan cookery videos for enticing dishes to inspire your cooking. (USA)
• Heavy Metal Kitchen - if a cute bloke cooking great vegan dishes to heavy metal music is your thing, then this YouTube site is for you! Explore vegan cooking on YouTube - there's lots there.
• Parsley Soup - a lovely simple vegan recipe site with enticing photos. Very popular.
• Post Punk Kitchen - a simply wonderful and highly accessible vegan food site with delicious and inventive recipes, including cookery videos. A real must.
• Special Guests - an excellent website for helping anyone cater for people on special diets. All the recipes and guidance given includes dairy-free and vegan requirements. Help is given on converting all meals for special dietary requirements.
• Veggie Snow holiday catering guide - ideal guide for those catering for veggies on holiday, particularly on active holidays. Excellent vegan and dairy-free recipes for all.
• VegWeb - Tasty recipes with photos. (US)
• VVF Resources for health care professionals - specialist guidance for health care workers, including babies and paediatrics, bone health, cardiovascular disease, B12, and obesity, from the Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation (VVF).

Vegan and veggie internet shopping

• Bourgeois Boheme - Stylish Vegan Shoes and Fashion Accessories
• Dairy Free - Exclusively vegan treats, including muffins, chocolate and squirty cream
• Purple Cobwebs - Raising funds for Viva! though lovely hand-made jewellery, cards and candles. All vegan. Offer to donate broken jewellery for recycling here and she'll raise more funds for a great cause.
• Special Guests extensive listing of toiletries, household cl - regularly updated links for internet and mail order shopping
• Special Guests website's extensive links for vegan and speci - a great list of links to vegan and special diet food shopping
• Vegan Store - Over 800 animal- and cruelty-free products
• Veggie Stuff - Foods such as meat and dairy alternatives, including many unusual chilled products, body care and pet food. Most products are vegan.

Vegan Environment

• Food for Change - A food-source-conscious website of global significance. Use the Food for Change site to feast on eating for the environment! It has gorgeous pictures too.
• Java Green on NBC - Wendy Rieger Reports Going Green means more vegetarian options and less livestock.

Vegan food products and manufacturers

• Barnivore vegan drinks guide. - Excellent regularly updated guide to which alcoholic drinks are vegan and which are not.
• Belly Heaven Love Food - Vegetarian Feastmakers
• Extensive links at Special Guests website - The Special Guests website has extensive shopping links for vegan goods and special diets.
• The Coconut Oil Company - Organic, virgin coconut oil as a nutraceutical

Vegan parenting, babies and children

• ActiVeg's children and parenting pages - articles and links to relevant information all over the web for vegan kids and parents, as well as for pregnancy.
• Ethical Babe - Natural, organic and fair trade products for babies, children and parents
• Feeding your vegan infant with confidence - a very helpful book by Sandra Hood on nutrition, food and health for vegan pregnancy and parenting
• London Vegan Family Group - Meetup group for vegan parents and families in and around London.
• Veg Family - magazine website for vegan families
• Veg Parents UK - Yahoo group for vegetarian, mainly vegan, parents and families in the UK
• Vegan Families Facebook group - another Facebook group, this time with a mainly European, especially French, set of members. Open to all vegan parents worldwide.
• Vegan Family House - a lovely friendly infomative site very regularly updated by a vegan family in Scotland
• Vegan Forum parenting section - free discussions on vegan parenting by anyone and everyone. Share ideas and info but take with a pinch of iodized salt sometimes!
• Vegan Moms and Dads on Facebook - an informal group in the Facebook social networking site, with the majority of contributors being from the USA, though anyone can join.
• Vegan Parenting on-line video - - a nice helpful website for the visually stimulated
• Vegan pregnancy information - from the Vegetarian Resource Group
• Young Veggie - an excellent starting place for young vegetarians, particularly those going veggie alone, but also handy for all, including vegetarian and vegan parents.

Vegan Shoes

• Alternative Soles - Sells vegan children shoes and more
• Beyond Skin - Award winning vegan and vegetarian shoes
• Bourgeois Boheme - ethical fashions, including a wide range of stylish footwear.
• Children's Shoes - ActiVeg's article on where to get vegan and vegetarian kids' shoes.
• Ethical Wares - A long-established vegan shoe shop with a huge variety of styles, many of which are breathable. From hiking boots to high-healed dance sandals.
• Georgette - posh beautiful vegan shoes - a new outlet!
• Noah Shop - Noah vegan Italian shoes, delivered all over the world.
• Vegan Line - A large range of vegan shoes, including breathable styles.
• Vegetarian Shoes - One of the first cruelty-free footwear shops, and still one of the best. Many styles they create themselves out of breathable Lorica.

Vegan skin, hair and body care

• Myreen Young - natural & organic skincare company offering a wide range of skincare that is also suitable for vegans. Includes baby products.

Vegan-friendly music and arts festivals

• Sunrise Festival - Mainly vegetarian, vegan and organic off-the-grid (ie only renewable energy) arts festival, which is relaxed and family-friendly.
• Watsui Festival, Devon - 100% vegetarian catering at this music, art, theatre and eco-aware weekend event, with camping.

Where to get veggie inspiration and entertainment

• 21st Century Food - Natural, Wholesome, Tasty & Easy
• Go Vegan With Bob Linden - The Planet's First and Only Commercial Vegan Radio Show!
• Vegan is normal - Web site of the Austrian Vegan Society
• Vegan Poet - Poems by vegan artist Butterflies Katz
• Veggie Vision - Veg*n Internet TV site with excellent documentaries and mini films - be inspired or contribute your skills

The ActiVeg Network

See the groups on a map.

• ActiVeg - animal-free inspiration, news & events - for vegan and vegetarian information, support and networking
• Animal Action Campaigns - Ethical and legal campaigning against animal abuse and promoting a veg/vegan lifestyle.
• Animal Rights In Spiritualism - Working on the spiritual and material levels for animal rights
• Berwick Veggies - For Veg*ns living in and around Berwick upon Tweed!
• Cheltenham Vegetarians and Vegans - A veggie guide to Cheltenham
• Croydon Vegetarians (& Vegans) Events - Vegetarian info, events & restaurants in Croydon & London
• East Lothian Veggies - For veggies in and around East Lothian
• Ethical Pirates - Vegan Pirates of the Carob Bean - Veganising non vegan things for a healthy sustainable future
• Galway Vegetarian Group - A website for the galway vegetarian and vegan group, in Galway, Ireland.
• Hastings Environs & Rye Bay Vegans/Veggies - HERB VEG - Vegans & Animal Loving Kindred Spirits
• Humanist Vegetarian Group - Promoting secular vegetarianism
• Lancashire Vegetarians & Vegans - Your guide to being Veggie in and around Lancashire
• Lawyers Vegan Vegetarian Society - Promoting peaceful and responsible living within London law firms
• Leicestershire Vegetarian/Vegan Group - A veggie guide to Leicestershire
• Lesbian Vegan Group of London - London guide for vegans and vegetarians, plus a social group for veggie lesbians and bisexuals
• London Vegan Societies - A collection of vegan and vegetarian societies across London.
• Manchester Vegan Society - Vegan Social meet ups and vegan outreach
• Manchester Vegetarian and Vegan Group - Manchester Vegetarian and Vegan Group
• Milton Keynes Vegetarians & Vegans - Campaigning for a Plant-Based Diet and the Protection of Animals.
• Moseley Vegans - For vegans and the vegan-curious in South Birmingham
• Nhveg - North Herts Vegans and Vegetarians - Information point for vegans and vegetarians in North Herts.
• North Wales Vegans - For vegans and vegan curious in North Wales with monthly meet ups, cake eating, free vegan food stalls and walks
• Northants Veggies - Promoting Vegetarian and Vegan life in Northamptonshire
• NottsVeg - Nottingham-based vegan/vegetarian social group
• One World Day - November 1st - A day to celebrate and promote a new world record of healthier more sustainable living
• Oxford Vegans - A guide for activist vegans in Oxford
• OxVeg - Oxfordshire Vegetarians and Vegans - Oxfordshire's local veggie group
• Redditch Vegetarians & Vegans - Promoting compassionate, healthy, eco-friendly living in Redditch
• Scilly Veggie - vegetarian & vegan travel guide to the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall
• Shropshire Veggies and Vegans - Veggie and Vegan info in and around Shropshire
• Somerset Vegetarians & Vegans - A vegetarian and vegan's guide to Somerset
• South East London Veggie Group - A Vegan and Vegetarian Guide to South East London
• Special Guests - vegetarian, vegan and special diets catering guide & recipes
• Super Vegans - Dedicated to Super Fit, Super Smart, Super Creative Vegans
• T3V - Thames Valley Vegans and Vegetarians - How to make the most of being veggie in and around Berkshire
• The V Word - for vegetarian and vegan kids and their friends
• V.A.A.L (vegan animal abolitionists of Ludlow) - A vegan abolitionists group for Ludlow and for the Midlands (non vegans are very welcome to join))
• Vegan Bristol - Where to eat, drink, shop, stay and Bristol VegFest info.
• Vegan Lincs -
• Vegan Peak District Guide - A guide to finding vegan food in the Peak District
• Vegan Runners UK - The home of UK vegan athletes and fun runners
• Vegan Wiltshire - A vegan guide to Wiltshire
• Vegetarian and Vegan Blackpool - The local veggie guide to eating out, shopping and accommodation
• Veggie Brighton - Veg out in gorgeous Brighton eating the best vegan and vegetarian food on offer
• Veggie Snow - for caterers, hosts, vegetarians and vegans who love great snow, great food and great places
• Veggie Suffolk - your vegetarian and vegan guide to Suffolk and the surrounding area
• West Wales Vegetarians - "Soft-hearted animal-lovin' townies"
• Woking Animal Aid - A vegetarian information guide for Woking
• Woking Veggie and Vegan Group - Veggie and Vegan Life around Woking
• Wolverhampton Vegans & Veggies - Promoting an animal friendly lifestyle in Wolverhampton
• Yorkshire Animal & Environmental Protection - veggie, vegan, cruelty-free Yorkshire