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Mature Zone Welcome to Another new feature with a number of speeches focusing on how those in advanced years can successfully adopt a vegan lifestyle, VegfestUK on top of vegan refreshments and networking opportunities. Food and Shopping London No festival is complete without sumptuous food treats and Vegfest is no different, with 14 caterers and Europe’s premier 200 stallholders delivering a feast of globally inspired vegan cuisines vegan festival alongside a shopping heaven full of Saturday October 10th 2015 (11am-7pm) free samples and special offers. Sunday October 11th 2015 (10am-5pm) at Olympia London (Central Hall Levels 1 & 3) Other interesting features • Talks on general aspects of living and staying vegan Big welcome to the 3rd edition of VegfestUK at Olympia - arguably • Cookery demos and Living Raw Zone packed with vegan the nation’s finest exhibition centre! This year we move into the culinary ideas classy Central Hall with full conference facilities and enclosed talks • Comedy Hours rooms, offering a high-class visitors experience for our fans! • Music • Bodybuilding contest (Saturday) There’re some intriguing new features on top of the all-time • Kids Activities for the little ones favourites at Vegfest: • Book Signings • Teen VGN Zone for young veggies/vegans Professionals Vegan Health Summit Taking place on the Saturday, this summit features a range of Map and Entrance talks by qualified healthcare professionals including doctors, GP’s, Address: Olympia Central, Olympia London, Hammersmith Road, midwives, nurses etc., giving a ringing endorsement of the virtues London W14 8UX of following a plant-based diet on a health level, on top of feature documentaries on the subject. Access via entrance on Hammersmith Road Viva! Health Summit Ticket information This health summit is augmented Advance tickets: £10 (adults) / £6 (concessions) + booking fees by the knowledgeable Viva! team who will explain the health BUY ONE GET ONE FREE benefits of a vegan diet in finer until September 10th detail on specific topics such as dairy, diabetes, cancer, soya etc. on BUY ONE GET ONE HALF PRICE the Saturday. until October 3rd Purchase of advance tickets is open up until 10am on Saturday and People’s Vegan until 9am on Sunday Activists Summit (subject to availability. Ticket purchase link: Vegan advocacy takes centre london.vegfest.co.uk/ stage on the Sunday with leading ticket-info activists and educators discussing Tickets on the gate: key animal rights topics as well as £12 (adults) / £8 interacting with our audience on (concessions) effective vegan outreach, alongside Kids under 16 FREE feature documentaries in this area. www.vegfest.co.uk VegfestUK | 3 Sponsors Massive thanks to our sponsors for making VegfestUK News this show possible! VegfestUK Awards: Categories, Vegfest Scotland Lifefood Moo Free Nominees, Voting – December 5th The eagerly anticipated 6th @ Hall 3 of the Producers of Chocolates VegfestUK Awards is SECC Glasgow supreme raw back in 2015 after over Manufacturer of 12,000 votes flew in for Scotland is set to embrace a vegan snacks whole new world of healthy delicious dairy- last year’s edition and and treats - all more vegan brands living and ethical vegan free, gluten-free, came into the market lifestyles with Vegfest coming vegan certified vegan & organic for our reckoning since to the prestigious SECC in and free of then! This year’s Awards Glasgow this December! With chocolates that consist of 15 categories loads of media coverage, gluten, lactose, refined sugar and any kind of taste like milk chocolate. with 10 nominees waves of stall bookings and special guests coming on board, this artificial sweeteners. each. Voting is open inaugural Vegfest is expected to capture the imagination of the moofreechocolates.com at vegfest.co.uk/vote Scottish nation with around 10,000 visitors over 2 days of vegan lifefood.co.uk until September 26th treats and education. vegfestscotland.com at midnight. Results will be announced at 5pm on Saturday October 10th in the Main VegfestUK Auditorium on Level 3 of Olympia Central during VegfestUK JĀSÖN Natural Care Suma Wholefoods London, with vegan comedian Jake Yapp giving out the awards. Brighton 2016 The UK’s leading natural family brand, offering The UK’s leading supplier of fairly traded, ethical, – February 27th natural care to families for 3 generations. All natural and organic food and drinks. Regular updates of awards results will be posted in “Awards” section 28th @ Brighton products are vegan friendly and BUAV certified. suma.coop of the Vegfest Express vegfestexpress.co.uk before voting shuts. jasonnaturalcare.co.uk Centre Essential Trading New Advertising Packages on the Our annual event at the Bute Island Foods Co-operative Vegfest Express picturesque seaside town Proud makers of their “Sheese” brand of vegan of Brighton is back next Some exciting brand- cheese and the “Vegandeli” range of vegan mock Bristol-based worker co-operative, established in February at the Brighton new advertising options Conference and Exhibition meats. buteisland.com 1971, wholesaling, manufacturing and distributing sustainable wholefoods, ecological house will be available soon on Centre. With a slightly our global vegan news Provamel products and cruelty-free bodycare items in the UK and beyond. tweaked floor plan, extra Fairtrade, vegetarian, vegan, organic and GMO free. website the Vegfest seating, plus new features such as the Animal Rights Forum, the European pioneer in delicious organic plant-based essential-trading.coop Express vegfestexpress. Teachers Vegan Summit as well as a Mature Zone, this 8th year milks and desserts, all GMO-free, naturally lactose co.uk Currently buzzing event is set to build on this year’s success of around 12,000 visitors free, naturally free from animal fats, artificial Excellart with exhilarating over 2 days and get more people to sample the delights of the vegan flavourings, colours, pesticides and preservatives. content every day lifestyle. brighton.vegfest.co.uk provamel.com/uk Vegan-owned marketing and design agency with from renowned vegan over 5 years of expertise in the vegan, vegetarian, bloggers and campaign VegfestUK Bristol 2016 – May 21st 22nd ethical and organic trade. excellart.co.uk groups on top of Tribest regular updates from 2016 @ Amphitheatre VegfestUK and other Producers of a range of health appliances for the Finally, the ever-joyous outdoor event VegfestUK Bristol will be VeggieVision vegan promoters, the home, featuring the latest innovations in juicers, back on the Harbourside next May, provisionally on May 21st Online TV station full of inspirational videos on Vegfest Express is a haven for everyone wishing to keep abreast blenders, dehydrators, nut milk makers, and more 22nd 2016 (TBC soon). With family-friendly vegan education and the veggie lifestyle, ranging from cookery videos of with what’s happening in the vegan world and therefore to make healthy living easy. glorious vegan food during the day followed by headline music to interviews with celebrities. VeggieVision now provides excellent value for anyone looking to put their products tribest.co.uk in the evenings, VegfestUK Bristol is a beautiful marriage between includes a dating website for veggies too! or campaigns right into the heart of the vegan movement. The vegan education and festival magic. Stall bookings will begin veggievision.tv advertising packages will be released from mid-September from September 2015 onwards at bristol.vegfest.co.uk with our Nakd Wholefoods onwards. headliners TBA shortly afterwards. Nationally renowned for their delicious high-raw Yaoh vegan snack bars, including Smoosh, Crunch, Oatie and Trek bars. The UK’s first hemp company, with award-winning naturalbalancefoods.com bodycare and certified organic food range. yaoh.co.uk Plamil Foods Out of Hand Plamil Foods make a number of award-winning products including dairy-free chocolate and carob Dedicated top-class eco-friendly design & print bars, and a dairy- and egg-free mayo range. team for VegfestUK for many a year. plamilfoods.co.uk outofhand.co.uk www.vegfest.co.uk VegfestUK | 5 Pig Freud ‘’Pig Freud loves all animals, be they pigs, other animals or humans, and he would love to try and help people go vegan and stop eating and using animals,’’ explained Pig Freud’s manager Tim Barford from VegfestUK and Yaoh, the sponsors of the tour. “and he is using his considerable talents to try and help achieve this. Pig Freud is visually challenged and obviously his trotters are also slightly problematical when it comes to fret work, but he loves playing the electric guitar and is surprisingly good on it. He is really looking forward Pink fluffy guitar-playing cartoon pig Pig Freud today announced to his first ever UK tour his first tour of the UK, with 6 dates during the autumn of 2015. Pig and especially honoured to be opening all the vegan shows and Freud will be opening a number of vegan events in the UK and helping raise money for these 5 amazing grassroots regional Ireland, in support of grassroots regional vegan education projects vegan education projects. And in doing so, Pig Freud is especially in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand. keen to help encourage vegan activists to focus on peaceful vegan education as their chosen form of activism if they truly want to Pig Freud’s dates include: help end the exploitation of animals.” • October 11th at Olympia London at VegfestUK London • October 17th in Manchester at the Northern Vegan Festival Pig Freud will perform a 15 minute solo at each event, with a • October 24th in Wolverhampton at the West Midland social media campaign to support the performances and tens of vegan Festival thousands of flyers to be distributed at each event asking people • November 1st in Dublin at the Dublin Vegfest to consider going vegan and to support their local grassroots • November 15th in Sunderland at The North East Vegan Fest vegan education projects (or start their own), and there will be a • December 5th in Glasgow at Vegfest Scotland JustGiving option available shortly for his growing legion of global fans to donate to the 5 chosen projects if they wish.