VIVA! EMAIL NEWS ALERT: July 2006



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In This Viva!City: September: the Month Britain Goes Veggie 2006!

Don't Batter the Oceans - Go Veggie!

Viva! & VVF School Speakers Training Day

Say It With ... Your Local Library!

Incredible Veggie Roadshow Comes to Swansea!

Wanted: Viva! Volunteers!

Be Cruelty-free and Stylish this Summer!
Your Viva!City




September: the Month Britain Goes Veggie 2006!

The best way to save animals is to stop eating them! That's the message
many of you took to the streets and neighbourhoods last September during
our hugely successful Veggie Month 2005 - and, as they say, every
success deserves an encore!

This September, we intend to give millions more people a gentle shove
down the wonderful road of healthier, cruelty-free, environment-saving,
people-protecting veggie living! We're bursting with ideas on how to do
this - from holding a stall, to door-dropping leaflets to mounting
eye-catching displays at work or school. We have the materials but we
need your help to get the message out there to the people who can really
make a difference - meat eaters.

This year we will also be debuting our Reasons to Go Veggie Number 4:
People and the Planet, which shows how consumers can save the
environment with their knives and forks as well as help some of the
poorest people by just going veggie! We're busy working on the leaflet,
but it will be ready in time for September - so watch this space!

Find out how you can get involved! <http://www.viva.org.uk/veggiemonth>
Even a few hours of your time can make a world of difference. Every
single person who decides to ditch meat because of your actions means
you are directly helping to save the lives of thousands of animals.



Don't Batter the Oceans - Go Veggie!

That's the message we're taking to the British seaside this August,
when Great Yarmouth, Southend-on-sea, Brighton, Blackpool, Cleethorpes
and Weston-Super-Mare will be getting a flying visit from the Viva!
mermaid!

Some people who give up eating meat and poultry continue to eat fish in
the belief that it is a healthy food and that fishing is less cruel and
environmentally destructive than farming. British chippies served up
over 283 million portions of fish last year - this represents a clearly
unsustainable drain on the oceans, and causes suffering on an almost
unimaginable scale.

Order our End of the Line door-dropper pack
<http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/fish/index.html> (with 100 leaflets)
to help spread the word that we can all do our bit to end cruelty and
the collapse of the oceans - by going veggie.



Viva! & VVF School Speakers Training Day

One of the most rewarding things you can do is talk to people with open
minds - and that is why our school speaker network is so important for
putting veggie and animal issues into the classroom.

On Saturday August 26, Viva! and the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation are
holding a no obligation School Speakers Training Day at The Charity
Centre, 25 St Stephenson Way, London NW1 2DP. It will be an informal and
fun day, so please join us.

For more information contact Jane Easton on 0117 944 1000 or email
jane@...


Say It With ... Your Local Library!

Viva!'s sister charity, the Vegetarian & Foundation (VVF)
<http://www.vegetarian.org.uk/> , is offering free copies of its
magazine, VeggieHealth, to all libraries, colleges and universities in
the UK. VeggieHealth is published three times per year and is jam-packed
with the latest information about why veggie diets are the very best way
to ensure good health. But we need you to help spread the message! Can
you pass on a free subscription flyer to at least one library or college
in your local area, and ask them to subscribe? If so, please contact
oriel@...


Incredible Veggie Roadshow Comes to Swansea!

Viva!'s Incredible Veggie Roadshow continues to win hearts (and
stomachs!) everywhere it goes - and will be rolling into Swansea on
Saturday 5th August 2006. We will be visiting the city soon to entice
the locals - as ever, headed by our fruity Carmen Miranda look-alike!



A brilliant free family day out, there will be cookery demonstrations,
talks, veggie stalls, competitions, cruelty-free fashion, beauty
products, vegan food products, books, information and campaign news.
Free nutritional advice will also be available all day.



Find out more about it and see the full list of shows here
<http://www.viva.org.uk/roadshows06/swansea.html> . If you can offer us
help for any shows - we would especially like to hear from you if you
can help out publicising the event locally by putting up posters or
handing out invites, or if you can help out on the day itself - please
get in touch <mailto:angie@...> . It's incredibly rewarding to
see so many people interested in vegetarianism and the shows have proved
so busy that we really need all the help we can get!



Wanted: Viva! Volunteers!



Could you spare a couple of hours a week to help us at the busy Viva!
office in Bristol?



Tasks will include sending out orders, mailings and free packs;
preparing for the Roadshows plus other general admin support. You will
be playing a very important role in our work to save animals. The office
is open between 9am and 6pm Mon-Fri, hours are to suit. Volunteers are
also entitled to a 30% discount on all merchandise!



If you're interested, please contact Laura Turner on 0117 944 1000 or
e-mail laura@...




Be Cruelty-free and Stylish this Summer!

To celebrate the long, lazy (well, we can dream!) Summer we have some of
our fantastic 'Go veggie' t-shirts on sale over at the Viva! shop.
Hotfoot it over there to find out more
<http://www.viva.org.uk/shop/sale.htm> !



Your Viva!City



This email alert reaches thousands of people but we'd like your help to
make it even better. At the moment we have just one list of addresses
which means that we have to send the same email to everyone. From time
to time we'd like to let people know about things happening in their
area or get in contact with our younger supporters but we don't want to
fill everyone else's mailboxes with information that isn't relevant to
them. What we'd like to do is compile email lists separated into
different regions so that if we do have something we'd like to tell
people in Scotland or Yorkshire about, we can send them the information
without bothering anyone else.



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your postcode and so we'd be grateful if you could take a minute to fill
in our online questionnaire
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your name if you don't want to.



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