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Be Our Friend!
Join us on Myspace & Facebook
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Web Banners
Display a banner on your website, blog, Myspace etc. Click here to see various sizes/shapes.
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Leaflets/Posters
Help promote the festival. We have 1000`s of colour leaflets/posters. Click here to order a batch or download/print yourself.
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Wish List!
We`re hoping to find all the things on our
Wish List - can you help?
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Venue
Wulfrun Hall, The Wolves Civic, North Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1RQ
(10 mins from bus/train st)
Click here for map etc.
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Transport
If you have to go by car, go with
Freewheelers
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Event Organisers
The festival is organised by Midlands Vegan Campaigns, a small group of dedicated volunteers.
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Other Festivals
For details of the East Midlands Vegan Festival & other annual, local/national vegan fairs & festivals
Click here
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Want To Help?
Would you like to help make sure the festival is a big success? Please consider helping in one or more of the following ways. (Please also see our Wish List for other ways you can help)
If you have a website, blog, Myspace etc where you could display a banner link to this site, please see our banners which come in assorted shapes and sizes. Alternatively, a simple text link would be much appreciated.
Good publicity is essential if we are to attract large numbers to the festival. We have thousands of glossy colour leaflets(small A6 size) and posters(A5 & A4 size). We want your help to distribute them! We need to flood the West Midlands(and beyond!) with leaflets/posters, anywhere that there are people who may be interested - so basically anywhere at all! Your school, college, workplace, library, church, community group, health food shop etc etc. If you`re able to distribute/display some, or leave some where they can be distributed(ie. health food shop), we can post some to you, so please contact us stating the number you require of each and your address. Alternatively, you can download our colour or black and white leaflets. Please copy and distribute as many as you can.
We have set up Myspace and Facebook pages for the event. Why not become our friend so you can stay tuned to event updates and forward them to all your friends! Post a comment to pledge your support. In Myspace, add us to your `top friends`!
Help spread the word, become our friend right now! Myspace & Facebook
Whether you`re a business, organisation or just an individual, you can help us to ensure the event is a big success by becoming a sponsor or by donating whatever you can afford. MVC event co-ordinators are volunteers - all donations received will be ploughed into publicity etc. Please make cheques payable to `Midlands Vegan Campaigns` and post to MVC, PO Box 10202, Redditch, Worcs. B98 8YT. Thankyou!
We will need lots of help on the day, in many varied ways. Everything from leafletting in the street and handing out our programmes, to clearing tables and washing up! See all the volunteer tasks below:
Setting Up Before Event (from 9am)
- arrange tables ready for stallholders
- stallholder car parking attendants
- help arriving stallholders to find their pitch & set up
- display helpful signs around venue (eg "cookery demos this way" etc)
Promotion (for 2 hour stints - 11am-1pm, 1pm-3pm or 3-5pm):
- leafletting
- holding directional placard
- handing out free food samples in the street
Upon Arrival (for 2 hour stints - 11am-1pm, 1pm-3pm or 3-5pm):
- Welcome desk - taking £1 entrance fee off all adults
- Welcome desk - handing out free event programmes
Food and Drink (for 2 hour stints - 11am-1pm, 1pm-3pm or 3-5pm):
- waiters/waitresses for tea/coffee (save people queuing)
- clearing and wiping clean the cafe tables
- hospitality - taking tea/coffee to stallholders
- free food sample stall (providing visitors with a variety of vegan samples, keeping platters topped up and distributing food donor details/recipes)
Workshop/Talk Co-Ordination
- Introducing speakers, arranging seats, helping speakers set up etc
- Help set up and clear away before and after each of the 3 cookery demos
Other Important Tasks
- co-ordination of volunteers - keep track of who`s doing what and where!
- litterpicking inside the venue & immediately outside the venue
- washing up
- taking lots of photos & filming the event
- mobile raffle ticket seller - walk round venue inviting everyone to buy our raffle tickets!
- encourage visitors to complete our questionnaire/feedback form
- Event announcements on the main stage in the Wulfrun Hall (eg "cookery demo starts in 5 mins" or "we have a lost child, could the parents of Rosie come to the welcome desk please" etc)
In order to make sure the event runs as smoothly as possible, we need to find volunteers for all the above tasks(and quite possibly more!). If you can spare 2 or 3 hours or the whole day, we would love to hear from you! Just let us know what you’d prefer to do and when. Please email Dean, our volunteer co-ordinator dean_bracher[at]yahoo.co.uk
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Why Vegan?
People choose the vegan lifestyle for various reasons, including:
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Food Fair Reports
MVC has staged 2 very successful food fairs, in Birmingham & Lichfield. Click above for reports, photos & a film of the events.
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Local Veg Group
The local campaigning & social group is Wolverhampton Vegans & Veggies
Many more West Midlands groups can be found on our Links page.
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