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CommuniTree Festival returns to the Formal Gardens at Wollaton Hall for a day of global music, workshops, creativity and community. Join us in one of Nottingham’s most beautiful green spaces for live music, dance, family activities and hands-on workshops for all ages.

Date : Sunday 9th August 2026
Time: 12 – 5 pm

#FoodByVeggies
https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/communitree-festival-2026/

Join us on for an afternoon of live music, creativity and community.
🎶 Featuring:
• Nachda Sansaar
• BLU.PRNT feat. Koko Kolly
• Batch Gueye
• Akolá Tombó
• Kellys Heroes

🎨 Creative workshops throughout the day, including West African Baye Fall singing from Senegal, an Afro-Colombian Bullerengue Circle, Yoga & Handpan, plus much more for all ages.
Whether you’d like to dance, make, sing, explore or simply relax with family and friends, there’s something for everyone.

🎟️ Pre-book your tickets now – the booking link is just below ⬇️
👉 Tickets are just £2.35 (including booking fee)

https://www.gigantic.com/communitree-festival-tickets

Can you help us cater for the People and Planet Powershift conference next weekend?

We will need some extra pairs of hands to help with chopping, peeling and serving Friday evening to Monday afternoon

Travel expenses will be reimbursed and accommodation and food will be provided!

Let us know if you can help 🙏🏼
Email [email protected]

More events with #FoodByVeggies at
https://www.veggies.org.uk/events/category/veggies-events/

🐀 WORLD DAY FOR ANIMALS IN LABS 🐀

Today, and 24th April every year #WDAIL

🥾 Camp Beagle begin their walk from Huntingdon to Parliament today 🥾

🪧 March through London TOMORROW to demand an end to heinous animal tests (see https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/world-day-for-animals-in-laboratories-rally-2026/) . Look out for #FoodByVeggies including #SamosasForSocialChange as for the last 40+ years)🪧

🐰 What have you done for animals in labs today? We suggest;

🐾 Choosing cruelty free cosmetics and cleaning products

🐾 Sharing the Animal Aid investigation

🐾 Contact an MBR Supplier https://mbrsuppliers.is/

🐾 Sign petitions to end animal testing https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736578 (this one is being debated on Monday)

🐾 Join your local animal rights group and get ACTIVE for the animals - in #Nottingham see https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/nottingham-animal-coalition/2026-06-15/

Set up and ready to go at...

Sheffield Sustainable Market

Supporting #Sheffield Action on Plastic in their mission is to work with the Sheffield community to reduce single-use plastics.

Find the best sustainable gifts, products, food and drink from local makers and businesses – think zero-waste, plastic-free and sustainable. As well as supporting local makers and the local economy.

Victoria Hall, Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 2JB. 11am to 4pm

#FoodByVeggies
https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/sheffield-sustainable-market/

Just a week to go until the @ethicalconsumer conference

Friday 7th November at #Richmix, Bethnal Green, London

The day will include:

Workshops and open discussions:

*Corporate power and Palestine

*Building a world with less damaging business models

*Moving away from tech monopolies

*Challenging land grabs by new tech and AI

*How ethical businesses operate differently

#FoodByVeggies, an Ethical Consumer #BestBuy company, including #SamosasForSocialChange!

https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/ethical-consumer-conference-2025/

@chewie thank you for letting folk know.

#SumacCentre is delighted to host #HacktionLab with @Veggies providing the catering.

https://hacktionlab.org/index.php?title=HacktionLab_Autumn_2025

Talks, Activities, Workshops and social event

#nottingham #FoodByVeggies

Setting up the #ResistanceExhibition at #SumacCentre ready for Sunday 8th June, noon-9pm.

Documenting over 40 years of protest and resistance in the UK, through photos, videos, text and objects.

Resistance Exhibition, aims to foster a public archive of a vibrant protest culture in the UK; a documenting of history by the people who made that history.

Also Sumac Sunday Brunch 11am-2pm; Forest Fields Social Club bar noon-4pm; #FoodByVeggies with #SamosasForSocialChange

https://sumac.org.uk/event/resistance-exhibition/

Left Lion, Nottingham's arts & ents magazine features our weekend events, bringing together 40 years of campaign materials, documenting protest culture in the UK through photography, posters, videos, text and objects.

On Sat 7th @ 5pm we host a talk by Alan Lodge. 'Tash' has spent his life documenting the free party movement, festivals, protests and the traveller community.

On Sun 8th drop in to see the touring #ResistanceExhibition and indulge in #FoodByVeggies.

https://leftlion.co.uk/features/2025/06/restaurant-week-comic-con-body-positive-art-and-japanese-pop-punk-heres-whats-on-events-in-nottingham-2-8-june-2025/

We are pleased to support first Total Liberation Gathering on 11th-13th July at #Nottingham #SumacCentre, with #FoodByVeggies

Details: https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/total-liberation-gathering/

The aim is for animal liberationists to connect with other struggles and strengthen solidarity between movements. We want to encourage collaboration, sharing resources and creativity.

This will be an opportunity for us to reimagine how the world could be. We will embody anti-hierarchy, active participation and collective care.

Find us from 11am this Saturday, 31st May, at the Green Hustle in Nottingham's Old Market Square.

Green Hustle is back, bringing thousands of people together in Nottingham’s Old Market Square on Saturday, 31 May, for a day of free summer fun. Under this year's theme, Growing Together, we'll celebrate everything that connects us— from nature and food to music and shared creativity.

#FoodByVeggies, including #SamosasForSocialChange

Vigil for the lives lost in the genocide against the Palestinian people

Here, Now. At Elbit (UAV Tactical Systems, #Leicester)

Many companies that support Israel need to be boycotted. We focus on Coca Cola, the only cola at #GlastonburyFestival.

Coca-Cola violates international law by operating on stolen Palestinian land. Stop Coca-Cola profiting from the occupation

Support #ElbitOutOfLeicester
instagram.com/elbitoutofleicester

#StopTheArmsTrade #FoodByVeggies
#SamosasForSocialChange

In 42 days & 19 hours Veggies Catering Campaign opens at Glastonbury Green Futures.

It's our *40th* year at #Glastonbury - #vegan, #fairtrade and affordable #FoodByVeggies since the 1985 event.

As a campaigning #cooperative, Veggies Catering Campaign has NEVER sold #CocaCola, #Nestlé or other products subject to a boycott, guided by @ethicalconsumer

Find us opposite Festival Welfare, just over Old Railway Track, towards the Sacred Space (Stone Circle)

https://glastometer.com/

We had a great day at World Day for Animals in Laboratories #WDAIL rally at #CampBeagle on 26th April, giving out food to the activists who were there!

Thanks to generous donations, we covered our expenses AND give £300 to Camp Beagle, which is why we do what we do!

Veggies is so proud to be a catering campaign, bringing food and positivity to demos, marches and protests for a better world 🌍

#foodbyveggies #samosasforsocialchange #veggiescateringcampaign

Festival of Activism

Sat 5th April • 5:30-7:30pm

Skate Parlour, 32 Burgess Road, #leicester LE2 8QL

An event for both new and seasoned activists. Find out what is happening in Leicester, and how groups can work together and collaborate. Time, space and resources for making signs and banners,, information on protest law and your rights, workshops, and time to share and plan collaboratively for campaigns.

https://actionnetwork.org/events/festival-of-activism

Join us for #FoodByVeggies, including #SamosasForSocialChange

Wake Up! To the taste of Revolution!

Zapatista Coffee helps the people of Chiapas Mexico to safeguard their own idioms & culture, organising their own access to education, health & land through direct democracy.

You can get Zapatista Coffee online at https://www.veggies.org.uk/shop/zapatista-coffee/ or from Veggies at events with #FoodByVeggies. It is also available whenever our #SumacCentre base is open.

See also https://linktr.ee/zapatistasolidaritynetwork

Please help support for Zapatista community by sharing this message

Watch this space

#FoodByVeggies including #SamosasForSocialChange, in support of @NottinghamAR at #Nottingham #Lightnight

Fri 28th Feb OR Sat 1st March

#Vegan #FreeFoodGivaway

Live earlier today, a vigil for the lives lost in the genocide against the Palestinian people, outside the Elbit factory (UAV Tactical Systems, #Leicester) at Meridian Business Park, LE19 1WZ

instagram.com/p/DEmw0E2Nuzc

Stop Arms Trade to Israel

Support #ElbitOutOfLeicester
instagram.com/elbitoutofleicester

https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/leicester-vigil-for-palestine-elbit-systems/

#StopTheArmsTrade #FoodByVeggies
#SamosasForSocialChange

The #spycops inquiry today discussed the 1990's campaign against #BootsTheVivisectors, including the National Demo in #Nottingham on 7th November 1992, organised by London Boots Action Group (LBAG) and Nottingham Animal Rights Coalition.

Following a march through the city, a demo was held outside Boots vivisection laboratories on Pennyfoot St, before moving to Sneinton Hermitage Community Centre for stalls, speakers and #FoodByVeggies

https://www.veggies.org.uk/news1/e001117.htm

More: https://social.coop/@Veggies/113820760073631065

@Sarahw yes!

#FoodByVeggies including hot drinks, #SamosasForSocialChange and #vegan cake!

Join us again on Saturday 25th Jan at UAV Tactical Systems, Leicester, part of #Elbit Systems.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DEmw0E2Nuzc

Stop the Arms Trade to Israel

Support #ElbitOutOfLeicester
https://www.instagram.com/elbitoutofleicester

#StopTheArmsTrade #FoodByVeggies
#SamosasForSocialChange

One of the first events in 2025 with #FoodByVeggies will be the #EarthFirst! Winter Moot, 14th-16th February near #Nottingham!!!🌲🌳

💥 The Moot is going to be a bit different this year. We encourage you to read the full statement about it here: http://tinyurl.com/EFmoot25

It is intended to be a smaller, more focused gathering than the 170+ that joined us in 2024

More details via https://kolektiva.social/@EarthFirstUK/113758533613669577

@EarthFirstUK

Happy to add announcement of @EarthFirstUK Summer Gathering to Veggies Calendar at
https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/earth-first-summer-gathering-2025/

#FoodByVeggies
#SamosasForSocialChange

Compassionate Derby‬ is back

After Celebrating the 10th Compassionate Derby last year we are pleased to announce the next event will be a Spring Eco Fair on Saturday 22 March 2025 with #FoodByVeggies

#Derby
#CompassionateDerby #Spring #SpringFair #EcoFair #FirstPost

We're dipping into the archives from #RainbowCentre (1984-2000), now continuing as the #SumacCentre, in the #ForestFields area of #Nottingham

The #RainbowArchive covers everything from a 1963 issue of The Vegan, the Journal of the #VeganSociety, with an article about their #vegan library (#synchronicity), to #Outrage, the @animalaid Newsletter, featuring #Veggies40Years Anniversary and the #AnimalAid Fairs, with #FoodByVeggies since the late '80s, and now part of #Vegfest.

Share this coalition groups announced for #TheBigOne 💥

This is a fantastic opportunity to reach out within these groups, within our work places, institutions & bodies. All of which are made of people who care.

As ever, join us for #FoodByVeggies and active support throughout

This Saturday (21st): #FoodByVeggies at #Newark Vegan & Ethical Market organised by #RainbowMonkeyEvents

A fantastic selection of traders from cupcakes to zero waste solutions, with pies and loaded fries in-between!

Everything #vegan, loads of gluten free choices too!

https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/newark-vegan-and-ethical-market/2023-01-21/