Thank you! Thank you for coming to the first ever Cumbria Vegan Festival at the Rheged Centre. It is a pleasure to welcome you to the event. The profits from today will help FARPLACE ANIMAL RESCUE do more to help animals from across the UK and Ireland. We specialise in the more difficult cases and have helped many animals from the North West and Cumbria. If you are wanting many of the products featured today on an ongoing basis, be sure to pop into our VEGAN STORE at 71 Clayton St, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 5PY anytime 10am to 6pm Monday to Saturday. We are also launching today our TALKTOMEIMVEGAN campaign in the North West to encourage more conversations to happen about the benefits to the planet and health of veganism as well as the moral case for no animals to die for our choices. We have a feedback form on www.cumbriaveganfestival.co.uk – please take a moment to fill it in and help us keep improving the festivals. If you enjoyed today, be sure to come to our other events, a list of which is below. I would also like to thank our lovely sponsors and stall holders – without them, this event would not have been possible. Thank you so much and see you next time
Sophie Delarny
Gareth Edwards
Vegan Events Manager – Farplace Animal Rescue
Chair of the Trustees – Farplace Animal Rescue
registered charity 1126812
Organised by and profits to Farplace Animal Rescue Charity No. 1126812. Helping Animals Rejected Elsewhere. Also the Organisers of www.irishveganfestival.com • www.northeastveganfestival.com www.londonanimalfreefestival.com • www.northeastveganfestival.com • www.welshveganfestival.com www.scottishveganfestival.com • www.southwestveganfestival.co.uk • www.yorkshireanimalfreefestival.co.uk
FARPLACE ANIMAL RESCUE We are the organisers of The Cumbria Vegan Festival, meaning all proceeds from this event go to Farplace Animal Rescue. We are a strictly no-kill animal rescue sanctuary helping all the animals we can, so your attendance to this event is directly helping them. Our aim is simple; to prevent the mistreatment of animals. By running vegan festivals around the UK, we hope to promote the vegan diet in the most positive way possible, leading to more people cutting out animal products from their lives. We proudly put animals first and campaign against hunting, animals in circuses, the badger cull and much more. We think Breed Specific Legislation is wrong and punishes a breed when it should be on a caseby-case basis regardless of breed. We always need support for our animals, and donations are greatly appreciated. Donations can be sent to 122 Station Road, Wallsend N28 8QS or by phone on 0191 2637644. To set up a standing order please visit our website and see the Support Us section.
www.farplace.org.uk You can also text your support if in the UK... Text NEUTER to 70300 to give £10 Text LOVE to 70300 to give £5 Text STAFFIE to 70300 to give £3 Text LICK to 70300 to give £1 Texting CAT3 or CAT5 gives £3 or £5 per month Our feed bills alone can be as high as £3000 a month so any help is always very gratefully received. Thank you on behalf of all the animals. If you do not wish to hear from us again, add the words NO INFO to the text code
Programme A great selection of stalls – food, campaigns, drinks, samples, toiletries, charities and much more – enjoy the stalls.
TALKS, FILMS AND COOKING DEMO 10.30-11.50 LIVE AND LET LIVE – A Film about six people who have switched to veganism, including former butchers and factory farmers, share their stories to examine the relationship between animals and people. 12.00-12.30 Sarah Asquith-Vallance – Plant Based Health and Wellbeing 12.35-13.05 Stephen Balfour – Henpecked - Giving a Home to Ex-Battery Hens 13.10-13.55 Sarah Asquith-Vallance - The Botanical Chef Cooking Demo 14.00-15.00 Ashley Cooper, IMAGES FROM A WARMING PLANET - Ashley Cooper is the only living photographer to have documented the impacts of climate change and renewable energy on every continent on the planet. This epic journey took fourteen years and involved travelling to over 40 countries. 15.00-16.40 COWSPIRACY: The Sustainability Secret - A ground-breaking feature-length environmental documentary following intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organisations are too afraid to talk about it. All the talks and films are in the lecture theatre through the door at the end of HALL 2 and down 2 flights of stairs - you can take food and drink with you
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DOGWHALE is our new vegan mail order service opening soon. You can sign up by email already for special offers. DOGWHALE seeks to bring you a range of great vegan products with any profits going direct to FARPLACE ANIMAL RESCUE, organisers of the scheme, to spend on campaigns like TALKTOMEIMVEGAN, vegan film showings, festivals and direct animal rescue.
VEGAN VOLUNTEERING
Why not volunteer some time to help our FARPLACE ANIMAL RESCUE. We need volunteers in our VEGAN STORE at 71 Clayton St, Newcastle and at our VEGAN CHARITY SHOP at 122 Station Road, Wallsend as well as helping our campaigns and events develop in the shops. To volunteer, call in and see our manager Ellen in Clayton St or Todd in Wallsend. You can email ellen@farplace. org.uk or todd@farplace.org.uk or call Clayton 0191 222 1248 or Wallsend 0191 263 7644 during shop hours.
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