Membership

Would you like to see more sanctuary stories in The Vegan?

We want to hear from you!

We want to include you, our members, more in the magazine going forwards.

We love hearing your thoughts and views on topics raised in The Vegan, or about the wider vegan movement.

Maybe you’ve made one of our recipes and would like to share a picture of how it turned out. Perhaps you have a comment on one of our features, or an idea for a future topic or interviewee. Maybe you’ve visited a fantastic vegan cafe or restaurant and would like to send in a review. Perhaps you have adopted a companion animal and would like to share how you have changed each other’s lives.

From Issue 3 we will be awarding a Star Letter prize to one member who contacts us with a comment for inclusion in the magazine. The prize will be donated by one of our fantastic Vegan Trademark holders. We are very excited to say that the first prize will be a special bundle from the wonderful One Planet Pizza, including a four-pack of pizza and other goodies. We look forward to receiving your views!

We are also considering new features to include and are keen to hear your input. What would you like to see more of in your members’ magazine? • Animal stories, for example featured sanctuaries • Profiles of members • Profiles of Vegan Society staff • Your questions answered – for example nutritional or rights queries Please send your answers, and any additional ideas, to editor@vegansociety.com, or by post to our usual address.

Discount list

In return for supporting The Vegan Society and our campaigns, we offer all of our members over 130 discounts. These include 10% off at Holland & Barrett, 50% off Vegan Food and Living magazine and 10% off our VEG 1 supplement. You can find all of these in the Members’ Area of our website at vegansociety.com/my-account/shop-discounts.

We are continually trying to improve the offerings to our members, and we update the discount list weekly. New discounts include 15% off Green People skincare, 10% off WUKA period pants, 10% off Brave Foods and 10% off Munchy Seeds.

Are there any vegan products or brands that interest you? We would love to hear from you on any suggestions you might have on improving the discount list. You can email us at membership@vegansociety.com or call on 0121 523 1730. Alternatively, do you run a business that would like to offer a discount to your fellow members? Contact discount@vegansociety.com or apply online at vegansociety.com/your-business/discount-list.

AGM 2020 – postponement

The 2020 AGM was planned to be held on Saturday 30 May. As many of you know, the plan was to hold the AGM at The Lighthouse in Glasgow. The Vegan Society was very excited about the prospect of taking the AGM to this wonderful city and had plans to bring members, staff and trustees together with the AGM itself as the centrepiece of the weekend.

Under the current very challenging circumstances, however, we have reluctantly had to make the decision to cancel these plans, and so we will not be holding our AGM on this date. At the time of preparing this issue, we are continuing to look at all options for rearranging the AGM as soon as circumstances allow. We are also focused on ensuring that all members will be able to fully participate in the democratic process that surrounds the AGM. Online facilities, using a platform that would enable members who join from home to participate fully in discussion and voting are being explored. However, Council could not be confident that our postal service and voting processing services would be able to collate and count members’ votes within the tight timescale of preparing for an AGM at the end of May.

We will be sure to inform you of the new plans to hold the AGM as soon as those details are available. In the meantime, if you have any queries, then please send them to the Chair of Council, Menna Jones (chair@vegansociety. com), or the CEO, George Gill (ceo@vegansociety.com), by email or by post (Donald Watson House, 34–35 Ludgate Hill, Birmingham B3 1EH).

We do hope that our members, supporters and all those involved with our organisation remain safe and well. Council would like to extend our very best wishes to you all during this time which will be challenging for many.

Employer booklet

We have created an employer booklet to help employers meet the needs of vegan employees.

We posted news about this on our Facebook page, and this is what you had to say:

Katrina Dombkowski: “Very helpful! Passed this on to my company’s HR dept.”

Lucas Seuren: “My department has been better than most. We’ve got oat milk in the fridge, everybody’s very interested in my beliefs and ideas, there’s a lot of commitment to veganism from the green impact committee and prize-winning bakes are always vegan! OK, the last is not policy, just because vegans are better bakers :).”

Gracie MG: “We have a dedicated vegan microwave in our communal kitchen.”