Our attendance at the Vdelicious Veggie Good Food Show (linked with the Allergy Free From Show at the Olympia in London) in June 2013 was a real success story as not only did we witness of huge surge of interest in veganism but also had the pleasure of welcoming the highest intake of new members during any one event.

The show was packed out with visitors, which gave us a fantastic opportunity to engage directly with existing members and a new audience.

At the Society we realise just how important it is to reach new audiences if we want to grow public interest in vegan lifestyles.  With this in mind, in October 2013, we had a stall at the Om Yoga Show at the Olympia in London. This gave us great exposure to a non-vegan audience that potentially shares some of our key values.

Vegan presence a message of success at NOPE 2013

The Trademark team attended the Natural and Organic Products Europe Show in Olympia on the 7th-8th April 2013 to promote Trademark holders and Veganism in a mainstream context.  Working alongside Vegan Society Trademark holders, the business development team were able to convey a strong vegan presence amongst the 8,000 attendees at the show by handing out 1,000 goody bags filled with generous samples of trademarked products.  This created quite a buzz and helped generate a huge level of interest among the attendees.

“Very professional, clear and articulate. Particularly liked the emphasis on health and prevention of diseases”

This is what one attendee of our Fringe Event,  Reforming Public Health Advice thought, and if the lively discussion that ensued was anything to go by, many at the well-attended event had similar feelings.

After attending other VegFest events in Brighton and Bristol over the last 10 years, The Vegan Society is very excited to be involved with the first ever London VegFest. Not only will there be a Vegan Society stall at the event, but we are also proud sponsors.

As London VegFest falls the month before World Vegan Month, we are promoting our Vegan Pledge Campaign to encourage visitors to sign up to take the Pledge at VegFest - we've even got some non-vegan celebrities on board.

Visitors to this year’s Cheltenham Science Festival were invited to join The Vegan Society for a discussion about the links between the food we eat and climate change.

On Wednesday 5 June, our panel discussion with Dr Richard Twine, Professor Tim Lang and Dr Tara Garnett, ‘Meat and Potatoes or Two Veg’, was delivered to a captive audience of around 200 people.

The Vegan Society stall at the 2012 West Midlands Vegan Fair was the first 100% volunteer-run Vegan Society stall, and it proved to be incredibly effective in terms of vegan outreach. Local Contact, Frank Thunder, coordinated a team of enthusiastc volunteers to run the stall - and they all had a blast!

We really appreciate the help of volunteers at events like these. Having other people run stalls for us means The Vegan Society can: