Provincial towns you jog round

QVD in Glasgow

by

One night only, people.

I am THRILLED to bring my legendary night of camp delight to The Flying Duck. Long established as a monthly night in London, Queer Vegan Disco enjoys a limited one-night-only engagement in Glasgow on Friday December 4, 2015.

Join your host FGV (that’s me!) for a rollicking few hours of pop, indie, dance, alternative, rock, top 40, 90s and more.

Tickets for this club event are set to disappear quickly, especially as they are priced at just £3 when bought in advance online.

Queer Vegan Disco is proud as punch to be part of the city-wide The Only Way Is Ethics celebrations and the same weekend as the first ever Vegfest Scotland.

Get your tickets. Rally your friends. We are going to make your bones move like never before.

Queer Vegan Disco. Friday December 4th, 2015. 11pm until 3am.

Invite your friends to QVD Glasgow via the Facebook event.

If tickets don’t sell out in advance, they will be £5/£3 concession on the door.

QVD glasgow

Comedy bottom advert

Down the wrong alley

by
Post by:
josh panel
Last weekend I found myself in Oxford for a work visit. With an hour and a half for lunch, I thought I’d head up to Jericho and visit the Gardener’s Arms which both FGV and I have blogged about in the past.
However, as I was walking along Magdalen Street, the following sign piqued my interest enough for me to head down a small pedestrian alleyway and find out what ‘Veg options’ meant.

Read more

Vegan in Kent

by

The vegan message is spreading all over the UK!

If you are anywhere near Kent this weekend, get along to the first ever vegan festival held in the region.

10649805_1464219033906791_5949451541063172125_n

You can get all the details on the Kent Vegan Festival and let them know you are coming over on the Facebook event page.

Have fun!

Sadly, I can’t join you as I will be at the West Midlands Vegan Fest where I will be judging the Vegan Bake Off.

Xmas 15 bottom advert

New vegan restaurant

by

This is the sort of scene-changing news that I just adore sharing.

There is a brand new vegan restaurant now open in the picturesque town of Nailsworth in the Cotswolds (roughly 3 hours west of London). Huge news!
12042744_686447354789448_8142272674409899798_n

If the name of the restaurant looks familiar to you, you are not imagining things.

Read more

Sadness and happiness

by

Today was World Animal Day and I celebrated by teaming up with Fry’s Family Foods for a trip to Hugletts Wood Farm Animal Sanctuary.

I will post in much more detail and with many more photos in the coming days, but for now I want to share this photo before I head to bed.

Josh Priya

This is Radhe Priya walking alongside my partner Josh.

Radhe Priya was born completely sightless into a dairy farm where she was struggling to stay alive. Terrified and unable to manoeuvre to the feed within her cramped living quarters, time was running out for this heartbreakingly-beautiful cow.

Thankfully the kind people of Hugletts sanctuary gave Radhe Priya a safe, secure, loving and forever home and she was liberated from the dairy farm.

Today at the farm she rubbed her body gently against Josh and even though she cannot see, Radhe Priya followed him closely all around the paddock by using her senses of hearing and smell. It seemed like she never wanted Josh to leave her side.

I am devastated to think the happy ending for Radhe Priya is an uncommon rarity, but also thrilled for her. It was such a bittersweet experience.

I implore you to donate whatever you can to the special campaign I am running in conjunction with Fry’s Family Foods. We need to raise funds to build a new fence and purchase security cameras that will allow animals like Radhe Priya to live their lives in peace and security.

We have raised over £1,000 of the £13,000 target.

Please give now and share this post widely.

dotd 2015 bottom advert

Vegan Bake Off

by

Roll up for the BIGGEST celebration of cruelty-free cake to ever be staged in the UK.

Join your guest host and judge Fat Gay Vegan as he nibbles his way through the entries before naming the winners of the West Midlands Vegan Fest 2015 ‘Vegan Bake Off’.

bake off 2015

There will be prizes. There will be drama. There will be a very full FGV!

Categories include:

– Decoration (cakes only/judged on appearance)
– 14 and Under (any baked item by people aged 14 or under/judged on taste and appearance)
– Chocolate (any baked item with chocolate as the star attraction/judged on taste and appearance)
– Stallholder (open to cakes, cupcakes, slices and cookies by stallholders/judged on taste and appearance)
– Cheesecake (raw or cooked cheesecakes/judged on taste and appearance)

You can enter one item in one category only. The cost per entry is £1 per item. All entries will be sold after judging with all profits from entry fees and sales to be donated to a local charity.

You will be able to drop off your entry to the Fat Gay Vegan stand on either Saturday or Sunday of the fest with the cut off time being 3pm on Sunday. No entries will be taken after this time.

The judging room will be open to the public after 4pm. The judging room holds approximately 100 people and entry will be on a first come basis.

Go here for more information on the West Midlands Vegan Fest 2015.

Let me know you are interested in entering the Vegan Bake Off or have plans to attend as a spectator with an RSVP on the Facebook event.

Extra note: you can supply extra cake for tasting/judging purposes if you do not want your entry to be cut during the tasting process. You must also include a list of ingredients with your entry.

dotd 2015 bottom advert

Guide to vegan Surrey

by

Check out this AMAZING guest post from a reader with the same name as me. No, not FGV. His name is Sean M. and he has kindly put together a wonderful guide to vegan eating in Surrey.

Sean has indicated this is only part one of his vegan exploration of Surrey, so watch out for the second instalment later in the year.

Take it away, Sean!

Read more

Fundraising update

by

As you have probably seen online, I have teamed up with Fry’s Family Foods in order to raise money for vegan-run Hugletts Wood Farm Animal Sanctuary.

The campaign is off to a flying start. Check out the video update below for the latest news on the campaign.

I am thrilled we have already raised £1000 but we still have a long way to go. Hugglets urgently need funds to restore all of the fencing around their property, as well as install new security cameras to keep the rescued animals safe.

Please donate now and share this news widely.

Competition news

Would you like to visit Hugletts Wood Farm Animal Sanctuary with me on World Animal Day courtesy of Fry’s Family Foods?

Fry’s is kindly sponsoring a minibus that will travel to the sanctuary on World Animal Day, Sunday October 4, 2015. Lunch and snacks on the day will be provided by Fry’s and passengers will get a chance to meet some of the rescued animals up close and personal.

How to enter?

Take a photo of yourself holding your favourite Fry’s Family Foods product and share on Twitter or Facebook. Make sure you use the hashtag #HumanKind and tag @frysfamilyUK for your chance to win a double pass on the bus.

Three pairs of tickets will be given away. Winners will need to make their own way to and from Central London on Sunday October 4, 2015. The bus will depart at 9:30am and return at approximately 6:00pm.

nye bottom banner 2015

Awesome activism

by

If I wore a hat, I would take it off to these people.

A group of compassionate people in Scotland just carried out what is one of the best examples of activism I have seen in a long time. They wanted to get a message across to their communities, so they raised the funds to erect a billboard in both Glasgow and Edinburgh.

11988611_822996211150791_8634524300879996883_n

The brilliant yet subtle message comes across clearly and thoughtfully. It gets everyday people thinking about how they have been socialised into accepting some animals as loving companions whilst others are bred, mistreated and killed for food.

Congratulations to everyone involved in this fantastic campaign. I hope we see many more like this in the future.

Find more info on the Vegan Billboard campaign here.

vote vegfest 2015