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Bristol Vegetarian & Vegan Information Centre

to promote the vegetarian and vegan diets:
– as essential to human health,
– as the only way to feed the world, millions of whose people are starving,
– as essential to preserve the ecosystem of the earth, the environment,
– to avoid worldwide cruelty and exploitation of animals.

Contact: Jill Greenway, phone & fax (01934) 843 853
Webmaster: Roger Hards, email: bristolveg@ivu.org
Publicity Officer (Press enquiries): Gil Osman, phone (0117) 982 6322
email: gil.osman@btinternet.com

Detailed enquiries about vegetarian or vegan diet, vegetarian campaigning, etc. can be answered most fully, and most promptly, by contacting one of the national societies:

The Vegetarian Society, Parkdale, Dunham Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 4QG. phone:
(0161) 925 2000 web: www.vegsoc.org.
The Vegan Society, 7 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN37 7AA. phone: (01424) 427 393 web: www.vegansociety.com.
The International Vegetarian Union, web: www.ivu.org.

Bristol University Vegetarian Society is at www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Union/VegSoc
Viva! in Wilder Street, Bristol BS2 8QH, phone: (0117) 944 1000 is at www.viva.org.uk

Anyone interested in joining a revived Bristol Vegetarian & Vegan Society see paragraph at the foot of this page.

Other contacts that have asked us to mention them:

"Was Someone focuses on producing artwork that deals with issues related to animal equality, veganism, and speciesism." and can be found at www.wassomeone.com
or by email info@wassomeone.com

The framework for this website was set up for us in March 2003
by John Curtis of Solent Vegetarians & Vegans
to whom our grateful thanks.

Bristol Vegetarian & Vegan Information Centre

This Information Centre was set up in October 2005 as successor to the Bristol Vegetarian & Vegan Society, following the article Future of the Society that appeared in our September newsletter. (That article is reproduced here on our Newsletter page.)

The response to that article was minimal. Jill and I were pleased to receive a few messages of appreciation and thanks for past work, but there was no Society member, or anyone else, able to devote the time and energy needed to rejuvenate the Bristol Society (our ‘Plan A'). We did receive one or two promising offers and enquiries interested in supporting Plan A, but they soon came to nothing. So our Plan B proposal to form a BVV Information Centre, was formally put to the Vegetarian Society and the International Vegetarian Union, accepted, and adopted.
To help keep this website active I should be pleased to receive contributions, or amendments, from anyone at any time.
R H
Webmaster and Treasurer

In January 2006 Ellen Howard, a vegan, and local contact for the Vegan Society, who has recently moved to Horfield in Bristol, offered to revive a Bristol Vegetarian & Vegan Society.
Her open invitation to anyone who would like to be involved has been posted or emailed to all former BVVS members in the Bristol area (as distinct from North Somerset, which had happened to become the centre of gravity of the former society).
Ellen would be delighted to hear from anyone interested in joining. She can be contacted at ellenmhoward@yahoo.co.uk