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The Common Place Café – affordable, healthy, delicious, vegan food. Café times: usually Sat noon-6pm and Sun brunch 1pm-3pm, also other times if other events on but best to check the website. Drinks: Zapatista coffee, fruit teas, fairtrade teas, juices. Volunteers are needed for all aspects of the everyday running of the café, regardless of your skills, from serving teas and coffees to making, preparing or simply serving food. Any time you can give, no matter how occasional, will be greatly appreciated, and help us to expand our opening hours. Volunteers will receive a free meal for each shift and any travel expenses incurred getting to the Common Place can be refunded. The Common Place hosts Action Central, 6.30-8.30pm (ish), a monthly Sunday evening meal and get-together to chat, share info on upcoming actions and campaign meetings and inspire each other to take action about the problems around us. Everyone welcome. The Common Place - a radical, autonomous social centre at 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds, LS2 7EQ, tel 0845 345 7334. during opening times. www.thecommonplace.org.uk
Hope Pastures Horse and Donkey Sanctuary fundraising events at Weetwood Lane, Leeds, LS16 5PH (off the outer ring-road). Phone 0113 - 261 4344 (day) or leave a message or 0113 - 279 1856 (eve) or leave a message or email Lynn at phtrust@fsmail.net. Monthly table top sales held in the barn on Sundays, free entry. Books, videos, bric-a-brac, toys and much more. Details of all their news, adoption scheme and events can be found on www.hopepastures.org. See below for their Open Days.
See www.veggies.org.uk/arc.php and www.veganviews.org.uk and www.activeg.org/events/index.html and www.viva.org.uk/events.php and www.vegetarianguides.co.uk/calendar/index.shtml for more events.
Local Animal Rights Groups
Bradford Animal Rights Group We meet every 4th Thursday in the month (not Dec) at the CVS Offices, 19-25 Sunbridge Road, Bradford City Centre. The meeting starts at 7.30pm and we finish at 9.00pm, we are usually in the basement room. We do street stalls and collections for national organisations like Animal Aid and Uncaged in Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Keighley and Skipton and we help with local campaigns and attend national demos. Please email sm014j6481@blueyonder.co.uk for more info.
Leeds Animal Protection Against all animal abuse such as labs, food or entertainment. Meetings every month on the fourth Wednesday (third Wed in Dec), starting at 7pm in the Civic Hall, Leeds. Our meetings are open, and visitors and potential members are welcome to attend. We hold stalls on a fairly regular basis (approximately once per month) in and around Leeds. From time to time, we also attend national events in other parts of the country and assist in demonstrations locally. Anyone who would like to be notified of, and perhaps join us in, our campaigning activities, can register with us to receive notice of forthcoming events. Email lapenquiries@hotmail.com or write to Leeds Animal Protection, PO Box 293, Leeds, LS14 9BY. www.leedsanimalprotection.org.uk
January is Vegan Pledge Month. Visit www.vegancampaigns.org.uk for more info.
Sat 23rd Jan Coffee Morning in aid of animal charities at Shipley Library, Shipley, near Bradford. From 9 - 12. Includes tombola, book stall and bric-a-brac table and info on animal rights and vegetarianism/veganism. The money raised is to be divided between Doris Banham Dog Rescue, Hillside Farm Animal Sanctuary and Dog Rescue in India. Organised by Bradford Animal Rights Group who need both helpers and supporters. Please contact Sue if you can help. sm014j6481@blueyonder.co.uk
Sat 20th Feb Potato Day at Shipley College, Exhibition Building, Exhibition Road, Saltaire 10-2pm. 40+ varieties of seed potatoes will be on sale and tubers at 15p each. Potato themed café. Free admission. Organised by the W Yorks Organic Growers. www.wyog.org *
Thurs 25th Feb Fair Trade Fair 10.30-4pm at the Riley Smith Hall, Leeds University Union, Woodhouse Lane in support of Fair Trade Fortnight. *
March is Animal Aid's Veggie Month!
If you're not already vegetarian now is the perfect time to start thinking about switching to a meat-free diet. It's easy and essential if you are concerned with animal welfare, your health, or protecting the planet. Check out Animal Aid's Veggie Month website which contains lots of useful information as well as the chance to win a selection of veggie cookbooks to get you off to a flying start. And don't forget that they have a colourful FREE guide to going veggie featuring recipes, nutritional information and shopping tips (also available from LeedsVeg stalls).
Sat 20th March Eco Veggie Fayre in Brighton organised by Yaoh. Visit www.ecoveggiefayre.co.uk for more info.
Fri 2nd - Fri 9th April NE Vegan Gathering in Northumberland. Trips, talks, workshops and events. Book early. Visit www.vegne.co.uk/vegan-gathering for more info.
Sat 17th April Otley Green Fair 10-4 Stalls, workshops and organic, fairtrade, veggie café. Plus entertainment in outside coutryard, weather permitting. At the Otley Courthouse, Courthouse Street, Otley, LS21 3AN. *
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