Aberdeen Winter Vegan Festival 2017

After the huge success of our May event (CLICK HERE) in Aberdeen, we are now returning on November 25th for the second Aberdeen Vegan Festival of 2017.  The event will be held at the Pittodrie Stadium in Aberdeen, this is the home of Aberdeen football club. The venue boasts over 600 free parking places and has great access to motorways, and is a huge facility.

The this Novembers Aberdeen vegan festival is set to be one of the largest in the UK. Come and visit us and this beautiful city on the 25th November 2017 for an amazing day of cruelty free products, informative talks, some delicious food tasting or maybe some Christmas gifts.

Excerpt from Tripadvisor
Experience the richness of Aberdeen’s proud history and culture — from the sound of residents’ traditional Doric accent to the sights of glittering granite buildings lining the city’s streets. Explore the cobbled roads and historic university buildings of Old Aberdeen, then take a stroll along the nearby sandy beach and watch for dolphins in the busy harbour. Afterward, find your way to the quaint fishing quarter of Footdee, and lose yourself among its tiny cottages and colourful gardens.

Why not make a day/weekend of it. For more information on whats on in Aberdeen take a look at Visit Aberdeenshire website – http://www.VisitABDN.com

If your looking to visit a Christmas Market in Aberdeen, why not pop along and maybe pick up some Christmas gifts for friends and family.

Speakers & Workshops

Fiona Oakes – Nominated as one of the inspirational women in the UK by the Daily Mail, Fiona is without doubt the most impressive, inspirational and selfless people I have ever met, and I would encourage anyone regardless if they are vegan, non-vegans, runners or non runners to take time to listen to Fiona’s talk.

The below extract was taken from the about page of The Fiona Oakes Foundation website (http://fionaoakesfoundation.co.uk/about/)

Fiona holds five marathon course records – The North Pole Marathon, The Antarctic Ice Marathon, the Ruska Marathon, The Dartmoor Vale Marathon and the Essex Championship Marathon at Halstead. She has completed over 50 marathons and a personal best of 2 hours 38 minutes. In 2013 she became the fastest women in the history of the World to run a marathon on all 7 continents in terms of the total number of hours taken. She is also the fastest woman to run a marathon on all 7 Continents Plus the North Pole – both in terms of the aggregate time and the elapsed days – an incredible achievement but made quite extraordinary given her disability.

Vegan Actions North East – Making the case for Radical Veganism
Radical Veganism is a serious step towards breaking away from single-issue veganism. The reaffirming of the origins of veganism as a political justice movement for all animals – human and non-human. If the vegan and animal liberation movements are to succeed, we need to be serious about social justice for all animals and Radical Veganism provides a framework to do this.

Elvis Personal Trainer – Standing on the crossroads which can lead humanity either to an age of harmony and prosperity or to the destruction of the biosphere and ourselves, it is more important than ever to shatter old believes in the light of new evidence.
Are animal products an essential part of strength and endurance training? How does diet affect our mind and the subtle energies in the human body, which western medicine still fails to embrace? What is the role of the individual in bringing about a profound change? And is it possible to find the right direction deep within us in order to move forward?
We will try to find the answers to these and many other questions during this talk..

Calea Souter – Join us for an Essential Oils 101 class. Discover how how to incorporate essential oils into your everyday life to support a natural lifestyle. Pure Essential Oils are powerful plant compounds that can be used in a variety of ways to benefit your health and wellbeing.

IN THIS CLASS YOU WILL LEARN:

• What essential oils are

• What are the most important ones that every household needs

• How to support a chemical free household

• How to safely use essential oils

  Essential oils can:

• Be used to make natural skincare and natural cleaning products

• Support emotional wellbeing

• Promote deep and restful sleep

• Improve digestive health

• Help to fight colds

Some Other Reasons To Come Along

Award Nominated Vegan Festival

Vegan Festival UK was nominated last year for BEST LIVE EXPERIENCE at the Tyne & Wear Lifestyle Awards 2016, this was obviously a huge honour not only because of the public nominating us, but being a chosen as a finalist from hundreds of other amazing events throughout the

region, unfortunately we were piped to the post by the Great North Run (Drat!), the good news is that this year we won an award at the prestigious People – Environment – Achievement Awards. The P.E.A Awards in London on the 13th October, yeah!

Amazing Vegan Businesses

This year we have a huge selection of vegan business’s coming from across the UK. If you have ever been to one of our festivals before you may recognize some of our exhibitors, but this year we have many new companies you may have never heard of. If you are not vegan or vegetarian you will soon realise that removing animal products from our lives, is easier than you think.  Come and talk to these amazing companies, maybe taste / try some of there fabulous products and support the vegan movement.

Some Free Vegan Stuff

As with our previous festivals the stall holders encourage you to try their wares, this normally comes in the form of food tasting or drinks. This year we will be have some free vegan life magazines value (£4.99) as  with most things that are free – first come first served. For more details click here.

A Fair Ticket Price

One of the main aims of VFUK is to inform and educate the people of the UK on the benefit’s of going Vegan, by keeping our ticket prices to a minimum this allows the Veg-Curious to come along and see that going Vegan can improve your health, help the environment and save lives of animals. Ticket price range from Online £1 – £2 (£3 on the door) which is a very cheap fun day out.

VFUK Is The Only Family Run Vegan Festival

If your an exhibitor, speaker or a visitor just ask one of the team for help – Andrew (My Partner), Lewis (My Brother), Mark (My Dad), Dawn (My Mam) or even ask my son (Baby Mason) unfortunately he’s too young to talk (but you may get a smile).

VIP Includes early entry to event and tote bag full of vegan goodies.