Gillie Food Ltd is one of the Oriental Vegan and Vegetarian meat-substitute alternatives food manufacturers & importers in UK. Our products range are based in Textured Soya Protein and Wheat Protein, which is a nutritious member of the protein family, is entirely meat free. Also approved by Vegetarian Society Trade Mark; Our products are NON-MSG; NO GMO, No preservative.
Frozen and Instant vegan and vegetarian products are the main type of our products range. Consumer’s satisfaction is our main objective, Gillie Food is from our family recipes and show how easily and delicious our products can be added to any family’s table. The concept of “Innovation, Service and Quality “which our company will keep going to accumulated valuable experiences to improve the quality of our products, so as to make our products more wholesome, with more varieties and more palatable to our customer.
Fiona Oakes is an incredible athlete. At 14 years old she was struck down with a horrendous condition in her knee which resulted in a knee replacement and the loss of one knee cap and severe damage to the other resulting from years spent on crutches.
Despite the Consultants warnings that she might have to have the bones in her leg fused together to render it completely immobile and the fact she would be lucky to walk properly again, Fiona went on to not only walk, but run – how incredible is that?
Fiona entered her first Marathon & did rather well…
Fiona holds the course record for the Essex Country Marathon Championship which she won in 2007 – her record still stands today. She is the only female runner to run under 3 hours on the course in it’s 18 year history.
Fiona won the marathon in Finland in 2010, setting a new course record by 11 minutes.
Fiona was the first lady to finish in the masses race of the Great North Run also in 2010 – YES FIRST !! & the Media ignored her !! She headed a team of runners for the Vegan Society, who all proudly wore their Team Vegan vests – perhaps something to do with the fact she was ignored as the media seem to love ignoring any positive vegan role models.
Fiona has come top 10 in several international marathons (Florence, Moscow & Amsterdam and Nottingham) and top 20 in London & Berlin (two of the 5 Major City Marathons, the biggest races in the world) – how is this possible for a girl with a knee replacement and no knee cap – to say the least, a chronically debilitating knee condition???
That should give you some idea of how hard Fiona pushes herself in all that she does.
Fiona went vegetarian aged 4 & has been Vegan all her adult life
To maintain this level of fitness Fiona runs around 80 miles a week and tops 100 when in full training for a race. At her level the speed she is training at has to be seen to be believed – Fiona focuses on speed work which is necessary to have the speed endurance that you will need in order to “race” the marathon. getting round is not the issue at this level, its how fast you can get round.
Fionas best recorder marathon time is 2 hours 38 minutes, although in training she has been sub 2 hours 35.
Fiona runs a 20 x 65 second 400m (thats 22 kph if you want to try it at the gym treadmill !)
Fiona also cares for over 400 rescued animals at Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary. Fiona does all the work alone with her partner’s help at the weekends. There are no staff or volunteers as the Sanctuary is not a business – Not what Fiona does for a living – she is a retained Fire-Fighter !
Fiona is also a Patron of Captive Animals’ Protection Society, a Sports Ambassador for In Defense of Animals in the US, and a founder member of VITA, the only real animal welfare/rights group in Russia. In 2012 she was made an honorary patron of the Vegan society.
Fiona became the first female Vegan to complete the Marathon des Sables in 2012 – the toughest foot race on the planet. 153 miles across the saraha over 6 days – one race stage being 50 miles, carrying all your food & equipment in temperatures up to 50 C.
This year she is tackling the North Pole Marathon in April & the South Pole in October. Please support Fiona in this as she wants to raise as much as she can as well as promote Veganism. We know of no other Vegan female to ever have attempted these races.
The Dr Hadwen Trust (DHT) is the UK’s leading non-animal medical research charity that funds and promotes the development of techniques and procedures to replace the use of animals in biomedical research.
To further this aim, the DHT supports and assists scientists to implement existing techniques and develop new ones which are more human-relevant and replace animal experiments. We award grants to scientists in universities, hospitals and research organisations following a rigorous peer-reviewed selection procedure. Only those projects with the highest scientific calibre and the best potential for the replacement of animals will be awarded funding.
Funded solely by charitable donations, the DHT has awarded grants to over 160 research projects since 1971 for some of the most advanced and successful human-related techniques in the most diverse areas of medical research including cancer, Alzheimer’s, asthma, kidney, heart and liver disease and diabetes, to name only a few. To date, we continue to be the UK’s leading charity provider of grants solely dedicated to animal replacement research in medical research.
We endeavour through promotion and education in the scientific, political and public communities the wider adoption of such techniques and strive to increase medical progress through this interaction. As a result, the DHT has grown into one of the world leading exponents of non-animal research and is consulted internationally for its expertise in replacement research methods by scientists, governments, education, animal welfare organisations and industry.
The Trustees of the charity, founded in 1970, had two enduring goals: to play a leading role in funding non-animal replacement research and to advance and develop widespread support for this endeavour with always the vision of making a major and practical contribution to advance medical science without harm to animals.
Today, the DHT is still centred on these founding principles and we continue to demonstrate that cutting-edge research methodologies have led to significant advances and innovations in pursuit of more human relevant approaches without the use of animals.
