In 2013, she won both the Antarctic Ice Marathon and the North Pole Marathon. She runs despite losing a knee cap from an illness when she was 17. Fiona has been vegan since 6 years old. She runs Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary and is a patron of the Captive Animals Protection Society.
Vegan Festival and our last of 2016. This year we seemed to have ironed allot of the issues that we had in 2015, even the queuing issue was reduced to minutes not hours, due to this years 2 day event.
Special thanks goes to all our fabulous speakers. Fiona Oakes – Fiona has to be one of the most inspirational people I have ever met, Fiona took time out of her hectic schedule to travel over 5 hours to speak at our event. Sid Garza-Hillman – Mr Gaza-Hillman flew all the way from California USA (via NYC) to Edinburgh to speak at our festival over the weekend, and and then return home immediately (WOW). Huge thanks Kate Strong the world champion triathlete, Kate shared with us how she took her self from Zero to Hero on a plant based diet. Also I would like to thank the very informative Elizabeth King, the fascinating Mick Walker and the inspiring Glauce Lucas.
running. In 2013, she won both the Antarctic Ice Marathon and the North Pole Marathon. She runs despite losing a knee cap from an illness when she was 17. Fiona has been vegan since 6 years old. She runs Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary and is a patron of the Captive Animals Protection Society.
Fiona works as a retained firefighter, a job which means she is often on call and needs to be ready to react quickly. She also works long hours on a sanctuary she runs almost single-handedly, on which she cares for 400 animals including horses, pigs, sheep and dogs. She also fundraise’s for the sanctuary, for which the food bill is over £5000 per month, and for other animal issues. Typical working days start before dawn and end around 8pm on her sanctuary in Essex, UK, and
