Southend Animal Aid

World Animal Day Awareness stall Saturday 6th October 11am-4pm

Thank you to everyone that helped at this stall, it went very well with a very positive response from the public.
We handed out lots of different leaflets and had many different petitions signed on subjects such as snaring,
the gassing and snaring of badgers, the Canadian seal slaughter, Proctor and Gamble and Animal Testing.

We also asked the public to sign cards that were sent to their MP asking them to sign Early Day Motion 1040
which calls for an end to the government’s support of the slaughter of black bears for ceremonial caps.
Donations were collected to go towards the cost of sending the postcards with over 90 postcards sent and
£63.50 in donations received from generous members of the public. The money left over from the stamps was
divided between 3 charities, with £10.00 sent to PETA, British Hedgehog Preservation society and Naturewatch
who organised World Animal Day. Some of the money was also used to buy food items for Rescuers Wildlife
Sanctuary as unfortunately only 1 item was donated to the collection box on our stall. Below are a couple of
photos taken of our stall. There are other photos of the stall which will be up on the World Animal Day website
very soon: http://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/index.asp

Veggie Information Meat Out stall to be moved to next year

It has been quite difficult to get this idea off the ground to have a stall with free veggie/vegan hot food
samples. Southend Borough Council has advised that November the 24th is free for us to use the top of the
high street but has also advised that we will also have to register ourselves as a food business even though it
is for a day. I advised the council of this and they said the farmer market traders have to do the same even
though they are there for one day. The Vegetarian Society also advised that a disposable BBQ would not be
sufficient. We are going to contact other members of the Vegetarian society to advise what equipment they
use, but if anyone has any good suggestions themselves on what would be easy to use and keep food piping
hot then please get in contact. As we have come against lots of problems and this time of year is already very
busy we have decided to do this stall next year instead.

World Vegan Day 1st November /Animal Aid Vegan Month November :Vegan Awareness Stall
Saturday 3rd November 11am-3pm

To celebrate World Vegan Day which is November the 1st www.worldveganday.org and Animal Aid’s newly
launched Vegan Month www.veganmonth.com
Southend Animal Aid will be holding a Vegan Awareness stall in Southend on sea High street (under the
railway bridge) from 11am-3pm. We will be handing out leaflets on why it’s good for the planet, the animals
and your body to go Vegan and we will be handing out free recipe booklets and magazines. There will also be
some free Vegan food (sweets and cold food) samples that we will be asking the public to try. If you would
like to help at the stall then please get in contact. We are doing 2 shifts from 11am-1pm and 1pm-3pm so if
you can spare a few hours to hand out leaflets and help man the stall then please e-mail to let us know.

SHAC National Demo Saturday 10th November

For the first time in years, SHAC will be marching in Huntingdon Town Centre, and then on to the infamous
Huntingdon Life Sciences torture centre at Alconbury, on Saturday November 10th.
***Meet 11am, Huntingdon Town Centre, at Riverside Rd Car Park. After a march round the town, we will be
getting back into vehicles and moving onto HLS labs.**
Transport has been arranged from various locations, who would like to go to this? A coach will be leaving
Saturday morning to get to Huntingdon. The coach costs £8.00 each. If you would like to come then please get
in contact as soon as possible and we can give you more details on where the coach will be leaving from and
what time etc.

Cat’s Protection League Xmas Craft Faye Sunday 18th November The Mills Art Event Centre
Bellingham Lane Rayleigh 10am-4pm

The Cat’s Protection League are holding a Xmas Craft and Gift fayre with lots of stalls such as Wooden toys,
Hand made soaps, Books, Jewellery and Face painting which I will be helping with! There will also be live
music and the Admission is only £1.00 and under 14s go free.

Xmas Vegan Indian Buffet Charity Meal at the Taj Mahal, Leigh Road, Leigh on Sea

We are holding another Xmas charity meal to raise money for our chosen charities this year Network for
Animals and the Korean Animal Protection Society. The buffet meal is all Vegan and costs £15.00 per person
with £7.00 going to our chosen charities. There will also be Vegan drinks available which will not be included in
the £15.00.
What date in December would be good for everyone for this event? It will have to be a Monday evening, as
the restaurant only does their charity events on a Monday.
The 10th of December has been suggested, is this a good date for everyone? Please get in touch if you would
like to attend and how many spaces you would like so we know how many spaces to book.