Hi,

Please have a look at the photos of our recent free vegan food fayre in our albums. The fayre was a great success we had a couple of hundred people through the door in total throughout the day. Lots of tasty food was consumed and plenty of vegan/a.r literature was taken and money collected by the campaign stalls.  Everyone had a really great time and we recieved many complimentry remarks from people about the food and atmosphere. Out of the all questionares we recieved back from people, only 2 commented that after visting they wouldn't be changing their diet at all to being a meat reducer, being a veggie or going vegan. So in all we made a great impact and opened a lot of peoples eyes to how easy and great it is to lead a cruelty-free lifestlye.

We aim to make the Sheffield fayre an annual event from now on, so if you've been inspired by the report and pictures, please get in touch to see how you can get involved with our campaigns to get the message out there and to make the fayres bigger and better in the future!

Have a great festive season and cruelty-free new year!

SAF


 

Hi all,
 
Thurs 10th Dec: International Animal Rights Day There will be a demo at new target Sa-kis, 32/34 Division Street against their sale of real fur from 1.30pm - 3pm. We will then move to the Town hall to join Uncaged in helping to set up for a candle lit vigil and screening of the film 'Why Animal Rights' from 3.30pm-6pm, we will also be flyering to the public about A.R issues. Then there is another chance to catch the ground breaking film 'Earthlings' at Sheffield Uni's Arts Tower in Lecture Theatre 2 at 7.30pm. £1 admission, 50p for doc soc members and non-students are welcome to attend.

Sat 12th Dec: Fur demo at Sa-kis in Sheffield (if they haven't removed it) and investigation/possible demo of another potential fur selling target. Meet at Sa-kis on Division Street to demo from 11am-3pm.

Sat 12th Dec: There is also the East Midlands Vegan Fayre in Nottingham from 11am - 5pm http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1460#help  that some of SAF are probably going to go and help out at. They need volunteers for veggies, to do various jobs...  you'll get some free food in return if you help! Get in touch if you're interested in going along. There's also an after party at the Sumac Centre and crash space can be arranged.

Sun 13th Dec: Open day at Brinsley Animal Sanctuary, near Nottingham from 11am-4pm . www.brinsleyanimalrescue.org Meet the animals, see the great work that goes on, indulge in the yummy xmas food and you might even get to meet Santa! We’re hoping to take a van down so get in touch if you would like to come along!

Thurs 17th Dec: Another potential fur demo (target to be announced) and/or a general A.R/Compassionate Christmas stall. Meet opposite  M&S on Fargate at 12 to go to demo site or to do stall til 3pm.

Fri 18th Dec: SAF Yule Tide Social!! Come and join a festive, cruelty-free celebration meal with us at 'Nirmals', 189-193 Glossop Road at 8pm. Please get in touch if you want to come so that we can book it! (Venue could change so look out for that).

Sat 19th Dec: We will be holding a Vegan Compassionate Christmas stall to raise awareness about how to have a festive celebration minus the cruelty. Meet on Fargate opposite M&S to do stall from 11am-4pm. There will also be a Greyhound Racing demo at Owlerton starting at 6pm til 7.45pm, get in touch if you need meeting to get the tram or want a lift.

Fri 25th Dec, Xmas Day!: If you dont celebrate Christmas, hate your family or for some other reason happen to be free, then you could consider joining a Speak demo against vivisection at Oxford Uni. http://speakcampaigns.org/sitepages.php?a=16

Sat 26th Dec: Folk from Sheffield will be going out for the traditional big Boxing day hunt sab. Get in touch sheffieldsaboteurs@live.co.uk if you'd like to take part (beats watching crap telly).

There may be some other stuff that happens in Dec before and after xmas itself, so as ever, keep your eyes open for extra emails just in case.

The next meeting will be at our usual venue, the Fat Cat pub www.thefatcat.co.uk (23 Alma Street, S3 8SA) on Mon 4th Jan at 6.30pm. (Get in touch if you would like to be met at Sheff Uni's Union at 6pm or Blue Moon cafe at 6.15pm to have someone show you to the Fat Cat). Oh and it's Rich’s b'day that day too, so you can buy him a pint!

Hope to see you in December, if not have a very merry and cruelty-free festive season and happy new year!!

S.A.F            

Come and try a wide range of tasty vegan food at this FREE event and find out why veganism's better for your health, the animals and the planet. There'll also be stalls from various charities and organizations where you can find out about how you can make a difference as well as how to get involved in activism. The event will be held between 11am and 3pm at the Quaker Meeting House (near the Cathedral), 10 St James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW. Organized by Sheffield Animal Friends with the help of the great folks at Animal Aid (www.animalaid.org.uk). Hope to see you there!

October 2009 : Actions

Thursday 8th, Film showing, Sheffield Social Centre II, (New venue-ring for info) Broomhill, 6pm: Film showing and vegan food at the Sheffield Social Centre. An evening to promote the rights of animals.

Saturday 10th, Owlerton Stadium, 6.00pm: A demonstration against the greyhound racing industry.

Sunday 11th ,Hunt-Saboteur Talk, Sheffield Social Centre II, (New venue-ring for info) Broomhill, 1pm-4pm: Meet for a Hunt Sab themed evening with a talk form an experienced sab.

Monday 12th, Hunt-Sab Stall outside Lush, 12am-3pm: Lush are launching a new soap to raise money for Hunt Saboteurs. 

Friday 16th, Anti-McDonald’s Day: Please get in touch if you have any ideas about what to do for this day. Let us know if you can come to a demo!

Saturday 17th, CAFT anti-fur march, London: Contact us to coordinate train journeys.

Sunday 18th March, Brinsley Animal Sanctuary, Nottinghamshire: Brunch and volunteering at the animal sanctuary. Transport is required. Please let us know if you can drive www.brinsleyanimalrescue.org

Saturday 24th 7pm, Broomhall Centre: Free film screening of Earthlings at the Broomhall Centre. Cheap food available. If you can help making food that would be greatly appreciated. Please let us know if you can come!

Sunday 25th, Northern Animal Rights Coalition Meeting,1.30pm, Broomhall Centre: Come along to find out about other campaigns in the North.

Saturday 31st, Fargate, 11am-4pm: Free food give away to celebrate world vegan day.
 

Sunday 1st November, Vegan Brunch, 11am-1pm: Celebrate World Vegan Day with a fry-up! Let us know if you would like to come.

Future Dates:

Saturday December 5th, Vegan Food Fayre, Quaker Meeting House: We need volunteers to help organise this event as well as making food and helping on the day. Please put it in your diaries and come along!

Cheers.