Been busy with various bits of campaigning the last few weeks! On Friday 5th Feb, Staffs Uni Vegan Society ran our first vegan info stall and free food giveaway on campus. Despite the weather being very windy (which is why having a plentiful supply of elastic bands is always a must!) and it being a fairly quiet Friday afternoon, we still had many people coming over to try out some free vegan food and take leaflets and booklets. Also gave out leaflets to promote our first meeting.
Food-wise, we had vegan chocolate brownies (based on the recipe here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chocolatebrownies_83803 ), plus with vegan chocolate "butter"cream and vegan chocolate buttons on top.
Also had things like vegan faux meats (sausages, sausage rolls, "bacon", sandwiches with various fillings, etc.) and vegan cheese samples.
Weds 16th Feb was our first public meeting. Unfortunately, it clashed with a general meeting organised by the Students' Union which was only announced a couple of days before. It ended up being more like an indoor stall than a meeting! Again, had free food samples and lots of leaflets and booklets. I ended up standing outside the building it was held in for a while handing out leafelts to entice people inside, with the promise of free food! It's things like this which illustrate how you have to be flexible and understand that not everything will always go to plan.
Should be organising more stalls and meetings in the near future. Getting a new group off the ground is going to be difficult, but here's hoping once we get going things will be great!
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