Welcome to the Aber Veg Site!

Aberystwyth is a little sea-side university town Mid-Wales with a lot of charm and Veg potential!

Veggies and vegans from Aberystwyth have joined force (and considering the size of the town there is an amazingly high proportion of them) and started up a local group now renamed Aber Veg. Meanwhile in University campus a new society, TELL (the ethical living liaison) up has also started up and got off to a roaring start!

Welsh translations of all articles on this website will be forth-coming to maintain this site as a bilingual resource for Welsh vegans and vegetarians.

Please see "About us" for more information on the veg groups of Aber.

News

Veg in Aber

AberVeg meets every Thursday night at the second hand book shop Julian Shelley's at the foot of Penglais hill at 8 o'clock.
Activities include:
  • Food stalls
  • Leafleting
  • Socials
  • And more...

Fruitbat is no longer a member of the group but will point you to them. Contact Fruitbat if you wish to hear more about the AberVeg, its sister group for students at the university, TELL (part of the People and Planet society), or generally about veg things in Aberystwyth.

Minutes from AberVeg meeting 27 April

Minutes from AberVeg meeting

General meeting next week

4th May meeting = General meeting at Shelley's bookshop 8pm (vegan gluten-free cakes and coffees etc available and highly recommendable) - all members please attend. Discussion will cover feedback from all members on the groups activities and ambiance and approachability and organisation; cover directions members would like the group to take; and updates on present projects

Social Forum Cymru

Social Forum Cymru this weekend in various venues over Aberystwyth (see website for more details: www.socialforumcymru.org.uk. AberVeg will man a stall with information leaflets particularly focusing on environment and people. Also DVDs and free cake, AberVeg flyers and information on demand about 3rd June party


3rd June party

3rd June party part of the entertainment and venue lined up. Caterers needed!

Raffle results

Thank you to all those who supported AberVeg group in buying the raffle tickets! (raffle event ). We raised £136! Well done to Jenny and Kirsty who won our chocolate hamper and the meal for 2 at Treehouse

Minutes from AberVeg meeting 6/04/06

Here are the minutes from Thursday the 6th April AberVeg weekly meeting:

1. Next meeting is in 2 weeks (NO MEETING NEXT WEEK) so thats the 20th April at 8PM at Shelley's Bookshop.

2. AberVeg weekly meeting flyers

3. General meetings

4. Aber is Green week and the Social Forum 28th April - 1st May where

5. Vegetarian week. "Food for Free!"

6. Posters

8. Meat-free petition / Proctor&Gamble boycoot petition.

9. Survey

Next meeting: Thursday 20th April 8PM Shelley's bookshop.

To keep updated check group website: www.aberveg.makesense.co.uk

For details click below!

  • Local (UK) organic vegan sourced nuts and fruit
    Members of AberVeg would like to source locally producd vegan organic fruit and nuts to bulk buy. We plan to get in touch with VeganOrganicNetwork and also ask our local organic suppliers Treehouse for help in this respect. Anyone with information please contact us: AberVeg
  • UK carbon map reveals effect of energy policies

    Although not strictly veggie news, news worth mentioning is the fact that Aber is considered one of the UK's most green spots in terms of carbon emissions! We know there are so many more Aber veg 'uns out there who havent joined our group, but it seems Aber has more than a “green” population! Well done Aber – may it long stay this way!

  • AberVeg food-give-away stall report

    On 25th February, AberVeg did a free food give-away on the high-street. Despite freezing cold wind straight off the sea, it was a good day with plenty of food, lots of leaflets and fairly good passer-by interest (shame about the weather!). We even got the local paper's interest with pictures in the Cambrian News (will scan in ASAP!). (pictures forthcoming as soon as I get the floppy disk from the person who took the pictures!)

  • TELL - the student veg group
    Veggie or vegan students arriving in Aberystwyth will be glad to know that there is now a veg soc in the setting-up stages called "The Ethical Living Liaison" as a branch of People and Planet Society. TELL is foremost a veggie group (currently half and half vegetarians and vegans!) which seeks to discuss, campaign and generally cover all aspects of an ethical lifestyle including veg(etari)anism, eco-living, fair-trade, organic, local.... More information get in touch TELL student organisers Students please visit the veggiestudent board also!