Veggies cooperative, promoting vegan catering. About Veggies

Veggies is a volunteer-led, community-based, social enterprise

Veggies has been promoting vegan catering since 1984. This supports campaigns for human and animal rights, environmental protection and social justice. Partly due to our work, veganism is now widely understood as an ethical & sustainable way of living.

For 40 years Veggies has supported hundreds of campaigns at thousands of events, but we can only do it with your support.

Join us to celebrate at our 40th Anniversary Festival Weekend

Work for Veggies – Join our team

Veggies Catering Campaign provides catering at almost any event. This includes campaign rallies & community festivals to family celebrations & green gatherings. Veggies tour dates are listed, with full details, on our diary.

We also run an online shop and host a Community Food Hub, for cut-price ethical supplies, at our Sumac Centre base in Nottingham.

Our ‘Menu’

We offer tasty, wholesome snacks, favouring fairly traded, organically grown and/or locally sourced ingredients. We share information exploring the links between diet, animal suffering and the environment. More information on the what, why and how of our work can be found in the catering section. You can also follow @veggiesnottm on Twitter or VeggiesCatering on Facebook.

Ethical Consumer Best Buy logo We have a policy of minimal packaging and promote the use of recycled goods. We investigate everything that we use in order to avoid animal products, those tested on animals and those resulting from human oppression. We receive valuable guidance from the Ethical Consumer Magazine. Our Burgers & Sosages were rated their ‘Best Buy’ in May/June 2016. To reduce the climate impact of chilled/frozen foods we now only sell ambient mixes. Read more about our ethical policies.

Many suppliers are other independent local businesses, including Lembas Wholefoods. The ecological and vegan cleaning supplies that we use can be purchased directly from us on a retail, bulk or refill basis.

A directory of other caterers who might be able to help at events that we are unable to attend, is compiled by Veggies.

Veggies is a workers’ co-operative, with five workers sharing one living-waged job. We aim to live simply so that others might simply live. We are associate members of Radical Routes, the network of grassroots co-operatives working for social change. We are also members of the Vegan Traders Union and Vegan Founded. We receive welcome support from a team of dedicated volunteers. Join us!

Veggies are based at Nottingham’s Sumac Centre, the campaign resource centre part-funded by Veggies.

More About Veggies

Events that we are directly supporting are shown on Veggies Events Diary.

You can also find us on Mastodon, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & Tumblr

Veggies Directory, based on 20 years of networking for humans, animals and the environment, is now replaced by our Directory of Vegan Caterers.

Veggies distribute publications for the Movement for Compassionate Living. MCL promotes simple living and vegan self-reliance as a remedy to the exploitation of humans, animals and the Earth. We support campaigns of Animal Aid, Viva! and many more.

Many books and journals, covering green, human rights, animal issues, peace, co-operation and social justice, are available from the Sumac Library and Veggies Bookstall.