National Vegetarian Week 2009

Calling all caterers, restaurants and businesses

Make a fresh start for summer.

Last year over 1400 businesses, schools, pubs, caterers, libraries and retailers all got involved with finding out the benefits of a meat-free lifestyle. Go to www.vegsoc.org/nvw to order free National Vegetarian Week resources and download an action pack full of ideas on how you can make a fresh start this summer.

National Vegetarian Week 2009 18-24 May 2009 is sponsored by Cauldron Foods. Cauldron Foods together with the Vegetarian Society are encouraging more people to discover the possibilities and benefits of vegetarian cooking.

In 2009 you can:

National Vegetarian Week (NVW) is the annual awareness-raising campaign promoting inspirational vegetarian food. Now in its 17th year, NVW has gone from strength to strength and has become a key date in the food and lifestyle industry calendar.

Notes for editors

· For more press information, logos, or recipes, please contact Su or Liz in the Vegetarian Society Press Office: 0161 925 2000. Email: su@vegsoc.org or liz@vegsoc.org outside office hours on 07973 108 165/7.

· The Vegetarian Society of the UK (founded in 1847) was the first organisation worldwide to adopt the term “vegetarian”. A vegetarian does not eat any meat, poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, or slaughter by-products.

· For more press info and to see images please visit http://www.vegsoc.org/nvw/2009/press

In 2008, Compass Group, a global foodservice company, promoted NVW at over 150 of their business sites. Here’s what they had to say: “The key to our NVW activities this year was to give our customers a great choice of vegetarian foods – not just during vegetarian week, but every day in our restaurants and cafés! It was also a fantastic opportunity to raise customer awareness of the Compass Group philosophy on health, nutrition & wellbeing, and to participate in this hugely publicized national campaign from the Vegetarian Society". Andy Wilson, Compass Group