LocAL authorities

By getting involved with National Vegetarian Week this year, your authority can help make a positive change and address the climate crisis.

Most councils have now declared a climate emergency. When it comes to action planning much of the focus is usually on fossil fuels and switching to low or zero carbon energy. Yet, with our animal-based food system being a major contributor to UK emissions, swapping out meat for vegetarian food is one of the easiest things any of us can do if we want to make a real difference to the planet and the environment on which we all depend.

The theme of National Vegetarian Week this year is MIX IT UP! So, we are encouraging people to not just go for what they know… but to give vegetarian food a go, whether that’s going veggie all week or just for one meal…

Below you’ll find a host of resources that will make taking positive action as simple as possible for both your staff and your communities.

Share on social media

We have a range of ready-to-use graphics for your social media, which you can download below.

We also have some sample posts you are welcome to use.

And if you write your own posts, don’t forget to use #NationalVegetarianWeek and #MixItUp (we’ll share as many as we can to our sizeable following).

GET YOUR STAFF INVOLVED

Everyone who signs up to National Vegetarian Week can access our free digital booklet of carbon-calculated veggie and vegan recipes from celebrity chefs and food writers like BOSH!, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Meera Sodha, Thomasina Miers, Deliciously Ella, and loads more.

What better way is there to do your bit for climate change than have a delicious veggie dinner or two?

Simply share the link to the National Vegetarian Week website with your teams.

ADD A MESSAGE TO YOUR EMAIL

An easy way to show your support is to include a simple National Vegetarian Week graphic to your email footer.

We have a choice of designs, which you can download below.

Get the conversation going

We have put together a series of slides (as a PDF file) that will give you a ready-to-use format for a National Vegetarian Week presentation to colleagues, co-workers, and other groups.

You can also pick out individual slides and use them on social media to help spread the message. It’s a great way to start these vitally important conversations and help keep them going beyond National Vegetarian Week too.

Feel free to use it in full or pick out sections you think will most engage your audience.

Recipes for Schools

Our ‘Plant The Future’ programme introduces school leaders and caterers to vegetarian and vegan food, with a pack of recipes for schools covering two academic terms.

All the recipes have been developed with students in mind, providing tasty, engaging and nutritious meals and with ingredient quantities and instructions tailored for the school kitchen.

VEGETARIAN AND VEGAN GUIDES

If you’d like to share more information with your colleagues, contacts and co-workers about eating healthily on a vegetarian or vegan diet, you can view our handy guides.