Outreach and Street Actions
We have teams all around the country who go out onto their local high street every month, share Viva!’s amazing work and advocate for the billions of animals caught up in the unforgiving animal agriculture industry.
We cover over 30 towns and cities – are any of these local to you and would you like to add your voice to ours? We have teams covering Bath, Swindon, Reading, Worcester, Norwich, Manchester, London, Leicester, Taunton, Exeter, Lincoln, Peterborough, Windsor, Liverpool, Leeds, Swansea, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Brighton, Telford, Oxford, Tunbridge Wells, Scarborough, Burton-on-Trent, Loughborough, Ashford, Farnham, Eastbourne, Hastings and Lancaster. And if none of these are local to you and you have some experience, we can support you to set up your own team.
All our local events can be viewed via our Facebook group found here.
Viva! also organises a number of specific and impactful campaigns throughout the year. Our street actions need as many amazing volunteers in as many locations as possible, to join us as we raise awareness of the intolerable cruelty animals have to endure and call large corporations to account.
However you would like to get involved, whether experienced or new to outreach we would love you to get in touch. Please fill out the form below or email outreach@viva.org.uk for more information.
We’ll provide teams with guides, leaflets, posters, film footage of our impactful undercover investigations and a monthly allowance for vegan food samples. Our hosts are given a straightforward ‘how to guide’, which includes everything you need to know from setting up a team, attracting other local activists to your events and promoting your event on social media. We also have regular training events and videos to get all our volunteers started.
Testimonials:
“Volunteering gives me a feeling that I can make a difference. Being out there is like planting a seed, helping the public to start to think about the meat and dairy industry in a different way. Whether they make a change today or in the future. It’s a great way to help people connect with what they are eating and be more aware of what is happening to the animals, their health and the planet” – Tom
“I personally feel when I volunteer, I can show people that vegans can be anybody and can be happy and passionate and normal! I think so many people think that vegans are extreme or that being vegan is too hard. I just want to have some good conversations and explain how veganism has improved my own life.” – Skye
At Viva! we aim to engage, educate and promote change in the general public. Our approach is non-confrontational; we try to provoke thought and offer insight into the realities of the meat and dairy industries through conversation and appropriate evidence-based facts.
“It’s so rewarding when what we say resonates with someone and they realise the impact their choices can have. We have really positive days talking to the public about the realities of the meat and dairy industries. We generally give out more than 200 leaflets, matched by the number of vegan food samples shared. We are asked great questions such as – can I get enough protein if I become vegan, are free range eggs cruelty free, is the dairy industry less exploitative than the meat industry and will I run out of ideas of what to cook? It’s enough to congratulate the small choices, the little changes. Not every conversation needs to be life changing, it just needs to plant the seed.” – Jo and Paul, outreach hosts
Alongside educational materials, Viva! can offer practical advice too, through health guides, V7 and V30 programmes and the Vegan Recipe Club.
Please download a copy of our guide and view our training videos to learn more about Viva!’s approach to outreach, how to start a conversation and how to deal with common objections as to why people might think it is too hard to transition to veganism.
View our training videos:
Viva!’s outreach manager, Jo, explains our philosophy toward engaging the public and how to structure a conversation – going from a vegan cheese sample to change!
Viva! campaigner, James, shares his approach to outreach and ideas on how to handle objections to veganism.
To join our Outreach Diary Facebook group visit here.
To view our Code of Conduct, visit here.
To view our Safeguarding Policy, visit here.
Our volunteers work closely together and a sense of community is positively encouraged. At a recent team day, we came together to reflect upon our outreach network, share good practice and contribute some care hours to the amazing residents at FARS animal sanctuary. A great reminder of why outreach is so vital to the lives of billions of animals lost each year.
If you already run monthly Viva! stalls and need to order more / new materials, please fill in this form and we can arrange for these to be sent to you.
