Vegan-Organic Centre
Vegan Centre Appeal Fund
Dear Friends,
Peace, ecology, human rights, animal rights are issues our supporters will be engaged with. It is our belief that all these issues are interrelated - part of a holistic culture. The Vegan Organic Trust embraces all these ideals; however, we have reached a stage in our development whereby in order to advance we need your help.
We are asking you, and/or your organisation, to make a donation, or through your publication to advertise our appeal, so that we can establish an Education, Research and Development Centre, dedicated to a sustainable method of farming. The method of stockfree organic horticulture and agriculture produces food without the use of genetic modification, synthetic fertilisers, or animal by-products and without the cruelty and slaughter suffered by millions of animals. No such centre currently exists.
Fund-raising is progressing; the Cyril Corden Trust is helping with a grant towards the publication of the first comprehensive book on vegan – organic agriculture. The Movement for Compassionate Living has passed on to us £70,000, which is the major part of a legacy, specifically towards acquiring a Centre. Additionally our members have contributed a further £5,000. This is very encouraging. But to purchase a suitable Centre, with land, we will need at least £400,000, plus money to finance the project in the early years.
We have now issued the world’s first comprehensive Standards for Stockfree Organic Farming and are in the process of writing an accompanying handbook on the stockfree organic method with help from a grant from the Cyril Corden Trust. The Soil Association having become aware of this area of our work has offered its considerable resources to assist us to implement the standards.
This will help to inform farmers who are considering converting to organic methods that there is a stockfree organic option. A permanent centre will demonstrate how successfully this can be achieved. These developments will increase the supply of food grown without the exploitation of animals and ecological destruction
The centre will have full–time, as well as voluntary staff, as the current developments are beginning to outstrip our capacity to deal with them. Our vision is that the centre will be a catalyst for further centres both here and abroad.
Make the centre important among all your other activities. There has never been a greater need for a permanent centre devoted to non-violence. Share in this project, for we believe that this initiative will carry forward our work for sustainable and non-violent farming and influence how we relate to the environment and to one another. We look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
David Graham for VON Trustees.
