BHO: Calling All Vegans To Promote Health Research!

The Big Help Out is a nationwide weekend of volunteering and community action from Friday 7th – Sunday 9th June 2024. It aims to: raise awareness of the benefits of volunteering for individuals, communities and good causes; and provide opportunities for people to experience volunteering and make a difference in their community.

Could you write to your local MP or Councillor to promote our health economics research? The analysis found with that every 1 million people who switch to a vegan diet would generate an estimated £121 million of health care cost savings. We would love support in highlighting this to government.

This mini-task is designed to give you a taste of volunteering, and is part of the Big Help Out. The Big Help Out is a nationwide weekend of volunteering and community action from Friday 7th – Sunday 9th June 2024.
A small act of volunteering can make a huge difference!

What does this involve?
Here at The Vegan Society, we have published our Health Economics study - one of our major pieces of research that we worked on during 2023 - with the Office of Health Economics. The research found that 100% adoption of plant-based diets in England could save the NHS around £6.7 billion over a year.
The full article can be found here and has received some brilliant media interest: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.26.23300536v1
You can also read a summary here: https://www.vegansociety.com/news/news/switch-vegan-diets-could-save-nhs-67-billion-year

Now, we need help circulating this important work to those in power. Would you write to your MP or local councillor? There are 2 main asks of our MPs:
1. For them to raise it in Parliament or with the public health minister.
2. For them to consider promoting plant-based food options in local public sector settings such as hospitals and schools.

This is a small volunteering activity that you can do from the comfort of your own home.
We will provide guidance in writing your email/letter too, so you're not alone.
Once you apply, we will email you everything you need to do this task.

To get involved, contact Katy Malkin (Volunteering Coordinator) on [email protected] with the Subject: BIG HELP OUT

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