From A Vegan Guide To Bristol 2006

Brilliant selection of vegan goodies available, from the mainstream to the obscure. All have an excellent customer service record.

Greenshop

Brilliant outfit situated just up the road from Bristol in South Gloucester, and boasting a huge range of eco friendly goods including solar powered lamps and natural bodycare. Biggest seller is in fact their range of organic paints, the use of which has continued to escalate as people discover more about the chemicals present in every day paint and othe household iems. Also sells bio-diesel from the garage attached which is pretty cool not, sure if they do the conversions etc for your car, but can’t be far round the corner. Even potential future UK President 'Sniffer’ Cameron is talking up the potential for diesel, and the Green Shop have been ahead of the market for some ten years now in this department. Extensive mail order catalogue also available. www.greenshop.co.uk

Veganstore

Set up and run by the lovely Lisa, this online sh op boasts over 1,000 vegan products with more added all the time. Super selection of vegan sweets and chocolates makes this a must visit experience for those looking for obscure vegan products, or simply looking to replace existing non vegan choices with cruelty free products. Their gelatine free marshmallows always manage to create quite a stir with the nippers, and with more and more vegan friendly sweets and products on the market, you can be sure that Veganstore.com will have them available. Cutting edge well reco’d for those with littluns. At the Bristol vegan Fayre two years running, and hopefully back for another bash in June. www.veganstore.co.uk

Ethical Wares

Long standing and successful mail order on line firm that also does stalls at the main vegan shows. Vegan Fair, Trade, recycled, environmentally friendly, loads of excellent choices for both personal and gifts. Large selection of vegan shoes and specially noteworthy, the hemp shoes. www.ethicalwares.com

The Cruelty Free Shop

Fantastic array of goodies, all of which are vegan. The shop offers over 400 products, including natural skincare, cosmetics, fashion and jewellery, chocolates, books, fair trade goods, breast cancer research labels and a lot more all available online or mail order. All proceeds go to the Dr Hadwen Trust, a registered charity dedicated to finding alternatives to the use of animal experiments – giving a rare opportunity to shop in the knowledge that you really are making a positive difference to the lives of people and animals. www.crueltyfreeshop.com

Veggie Stuff

Brilliant site run by right nice fella Damien, with a huge range of guaranted vegan products, including books, household items bodycare, supplements, food and baby products. Present at quite a few of vegan shows including London and Bristol. Also run the excellent veggiepets.com site, where you can purchase a wide range of vegan foods and products for your peys. Dynamite. One visit and you will find all the leading brands for the animals in your life. Proper pampered, sweet as. www.veggiestuff.com

World Wildlife Fund

The world’s biggest environmental agency has lovely little mail order department and omline shop which features none other than Yaoh products, which means it must be good. In fact here at Yaoh we were rather chuffed to be awarded a gold star for our environmental policies and products by the WWF whi ch is a definite coup to say the least. Proud as punch of that one so it happens. Do visit, safe in he knowledge any profit is going to a extremely worthy cause. www.wwf.org