By Leoni Moninska
Veganuary has seen a record-breaking number of sign-ups this year totalling over 500,000 and as well as the increasing numbers, the reasons behind it also just keep mounting. Health, animal cruelty and carbon footprint reduction are amongst the top reasons for people to go vegan and it doesn’t just stop there. 12% of people are vegan because their partner is.
Veganuary sign ups
Veganism has and always will be predominantly animal-friendly focussed, with large brands now offering vegan options and the large number of plant-based eating documentaries out there. In addition to this, 2020 has shown that people Read More
When Will Lotus Heart Sanctuary open?
We feel truly blessed and humbled to have received so very many enquiries from you all asking when Lotus Heart 
Sanctuary will be open to the public, and we are overwhelmed to have received enquiries relating to all areas of Lotus… the pods, the animal sanctuary, clothing & merch and the holistic therapies.
We are also grateful and honoured that so many people are interested in visiting us and volunteering too.
Due to the volume of enquires we decided it was best to publish a blog which would give you all some updated information on what’s happening Read More
15/09/2019 Questions & Concerns The most common question and concern we receive from the public is regarding ID ear tags worn by sanctuary animals. Many people naturally become very upset when seeing them in the ears of rescued animals not realising that in the U.K. tags are a LEGAL requirement. The ear tag number
Edinburgh 24 Race 2019 – Vegan Runners UK We are so grateful and absolutely delighted & honoured to announce that the amazing UK vegan runner Marek Sabadasz is running an endurance race in aid of Lotus Heart Sanctuary – (sponsor him here) This race is not just any race though… this is
To celebrate this important Earth Day 2019 we are sharing a letter from the Plum Village website written to Mother Earth by vegan peace activist & Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
It is a meditation and a contemplation that can help create an intimate conversation with our beautiful planet.
Above all, it is a practice of looking deeply.
Excerpted from “Love Letter to the Earth” by Thich Nhat Hanh
Dear Mother Earth,
I bow my head before you as I look deeply and recognise that you are present in me and that I’m a part of you. I was born from you and you are Read More
On the banks of Glasgow’s Forth & Clyde Canal overlooking the city’s west end Tomillo shines its beacon of plant based perfection! Whether you are vegan or non-vegan, living in Scotland or visiting, eating in Tomillo is an absolute must for any food lover. 
Their food and its presentation gives all the feel of a top high class restaurant, and the idyllic location and setting is just as perfect and breathtakingly stunning as the food.
Tomillo is a 100% vegan venture and operates only in the evening from the premises of Ocho at Speirs Wharf in Glasgow – so don’t turn up during Read More
By Mark D Pritchard
Plant-based curious….
My first steps into a plant-based diet in April 2018 were not your typical ones. It was a dark time; darker than many could imagine. Having separated from my wife only two days after my mother died in December 2017, my world had been ripped apart. I was unable to function as a normal human being. An attempt at some sort of reconciliation in the New Year eventually resulted in my moving out for good at the end of March 2018. Feeling completely destroyed and isolated can sometimes result in the odd spell of random motivation to do something completely different. You can either curl Read More
In 2009 in Piedmont Italy, Fedy set up “La Piccola Fattoria degli Animali” (The Little Animal Farm) https://www.facebook.com/PigWhisperer/
This would be a place devoted to pigs saved from slaughterhouses and factory farms, but which would also give hospitality to dogs and cats that have been ill-treated or abandoned.
We caught up with Fedy and asked her some questions.
Can you tell us where the idea came from and how you managed to bring it about?
Let me start by telling you a little story that will surprise you. Last year, three days before my birthday, my mother told me that I was supposed to be born on November 11. Everybody was Read More
A statement I hear quite often is “The Save Movement doesn’t actually save animals”.
Having been closely involved with the movement from it’s UK birth in 2016, I decided to share my thoughts on the movement and what came out of my involvement with them.
A Time For Change…
In 2010 I took the Five Mindfulness Trainings (precepts, vows) with Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh at a Order of Inter-Being retreat in Nottingham.
The first training is Reverence for Life –
Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating the insight of Read More
The Rise of Veganism
The Vegan Mr Universe & his wife – Barny & Josie du Plessis
Up until just a few years ago Veganism was believed to belong to a niche group of people who were viewed by non-vegans as tree-huggers, thin, weak-bodied hippies who lived on a diet of “rabbit food”. However, that is no longer the case as veganism is growing massively around the world and has catapulted into the mainstream in the past 18 months. Bodybuilders and athletes such as Patrik Baboumian, Barny du Plessis, Josie du Plessis, Fiona Oakes, Tim Shieff, Torre Read More