Information on events that took place in 2006 is shown below. For details of forthcoming events, please click here.
December 2006
Saturday 2nd December,
10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairly Traded market, Piccadilly Gardens (map)
Saturday 2nd December,
11am - 4pm: "Making the most of the media" training & skill-share for
FOE local groups, Leeds
Tuesday 5th December,
7pm: Annual General Meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting House (map), followed
by Xmas social starting with a meal at Tampopo
Thursday 7th
December, 8pm - midnight: Green Xmas event, with music, bingo and tips
for having a green Xmas, £2 donation, Bar 4 Eighty, Wilbraham Road,
Chorlton (map)
Tuesday 12th December,
7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting House (map) - more
info
November 2006
Saturday 4th November,
10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairly Traded market, Piccadilly Gardens (map)
Saturday 4th November:
International Day of Action on Climate Change. Events in London start
at midday with a rally outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square (see www.campaigncc.org),
followed by a march to Trafalgar Square to join the "i count" event
(organised by the Stop Climate Chaos coalition), which will feature
street bands, entertainment, film, performance and speakers (see www.icount.org.uk)
Monday
6th November, 7pm: Corporates campaign sub-group meeting, MFoE
office, Friends Meeting House (map)
Tuesday 7th
November, 7pm - 9pm: Planning meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting
House (map)
Thursday 9th
November, 6.30pm: Food campaign sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Tuesday 14th
November, 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting
House (map) - more
info
Saturday 18th
November, 10am - 6pm: Philosophy of Green Economics conference, Friends
Meeting House, Lancaster (map)
Sunday 19th
November, 10am - 4pm: AfSL Permaculture Allotment Development workshop,
Southern Allotments, off Nell Lane, Chorlton
Monday
20th November, 9.30am: Sustainable Schools Event with Beverley Hughes,
Minister for Children, Young People & Families
as the Keynote Speaker, Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess Street (map)
Monday
20th November, 8pm: Stockport Friends of the Earth meeting, Town
Hall Tavern, Stockport
Wednesday 22nd
November, 7pm: Waste campaign sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Tuesday
28th November, 7pm: Campaign Against Climate Change discussion meeting
on Personal Carbon Quotas, with Richard Starkey from the Tyndall Centre,
MFoE office, Friends Meeting House (map)
Tuesday
28th November, 7.30pm for 8pm: Sustainable Living Quiz night, Eighth
Day, 111 Oxford Road (map)
October 2006
Tuesday 3rd October,
6.30pm for 7pm: Planning meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting House
Friday 6th
October, 11.30am - 2pm: Stall at Environment Volunteering Fair, University
House Foyer, Salford University (map)
Saturday 7th October,
10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairly Traded market, Piccadilly Gardens (map)
Monday 9th
October, 7pm - 9pm: Discussion: Can Nuclear Power Help To Fight
Climate Change?, MFoE office, Friends Meeting House (map)
Tuesday 10th October,
7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting House (map) - more
info
Wednesday
11th October, 6pm - 9pm: "Guide to Development II" consultation
event, Peterloo room, Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess Street (map)
Thursday 12th
October, 7.30pm: Respect meeting on climate change, Friends
Meeting House (map)
Saturday 14th
October, 10am - 4pm: Stall at the Manchester Harvest Festival, Exchange
Square (map),
part of the Manchester Food & Drink Festival 2006 - more
info
Wednesday
18th October, 7.30pm: Campaign against Climate Change Public Meeting,
Prestwich Arts College, Heys Road (map)
Thursday
19th October, 9.30am - 2pm: Transport seminar, Mechanics
Institute, 103 Princess Street (map)
Thursday
19th October, 10.30am - 4.15pm: Eco-Schools Forum and Green Fair, Friends
Meeting House (map)
Friday 20th October,
7pm: Public meeting with speakers from Shell fenceline communities,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Friday 20th October,
7.30pm: Bury Friends of the Earth meeting with David Chaytor MP, Lancashire
Fusiliers Room, Bury Town Hall (map)
Monday 23rd -
Friday 27th October: Stall at Eco City event, Museum of Science & Industry
- more info
Wednesday 25th
October, 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting
House (map) - more
info
Thursday
26th October, 6.30pm: Food campaign sub-group meeting, MFoE
office, Friends Meeting House (map)
Tuesday
31st October, 7pm: Waste campaign sub-group meeting, MFoE
office, Friends Meeting House (map)
September 2006
Saturday 2nd September,
10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairly Traded market, Piccadilly Gardens (map)
Friday 8th - Sunday
10th September: Local Groups Conference, Nottingham University - more
info
Tuesday 12th September,
7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Sunday 17th September,
11am - 4pm: "The Big Clean Up" event, Longsight Park
Friday 22nd September: "In
Town Without My Car Day" event, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester (map)
Friday 22nd
September, 10am - 4pm: Communities Creating Change conference, Friends
Meeting House, £10 waged / £5 unwaged (20% discount if
booked before 31st August)
Saturday 23rd
September, 1pm: Stop the War march, starting in Albert Square (meet
at MFoE office at 12.30pm to march under the "Fight Climate Change,
Not War" banner)
Sunday 24th September,
3.30pm: Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth" followed by panel discussion
with David Miliband MP, Maria McCaffery (BWEA) and Tony Juniper (Friends
of the Earth), Cornerhouse
Sunday 24th September,
5pm for 5.30pm: Meeting the Millennium Development Goals: Delivering
Public Services: Health and Education for All with the Rt Hon Gordon
Brown MP, The Comedy Store, Deansgate Locks, Whitworth Street West
Monday 25th September,
6.30pm for 7pm: International Question Time: Is the Labour Party really
making poverty history? with Hilary Benn MP, The Comedy Store, Deansgate
Locks, Whitworth Street West
Tuesday 26th September,
10am: Tesco planning enquiry, Trafford Town Hall (map)
Tuesday 26th September,
12.45pm - 2pm: Reducing the Climate Change Impacts of Waste Management
seminar, featuring Sir John Harman (Environment Agency), Ray Georgeson
(WRAP) & Michael Warhurst (Friends of the Earth), CUBE, 113 - 115
Portland Street (map)
Tuesday 26th September,
5pm: Big Ask climate quiz, featuring David Miliband MP, Malcolm Wicks
MP, Gareth Thomas MP, Tony Juniper, Adam Boulton (Sky), John Vidal
(Guardian Environment Editor) and Janet Street Porter, CUBE, 113 -
115 Portland Street (map)
Saturday 30th
September, 10am - 3pm: Climate Change conference, Stretford Suite,
Richmond Hall, Rochdale (map)
August 2006
Saturday 5th August,
10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairly Traded market, Piccadilly Gardens (map)
Saturday 5th August,
10.30am - 5.15pm: Take Action on Transport: Transport 2000 Skills-Share
Day, Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess Street (map), £5
entry to cover costs
Tuesday 8th August,
7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Thursday 17th
August - Sunday 20th August, Northern Green Gathering, Clitheroe - more
info
Wednesday 23rd
August, 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Saturday 26th
August - Monday 4th September, Camp for Climate Action, Megawatt Valley,
near Leeds - more
info
July 2006
Saturday 1st July,
noon - 4.30pm: North-West Groups Get Together, focussing on The Big
Ask and lobbying MPs, CVS, Princes Building, 50/52 Lancaster Road,
Preston (map)
Saturday 1st July:
Longsight Multi-cultural environment event, Stanley Grove School, Longsight
(map)
Sunday 2nd July,
noon - 5pm: Beech Road Festival, Chorlton (map)
Tuesday 11th July,
7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Thursday 20th
July, 7pm - 9pm: Stop Climate Chaos meeting, Friends Meeting House
Wednesday 26th
July, 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Monday 31st July,
7pm - 9pm: Planning meeting, Friends Meeting House
June 2006
Saturday 3rd June,
10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairly Traded market, Piccadilly Gardens (map)
Friday 9th June,
7pm for 7.30pm: Profits; Who Pays?, a public meeting on corporate responsibility,
Lord Mayor's Parlour, Manchester Town Hall
Saturday 10th
June, 10am - 5pm: Road Block National Anti-Roads Conference 2006, Birmingham
Saturday 10th
June, 11am - 3pm: Didsbury Festival, Didsbury Park
Tuesday 13th June,
7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Thursday 15th
June, 8pm - 1am: Big Ask Live gig, featuring Moco, GeEkgiRL, The V.C.s,
Sir Yes Sir and Your Bitter Ex Lovers, Bierkeller, 77 Piccadilly, Manchester
(map)
- more
info
Saturday 17th
June, 10am - 4pm: Manchester Cycle Show, St. Ann's Square
Wednesday 28th
June, 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
May 2006
Tuesday 2nd May,
7pm - 9pm: Stop Climate Chaos meeting, Friends Meeting House
Saturday 6th May,
10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairly Traded market, Piccadilly Gardens (map)
Tuesday 9th May,
7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Wednesday 10th
May, 7pm: Indymedia nuclear film night, The Basement, 24 Lever St (map)
Tuesday 16th May,
6.30pm: CORE campaign meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting House
Friday 19th -
Sunday 21st May: PowerUp! 2006, Friends of the Earth's Rights & Justice
residential weekend, Harborne Hall, Birmingham
Saturday 20th
May, 11am - 3pm: Stop Climate Chaos action, Exchange Square
Wednesday 24th
May, 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Saturday 27th & Sunday
28th May, noon 'til late: Green Fair at Mossley Music Festival, Roaches
Lock, Manchester Road, Mossley (map)
Sunday 28th May,
1pm - 5pm: Music, Arts, Green Issues and Crafts (MAGiC) Festival, Longford
Park, Stretford (map)
Monday 29th May,
Noon - 4pm: Climate Fair, Chorlton Green
April 2006
Saturday 1st -
Sunday 2nd April: Northern Groups Gathering, a fun and fascinating
weekend residential for members of Northern Local groups, Langdale,
Lake District - more
info
Saturday 1st April,
10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairly Traded market, Piccadilly Gardens (map)
Saturday 8th April,
11am - 1.30pm: NW TAR (Transport Activists Roundtable) meeting to discuss
with the transport-related content of the Draft Regional Spatial Strategy,
in the boardroom at the NW Regional Assembly offices, Wigan Investment
Centre, Swan Meadow Lane, Wigan (map)
Saturday 8th April,
2pm - 3pm: Meeting about responding to the Draft Regional Spatial Strategy,
in the boardroom at the NW Regional Assembly offices, Wigan Investment
Centre, Swan Meadow Lane, Wigan (map)
Tuesday 11th April,
7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Wednesday 12th
April, 9.30am - 1pm: Understanding the Regional Spatial Strategy, An
event for voluntary and community organisations in Greater Manchester,
GMCVO, St. Thomas Centre, Ardwick Green North, Ardwick (map)
Wednesday 12th
April, 7pm - 9pm: Stop Climate Chaos meeting, Friends Meeting House
Saturday 15th
April, 7pm: Disappearing World - HEAT Benefit Concert, Zion Arts Centre,
Hulme - tickets £8 / £6 from Zion Arts, Hulme and Misty's
vegetarian Cafe, Longsight.
Wednesday 19th
April, 6.30pm - 8.30pm: CORE meeting, Friends Meeting House
Wednesday 26th
April, 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Saturday 29th
April, 1pm - 5.30pm: Nuclear Power? No Way, Campaigning day on the
20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Cross Street Chapel (map)
March 2006
Wednesday 1st
March, noon - 5pm: Stop Climate Chaos "Carbon Dating" event,
Westminster Central Hall, London
Saturday 4th March,
10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairly Traded market, Piccadilly Gardens (map)
Saturday 4th March,
11am - 3pm: Getting Waste Policy Right, an Active Training Day for
Waste Campaigners hosted by Friends of the Earth North West, Committee
Room 4 Manchester Town Hall
Monday 6th March,
6.30pm: "Sustainable Development - oft quoted, oft misunderstood,
oft taken in vain" with Professor Gregg Butler, Cafe Muse, Manchester
Museum (map)
Tuesday 7th March,
7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Wednesday 8th
March, 7pm - 9pm: Women and Fair Trade : Joining the Threads, Banqueting
Hall, Manchester Town Hall
Thursday 9th March,
3pm: "Stop Climate Chaos: Inspiring action, delivering change" seminar
with Frances MacGuire, RSPB's Regional Policy Adviser, Tyndall Centre,
Room H18, Pariser Building, Sackville Street
Thursday 9th March,
from 1.30pm: Training on how to comment on Local Development Documents
online, half-hour sessions throughout the day, Manchester Town Hall
Thursday 9th March,
7.30pm: Stockport United Nations Association meeting on tackling the
problems arising from climate change, Stockport School, Mile End Lane
(map)
Friday 10th March,
7pm for 7.30pm: 'Tackling climate change without nuclear power' with
Tim Farron MP (Lib. Dem) and Roger Higman from FoE, The Shakespeare
Centre, Yard 76, Highgate, Kendal (next to The Shakespeare pub, 100
yards S. of the Town Hall) - for more info or a map phone 01539 740
237
Saturday 11th
March, 10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairly Traded market, Manchester Museum,
Oxford Road (map)
Sunday 12th March,
7pm: "Hulme supports Make Trade Fair", an acoustic & DJ
night for the Make Trade Fair campaign at Kim by the Sea, 41 Old Birley
Street, Hulme (map)
Monday 13th March,
9.30am - 4pm: Green City Network conference, City of Manchester Stadium
- more
info
Saturday 18th
- Sunday 19th March, 9am - 9am: Incub8 for International Justice & Change,
24 hours of prayer, meditation and campaign letter-writing, Holy Innocents'
Church, Wilbraham Road, Fallowfield
Monday 20th March,
7.30pm - 10pm: Fairtrade Spring Buffet organised by Action for Sustainable
Living and Fairtrade Chorlton, Unicorn Grocery, Chorlton (map)
Tuesday 21st March:
Launch of "Love Your Bike", a new high-profile campaign to
promote cycling in Manchester
Wednesday 22nd
March, 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Tuesday 28th March,
7pm: Meeting at the Friends Meeting House (map) to draft a group response to the DTI's
energy review. Please contact Ali on 07786 090520 for more info.
Tuesday 28th March,
7pm: Do Summat 'Bout Food, with speakers, workshops, short films and
food, The Basement, 24 Lever St. (map).
Wednesday 29th
March, 7pm: Launch night of Oxfam's 'Manchester's Faces' Control Arms
Exhibition, Opus Bar, Printworks (map)
- to book a place, please email your name to Amy Merone at manchester@oxfam.org.uk
Thursday 30th
March, 6.30pm: Joint meeting of a number of local campaign groups at
the Friends Meeting House (map) to discuss opportunities for working together on corporates & climate
change campaigns. Please contact Sam on 07977 156793 for more info.
Friday 31st March,
3pm: "The Global Climate and Energy Project - Fundamental Research
Directed towards Energy Systems with reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions" seminar,
Tyndall Centre, room C26, George Begg Building, Sackville St, University
of Manchester
Friday 31st March,
7pm: Where next for Make Poverty History?, with Benedict Southworth
(director of WDM) and John Leech MP, Cross Street Chapel (map)
- for more info, contact Dave on 0161 428 9929 or email wdm@jdc-web.org.uk
February 2006
Wednesday 1st
February, 5pm: Fair Trade for All, Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI)
Inaugural Lecture by Joseph Stiglitz, Whitworth Hall, University of
Manchester
Wednesday 1st
February, 8pm - 10pm: Planning meeting, Friends Meeting House, then
a suitable pub!
Saturday 4th February,
10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairly Traded market, Piccadilly Gardens (map)
Tuesday 7th February,
7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Tuesday 14th February,
6pm - 9pm: M6 Planning Session to share tactics, network and generally
roll out some short
term actions on the M6 widening/toll road, Cadman Boardroom, Staffordshire
University, Stoke on Trent campus
Wednesday 15th
February, 5.30pm for 6pm: Carbon, Climate & Culture: Sustainability
and Communities. Speaker: Paul Allen, Development Director, CAT. Lecture
Theatre 1, The Sherrington Buildings (corner of Ashton Street / Pembroke
Place), Liverpool
Thursday 16th
February, 7pm: Get Clued Up 'Bout Transport, short films, spoken word,
food, workshops and music, all around transport issues, The Basement,
24 Lever St. (map)
Monday 20th February,
7.30pm: Putting Local-To-Global into Action in Stockport: Why a Stockport
Friends of the Earth group is needed, Stockport Guildhall (on the main
A6 approximately 200 metres south of Stockport Town Hall)
Wednesday 22nd
February, 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Saturday 25th
February: Palm Oil Day of Action - event
report
Monday 27th February,
6pm - 9pm: Planning meeting, Sweet Mandarin restaurant, High St., Northern
Quarter
January 2006
Saturday 7th January,
10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairtrade market, Piccadilly Gardens (map)
Tuesday 10th January,
7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info
Thursday 12th
January, 7:30pm: "Nuclear Power, No Thanks" Discussion Forum,
Friends Meeting House
Saturday 14th
January, 11am- 6pm: Public Meeting at MERCi to organise the Camp for
Climate Action - more
info
Wednesday 25th
January, 10am - 1pm (provisionally): Decarbonising the UK, a seminar
hosted by the Tyndall Centre at the University
Wednesday 25th
January, 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Friends Meeting House - more
info