Information on events that took place in 2007 is shown below. For details of forthcoming events, please click here.
December 2007
Tuesday 4th December,
7pm: Annual General Meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham
St. (map), followed by Xmas social at the Marble Arch pub
on Rochdale Road
Saturday 8th
December: National Climate March, London - assemble Millbank (Westminster
Tube) at noon, the march to rally at 2.30pm at US embassy. Speakers
to include Ming Campbell MP, Michael Meacher MP, Caroline Lucas MEP,
Zac Goldsmith, George Monbiot - more info
Tuesday 11th
December, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting featuring a presentation
and Q&A with the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority, Committee
Room 2, Manchester Town Hall
November 2007
Saturday 3rd November,
11am - 4pm: Media Training workshop, a free day of training run by
Friends of the Earth to help groups and individuals use the media more
effectively, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Tuesday 6th November,
7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St.
(map)
Thursday 8th November,
7.30pm for 8pm: 'An Inconvenient Truth' screening, followed by Brigit
Strawbridge (of the BBC2
series ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’) speaking
about changes we can make in our lives to make a difference to
the environment, International Suite, Old Trafford Football Stadium
(map)
Saturday 10th
November, 10am - 4pm: Stall at Royal Society of Chemistry "Fuelling
the Future" event at Museum of Science & Industry, Liverpool Road,
Castlefield
Tuesday 13th
November, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map) - more
info
Thursday 15th
November, 7.30pm: The Great Aviation Debate, featuring speakers from
Manchester Airport, the Chamber of Commerce, Plane Stupid and the Tyndall
Centre, Friends Meeting House, Mount Street (map)
Saturday 17th
November, 11am - 4pm: IT workshop, for anyone looking to find
out more about how to develop and maintain websites, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Tuesday 20th November,
7pm - 9pm: Climate sub-group meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Wednesday 21st
November, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Green
Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Thursday 22nd
November, 7pm: Campaign Against Climate Change Rally, with Jonathan
Neale (Campaign Against Climate Change), Cllr. Neil Swannick
(Manchester City Council) and Brian Candeland (Manchester Green Party),
Friends Meeting House, Mount Street (map)
Friday 23rd
November, 6pm for 6.30pm: Launch of the Torrs
Hydro New Mills prospectus,
New Mills Town Hall, Spring Bank, New Mills, High Peak, SK22 4AT (map)
Monday 26th
November, 2pm - 4pm: Sustainable Neighbourhoods Forum discussion on
Manchester's Local Development Framework, Friends Meeting House, Mount
Street (map)
Thursday 29th
November, 5pm - 6.30pm: Royal Economic Society Annual Lecture 2007:
Climate Change, Ethics and the Economics of the Global Deal by Sir
Nicholas Stern, University of Manchester
October 2007
Tuesday 2nd October,
7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St.
(map)
Thursday 4th October,
6pm for 6.30pm: Mo Mowlam Memorial Lecture: "Nuclear power isn't
the answer to climate change", with Dr Helen Caldicott (President,
Nuclear Policy Research Institute, Washington DC) and Gemma Tumelty
(President, National Union of Students), Conference Hall, Manchester
Town Hall
Friday 5th October,
6pm - 8pm: SUST Swap Shop, Eighth Day Cafe, Oxford Street (map)
Sunday 7th
October, 11am - 3pm: Strategy day, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Tuesday 9th
October, 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map) - more
info
Saturday 13th
October, 10am - 5pm: Big Ask action at Urbis, then from noon in Albert
Square
Saturday 13th
October, 11am - 4pm: Youth & Education Training Day, a full day's
training on working with young people on behalf of Friends of the Earth,
Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Tuesday 16th October,
7pm - 9pm: Climate sub-group meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Tuesday 23rd
October, 6.30pm for 7pm: Can Nuclear Power save the Planet?, Chemistry
building, University of Manchester, Brunswick Street (map)
Wednesday 24th
October, 6.45pm for 7pm - 9pm: Campaigns meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Thursday 25th
October, 7.30pm: Climate Change: What's coming and what YOU can do
about it in Manchester, Friends Meeting House, Mount Street (map)
Saturday 27th
October, 10am for 11am - 5pm: Road Block conference, Birmingham
- more info
September 2007
Tuesday 4th September,
7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St.
(map)
Friday 7th -
Sunday 9th September: Local Groups Conference, Reading University
Tuesday 11th
September, 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map) - more
info
Saturday 15th
September, 11am - 4pm: Big Ask action, Eccles town centre - event report
Saturday 15th
September, 7pm: "An Inconvenient Truth" screening, The Revival
Church, High Street, New Mills (map)
Tuesday 18th September,
7pm - 9pm: Climate sub-group meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Wednesday 19th
September, 6pm - 9pm: Manchester Is My Planet Carbon Trading event,
Manchester Town Hall - more
info
Wednesday 19th
September, 7pm - 9pm: Transport sub-group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Thursday 20th
September, 7pm - 9pm: Public meeting on Transport & Climate Change,
Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester (map)
Saturday 22nd
September: In Town Without My Car Day, Cateaton St & Victoria Bridge
St (map)
Tuesday 25th September,
7pm - 9pm: Waste sub-group meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50
Oldham St. (map)
Wednesday 26th
September, 5.45pm - 8.30pm: Manchester's Climate Change Strategy consultation,
Bridge 5 Mill, Ancoats (map)
Thursday 27th
September, 7pm - 9pm: Corporates, trade & food sub-group meeting, Green
Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Thursday 27th
September, 7pm for 7.15pm: "An Inconvenient Truth" screening
and Q&A, Bolton Friends Meeting House, Silverwell Street, Bolton
(map)
Saturday 29th
September, 3.30pm: "An Inconvenient Truth" screening, Friends
Meeting House, Mount Street (map)
Sunday 30th
September, 9am - 2pm: Big Ask stall at Ashton Farmers Market
August 2007
Tuesday 7th August,
7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St.
(map)
Saturday 11th
August, 11am - 4pm: Alliance Against Urban 4x4s meeting, Green Fish
Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Tuesday 14th
August, 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map) - more
info
Wednesday 15th
August, 4.30pm: Christian Aid "Cut Carbon March" rally in Uppermill
Square
Wednesday 15th
August, 7.30pm: Christian Aid "Cut Carbon March" event, St.
John’s Church, Kings Road, Hurst, Ashton, OL6 8EZ (map)
Thursday 16th
August, 4pm: Christian Aid "Cut Carbon March" gathering in
Piccadilly Gardens and march to St. Ann's Square, Manchester
Thursday 16th
August, 7pm: Christian Aid "Cut Carbon March" event with
music, speakers & food, Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester,
M2 5NS (map)
Friday 17th
August, 4.30pm: Christian Aid "Cut Carbon March" gathering
in Marple Memorial Park
Friday 17th
August, 7pm: Christian Aid "Cut Carbon March" presentation,
St. Mary’s Parish Hall, Marple Bridge, SK6 5BB (map)
Tuesday 21st
August, 7pm - 9pm: Climate sub-group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Wednesday 22nd
August, 7pm - 9pm: Transport sub-group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Thursday 23rd
August, 7pm - 9pm: Trade, corporates & food sub-group meeting,
Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Saturday 25th
August: Stall at Mossley Music Festival, on Mossley Hollins High School
playing fields adjacent to Huddersfield Road (B6175), Mossley (map)
Saturday 25th
August, 10am - 4.30pm: Bolton FOE stall at Victorian Street Fair, Town
Hall Square, Bolton
Tuesday 28th
August, 7pm - 9pm: Waste sub-group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map) - cancelled
July 2007
Sunday 1st
July, Noon - 6pm: Stall at Beech Road Festival, Chorlton Green
(map)
Tuesday 3rd July,
7pm: Planning meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Monday 9th July,
6.30pm - 8.30pm: Congestion Charge Debate, Circle Club, Barton Arcade,
Manchester (map), email rsvp@thecircuitseries.com to
book a place
Tuesday 10th July,
7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map) - more info
Thursday 12th
July, 7pm - 9pm: Greater Manchester Groups meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Friday 13th
July, 10.30am for 11am - 1pm: Greater Manchester Local Transport Forum
sub-regional seminar on the TIF bid, Council Chamber, Level 3, Manchester
Town Hall Extension
Saturday 14th
July, Noon - 6pm: Stall at Chorlton Park Fun Day, Chorlton Park
Wednesday 18th
July, 4pm - 8pm: Planning White Paper workshop, Friends Meeting House,
Mount Street (map)
Wednesday 18th
July, 7pm: Transport sub-group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Thursday 19th
July, 7pm: Trade, corporates & food sub-group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Monday 23rd July,
7pm: Climate sub-group meeting, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Tuesday 24th July,
5pm - 7pm: North West Waste Forum meeting with speakers including Garrett
Reynolds from FOE and Cllr Neil Swannick from the GMWDA, Committee
Room 2, Manchester Town Hall
June 2007
Thursday 7th June,
7pm: Planning meeting, MFoE office, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Saturday 9th June,
11am - 5pm: "How to Spread the Big Ask Word", a special training
day on how you can get other community groups active with the Big Ask
campaign, Friends Meeting House (map)
Saturday 9th June,
11am - 3pm: Stall at Didsbury Festival, Didsbury Park
(map)
Saturday 9th June,
11am - 1pm: A free screening of An Inconvenient Truth at the Cornerhouse,
organised by the Co-op
Tuesday 12th June,
7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, MFoE office, Green Fish Resource Centre,
46-50 Oldham St. (map) - more info
Thursday 14th
June, 7.30pm: "Are You As Green As God?" debate organised
by the Bible Society at Albert Halls, Victoria Square, Bolton (map) - more
info
Saturday 16th
June, Noon - 3pm: Stall at Bike Week festival, St. Ann's Square
Saturday 16th
June, Noon - 4pm: Planning & climate change seminar, an introduction
to the planning system, what we can do to influence it, and how we
can support large scale renewables in our area, FOE head office, London
Monday 18th
June, 9am - 4pm: Waste-to-product: a brighter future, Museum of Science & Industry
(map) - more info
Tuesday 19th
June, 7pm: Climate sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Wednesday 20th
June, 6pm: Waste sub-group meeting, MFoE office, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Wednesday 20th
June, 7pm: Transport sub-group meeting, MFoE office, Green Fish Resource
Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Thursday 21st
June, 7pm: Corporates, trade & food sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Green Fish Resource Centre, 46-50 Oldham St. (map)
Saturday 23rd
June, 10.30am: Action on supermarket packaging
Saturday 30th
June, from 1pm: Campaign Against Climate Change Carnival, Peace Gardens,
with speakers including Derek Wall (Green Party), Neil Swannick (Manchester
City Council) and local rap artist, Persia
May 2007
Tuesday 1st May,
6.30pm for 7pm: Planning meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting House
(map)
Friday 4th May,
3.30pm - 6pm: "Britain in the World" public meeting with
Hazel Blears and Hilary Benn, Manchester Town Hall
Saturday 5th
May, 10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairly Traded market, Piccadilly Gardens
(map)
Sunday 6th
May, Noon - 5pm: Stall at Longford Park Festival, Stretford
(map)
Monday 7th May,
10am - 4.30pm: "Change the Dream" symposium, Nexus, Dale
Street, Manchester (map)
Tuesday 8th May,
7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting House (map) - more
info
Tuesday 15th
May, 7pm: Climate sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Wednesday 16th
May, 7pm: Transport sub-group meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting
House (map)
Wednesday 16th
May, 7.30pm: "Do we want Tesco in Chorlton?" public meeting, Lloyds
Hotel, Chorlton (map)
Thursday 17th
May, 7pm: Corporates, trade & food sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Thursday 17th
May, 7.30pm: National Pure Water Association meeting on water fluoridation,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Saturday 19th
May, 10am - 5pm: "Climate Change: Information for Action" conference,
featuring over a dozen workshops and discussions about climate change
and what we can do about it (suggested donation £5), Methodist
Hall, Oldham Street, Manchester
Monday 21st
May, 9am - 3.30pm: Green City Network conference, Manchester Town Hall
- more info
Tuesday 22nd
May, 4pm - 8pm: "The Best Laid Plans - Planning Event", with
presentations and workshops to explain the planning system and how
and when you can influence it, Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess
Street, Manchester (map)
Tuesday 22nd
May, 7pm: Waste sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
April 2007
Tuesday 3rd April,
6.30pm for 7pm: Planning meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting House
(map)
Saturday 7th
April, 10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairtrade market, Piccadilly
Gardens (map)
Tuesday 10th
April, 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting
House (map) - more
info
Tuesday 17th
April, 7pm: Climate sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Wednesday 18th
April, 7pm: Transport sub-group meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting
House (map)
Thursday 19th
April, 7pm: Corporates & trade sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Monday 23rd
April, 8pm: MFoE Comedy Night, Glass, Fallowfield (map)
Tuesday 24th
April, 7pm: Waste sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Wednesday 25th
April, 7pm: Real food sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Saturday 28th
- Sunday 29th April: Friends of the Earth Northern Gathering, York
Youth Hostel (map)
Monday 30th
April, 7.30pm: Campaign Against Climate Change meeting on climate change
and road expansion, with Dr. Julie White (who is campaigning against
the widening of the M1) and John Gale from GAME (Group Against
Motorway Expansion), MFoE office, Friends Meeting House (map)
March 2007
Saturday 3rd
March, 10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairtrade market, Piccadilly
Gardens (map)
Saturday 3rd
March, 10.30am - 3.30pm: Cut the Carbon, an introduction to Christian
Aid's new climate campaign, Holy Innocents' Church, Wilbraham Road,
Fallowfield
Tuesday 6th March,
6.30pm for 7pm: Planning meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting
House (map)
Tuesday 13th
March, 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting
House (map) - more
info
Thursday 15th
March, 7pm: Corporates & trade sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Saturday 17th
March, 10.30am - 4.15pm: "Living in a new climate" conference,
featuring Penny Poyzer and Tony Juniper, Quaker Meeting House, 22 School
Lane, Liverpool (map)
Saturday 17th
March, 10.30am for 11am: NW Transport Activists Roundtable AGM and
open meeting, County Hall, Preston (map)
Tuesday 20th
March, 10am - 4pm: Everyone Wins: Communities Engaged in Decision Making
on Transport Issues, St. Thomas Centre, Ardwick, Manchester (map)
Tuesday 20th
March, 7pm: Climate sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Wednesday 21st
March, 7pm: Transport sub-group meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting
House (map)
Wednesday 28th
March, 7.30pm: "Solving Climate Change", a chance to explore
the technological and political solutions to climate change, Friends
Meeting House (map)
Thursday 29th
March, 7pm: Greater Manchester local groups meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Friday 30th
March, 7.30pm: Public meeting on the Sustainable Communities Bill,
Lion of Vienna Room, tower entrance, The Reebok Stadium, Burnden Way,
Bolton (map)
February 2007
Saturday 3rd February,
10am - 5pm: Stall at the Fairtrade market, Piccadilly Gardens (map)
Tuesday 6th February,
7pm: Planning meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting
House (map)
Tuesday 13th February,
7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting House (map) - more
info
Thursday 15th
February, 6.30pm: Corporates & trade sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Thursday 15th
February, 7.15pm: Discussion on issues raised by the film "Blood Diamond",
Manchester Quakers Social Justice Group, Friends Meeting House (map)
Thursday 15th
February, 7.30pm: Science of Climate Change, a talk explaining the
latest IPCC report, with Dr Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre, Friends
Meeting House (map)
Tuesday 20th
February, 7pm: Climate sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Wednesday 21st
February, 7pm: Transport sub-group meeting, MFoE office, Friends Meeting
House (map)
Tuesday 27th
February, 7pm: Waste sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Wednesday 28th
February, 7pm: Real food sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
January 2007
Sunday 7th
January, 1pm - 5pm: Strategy meeting, MFoE office, Friends
Meeting House (map)
Tuesday 9th
January, 7pm - 9pm: Full group meeting, MFoE office, Friends
Meeting House (map)
Tuesday 16th
January, 7pm: Climate sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Wednesday 17th
January, 7pm: Transport sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Thursday 18th
January, 7pm: Corporates & trade sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Saturday 20th
January, 11am - 5pm: North-West Groups Get Together, featuring a consultation
on FOE's next 5-year
strategic plan, St Wilfrid's Parish Centre, 1 Winckley Square,
off Chapel Street, Preston (map)
Tuesday 23rd
January, 7pm: Waste sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Wednesday 24th
January, 7pm: Real food sub-group meeting, MFoE office,
Friends Meeting House (map)
Tuesday 30th
January, 4.45pm for 5.15pm: "The Future Climate of the UK",
a meeting of the North West Centre of the Royal Meteorological Society,
Room C16, Pariser Building, University of Manchester
Wednesday 31st
January, 7pm: Campaign Against Climate Change discussion meeting on
aviation, with Alice Bows from the Tyndall Centre, MFoE office, Friends
Meeting House (map)