The group consists entirely of volunteers, and we rely on the financial support of individuals to fund our campaign work.

In return for your support, we give you:

• Updates on our campaigns via our local "Act!on" newsletter;
• A free subscription to national Friends of the Earth's online magazine "Earthed";
• A membership card, which entitles you to discounts at the local businesses listed below (keep an eye on this page, and our newsletter, as this list of discounters grows).

SPECIAL OFFER:
Join today and get a FREE battery charger* worth £30!

* While stocks last. Offer subject to paying by standing order.

If you would like to join, please download our membership form.

Note: The membership form is in PDF format, and can be viewed using Adobe Reader. If you do not have Adobe Reader, you can download it from the Adobe website.

Discounts

The following businesses have kindly agreed to offer discounts to Manchester Friends of the Earth members on production of a valid membership card:

• Eco-Interiors
• Titchy Coffee Company
• Earth Café
• Blacks Manchester
• Harry Hall Cycles
• Ken Foster's Cycle Logic

Please check this page regularly for the latest list of discounts.

Eco-Interiors

07956 526 927 or (0161) 861 8219

Eco-Interiors offer quality painting and decorating, floor sanding and woodworking services using only eco-friendly paints and varnishes, so no nasty fumes, solvents or toxins involved. Estimates and design advice are free and the service run by Simon and Charlie - a friendly and considerate brace of chaps.

Eco-Interiors offer a 5% discount to Manchester Friends of the Earth members on all decorating and floorsanding jobs, plus free colour consultation.

Titchy Coffee Co

Basement, The Triangle, Corporation Street, Manchester, M4 3TR (map)
(0161) 835 1540

Located at the Triangle (formerly the Corn Exchange), the Titchy Coffee Co is a cafe selling organic, fairly traded and locally sourced produce, including light meals, snacks and drinks.

The Titchy Coffee Co offers a discount of 10% on main meals and hot drinks on production of your membership card.

Earth Café

16 Turner St, Manchester M4 1DZ (map)
(0161) 834 9232
www.earthcafe.co.uk

Situated underneath the Manchester Buddhist centre, Earth Café has an ever-changing menu of vegetarian and vegan meals, sandwiches and snacks to eat in or take out.

On presentation of your membership card Earth Café offers members of Manchester Friends of the Earth 10% off the price of all food and drink prepared in-house. 

Note: This includes coffees, teas, smoothies and juices but not bottled and canned drinks. It also includes cakes and snacks prepared in their kitchen but not prepackaged snack bars.

Blacks Manchester

200 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3NN (map)
(0161) 833 0349
www.blacks.co.uk

Outdoor clothing and equipment shop located on Deansgate and selling a wide range of outdoor clothing, equipment and gadgetry, combined with very friendly staff and sound advice.

Blacks offer 10% off their entire range on presentation of your valid membership card.

Harry Hall Cycles

67 The Arches, Whitworth St. West, Manchester M1 5WQ (map)
(0161) 236 5699
www.harryhallcycles.co.uk

A veritable Mancunian cycling institution (check out their website "history" page) and celebrated not just in Manchester but across the UK and Europe, Harry Hall Cycles is based just down Whitworth St West from The Cornerhouse. An Aladdin's Cave of bikes, clothing and equipment, the shop sells everything you can think of relating to cycling (and probably a lot that you can't!).

In order to encourage commuting by bike, on presentation of your valid membership card, Harry Hall offers 10% off clothing, equipment and spares relating to commuting, e.g. high visibility clothing, helmets, lights, pumps, tyres, spares etc. If you are in any doubt, check in the shop before purchase, and staff will advise you whether or not what you are planning on buying will qualify for this special Friends of the Earth discount.

Ken Foster's Cycle Logic

374-376 Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, M21 8AZ (map)
(0161) 881 7160
www.kenfosterscyclelogic.co.uk

A bike shop with an enormous range as well as a modern workshop facility doing repairs and bike builds at realistic prices. They are exactly what they claim to be "a Real Bike Shop Run By Cyclists For Cyclists".

Ken Foster's offers a 10% discount on goods that are not already at discounted prices.