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Events

Sunday May 18, 2008
Start: 10:00 am
Start: 18 May 2008 - 10:00am
End: 24 May 2008 - 10:00pm

Choosing a green and ethical investment is a positive decision that allows your money to work hard for you while also having a beneficial impact on society and the environment.

National Ethical Investment Week is a campaign backed by the financial services industry and community groups to encourage investors to consider a green and ethical investment option.

Monday May 19, 2008
(all day)
Start: 18 May 2008 - 10:00am
End: 24 May 2008 - 10:00pm

Choosing a green and ethical investment is a positive decision that allows your money to work hard for you while also having a beneficial impact on society and the environment.

National Ethical Investment Week is a campaign backed by the financial services industry and community groups to encourage investors to consider a green and ethical investment option.

Tuesday May 20, 2008
(all day)
Start: 18 May 2008 - 10:00am
End: 24 May 2008 - 10:00pm

Choosing a green and ethical investment is a positive decision that allows your money to work hard for you while also having a beneficial impact on society and the environment.

National Ethical Investment Week is a campaign backed by the financial services industry and community groups to encourage investors to consider a green and ethical investment option.

Wednesday May 21, 2008
(all day)
Start: 18 May 2008 - 10:00am
End: 24 May 2008 - 10:00pm

Choosing a green and ethical investment is a positive decision that allows your money to work hard for you while also having a beneficial impact on society and the environment.

National Ethical Investment Week is a campaign backed by the financial services industry and community groups to encourage investors to consider a green and ethical investment option.

Start: 2:30 pm
End: 4:00 pm

meet at the childrens play area. Organised by friends of Birchfield park and forest garden project. call Kirsty Heron 0161 248 9224 for more.

Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm

AfSL will be holding a sustainability consultation at Withington library for the residents of Withington and Fallowfield to have their say on what is important to them as a community. This will be held as a drop-in session in the meeting room of the library. All suggestions relating to sustainability/eco topics are welcome. The comments will be used to help tailor AfSL's service in the area to the needs of the community, with a view to setting up action groups. Please feel free come along and have a chat with us.

Thursday May 22, 2008
(all day)
Start: 18 May 2008 - 10:00am
End: 24 May 2008 - 10:00pm

Choosing a green and ethical investment is a positive decision that allows your money to work hard for you while also having a beneficial impact on society and the environment.

National Ethical Investment Week is a campaign backed by the financial services industry and community groups to encourage investors to consider a green and ethical investment option.

Friday May 23, 2008
(all day)
Start: 18 May 2008 - 10:00am
End: 24 May 2008 - 10:00pm

Choosing a green and ethical investment is a positive decision that allows your money to work hard for you while also having a beneficial impact on society and the environment.

National Ethical Investment Week is a campaign backed by the financial services industry and community groups to encourage investors to consider a green and ethical investment option.

Saturday May 24, 2008
End: 10:00 pm
Start: 18 May 2008 - 10:00am
End: 24 May 2008 - 10:00pm

Choosing a green and ethical investment is a positive decision that allows your money to work hard for you while also having a beneficial impact on society and the environment.

National Ethical Investment Week is a campaign backed by the financial services industry and community groups to encourage investors to consider a green and ethical investment option.

Start: 1:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

Hi everyone,

You are invited to a veggie bbq at 37 Park Range, Rusholme, (2ndish left off dickenson Rd from Hardy's Well) M14 5HR, from 12pm- 4/5pmish. If the weather is bad we will try for the Sunday the next day.

Bring snacks/veggie bbq food and any bike mainenance skills or tools that we can share. We will be working on bikes of the Longsight Bike Project, which will be going out for use in the local area, as well as giving a few to a local refugee group and the camp for climate action. All help is appreciated, inlcuding cleaning the bikes.

Friday May 30, 2008
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

Critical Mass Bicycle Ride to celebrate the bike!!!

woooo it is an amazing bike
ride to celebrate the bicycle, to meet other cyclists, to have an excuse
to ride around, to feel part of a bike gang, to have a fun evening etc
etc

Put these dates in your diaries.

2008: 25th Jan, 29th Feb, 28th March, 25th April, 30th May, 27th June,
25th July, 29th Aug, 26th Sept, 31st Oct, 28th Nov, 26th Dec.

 

Monday June 2, 2008
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 10:30 pm

Chris Jenkins completed his pemaculture design course in Hulme, in 1999, is an expert in raw food, and is setting up a new business called Life-Force Foods to promote the concept. You are invited to an evening of pemaculture and raw food, at Chris' house, 30 Range Road, Whalley Range. (Click this link: http://snipurl.com/28td4 for a map to Range Rd.)

Tuesday June 3, 2008
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Trafford Council are holding 'environmental fairs' at the Neighbourhood forums.  This is your chance to come down and find out what environmental projects are going on in your area that you can get involved in.  Also find out what improvements the council are making to the doorstep recycling service.

 

Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Trafford Council are holding 'environmental fairs' at their Neighbourhood forums.  This is your chance to come down and find out what environmental projects are going on in your area that you can get involved in.  Also find out what improvements the council are making to the doorstep recycling service.

Wednesday June 4, 2008
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm

learn how to make your own herbal teas and skin creams 12 - 3pm
at the Bangladeshi Womens Organisation.

For more information contact:
Kirsty Heron 0161 248 9224/07855 698737 amidreaming@riseup.net
Organised by the Friends of Birchfields Park and forest garden project
 

Thursday June 5, 2008
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm

Celebrate World Environment Day, by popping down to Sale Waterside to find out what is going on in Trafford and how you can get involved!

Advice and information on a range of voluntary opportunities, energy saving tips and maybe even a few freebies!

Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:30 pm

Celebrate Volunteer Week in style! We are planning to meet at The Hillary Step once more. Come along to find out about AfSL happenings and meet other volunteers.

Date: Thursday 5th June

Time: 5.30 pm-7.30pm

Place: Hillary Step, 199 Upper Chorlton Rd

Friday June 6, 2008
Start: 8:30 pm
Start: 6 Jun 2008 - 8:30pm
End: 7 Jun 2008 - 12:00am

Feast! 
Picnic by the Lake, starts on Friday June 6 and runs till Sunday June
8.  

Friday 6th            7:30pm - 11pm
Saturday 7th       5pm - 11pm
Sunday 8th          1pm - 6pm


Saturday June 7, 2008
End: 12:00 am
Start: 6 Jun 2008 - 8:30pm
End: 7 Jun 2008 - 12:00am

Feast! 
Picnic by the Lake, starts on Friday June 6 and runs till Sunday June
8.  

Friday 6th            7:30pm - 11pm
Saturday 7th       5pm - 11pm
Sunday 8th          1pm - 6pm


Start: 1:00 pm

exact time to be confirmed.

For more information contact:
Kirsty Heron 0161 248 9224/07855 698737 amidreaming@riseup.net
Organised by the Friends of Birchfields Park and forest garden project
 

Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm

Old Trafford 7th June 2008

War on Waste Old Trafford (WOW OT) is launching a new initiative/campaign and is focusing its efforts on making sure that plastic bag use in Old Trafford is reduced to a minimum.

Sunday June 8, 2008
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

Come down and get your hands dirty at Chorlton's community allotment project - The Lost Plot!

We will be tackling the beautiful greenhouse this sunday, to get it ready for the summers bounty.

All are welcome

Just give Josh or Helen a ring if you fancy coming down.

Tuesday June 10, 2008
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Trafford Council are holding 'environmental fairs' at the Neighbourhood forums.  This is your chance to come down and find out what environmental projects are going on in your area that you can get involved in.  Also find out what improvements the council are making to the doorstep recycling service.

Start: 9:00 pm
Start: 10 Jun 2008 - 9:00pm
End: 11 Jun 2008 - 12:00am

Glossopdale campaign group Save Swallows Wood are staging a Great Big
Mid-Summer Quiz, testing contestants knowledge of nature and local
history.

The quiz is open to all
and features prizes including especiially designed t-shirts and
wholefood hampers.

All proceeds go to Save Swallows Wood and for those taking the train to
Glossop or Manchester we'll be finished before the last train.


Wednesday June 11, 2008
End: 12:00 am
Start: 10 Jun 2008 - 9:00pm
End: 11 Jun 2008 - 12:00am

Glossopdale campaign group Save Swallows Wood are staging a Great Big
Mid-Summer Quiz, testing contestants knowledge of nature and local
history.

The quiz is open to all
and features prizes including especiially designed t-shirts and
wholefood hampers.

All proceeds go to Save Swallows Wood and for those taking the train to
Glossop or Manchester we'll be finished before the last train.


Thursday June 12, 2008
Start: 8:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm

All the sustainable action groups and community groups are coming together. With the same issues in mind it makes sense to work together to campaign for change. So there will be a network event to find out about the other groups and what they do so we can work forwards together. Come along to find out what is already going on in your area and see how you can get involved.

Friday June 13, 2008
Start: 11:00 am
Start: 13 Jun 2008 - 11:00am
End: 14 Jun 2008 - 6:00pm

A trial French Market outside the library in Chorlton. If it's a success the council may look into a permanent market! - Not necessarily a French one! AFSL will be lingering around so come for a chat.

Start: 12:00 pm
End: 12:59 pm

The workshop series begins with a look at how climate change is
communicated, and how this communication relates to political
responses.  It is thus concerned with two specific aspects of how
social and cultural tipping points are generated:

Saturday June 14, 2008
End: 6:00 pm
Start: 13 Jun 2008 - 11:00am
End: 14 Jun 2008 - 6:00pm

A trial French Market outside the library in Chorlton. If it's a success the council may look into a permanent market! - Not necessarily a French one! AFSL will be lingering around so come for a chat.

Start: 11:30 am
End: 3:30 pm

in Longsight library as part of refugee week.

For more information contact:
Kirsty Heron 0161 248 9224/07855 698737 amidreaming@riseup.net
Organised by the Friends of Birchfields Park and forest garden project
 

Start: 12:00 pm
Start: 14 Jun 2008 - 12:00pm
End: 22 Jun 2008 - 12:59pm

Bike Week, the annual week to promote cycling across the UK, will be held this year between 14th - 22nd June.  
A cycle fair will launch Manchester's Bike Week activities on Saturday
14th June (11am to 4pm) in Cathedral Gardens, behind Urbis. A cycle
fair will also be held on the same day in Bolton, 11am-3pm, at Victoria
Square.

Start: 12:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

We are planning a visit to Hebden Bridge's Alternative Technology Centre followed by a picnic nearby in the hills. Check out www.alternativetechnology.org.uk to see how amazing this place is. We plan to travel by train, although if we get enough interested people we can hire a mini bus/coach.

There are also plans to cycle there, so if you fancy exercising those limbs let us know!

Food will be provided, although feel free to bring any tasty treats to add to the feast!

Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:30 pm

Are you interested in helping start a project to collect unwanted fruit
from gardens and distribute it to individuals and groups who want it? 
If so, come along to the first meeting this Saturday 14th at 3pm at
Ossory Street allotment in Moss Side (the entrance is on Great Western
Street, near the end which comes off Oxford Road - see http://www.amas.org.uk/manchester_allotments/plots/ossory_street/).

Sunday June 15, 2008
(all day)
Start: 14 Jun 2008 - 12:00pm
End: 22 Jun 2008 - 12:59pm

Bike Week, the annual week to promote cycling across the UK, will be held this year between 14th - 22nd June.  
A cycle fair will launch Manchester's Bike Week activities on Saturday
14th June (11am to 4pm) in Cathedral Gardens, behind Urbis. A cycle
fair will also be held on the same day in Bolton, 11am-3pm, at Victoria
Square.

Monday June 16, 2008
(all day)
Start: 14 Jun 2008 - 12:00pm
End: 22 Jun 2008 - 12:59pm

Bike Week, the annual week to promote cycling across the UK, will be held this year between 14th - 22nd June.  
A cycle fair will launch Manchester's Bike Week activities on Saturday
14th June (11am to 4pm) in Cathedral Gardens, behind Urbis. A cycle
fair will also be held on the same day in Bolton, 11am-3pm, at Victoria
Square.

Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Trafford Council are holding 'environment fairs' at their Neighbourhood Forums.  This is your chance to come down and find out what environmental projects are going on in your area that you can get involved in.  Also find out what improvements the council are making to the doorstep recycling service.

Tuesday June 17, 2008
(all day)
Start: 14 Jun 2008 - 12:00pm
End: 22 Jun 2008 - 12:59pm

Bike Week, the annual week to promote cycling across the UK, will be held this year between 14th - 22nd June.  
A cycle fair will launch Manchester's Bike Week activities on Saturday
14th June (11am to 4pm) in Cathedral Gardens, behind Urbis. A cycle
fair will also be held on the same day in Bolton, 11am-3pm, at Victoria
Square.

Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Trafford Council are holding 'environment fairs' at their Neighbourhood Forums.  This is your chance to come down and find out what environmental projects are going on in your area that you can get involved in.  Also find out what improvements the council are making to the doorstep recycling service.

Start: 8:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm

First formal meeting of SEMA, a new Manchester based campaign
against the expansion of Manchester Airport. They are looking to put
together a coalition of all those opposed to airport expansion -
whether it's on the basis of environmental concerns, pollution, noise
or the other associated impacts.
Contact Martin.