Welcome
Welcome to Free Manchester! This website aims to present alternatives to rampant consumerism. We wish to challenge the commonly held belief that consumerism and conformity are so deeply embedded in our everyday life that there are no alternatives. We aim to do this by providing you with practical options and advice on how to break the cycle of mainstream living. Our options take you beyond the high street, brand-named commodities to a sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives that exists on your doorstep, fulfils your needs and helps your local community.
Upcoming events & stuff:
***** Buy Nothing Day - 29th November 2008 – *****
1-3pm The Triangle, Manchester City Centre – free stall! all welcome :)
SUST SWAP SHOP COMING UP Get a new wardrobe for Spring
Sust Swap Shop takes place between 5.45 and 7pm on the 14th April at the Eighth Day Café on Oxford Road. Swappers should bring at least three pieces or pay £1 and pick up as many of everyone else’s as they like for free. Any items left at the end will be donated to charity or recycled. This event is open to anyone.
FREE but donations welcomThe Swap Shop is a simple way of reusing old clothes. It’s a collaboration between Action for Sustainable Living, Manchester Friends of the Earth and the Make Trade Fair Society at Manchester University.
DID YOU KNOW that it’s great if you pass on your clothes to charity shops, but that you can do even more by actually using second-hand clothes. An issue for British charity shops is that only 10-20 per cent of their clothes are actually resold in the UK.
“Because new clothes are so cheap it doesn’t always make financial sense to recycle. Statistics say recycling is now a declining market. But we think that it still makes sense to the environment”, says Hanna Backman, a lead volunteer for the Swap Shop events.
VOLUNTEERS are always needed. Turn up early (from 5.15pm) to help out on the night. To hand out flyers in your own time before the event, please email sustswapshop@afsl.org.uk
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The Freecycle Networkâ„¢ is made up of 4,171 groups with 4,102,000 members across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. |
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Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to nonviolent social change. Food Not Bombs has no formal leaders and strives to include everyone in its decision making process. Each group recovers food that would otherwise be thrown out and makes fresh hot vegetarian meals that are served in outside in public spaces to anyone without restriction. Each independent group also serves free vegetarian meals at protests and other events. Contact fnb@jrogerson.force9.co.uk at ManchesterFood Not Bombs Collective. |