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Leicester Friends of the Earth are part of a national network of over 200 local Friends of the Earth groups throughout the country.

Friends of the Earth is the most influential national environmental campaigning organization in the UK and part of the most extensive environmental campaigning network in the world, with more than 2 million members & supporters world wide and sister organizations in 69 countries. Over 90% of our income comes from individuals.

Friends of the Earth seeks to inspire solutions to environmental problems, which also make life better for people. We are concerned about both the environment and social justice.  We work for a future where the needs of everyone can be met in a sustainable way and where there is still space for other species.

At the 2007 FoE Local Groups Conference Leicester Friends of the Earth received an award, as Local Group of the Year.  (See photo above, in which Doug is modeling one of the gas masks used in our anti-incinerator campaign). In 2007 we also received an award from Leicester Environment Partnership for our climate change campaigning and in March 2008 we received an award from the same body for our bio-fuels campaign.

We meet at 7.30 pm, every 3rd Tuesday of the month. Meetings are normally at Wellington Street Adult Education Center, but check here for updates during academic holidays, as Wellington Street is sometimes closed.  Non-members are very welcome to attend and find out more about our activities.

Details of other forthcoming events can be found in the latest newsletter

Guide to the site

In the column on the left of each page are links to all the main pages on the site. These include pages on a range of issues and major campaign areas, a page of thoughts on media work, a page of notes on site design and an archive of documents such as press releases and newsletters.  If you are interested in a topic, which doesn't yet have its own page, you may still find something in the archive.

In the column on the right of each page you can find a range of useful external links relevant to that page (or an index to the archive, on the archive page).   On some pages, where I have already filled the right hand column with external links, I have also included further external links in the lower part of the left hand column, after the site index.

Contact Details for group members with specific roles can be found at the bottom of this page.  There are links to this contact information in the top right hand corner of each page and at the end of each section.  

Two very active former members are abroad at the momment, but both are publishing blogs, about their adventures, so the contact section also includes links to their blogs.  Steve is in Nepal, with his partner, Mel, doing VSO.   Charlotte is hitching across the Atlantic on sailing ships, to visit relatives in the Carribean, without adding to her carbon footprint. 

To protect them from bots mining e-mail addresses for spaming purposes all e-mail addresses on this site have a section reading DELETE or DELETE_TO_USE.  Clicking on e-mail addresses/links should open a new message proforma, but you need to delete DELETE, or DELETE_TO_USE before sending.  

Finally, many thanks to Scott for hosting our site on his server space.