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PLUS
•    the gift includes sponsorship of an organic olive sapling in Palestine, where olive trees and their harvest provide the livelihood for entire communities. Your gift recipient will receive a certificate of sponsorship.

One year’s gift subscription to Ethical Consumer costs only £29.95.

It includes six print issues of the magazine with free home delivery and a free digital subscription.* Plus access to all our 180+ buyers’ guides online with daily updated company scores, the stories behind the scores, customisable ratings, and downloadable reports and back issues.

* A digital only subscription does not include a print magazine.

Your gift subscription will start with the March/April issue due out in mid February.

You can renew your subscription by Card or Direct Debit.

If your subscription has lapsed or you are upgrading from a magazine-only subscription, please buy a new subscription. 

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Contact Companies Directly
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Download Back Issues	£4.25 each	£4.25 each
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* What are the Recent (6 months) Buyers' Guides?

Buyers' guides first published in the last 6 months are only available to registered users or subscribers. These are currently clothes shops and jeans, pasta, pasta sauce, printers, wireless routers, baked beans, tinned tomatoes, tinned fruit & veg, tinned pulses.

** What are the Premium Buyers' Guides?

There are currently 15 premium buyers' guides which are only available to subscribers. They are: cars, cookers, dishwashers, fridges, washing machines, TVs, gas boilers, ethical investments, desktop computers, computer monitors, internet tablets, digital cameras, sat navs, solar PV and wind turbines.

Can I get the information you cover elsewhere?

Much of it yes, from the primary sources we collect information from - NGOs and campaign groups, government data, specialist periodicals, company Annual Reports and such like. If you've got the time to do your own research. But you would also miss out on the analysis and context ECRA brings. 

There are also a couple of commercial organisations that claim to provide similar ratings to ours, but these lack our academic rigour and transparency, and barely scratch the surface of what's really going on.  

Will I use my subscription?

Our stats and feedback show that over 90% of web subscribers visit the site at least once a month, and the large majority of our subscribers regularly use Ethical Consumer to help them make purchasing decisions.

Also, unlike an unused gym membership, you'll still be doing something with your subscription - helping all this to happen!

Still not sure?  Subscribe today and if you aren't satisfied just cancel within 4 weeks to get a full refund!

Can I purchase a subscription over the phone?

Yes, just call us on 0161 226 2929 with your credit card details.

How does the Trial Offer work?

You buy a subscription and if you don't want to continue with it you can cancel any time within the first 4 weeks to receive a full refund.  Just telephone us during office hours on 0161 226 2929 and we'll sort it out. 

What are the  'product details and company information'?

These are the interactive in-depth extras that sit behind all of our Buyers' Guides. They help you to understand exactly what the companies behind the brand names are up to.

To see an example click on any of the brand names in the  free laptops report.  You'll then see more detail about the product - click on any of the category stories to see research data we are using to rate the product. Or click on the Company name to see its rating, and drill down further into some of our research data. 

What is a Research Report? 

A downloadable PDF document - usually 30 to 50 pages long - giving the detailed research data behind a buyers' guide. They cost £3 each or are free to subscribers. Here is an example report. 

I just get Ethical Consumer magazine. How do I upgrade my subscription to get full access to the website aswell?

Please take out a new subscription rather than trying to renew. We will then send you your log in details and make sure you don't miss any issues of the magazine.

Do you have any special offers for Schools?

Yes, we offer a couple of options.

If you wish to make the website available to all the users on a school or educational network, we can do so with access restricted by IP address rather than password. This will allow up to 200 simultaneous logins. The cost is currently £85 +VAT (£99.88 in total).

If you want separate password log-ins, which allows customised settings, we offer 30 subscriptions for £300 +VAT - a saving of £600. Please email us  or phone 0161 226 2929 for more information or to subscribe to this service.

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We'd like to hear it! Please email us  or phone 0161 226 2929.