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Make payment when you order, and if not delighted you can cancel by phone or email within 30 days for a full no-questions refund! Save 13% by Direct Debit and pay just £29.95, or you can pay £34.50 by card or PayPal.

  • 6 issues of Ethical Consumer Magazine in print and/or digital format
  • 12 months full access to all Shopping Guides and Company Profiles
  • Special discount offers from selected Best Buy companies.
  • Digital versions of our entire catalogue of back issues.
  • Help fund our research and campaigning.

Options for renewing your subscription

If you have had a renewal email or letter from us, use the button below. Save 13% by Direct Debit and pay just £29.95, or else renew for £34.50 by card or PayPal.

Or download a Direct Debit Form to renew by Paper Direct Debit for £29.95 (UK only). Direct Debit payments save us administration costs, so we can offer you a 13% discount on the usual price.

Switching between Digital and Print? If when renewing you wish to change from a Digital-only subscription to also getting the Print magazine, or vice-versa, please either call our subscriptions team on 0161 226 2929 (during office hours), or begin a new subscription.

If your subscription has lapsed, please begin a new subscription. If you are signed-in to the website we will pre-fill some of your details on the order form.

Inspire someone with the gift of a year's subscription to Ethical Consumer

Identical to a standard subscription.

Your lucky person will be able to access the website (and digital copies of the magazine) as soon as you send them the activation email. For a print subscription you can also tell us the Issue to begin with.

Every gift subscription also includes sponsorship of an organic olive sapling in Palestine, through the Palestinian Fair Trade Association. Your gift recipient will receive a certificate of sponsorship.

Call us on 0161 226 2929 to set up a Direct Debit for £29.95 and save 13%. Or pay online by card or PayPal for £34.50.

We will take payment when you order, but you can cancel by phone or email within 30 days for a full no-questions-asked refund!

What people say about Ethical Consumer

I trust Ethical Consumer more than any other news source. I also believe that not buying stuff from unethical producers is an effective action for change.

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Mark Rylance, actor and director

My Ethical Consumer membership was some of the best money I ever spent. I consult your site before I buy almost anything, and it's wonderfully useful for those of us looking for trustworthy information on Ethical purchasing.

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Essential reading for everyone that believes in democracy and citizen power as a way to create a truly sustainable society.

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Charles Secrett, former Executive Director, Friends of the Earth

I've subscribed to Ethical Consumer for about a year now.  I just want to say well done and keep up the good work, to you and your team. Ethical consumption is such a confusing area for a lay person like me, and your magazine helps me to frame the issues and make up my mind, based on the information available. Thank you.

Ali, subscriber

A mind-boggling thoroughness and integrity that makes everyone else look like a Charlatan.

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Lucy Siegle, Guardian / BBC journalist

I have been a subscriber for about 18 months now, and just wanted to say how good the banking report was. It really is a very good way of opening our eyes to what is going on and I have been able to use it effectively when trying to create changes in people's attitudes.

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Ethical Consumer magazine is one of the most addictive and important magazines I've ever read. They're opening my eyes to so many more problems and solutions to building a better world. Subscribe!

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Pippa Moyle, Founder of City Girl Network

I want you to know that I use Ethical Consumer website prior to all of my purchases and find it incredibly useful in steering me away from global companies who disregard human decency, animal welfare and environmental safeguarding. I understand due to the incredible complexities of this current global economic system that unpicking the web of dirty economic dealings is incredibly difficult but let me assure you that your efforts are greatly appreciated!

Ross Lane, subscriber

A real inspiration and a helpful guide to an increasingly complex world!

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About subscriptions

Our mission is to help consumers make informed ethical choices, support campaigners challenging corporate power, enable progressive businesses and charities to check their supply chains, and drive corporates to improve their behaviour.

We have achieved a lot since 1989, and with your help we can do much more.

Each subscription not only gives you unique, trusted and independent information. It also helps to fund our campaigns and other work, such as the Fair Tax Mark.

As a subscriber, you can also become a member of Ethical Consumer, a completely independent not-for-profit co-operative at the heart of the ethical consumer movement.

When you buy a subscription and we take the payment when you order.

If you don't want to continue with it you can cancel any time within the first 30 days to receive a full refund.

To cancel just telephone us during office hours on 0161 226 2929 or email shop@ethicalconsumer.org

 

Outside of the United Kingdom, you will receive exactly the same subscription, with the same 30 day trial period.

The only difference is that if you choose a Print subscription it will cost more, owing to the cost of sending you the print copy by Airmail. 

Digital Only subscription = £34.50

Print Magazine + Digital subscription to any address worldwide = £45.95

NB: Print magazine subscription deliveries after July 2021 to EU countries may be subject to local delivery tax charges due to Brexit. Sorry. We are working on a solution to this. Digital only subscriptions may be more practical, in the short term, for these countries.

If you want to take out multiple subscriptions, we offer discounts for schools, colleges, universities and organisations. We have two options for institutional subscriptions.

Option 1

An institutional subscription can be accessed by up to 40 individuals concurrently. There is one login that would be shared by multiple users.

The account would be managed through a single point of contact, who would have responsibility for managing the account details and logins for the users.

What your organisation will receive:

> 6 issues of Ethical Consumer Magazine in print (1 copy per issue).
> 12 months full access to all online Shopping Guides and Company Profiles.
> Access to digital versions of the latest magazine and our entire catalogue of back issues.

The cost for this subscription is £145.00 (excl VAT) per year. Additionally, we are able to offer one complimentary printed magazine per issue as part of this subscription.

Option 2 - digital only

The account would be managed through a single point of contact, but users would have responsibility for managing the account details and logins for the users.

What your organisation will receive:

> 12 months full access to all online Shopping Guides and Company Profiles.
> Access to digital versions of the latest magazine and our entire catalogue of back issues.
> You will be eligible for 10 individual Digital only accounts, where each of the 10 users will receive their own account linked to their email.

The cost for this is £145.00 (excl VAT) per year.


How to set up your subscription

Please contact our subscriptions team on 0161 226 2929 within office hours (weekdays 10am to 4.30pm) or by email. 

We require the contact details for the nominated person (name, email and postal address). We are able to invoice for the subscription so require details of where the invoice should be sent.