The Consumer Council Events

Time = 11 - 1pm (Lunch will be provided)

The Consumer Council and the Department for Finance and Personnel are hosting an event to hear people’s views on NIDirect - a new way to contact Government.

With spending power of £14 billion and rising, Northern Ireland consumers are big business. Yet each household here loses £358 every year because they don’t know their consumer rights or complain effectively when things go wrong. The statement came at the prestigious third international Consumer Sciences Research Conference, opened by Eleanor Gill, Chief Executive of the Consumer Council.

On 5 may 2005 the SCD event marked the launch of "I Will if You Will", a new report from the government advisory group, the Sustainable Consumption Roundtable.

One of the themes central to the Consumer Council’s Corporate Plan 2005 – 2008 involves ‘Enabling Consumers to Make Responsible Choices’. This aims to: · Create a better understanding of responsible consumerism; · Use our influence to change expectations and raise standards; · Raise awareness of sustainability in relation to consumer consumption and choices; · Promote a co-ordinated approach; and · Position the Consumer Council as a thought leader and advocate of responsible consumerism.