Pay what you want for The Mill - and help get us add 1,000 new members

Dear Millers – today we’re launching our first ever Mill Membership Campaign! We’re on the hunt for 1,000 new paying members, and we’ve got a time-limited offer for you.

Upgrade your subscription, and we’ll let you pay what you want for two months – and yes, that includes £0. No strings attached, cancel anytime. 

You’ll get four great editions of Mill journalism every week, including lots of members-only editions, plus access to our comments, invitations to our live events and membership of the greatest community in Manchester: the paid-up Millers who fund everything we do.

We’d love it if you could tell your friends, family and colleagues too. Send them the link to our website, or simply forward this email. They can pay what they want too.

🗞️ 50,000 copies of a special print edition of The Mill have just come off the presses. As I write this, Ophira, Maisy and the two Jacks are putting copies into the hands of commuters on St Peter's Square, and we're hoping Millers will be running around every town, village and suburb with bags full of copies in the coming days.

The point of the campaign is to make the case that Manchester needs and deserves high quality local journalism, and that it’s worth paying for. If you agree, please click that button below and join up to help us get to 1,000.

If we hit our target, we’re going to fulfill a set of pledges that were chosen by our readers. The pledges are our attempt to make Manchester a better place in 2026 — a city where people are better informed, where young people get access to good quality information and where good news is celebrated. Here they are: 

If you’ve been thinking about becoming a member for a while, this is the time to do it. You can choose your price, help us reach our goal, and drive some meaningful social change in the city. Just click that button below.