Fairtrade - a thank you

Thank you to everyone who came along and supported the Festive Fairtrade Fair at BoltonMethodist Church on 22^nd November. We made £549.40 in Fairtrade sales and took £52.15 in donations for Traidcraft Exchange.

The next event planned is a Fairtrade Big Brew to take place on Saturday 28^th February in the morning at Thackley Methodist Church. This will coincide with Fairtrade Fortnight, which takes place from 23^rd February to 8^th March. The message for the 2015 campaign will be, “Choose Products that Change Lives” – to celebrate the power of everyday choices by telling the other half of a product’s story – the producer’s – to show the difference Fairtrade makes. This is a difference that I saw first-hand on my recent trip to Ghana, where I met cocoa farmers, palm oil producers and banana farmers. Fairtrade really does make a difference!

Ruth H, Calverley

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