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