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Show off your label!
www.fairtrade.org.uk/show_off_your_label
The main focus this year is the plight of smallholder cotton farmers in developing countries, who rely on cotton for their livelihoods but must compete against highly subsidised cotton farmers in the United States, the EU and China.
To raise awareness of Fairtrade cotton, we're joining in with a nationwide attempt to create the world's longest ever length of cotton bunting over Fairtrade Fortnight.
Fairtrade Bunting Party
Monday 7 March 5.30 – 7pm on the Civic Floor of Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, WC1H 9JE
The Mayor of Camden, Councillor Jonathan Simpson,
and Councillor Angela Mason, Deputy Leader & Cabinet Member, Sustainability
have sent out invitations to a reception in celebration of Camden’s work on promoting Fairtrade in the borough. You will be able to decorate and sign your bunting, and add to the world record! Fairtrade drinks and snacks will be served, and there will be lots of information about the Fairtrade campaign in Camden.
NB by invitation but do contact camdenfairtrade@googlemail.com for further details.
London’s Fairtrade Red Carpet Moment is taking place Saturday 12 March
12-5pm in Whitgift Square, Whitgift Centre, Croydon
Your opportunity to model Fairtrade clothes, enjoy a 5 minute make-over & walk the red carpet as well as meet Fairtrade producers and sample Fairtrade products.
Fairtrade in Camden Libraries
Fairtrade Display at Heath Library Keats Grove NW3 2RR
+ Sat 5 March 10.30 – 11.30am Fairtrade Cotton Bunting craft session for children (+ carers)
International Women’s Day events at Swiss Cottage Library, 88 Avenue Road, NW3 3HA
Tuesday 8 March 12noon – 7pm a series of displays and events in celebration of women.
Members of the Camden Fairtrade Network are contributing a display and stall on the theme Empowering Women through Fairtrade. Traidcraft products will be on sale 12-2pm and 5-6.30.
Schools
Members of the Camden Fairtrade Network will be running workshops in some schools and visiting Great Ormond Street Hospital – Camden’s first Fairtrade School.
Shops
Look out for Fairtrade promotions and special offers in shops such as the Coop and Waitrose.
Thornton’s Budgens in Haverstock Hill NW3 have a prominent display of their Fairtrade products and have a good supply of this year’s London Fairtrade Guide. Pick up your copy! Posters from the Rosary School added and there'll be a competition...
The People’s Supermarket, the exciting and ambitious new food co-operative (as seen on TV!) in Lamb’s Conduit Street WC1, has about 30 Fairtrade lines for sale including a good range of products from Traidcraft. They’ve got a whole programme of events for Fairtrade Fortnight including film shows, talks and tasters and a Fairtrade Party 2-5pm Saturday 12 March.
Thursday 3 March 7pm - The Fair Trade film of a bereaved woman searching inspriation from African shea butter farmers
Sunday 6 March 3pm - Chocolate-making workshop
Tuesday 8 March 7pm - Black Gold film and Ethiopian coffee ceremony
and Saturday 12 March 2-5pm - Yard Party with a line-up of inspiring speakers, including the director of the Fairtrade Foundation and a delegation of African farmers on tour. Music and entertainment throughout the day - check out the (Fairtrade) tea-leaf readers and bike-powered banana milkshakes.
To book your place for the films and workshop and for further information on Fairtrade activities at TPS
please email rsvp.fairtrade@gmail.com.
Fairtrade in Faith Communities
The Jewish Community Centre for London is hosting Coffee: A Tasty Business
Wed 2 March 7.30 - 9pm in North London Tavern, 375 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7QB
An evening with Cafédirect, pioneers of ethical business. Price: £8 http://www.jcclondon.org.uk/our-events/social-action/fairtrade-fortnight
Women’s World Day of Prayer Friday 4th March 7.30pm Service at Lumen, Regent Square. Each year the material for the service is suggested by women in a different country and this year it’s Chile. Traidcraft supplies wine, raisins, blueberries and honey from Chile as well as handicrafts like scarf/belt buckles and wiggly snakes! There’ll be a Traidcraft stall with products from Chile and around the world to accompany Fairtrade tea, coffee and biscuits after the event.
Big Brew events
Raising Fairtrade awareness and funds for Traidcraft Exchange’s work helping beekeepers in Africa and Latin America build better futures for themselves and their communities.
27 February, 6 & 13 March at St Martin’s Vicar’s Road NW5 4NL
Fairtrade refreshments and Traidcraft stall after their 10.30am Sunday service (c11.30).
6 March after 10.30am service (c11.45) at Hampstead Parish Church NW3 6UU
In addition to the regular 1st Sunday of the month Traidcraft stall there will, on this occasion, be an event in the Crypt Room to include
Honey and Wine tasting – Traidcraft honey and wines from local shops
Sample honey snacks - spiced nuts, flapjacks, cakes and biscuits
And a Quiz for the children - 50p a go
13 March after 10am and 11.30am Masses (c11am – 1pm) at St Mary’s Holly Place NW3 6QU
Enjoy some delicious Fairtrade tea, coffee, cakes and biscuits and learn how bees are helping to bring about positive change in the lives of thousands of producers in the developing world. Includes a Traidcraft stall and Fairtrade information.
Gospel Oak Methodist Church, Agincourt/Lisburne Roads NW3 2NT is hosting
a Fairtrade display for the whole of Fairtrade Fortnight starting on Sunday 27 February.
This church is used by many groups in the week and the display will be seen notably by the Fleet Singers and the Marylebone Birdwatching Society both of which regularly “Show off the label” with their choice of Fairtrade refreshments and sales of Traidcraft products.
Cotton on to Fairtrade - how will you Show off your label?
Camden Fairtrade Network, the Fairtrade London Campaign and the Fairtrade Foundation would all love to hear about your Fairtrade events and activities. And do join us in our activities promoting Fairtrade all year round.
Email: camdenfairtrade@googlemail.com
You can also find Camden Fairtrade Network on Facebook
Follow @camdenfairtrade on Twitter
And picture Fairtrade in Camden on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/camdenfairtrade)
www.camdenfairtrade.org.uk
www.fairtradelondon.org.uk
Last updated 1/3/11
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