Fairtrade in Churches past events
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Traidcraft at St Dominic's Priory
The Traidcraft Stall in September 2008 had a range of products on sale and the opportunity to order from the new catalogue with extra discounts on craft orders. With further orders gathered by email from colleagues and contacts the Traidcraft Fair Trader was able to place nearly £700 worth of orders at the end of September - all contributing to Traidcraft's work with the poorest of communities in developing countries. Similar stalls gave the opportunity to order from the new catalogues in spring and autumn 2009.
The 11am - 12noon stall on Mothering Sunday in March 2009 featured chocolate hearts and mini eggs. A total £115 worth of goods were sold. The Feast of St Francis 4th October at Our Lady Help of Christians, Kentish Town
The church organised a Green Fair in 2008 they welcomed the offer of a stall from local Traidcraft Fair Trader. The stall displayed a range of products - bangles and purses as well as snacks, spreads, teas and coffees. There was information about where to find Fairtrade products in Camden and the London Fairtrade Guide was distributed but, on this occasion, the focus was on Traidcraft, the Christian-based organisation which has been fighting poverty through trade for nearly 30 years and goes the extra mile when it come to supporting and developing communities and influencing change in the ways we trade.
In 2009 the church marked the Feast of St Francis with a whole weekend focusing on Climate Change. Fairtrade products were on sale after every Mass over the weekend and at the Pet Blessing in the garden on the Sunday afternoon.
Fairtrade at St Mary's Primrose Hill
At the Primrose Hill Designer Sale each December stalls include one selling Traidcraft products: Fairtrade foods and snacks and fairly traded crafts. Marion Hill, Traidcraft Fair Trader from RC St Dominic's Priory joins local Fair Trader, Ruth Kitching, at this event organised by the C of E church of St Mary's Primrose Hill.
Trinity Coffee Shop This no longer happens every month. It was hoped that it would still happen on about 4 occasions a year but hall bookings currently make this impossible. During Fairtrade Fortnight 2009 and again for Christian Week in May 2009, Trinity did however open 10.30 - 12.30 offering Saturday morning shoppers and market visitors as well as church people and friends a Fairtrade cuppa and homemade cakes.
In Fairtrade Fortnight the Coffee Shop raised £20 for Traidcraft Exchange in addition to the £75 sales made on the Traidcraft stall. At the Christian Aid Coffee Shop I sold over £40 of Traidcraft products and donated my £5 profit to the funds raised for Christian Aid.
World Fair Trade Day 9 May 2009 Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church held an afternoon Fairtrade Coffee Shop and Traidcraft Stall in the foyer and showed Fairtrade Foundation and other films in the church. They also stood outside the church offering freebies to bemused passersby. CTIC Fairtrade Donations
CTIC offered a raffle prize of £10 worth of Traidcraft products
for the Fairtrade Tea Dance at the Camden Green Fair in June 2008. Over £100 worth of Traidcraft goods - including toilet paper, kitchen towels and tissues as well as pasta, tea, coffee, biscuits, Geobars, Fairbreak caramel wafers and fruit and nut snack packs - were donated to C4WS (Community of Camden Churches Cold Weather Shelter) Dec/Jan 2009. This was offered as a £100 donation from CTIC.
Last updated 22/1/10
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