 |
|
Fairtrade Fortnight
25 February to 9 March 2008
CHANGE TODAY -
CHOOSE FAIRTRADE
Fairtrade
products are becoming a great success story (there are nearly 3,000
now) but we still want to make sure people know about them and buy
them. That’s what Fairtrade Fortnight is all about.
It’s a
great opportunity to organise your own
event of some kind (like a coffee
morning). See the Fairtrade Foundation website
www.fairtrade.org.uk
where you can download an action guide which is full of ideas and
see all the free resources available.
The local
Fairtrade groups are pushing to persuade more
cafes
and restaurants
to serve FT products so please help by asking for them whenever you
get a chance. They’ll be producing a
new guide
for Portsmouth so let them know if you can use copies.
They’d also
like to see more schools taking on the challenge to become
Fairtrade schools.
There are loads of good ideas on
www.fairtradeschools.net
and members of the local group are happy to help. Contact Sue James
on 92 250267 or
sue.james@yahoo.com
if you’d like to discuss this.
Programme of Events |
|
Fairtrade
stall in the
Cascades Shopping Centre
every day during the Fortnight |
|
Recipe
competition :
Do
you have original recipe ideas, using Fairtrade ingredients?
We’ll be awarding prizes for the best and making sure people get a
chance to taste them during the Fortnight.
Send in your recipe
ideas to
sue.james@yahoo.com
or post to Jane Singh at Portsmouth Visitor Information Centre, The
Hard, Portsmouth PO1 3QJ
|
|
Fair
Trade Wine Tasting evening
Thursday 28 Feb ,
From 7.30 - 9.30 pm
at
Christ Church Milton URC
(corner of Milton
Rd/Edgeware Rd)
cost
£5.00:
Do
come along and check out the range of Fairtrade wines now available.
For
information and tickets contact Chris on 023 92 817 288 (x4) or
sue.james@yahoo.com |
|
Fairtrade Coffee Morning
in aid of Action
Aid.
Friday
29 Feb
Portsmouth
Visitor Information Centre, The Hard, Portsmouth PO1 3QJ
|
|
Fairtrade
Fortnight Special Showing of the film:
Black Gold
Wednesday
5 March
No 6 Cinema Portsmouth Naval Base |
 |
|
From
6.30 there will be
Free Ethiopian Coffee and Fairtrade biscuits
Film
at 7.00
Followed by a
debate:
Fairtrade? Organic? Local?
As westerners revel in designer lattes and cappuccinos, impoverished
Ethiopian coffee growers suffer the bitter taste of injustice. In
this eye-opening expose of the multi-billion dollar industry, Black
Gold traces one man's fight for a fair price.
Winner of the British Independent Film Awards for Best Achievement
in Production 2007
Free Ethiopian Coffee and Fairtrade biscuits from 6.30 Film 7.00,
followed by debate: Fairtrade? Organic? Local?
Prices: £5 adults, £2.50 school groups. |
|
Fairtrade Food Fair
Saturday
8 March, 10.30 to 2.30
at Havant
United Reformed Church |
|
See
www.portsmouthfairtrade.org.uk
for fuller lists later.
Watch this
space for updates!
|
|
What went on in Fairtrade Fortnight 2007
|
|
Congratulations to the
Fairtrade Fortnight Competition
winner, Miss S Lashly |
-
Stall in
the Cascades Shopping Centre
every day from 27/2
-
Display in Portsmouth Central
Library
-
Stalls at the University
and local libraries
|
|
Thursday 1st March 7pm to 9 pm |
The Future of Fairtrade,
Discussion at the University of Portsmouth Park Building,
organised by the People & Planet Group
Admission free – collection
To see a map of the building
|
Speakers included:
Simeon Greene of Windward
Bananas
Philip
Warren of Traidcraft and Tim Dawes of the Green Party.
Others tbc
|
|
Friday 2nd March
7 pm to 9 pm
|
|
Fairtrade wine-tasting,
South Downs College Restaurant. Tickets £7.50 to raise money
for Oxfam water projects. With speaker Greg Valerio on
Fairtrade jewellery.
|
 |
|
Friday 9th March
9.30 to 12.30
|
Coffee
morning
at Portsmouth Visitor Centre, The Hard, Portsmouth |
|
Friday 9th March
7.30 to
10.00
|
Fairtrade Family Ceilidh
with the Blarney Band at Portsmouth Irish Club, Elm Grove.
Tickets £7.00 (or £3.50 under 16) including refreshments. |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
If you’d like to organise a speaker, a quiz, a coffee
morning, why not contact us for a chat |
To
see a
list of all the
films
linked to Fairtrade shown at the New Park Cinema in Chichester
|
|
Download a poster to display (all
events)
Download a poster for the Future of Fairtrade event
Download a
poster for the ceilidh
|
|
To download materials from the Fairtrade
Foundation |
|
|
