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Gosport Fairtrade
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Celebrating Fairtrade
status for the Borough of Gosport!
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Fairtrade
in Gosport
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BE PART OF OUR FAIRTRADE ACTIVITIES
MAKE IT HAPPEN IN GOSPORT !
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Saturday 28
Feb. 10 am—12 noon
Fair Trade Fair
at Lee-on-the-Solent Methodist Church Hall.
Stalls selling Fairly Traded food and
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St Vincent College – for
Students and Staff:
Tuesday Feb. 24th
1.15 – 1.55
Information stall, product tasting and PowerPoint about Fairtrade
Tuesday March 3rd
1.15 – 1.55
Presentation about cotton from Phillip Warren of Traidcraft,
recently returned from India |
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- Visit the
Exhibition
about Fairtrade in Gosport
at the Discovery Centre |
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- Look out for:
Special Promotions
of Fairtrade products
in local supermarkets,
shops and cafés. |
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Compete in
Pub Quizzes around the town
for Fairtrade
prizes
Look out for posters in your favourite pub
or ask them to contact us for details |
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Please click on the headings listed below to find out more: |
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What is
Gosport
Fairtrade Action?
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Next meeting of
the Steering Group is on 18th February,
2009, at the Town Hall to
finalise arrangements for Fairtrade Fortnight and plan future
events. |
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Future
events |
FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT
2008 |
Report of EVENTS
Fairtrade
Fortnight 2007
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We've done it!
Gosport
became a
FAIRTRADE
Borough
on Friday 18th January
2008
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in Jan 2009 we
applied to renew our Fairtade Status - with more cafes and new shops
News
of Celebrations
click above for
more |
Some members of Gosport Fairtrade Action with the
Certificate of Fairtrade Borough Status |
Some members of Gosport Fairtrade Action
with the Mayor, Councillor Keith Gill, planting the "Fairtrade Tree"
in Falkland Gardens on 30th April 2008
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Celebrate
Gosport's new
Fairtrade
Borough Status
in
FAIRTRADE
FORTNIGHT
2008
25
February
- 9
March
CHANGE TODAY
CHOOSE
FAIRTRADE |
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Click on
Report of
EVENTS
in
Fairtrade
Fortnight 2007
IN GOSPORT
to see what
happened
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BE PART
OF OUR
FAIRTRADE ACTIVITIES
MAKE
IT HAPPEN
IN GOSPORT
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Gosport Fairtrade
Action
was set up on May 8th 2006 by people
from Gosport with the aim of promoting Fairtrade and achieving
Fairtrade status for the Borough of Gosport. It achieved that
on 18 January 2008
Our members
come from a range of voluntary organisations,
schools, youth
organisations,
businesses,
various political parties and
different religious
groups.
If
you would like to be involved
in any way with Gosport
Fairtrade Action please
contact us
The
Gosport
Fairtrade Action
Newsletter
can be read
here.
Please contact
us
if you
would like to receive one
regularly.
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What does being a FAIRTRADE
Borough mean for Gosport?
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GOALS
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The Borough
Council passed a resolution to support Fairtrade and
it serves Fairtrade
products, such as coffee and tea, at its meetings and in its offices The
resolution was passed on 4th October 2006.
click on
the Gosport logo for details
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A range of Fairtrade products are sold in about 30 shops
(target was 16)
and
in 10 cafés and catering establishments (target
was 8).
We have exceeded the
targets
[but we'd really like
more cafes, pubs and restaurants to join in].
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A number of local work places and community organisations use
Fairtrade products.
[Most Churches do and a few
schools, voluntary organisations and businesses
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would be good to have lots more] |
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Fairtrade activities attract media coverage and popular support
[plenty
but
always room for more]
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Ensure continued commitment to Fairtrade borough status.
[we
have a great team
but would welcome more people particularly from
Lee-on-the-Solent and Rowner/ Bridgemary] |
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Survey of
shops
and catering establishments
[Goal 2]
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We have a
DIRECTORY
of shops which sell Fairtrade products and of cafes,
pubs and
restaurants that serve
Fairtrade
refreshments.
Please
let us know
if you are aware of any others that
offer at least two Fairtrade
marked
products.
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Suppliers for small
shops and caterers
[Goal 2] |
Do you run a
small shop, cafe, restaurant or pub?
Looking for suppliers of
Fairtrade products? You can check
HERE
on suppliers
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Survey of:
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businesses,
- community
organisations
- Schools
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Youth
-General public
[Goal 3]
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We
need to be able to demonstrate that local businesses and community
organisations [including, for example schools], are using Fairtrade
products.
Please
let us know
if
you are aware of any that do.
Contact us if you
would like a 'Fairtrade at Work' pack.
You can find a
list of suppliers of Fairtrade suppliers
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Schools
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Schools
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There's a great new website for
you
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/schools/
for
ideas, resources and information on how to
become a
Fairtrade School
Resources include a detailed
action guide. poster and fliers and a powerpoint presentation.
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GFA
can help you too:
GFA
can provide speakers,
PowerPoint presentations for different age groups and someone to talk to
about how to become a Fairtrade school
GFA has a travelling
exhibition
about Fairtrade:
it contains
posters:
(which can also be used in A4 format as work sheets)
- what Fairtrade is;
- the
benefits - with
case studies of:
bananas from the Windward Islands,
fruit juice from Cuba
sugar from Costa
Rica
tea from Sri
Lanka;
women and coffee in Nicaragua
- What it means for Gosport to be a Fairtrade Borough.
There is a
quiz based on the information in the exhibition.
If you would like to
borrow it, please
contact us
If you would
like a
GFA
speaker,
please
contact us
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St
John's Primary School did
a Fairtrade Project from September to October,07. They borrowed the
GFA
exhibition
and had a GFA speaker. The pupils work was outstanding from T
shirts decorated with
a Fairtrade theme to persuasive letters explaining
the benefits of Fairtrade to the School Staff. Their
campaign worked; the
staff voted overwhelmingly to become a Fairtrade Staff Room. Well done,
all of you.
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Youth |
The July 8th,2006,
Alive and Kicking
event in Walpole Park
provided an opportunity to have a stall
to tell the public what we are about.
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 Thanks
to Fiona Coughlin for photo |
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We had an exhibition,
leaflets about becoming a Fairtrade Borough and leaflets to promote
Fairtrade.
The stall was thronged all day. The quiz competition to win a
hamper of Fairtrade products attracted
125 entries.
Thanks
to the generosity of Asda, the Co-op [Lee-on-the-Solent branch], Morrisons,
Spice of Life and Waitrose, we were able to award two Prize Hampers
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Congratulations to the
winners!
All entrants received a free banana,
thanks to the Windward Islands Growers' Association
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Youth Festival 7th July 07
Competitions attracted
lots of attention as illustrated here:
to guess the
number of Fairtrade labels on the coat made by the Youth
Council
[LEFT]
[winner Lara Cain]
and [BELOW]
- a quiz based on
information about Fairtrade on the display. [Winner: Helen Pottle]
[Photos - Sarah Hirom]
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General Public |
A
"Fairtrade Coffee Morning" for shoppers and the
general public was
hosted by the Worshipful Mayor of Gosport in the Civic Wing of the
Gosport Town Hall on Saturday 2nd. Sept. 2006, from 9am - 1pm.
Fairtrade tea, coffee and cakes were
served. Gosport Charities had stalls.
Gosport
Fairtrade Action
had an
exhibition about Fairtrade, a stall selling Fairtrade and Traidcraft goods;
and provided a raffle prize of Fairtrade products.
The
Mayor held similar "Fairtrade Coffee Morning" on Saturday, 25th
November, 2006, in aid of her Charities and up until May 2007.
Gosport
Fairtrade Action's
stall sold Fairtrade and Traidcraft goods.
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A Public Meeting was held on 9th Nov 2006 in the
Council Chamber of Gosport Town Hall to explain:
why
Fairtrade is needed
how it
helps reduce poverty
how Gosport
can help by becoming a Fairtrade Borough.
The Council Chamber was full with over sixty people. They heard
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Caroline Lucas,
MEP, about the need for trade justice for developing country producers
and how Fairtrade provides a model of trade relations which are fair
for producers and consumers. |
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Simeon Greene of
Windward Bananas showed how Fairtrade had saved the banana industry in
the Windward Islands and how producers and their communities now
thrive and develop. |
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Bruce Crowther,
Fairtrade Foundation, explained what the
fairtrade
Mark guarantees and what was involved in becoming a Fairtrade town |
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The Mayor, Councillor
June Cully, chaired the meeting and reaffirmed the commitment of the
Council and
Gosport Fairtrade Action
to help Gosport achieve
Fairtrade status for the Borough. |
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Click
here for a fuller
report of the meeting and what the speakers said. |
list of Fairtrade
town goals
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Report of events in
FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT
26 Feb – 11 March,
2007 in
Gosport
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