Fairtrade Fortnight Events 2010
Events notified so far*
Feb 20th St. Marks Church, Green Lane Scarborough is to hold the Big Brew Event at 11 a.m. to 1p.m.
Feb 21st Scarborough Quaker Meeting is having a Fairtrade Feast, commencing at midday
Feb 24th 19.00-21.00 'Go Bananas for Fairtrade' Public Event at Scarborough Library
3.00-4.00 Big Brew Coffee Afternoon @ Holy Nativity C of E Eastfield Scarborough
Feb 27th 10.00- 12.00 'Big Brew' at Cloughton Vicarage
10.00- 16.00 Town centre Stall
South Cliff Methodist Church and St Andrew's United Reformed Church are holding a joint BIG BREW Fairtrade Coffee morning at South Cliff Methodist Hall, Scarborough from 10.15am to be opened by Scarborough's Deputy Mayor Coun. Norman Murphy. FREE entry/refreshments with various stalls and bumper Fairtrade Raffle.
March 1st 10.30-12.00 Hospitality Industry Tasting Event at Whitby Pavilion
March 6th 10.30 -13.00 Fairtrade Coffee morning with Traidcraft Stall and 'Spud n Pud' lunch at Northstead Methodist Church Scarborough
10.00-11.30 Big Brew Coffee morning @ Emmanuel St John's Church,St John's Rd Scarborough
10.00-12.00 Big Brew Coffee morning @ Scalby Methodist Church
14.30- 16.00 'Mad Hatter's Tea Party' at Burniston Methodist Church (Traidcraft Stall)
St Columba's Church Hall, Scarborough 10 a.m. Big Brew 'Mad Hatter's Tea/Coffee Party' with Traidcraft stall, Fairtrade Raffle and Facepainting (cats, white rabbits, dormice etc and inviting kids to dress up).
* Please let us know what events you'll be having to mark Fairtrade Fortnight so we can add them to this list!
WHITBY TASTING EVENT
March 1st 2010 at Whitby Pavilion 10.30 -12noon
Open to members of the Whitby Hospitality Association and Robin Hood's Bay Tourist Association. An opportunity to taste a variety of Fairtrade products, with a brief presentation of the background to, and the need for, Fairtrade.
TOWN CENTRE STALLS
Please note that there will be no town centre Fairtrade stall on February 6th, but catch us on Saturday February 27th during Fairtrade Fortnight!
PUBLIC FAIRTRADE EVENT
WEDNESDAY, 24TH FEBRUARY
Scarborough Library, Vernon Street
"Go bananas for Fairtrade!"
Hear directly about the impact of Fairtrade from Nioka Abbott-Balcombe, a member of the board of directors of WINFA (The Windward Islands Farmers Association), secretary of the Executive Committee of the SVGFTO (St Vincent & the Grenadines Fairtrade Organisation, a WINFA member), and Vice -chair of its Trading arm, WINFARM INVESTMENTS.
Nioka Abbott has been a banana farmer in St Vincent for 23 years. She was one of the first female farmers involved in shipping Fairtrade bananas from St Vincent and has been involved in Fairtrade for the last 10 years. Her farm covers 4.5 acres but because of disease she can now only grow bananas on 2.5 acres. Nioka is secretary of the St Vincent National Fairtrade Committee and chair of her local Fairtrade farmers' group.
The evening will begin with refreshments in the Crush Hall at 7.00pm, along with a stall and a display, then proceed to Nioka Abbott-Balcombe's audio-visual presentation starting at 7.30pm. This will be followed by a Question & Answer session.
Come and hear firsthand about how Fairtrade benefits producers, consumers and retailers alike!
Remember WORLD FAIRTRADE DAY
- Bang the drum!
BUT FIRST....
Fairtrade Fortnight 2010! The Big Swap!
We need to think of another good idea for Fairtrade Fortnight 2010 (February 22nd -March 7th) 'The Big Swap.' The Fairtrade Foundation Website states, "This year's Fairtrade Fortnight is going to be our most ambitious two weeks yet. We want one million and one people to join us in The Big Swap. We'll be asking the nation swap their usual stuff for Fairtrade stuff; their usual wine, sugar, or oranges for Fairtrade wine, sugar or oranges." Every swap will be proof that the UK wants developing world producers to get a better deal."
Any bright ideas gratefully received! and please start thinking what you and your organisation can do to mark FT Fortnight. To inspire you here are two short films from The Fairtrade Foundation: one for businesses, and one for consumers:
Our national award!
We were awarded £500 as national winners of the Most Imaginative Campaign for Fairtrade Fortnight 2009! with the schools poster competition.
In this picture by Moe Kafer, Ruth Fairchild, our treasurer, receives the award from (L to R) George Alagiah, BBC presenter and Fairtrade campaigner; Andrea Wilkinson of Shared Interest Foundation; and Harriet Lamb, Executive Director of the Fairtrade Foundation, at the Fairtrade Supporter Conference in London on 10 October.
We were told,
'The judges were impressed with the original twist that you gave your poster competition and the way that you linked it to World Fair Trade Day later in the year. You got a huge number of young people involved through inviting them to participate in the competition and then displaying the posters in outlets for people to vote on. We thought this was a really clever idea and one that other groups would take inspiration from.'
Thank you to all who took part and contributed in any way to this event.
A campaign group by any other name...!
We want to affirm that we are working within a Borough context and to that end we have decided to change the name of the group from The Scarborough Fairtrade Action group to The Borough of Scarborough Fairtrade Group.