Fairtrade Fortnight 2014 - Stick with Foncho!
Fairtrade Fortnight 2014 runs from Monday 24th February to Sunday 9th March
This year's theme is 'Abolish the Unfair Banana'.
What is a fair banana? We love bananas – in fact they’re our favourite fruit. In the UK alone we eat over five billion a year.
In the last 10 years, the UK supermarket sector has almost halved the shelf price of loose bananas while the cost of producing them has doubled, trapping many of the farmers and workers who grow them in a cycle of poverty. Does that sound fair to you?
This campaign aims to transform the banana industry. We want to make bananas fair. This means that every banana farmer and worker earns enough to have a decent standard of living, works in conditions that are safe and has rights and benefits. It also means bananas are produced in a way that is environmentally sustainable too.
More information can be found on the Stick with Foncho website - http://foncho.fairtrade.org.uk/
This year's theme is 'Abolish the Unfair Banana'.
What is a fair banana? We love bananas – in fact they’re our favourite fruit. In the UK alone we eat over five billion a year.
In the last 10 years, the UK supermarket sector has almost halved the shelf price of loose bananas while the cost of producing them has doubled, trapping many of the farmers and workers who grow them in a cycle of poverty. Does that sound fair to you?
This campaign aims to transform the banana industry. We want to make bananas fair. This means that every banana farmer and worker earns enough to have a decent standard of living, works in conditions that are safe and has rights and benefits. It also means bananas are produced in a way that is environmentally sustainable too.
More information can be found on the Stick with Foncho website - http://foncho.fairtrade.org.uk/
Resources
If you are thinking of raising awareness of fairtrade, here are three handy guides to help you - one for churches; one for schools and universities and one general campaign guide.
Click on the appropriate image to download the pdf guide.
Click on the appropriate image to download the pdf guide.
Events in Bury during Fairtrade Fortnight
Monday 24th February
Red Rose Club: Annual General Meeting with Fairtrade Product Tasting Session
Monday 24th February - Friday 7th March
Fairfield Hospital: Fairtrade Product Tasting (Wine Choc bars and biscuits) and distribution of beverages to wards and departments to encourage use of Fairtrade products for breaks.
Friday 7 and Saturday 8 March
The annual two day publicity event at the Millgate Centre near the Oxfam entrance. We meet hundreds of shoppers there every year, ply them with Fairtrade chocolate, then chat about the work of the group and the Fairtrade movement.
Saturday 8 March
Brandlesholme Methodist Church: Sale of Traidcraft products and fundraising buffet.
If you are organising a fairtrade event or know of one happening during Fairtrade Fortnight, please get in touch via the Contact Page to let us know about it!
Red Rose Club: Annual General Meeting with Fairtrade Product Tasting Session
Monday 24th February - Friday 7th March
Fairfield Hospital: Fairtrade Product Tasting (Wine Choc bars and biscuits) and distribution of beverages to wards and departments to encourage use of Fairtrade products for breaks.
Friday 7 and Saturday 8 March
The annual two day publicity event at the Millgate Centre near the Oxfam entrance. We meet hundreds of shoppers there every year, ply them with Fairtrade chocolate, then chat about the work of the group and the Fairtrade movement.
Saturday 8 March
Brandlesholme Methodist Church: Sale of Traidcraft products and fundraising buffet.
If you are organising a fairtrade event or know of one happening during Fairtrade Fortnight, please get in touch via the Contact Page to let us know about it!