We held our AGM on June 8th. Part from the usual business of the meeting was an outline given by Bernadette Fagan of our planned activities for the coming year. We will have a pitch, shared with Caldbeck Fairtrade Campaign, at the Agricultural Show in...
In December Keswick Fair Trade Campaign had a stall at the Victorian Fayre, sharing it with the Caldbeck Fair World Shop. The Fair World Shop sold a goodly number of fair trade products while the campaign called attention to the needs of Fairtrade farmers and...
You may like to use your creativity to join in with this idea: the aim is to put pressure on the G7 when they meet in Cornwall on June 11th to tackle Covid19, the climate emergency and global injustice and inequality - such as the...
Fairtrade Fortnight this year was, of course, different. The Fairtrade Foundation made good use of technology to offer a Festival of webinars on the theme of Choose the World you Want. These are available on the FTF website www.fairtrade.org.uk/choose-the-world-you-want. The message was an encouragement to...
This has been a strange and thorny year for us all. Most of us have probably been focused on ways to endure the trials of COVID-19. Yet we are well aware that around the world there are people who have less capacity to cope with...
If you would like to keep track of FairTrade updates, news, information, and local events via social media, please follow our Facebook page or look out for updates on Twitter. With FairTrade Fortnight just a few weeks away we will be sharing ways you can...
The Fairtrade Foundation has provided this information about Fairtrade during the coronavirus:- 1. Farmers and workers have been receiving advice and support through their local Fairtrade Producer Network. These Networks operate in Africa, Latin America and Asia, and each body is working hard to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic will...
Fairtrade Fortnight began for the Keswick Fair Trade Campaign with a service at Southey Street Methodist Church. Joyce Ellis took the service and Roy Ellis, who was an active member of the campaign in its early days and was a lead on making Cumbria a...
Fairtrade Fortnight will start on Monday February 24th and finish on Sunday March 8th. The purpose of Fairtrade Fortnight is, of course, to remind people about the importance of Fairtrade to producers in the developing world. This is what is happening in and around Keswick during...