Well I have a cautious view of LSPs too - but mainly because they are dominated by local councils, thus exacerbating the problems they are meant to solve. In...
Oh well, I'm sorry your experience has been so negative, Richard. You don't say where you are. Of course there are large numbers of Cllrs (in fact any groups...
has anyone had any koy convincung wholesalers to stock fairtrade. We are battling the cafe problem and are thinking of tackling the wholesalers at the same...
Dear All, One of our volunteers (and no cracks about mean Aberdonians!) was incensed at being charged 90p for one single Geobar in a station chain outlet down...
Yes I was charged 90p at a Costa outlet just in the British Library precincts. When I protested he just gesticulated at the Fair Trade Mark, as if that was...
Not in stations - but someone told me about a Geobar costing £1.10 here in a Bolton coffee shop - I haven't managed to check it out and express my feelings...
I've experienced this too but forget the details. I do feel we should make our feelings known about this sort of overcharging. There are still people out ...
It's difficult to see how Fairtrade can control mark-ups on products once they have been sold by the licensees - the products can change hands several times...
We are struggling to manage our steering group, which was successfully set up with the help of a very focussed volunteer who chaired the first two meetings but...
Jackie, Is your local authority involved at all? Here at Camden we act as the secretariat for Camden's Fairtrade network and I chair the meetings. It may be...
Our local Cafe Rouge have said they could potentially use Fairtrade products and are contacting Head Office. Our local Whittards (which has only one Fairtrade...
Jackie A common problem I guess As always a few dedicated volunteers are going to do most of the work. Many of the others are luminaries who lend tone by...
Sorry to hear about your problems Jackie. In Bolton we have 2 groups - a campaign group which does the month to month leg work and organising etc and the...
Dear Fairtrade Townies We (Milton Keynes Fairtrade Forum) have just published the results opf a survey into consumer attitudes to Fairtrade and production ...
we have a chair, secretary, treasurer and media person. However this is half the group. All the people volunteered for their posts. We have five very committed...
Dear All, After all the work, publicity, events, targets reached and general presence we have in our borough we're putting together a package to bid for FT ...
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Jun 14, 2005 7:59 am
Glad to hear that Olu and we look forward to receiving it! I have attached our Newsletter from July of last year just in case you never received it. It has...
Jim, I like your idea of 2 groups. Maybe this is what we should do now we have Fairtrade status. ... Jeannette James Co-ordinator, Kingston Fairtrade Steering...
Thanks for this. Was the project part of a sociology 'A' level? I'm wondering if we could get a local school here to do something similar. ... Dear Fairtrade...
I agree about the two groups, we have people who want to become active in their community, but we can't have everyone on the steering group, so a fairtrade...
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Hi Darren, Glad to hear about Basingstoke. I don't think we have you on our list. Please could you send the details (name, address, tel, email etc) of the ...
Dear Fairtrade Townspeople We are hoping to consolidate our group, Milton Keynes Fair Trade Forum, with fundraising, and are considering a membership...
In Bolton we discovered quite early on that to apply to some sources for grants it was necessary to say what our membership was - we therefore asked all those...
Hi Darren - our Agenda 21 officer got involved by direction of the Council. When they passed the relevant resolution in support of Fairtrade - it included the...
Jim, What sort of success have you had with the £20 a year idea for organisations/businesses? We've only tried it with churches and called it a voluntary ...
I should have been more explicit Jeanette! We do in fact ask for contributions not subs from groups - and this year specifcally to help us buy some of those...
When we set up our group in Ealing we had the support of the Sustainability Officer, who was extremely useful and helpful. Unfortunately he was made redundant...
