Could someone please clarify the population targets for the retail and catering targets please. For example if a town has a population of 34000, does that mean...
Hi Barbara Thanks for the information about cotton bags. Could you give me some advice on the the use of the overprinting of the Fairtrade Mark onto cotton...
Hi all! As some of you may remember, we are very lucky in St Albans with our Council when it comes to Fairtrade. Yesterday they had arranged a Fairtrade...
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Bruce Crowther
fairtradefoundation@...
Mar 3, 2008 8:34 am
Hi Joanne we are about to change the population targets which will smooth out the large discrepancy around the 300,000 point. This will only affect populations...
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Bruce Crowther
fairtradefoundation@...
Mar 3, 2008 8:40 am
Fantastic Liz and well deserved praise to your Council. Bruce Crowther Fairtrade Towns Coordinator Fairtrade Foundation Normal working hours: 8am - 4pm Mon,...
Hi all, Just to let you know that Ashbourne set a new world record for the most number of people eating bananas at the same time. Of course, all the bananas...
Many congratulations Stuart - especially on all the media coverage. One day - when we've recovered from FTFortnight - we might have a go at the record in...
This is terrific! Please let us have the information, so that we could at least think about having a go later on our Fairtrade Island. Love and thanks Tammy ...
Hello all Jonny Steel, FT supporter at mysupermarket.com, who's made some links to Asda, Ocado, Sainsbury's and Tesco's online Fairtrade pages (given again ...
Hello all The influential Slate blog has published an article at http://www.slate.com/id/2185655/ "Could a Coffee Maker Be Worth $11,000? How the Clover is...
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Bruce Crowther
fairtradefoundation@...
Mar 10, 2008 10:10 am
Fantastic Stuart and well done to all (including the dog). TAMMY - Since this is a WORLD Record perhaps you can do this together with Dominca if and when your...
Fairtrade Action Network proudly announces the start of an international photo contest 1.3.2008! During March we are looking for a perfect picture that...
I have been asked to be a part of a Fairtrade event at a local special school - the student group is aged 16-19 and I think I should be aiming at a Junior /...
I would recommend considering producing a power point - gives you total control of visual images, data and words. as well as making it a little interactive. ...
Hi all I hope you are all recovering from Fairtrade Fortnight. It has been a huge success - the biggest and best ever - thank you so so much for all your hard...
Hi all, Here in Ealing this year's Fairtrade Fortnight has given us a real boost, with several distinct steps forward. The local paper contacted us to ask ...
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Bruce Crowther
fairtradefoundation@...
Mar 13, 2008 8:26 am
Hi Val, Don't forget to look at the Fairtrade Schools website at: www.fairtrade.org.uk/schools Bruce Crowther Fairtrade Towns Coordinator Fairtrade Foundation ...
Hi I find the stuff on the Papapaa website all about chocolate and Kuapa Kokoo in Ghana excellent and works with a wide age range. where chocolate comes from...
If you had done all your shopping in the supermarkets over the last two weeks, would you have been aware of Fairtrade Fortnight at all? With the exception of...
Hi, I guess the question is: does it matter if people know that it's Fairtrade Fortnight? In my local Sainsbury's and Co-op there was lots of publicity of ...
On a more positive note, I thought I'd let you know how supportive our new Waitrose in Rickmansworth has been. They opened in November and our group's Chair...
That's exactly the sort of thing I have in mind, Helen, when I say that supermarkets need to do more. Oh, for a Waitrose! Unfortunately they have yet to...
Hi Val, The introductory Fairtrade Schools powerpoint presentation is good: http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/includes/documents/cm_docs/2008/I/Introducto ...
A press statement in our local rag yesterday made me smile and wonder about the truth of this statement: "One outlet visited by Cllr Denton was Starbucks...
Waitrose St Katharine's Dock have been very positive and helpful on more than one occasion and this FTF had a prominent display of FT items with fairly...
I used to be a freelance programmer, and one of my contracts was at Tesco, where I was one of a team writing a system to do automatic re-ordering for their...
We do the rounds of our four main supermarkets (Asda, Booths, Morrisons and Sainsburys) in February and do our own list of the Fairtrade products they stock...
I'm not sure it has moved on very much to be honest! The issue is usually that the store manager can't simply select a tickbox "Fairtrade" on the system and...
This confirms what we've been told - that managers have next to no say in what's stocked and do no ordering. It amazes me that Fairtrade can't be separated...
