Fairtrade
What is Fairtrade?
Buying Fairtrade goods like tea, coffee, sugar, snacks, drinks
and confectionery helps growers and suppliers in developing
countries get a fairer price for their goods than from many multi
national companies. By doing this, you will be helping them to help
themselves provide better health, education and environmental
conditions in their communities. Fairtrade is not about giving to
charity; it's exactly what it says, one way of making trade fairer
by using your power as a consumer.
Why not join the growing number of people from all walks of
life who are all joined by a desire to help others through buying
quality Fairtrade products?
Fairtrade Borough Status
Your local council wants the Borough to become one of the
growing number of local communities that are proud to support
Fairtrade and has undertaken to do the following things in order to
become a Fairtrade Borough by the end of March 2006:
- to support the annual
Fairtrade Fortnight campaign
- to continue to promote
Fairtrade internally to staff and members
- to serve Fairtrade tea and
coffee in the Council Offices
- to support the formation
of a Community Fair Trade group to be launched
during the Hamble Food Festival
What does being a Fairtrade Borough
mean?
Over 100 Fairtrade zones now exist in the UK. To get Fairtrade
status, an area has to make a substantial commitment to the
promotion and uptake of Fairtrade foods, both at local authority
level and in shops and businesses in the community.
By ensuring that local steering groups back Fairtrade, that
local councils support Fairtrade and that a percentage of local
shops and businesses sell Fairtrade, the Fairtrade Towns movement
has played a dynamic role in doubling the sales of products
carrying the FAIRTRADE Mark in the past two years. The latest
figures show a 51% increase from 2003 to 2004, with sales topping
£140m.
We have already organised a number of events locally to promote
Fairtrade including:
- Free Fairtrade tastings as part of the
'Seeing Things Sideways' film screening
- A stall at the Hamble Food
Festival
- A public meeting at The Point with a
cookery demonstration
Cllr Bernie Wright, Simeon Greene
from Windward bananas and Cllr Louise Bloom, Cabinet Member for
Environment at the recent Fairtrade public meeting
Want more
information?
Call the Council's Fairtrade phone line 023 8068
8022
Contact Bev Draig, Sustainability Policy Coordinator, Eastleigh Borough Council
We would particularly like to hear from you if:
- You are a local resident and would like to join
a Fairtrade community group
- You are a local retail outlet selling or
considering selling Fairtrade products
- You are a local catering establishment selling
or considering selling Fairtrade products
Fairtrade in Eastleigh Borough
Campaign
After the official launch of the Fairtrade in
Eastleigh Borough Campaignin March 2006, a steering group of the
campaign formed as the new Committee in July 2006. The Council has
continued to fully support the Campaign and the Committee are
confident that Fairtrade status in Eastleigh Borough will be
achieved soon.
For more information
Look at the Fairtrade in Eastleigh
Borough Campaign’s website
www.fairtradeineastleighborough.org
Look at the Fairtrade Foundation’s website
www.fairtrade.org.uk
Please contact us by email or phone or post at
the contact details shown.
We would particularly like to hear from
you if:
- You are an Eastleigh Borough resident and wish to join the
Campaign as an individual, group member, organisation, business,
community group, church or school
- You know of a Fairtrade Event occurring in Eastleigh Borough
that you would like advertised
- You are a local retail outlet selling or considering selling
Fairtrade products
- You are a local catering establishment selling or considering
selling Fairtrade products
Contact Us
Fairtrade in Eastleigh Borough Campaign
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