Canterbury District Fairtrade Network

1. The local council must pass a resolution supporting Fairtrade, and agree to serve Fairtrade coffee and tea at its meetings and in its offices and canteens.
2. Fairtrade products must be on sale in a specified number of local shops, cafés and restaurants.
3. Fairtrade products must be used by a number of local work-places and community organisations.
4. There must be a campaign to attract local media coverage and popular support for Fairtrade.
5. A local Fairtrade steering group must be convened to ensure continuing commitment to Fairtrade zone status.

These have all been done, and in January 2006 we were delighted to learn that we had achieved recognition as a Faitrade Zone.

That status has to be renewed annually, so we need to maintain progress on promoting Fairtrade in the district. Can you help with this? Can you get your colleagues at work to agree to use Fairtrade products, or get them sold in the canteen? Can you get your children’s school to declare its support for Fairtrade? How about asking your hairdresser to serve Fairtrade coffee to customers? Or getting the support of any club or association to which you belong? Please do what you can, and let us know. And if you would like to get involved in our activities, organising events and running Fairtrade stalls, we’d love to hear from you.

Our next campaigning focus will be Fairtrade Fortnight - the two weeks in March designated nationally as a special time for raising awareness of Fairtrade. Below is a list of planned events for the district. Please support them. "

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• Saturday 10th May: Fairtrade Fair (for World Fair Trade Day), Canterbury City Centre.


• Saturday 17th May: Fairtrade Bananas will be distributed to school children as part of the Walking Bus Event in Dane John.


• Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th June: Fairtrade stalls at the Cathedral Open Gardens event.


• Saturday 12th July: Fairtrade Thanet Concert at the Winter Gardens. See the flyer for more information.


• Wednesday 16th July - Monday 4th August: Fairtrade presence at the Lambeth Conference.


• Friday 25th, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th July: Fairtrade presence at the Whitstable Oyster Festival (tbc)


• Friday 26th, Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th September: Fairtrade stall at the Eurofair, Dane John Gardens (tbc)


• Friday 31st October and Saturday 1st November: Whole World Fair, St. Peter's Methodist Church, Canterbury.



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• Feburary 2008: Publication of the new Fairtrade Guide to Canterbury, Whitstable and Herne Bay.


• Fairtrade Fortnight 2008:
  
  
  • Sunday 24th February: Traidcraft Stall at the Cathedral, 12:20 (with Fairtrade Easter Eggs)
  
  
  • Tuesday 26th February: Traidcraft Stall at St Stephen’s Infants School, 15:00
  
  
  • Wednesday 27th February: Fairtrade Stall at Canterbury Council Offices, 12:00 - 14:00
  
  
  • Thursday 28th February: Fairtrade Stall at Sainsbury's in Canterbury, 10:00 - 14:00
  
  
  • Friday 29th February: Cathedral Lent Lunch, 15 The Precincts
  • Friday 29th February: Sale of Fairtrade Cotton School Bags, St Stephen's Infant School, 15:00
  • Friday 29th February: Fairtrade Fashion Show 19:00 in Main Hall, Christ Church University Canterbury Campus
  
  
  • Saturday 1st March: Stall at Co-op Herne Bay, 10:00 - 13:00
  • Saturday 1st March: Fairtrade Coffee Morning, Bridge Village Hall, 10:00 - 12:00
  • Saturday 1st March: Fairtrade Coffee Morning at Barham, 10:30 - 12:30
  
  
  • Sunday 2nd March: Church Traidcraft stalls
  
  
  • Tuesday 4th March: Business Showcase, King’s Hall, Herne Bay, 09:00 - 17:00
  • Tuesday 4th March: Showing of Black Gold + coffee at St Stephen’s School, 14:00
  
  
  • Wednesday 5th March: Fairtrade Stall at Canterbury Council Offices, 12:00 - 14:00
  
  
  • Thursday 6th March: Canterbury Christ Church University - "Fairtrade and Food Miles" - Public Lecture by Barbara Crowther (Fairtrade Foundation) and Kenneth Hayes (Soil Association) 18:30, Powell Lecture Theatre, Canterbury Campus
  • Thursday 6th March: University of Kent - Fairtrade meal in Gulbenkian café (17:30 - 20:30) and film ‘Our Daily Bread’ 18:50 showing
  
  
  • Friday 7th March: Cathedral Lent Lunch, 15 The Precincts
  
  
  • Saturday 8th March: Stall at M&S Canterbury 10:00 - 16:00
  • Saturday 8th March: UNA Fairtrade Coffee, Lunch & Traidcraft Stall, St Peter’s Methodist Church Hall, Canterbury, 10:00 - 15:00
  
  
  • Saturday 8th March: Fairtrade Speech Contest, Waterstone's Bookshop, 14:00 - 16:00
  • Sunday 9th March: Church Traidcraft stalls
  
  
• Friday 26th and Saturday 27th October 2007: Whole World Fair in St Peter’s Methodist Church Hall. Local Traidcraft representative Joy Sharman poses with the hamper - Press Release
  
  
  
• Summer 2007: St Stephen’s Infant School became the first infant school in the country to be awarded Fairtrade school status by the Fairtrade Foundation - press release
  
  
  
• Saturday 12th May: Canterbury Foodprints Fair on World Fair Trade Day - Press Release
  
  
  
• Friday 26th February - Sunday 11th March: Fairtrade Fortnight 2007 included a Fairtrade and local produce fair and tasting events at Kent University, several stands at local supermarkets, coffee mornings and lunches, a Fairtrade dance and a DJ event both at Christchurch University and a showing of the film Black Gold at Kent University. Thanks to all those who took part.
  
  
  
• Sunday 21st February 2007: A new 16-page Fairtrade Guide to the district was launched, just prior to Fairtrade Fortnight - Press Release
  
  
  
• Friday 16th February 2007: Over 250 people attended an Open Lecture by the Director of the Fairtrade Foundation, Harriet Lamb CBE, at the University of Kent, Canterbury


• Saturday 13th January 2007: The Network meets local MP Julian Brazier to debate the follow-on to the Make Poverty History Campaign - Press Release
  
  
  
• Tuesday 12th December 2006: The Fairtrade Foundation announces the biggest ever commitment to Fairtrade by a single company in the history of Fairtrade labels anywhere in the world! - Press Release
  
  
• Monday 2nd October 2006: Two awards for Canterbury at the Fairtrade Foundation Awards: the Fairtrade Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement for our contribution to Fairtrade fortnight and Fiona collects Canterbury Cathedral's first prize for the "Faith" category of the Fairtrade Foundation's creative banner competition - Press Release
  
  
  
• Saturday 4th - Sunday 19th March 2006, Fairtrade Fortnight - Press Release - Full Calendar:
  
  
  • Saturday 4th March, Missa Luba - Press Release
    
    
    
  • Wednesday 8th March, visit by Fairtrade mango producers from Burkina Faso - Press Release
    
    
    
  • Thursday 16th March, celebratory lunch in The Goods Shed - Press Release
    
    
    
• Monday 27th February 2006, Whitstable Junior School awarded Fairtrade football - Press Release
  
  
  
• Tuesday 6th September 2005, Fairtrade Towns Evening. Details