Fairtrade Shipley
Shipley is a Fairtrade Town!
Philip Davies (MP for Shipley) and Barbara Judd (Shipley Fairtrade Convenor) celebrated Shipley’s Fairtrade Town status in 2005
Shipley Fairtrade Town status was renewed by the national Fairtrade Foundation in 2008
Fairtrade stall and quiz at Saltaire Festival 2007
Shipley Fairtrade Group update Autumn 2009
Over 220 people attended the coffee & Cake Bananza at Shipley Library in Fairtrade Fortnight. Here a passer-by is fishing for a Fairtrade banana.
Shipley College is almost ready to apply for Fairtrade College status from the Fairtrade Foundation. There was a Fairtrade stall at their ‘Achieve Economic Well Being’ event in Victoria Hall and students took part in the banana eating challenge.
Members of the Group go into local schools to lead assemblies or run workshops. They also pass on materials and information for teachers. Several schools took part in the Fairtrade poster competition and the winning entries were displayed in Shipley Library. The children received a Fairtrade pin badge and the school was presented with a Fairtrade football.
The Group produced a set of postcards with views of some of Shipley’s Fairtrade premises. The aim is to promote Shipley’s Fairtrade status and to encourage people to join in and buy Fairtrade products.
Almost all the Shipley Churches are registered as Fairtrade churches with the Fairtrade Foundation.
Hotels and guest houses have been invited to join in the campaign and use Fairtrade tea and coffee in the guests’ bedrooms. The Ibis chain already does this.
People who took part in a Fairtrade quiz at the Peace and Crafts Fair at Victoria Hall, Saltaire were surprised at just how many Fairtrade products are available in the shops.
Shipley Fairtrade Group was invited to have a stall in RBS Architects during the final weekend of Saltaire Festival with fishing for bananas and fairbreak chocolate wafers outside. Visitors, coming to redeem their tokens, were invited to find the treasure which was hidden in one of the 56 countries on the map which send us Fairtrade produce.
