Events Archive
 

Chiswick Churches for Justice and Peace, including St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park, hosted a meeting with the Fairtrade Foundation and The Rainforest Alliance in October 2007.  Further information here

 

Fairtrade chocolate fair at St Augustine's Highbury on March 11th 2007, highlighting the issue of child labour on cocoa farms in West Africa. We used the story Chaga and the Chocolate Factory to promote the Fairtrade Mark as a guarantee that a product is traffik-free.



  
Casildo Quispe, a brazil nut producer from the rainforest of Bolivia, met with Ann Keen MP, and members of Chiswick Churches for Justice and Peace on March 2nd 2007. Casildo explained clearly the benefits of Fairtrade to his community. The evening concluded with brazil nuts and a wine tasting of Sainsbury’s Fairtrade wine


Richmond Fairtrade Steering Group hosted Fairtrade promotional stalls in three branches of Sainsbury's on Saturday 3rd March 2007, including this one in Hampton Hill

 



  
 


St Mary le Bow becomes the first Fairtrade Church in the City

Together with the Corporation of London and Aviva they organised a Fairtrade breakfast for City businesses who want to switch to Fairtrade. About 80 people heard presentations from Aviva, KPMG, the Fairtrade Foundation and a Ghanaian cocoa representative from the Divine chocolate company.

The cocoa representative is also visiting St Paul’s and Sir John Cass Schools.

  
‘The fields of the poor may produce abundant food, but injustice sweeps it all away ....' Proverbs 13:23