About Fairtrade Events in the CALNE Community Area
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Fairtrade Fortnight 2019 - Monday 25 February - Sunday 10th March
Events in Calne Town & Parishes
Events in Calne Town & Parishes
To be announced
TRAIDCRAFT Sales & Coffee Mornings
See Fairtrade TRAIDCRAFT Sales & Coffee Mornings.
More events as we get them...
See Fairtrade TRAIDCRAFT Sales & Coffee Mornings.
More events as we get them...
Major FAIRTRADE EVENTS ARCHIVE
CALNE TOWN HALL: Saturday 5th May 2018
10.00am-1.00pm (Lower Hall)
Guest Speaker: Mr Baai Jabang
Director of the Trust Agency for Rural Development in The Gambia, West Africa, who will speak on
"The mango industry and its potential in The Gambia"
Images from the Event can be found here HERE
Baai Jabang - Director of TARUD
(Trust Agency for Rural Development) |
Baai Jabang, the Director of TARUD (Trust Agency for Rural Development) and the Marlborough Brandt Group’s (MBG) partner NGO in Gunjur, in The Gambia, who will talk about the mango industry and its potential.
Read more about Mr Baai Jabang's background HERE. Following the cancellation of our Fairtrade Fortnight morning at Calne Town Hall in March due to snow, we invite you to the event which will now take place on Saturday 5th May 2018 again at Calne Town Hall 10am-1pm. We do hope that as many as possible will attend what should be an important presentation by our Guest Speaker, Mr Baai Jabang from The Gambia, about the potential for the import of Mangoes from The Gambia, under Fairtrade conditions, where there are tens of thousands of trees 90% of whose fruit simply goes to waste. Baai Jabang, is Director of TARUD (Trust Agency for Rural Development) and the Marlborough Brandt Group’s (MBG) partner NGO in Gunjur, a Coastal Town in The Gambia (www.mbg.org/about-mbg/gunjur) Leaving aside the apparent therapeutic and the undoubtable gustatory qualities of mangoes for ourselves, anything we can do to support the development of that industry in The Gambia will help provide business opportunities for the young people in The Gambia who currently see no future in that country and are leaving in droves taking the perilous 'back way' to Europe, at the mercy of traffickers and many drowning in the Mediterranean in their attempts to get from Libya to Italy and a very uncertain future. Local Schools and Fairtrade Dr Nick Maurice of the Marlborough Brant Group and Marlborough Fairtrade Group will attend the Calne event with Baai Jarbang and will tell us something about the Thriving Through Venture group of young people from Wiltshire schools, including St Marys, Calne, Marlborough College and St John’s Academy, Marlborough, and the Ridgeway School Wroughton, who are doing intensive research into the barriers to importing Mangoes and how they can be exported under Fairtrade conditions. There will also be Fairtrade Stalls from The Coop Food, Sainburys, Traidcraft, Zaytoun and an information display about the Calne Fairtrade Community Campaign, plus short Films, refreshments and a light lunch. "Thriving Through Venture" are particularly looking at how mangoes when exported could be sold to major companies under Fairtrade conditions and this is one of the issues that young people from Wiltshire (St Marys School Calne, The John Bentley School Calne and Marlborough College) will be looking into when they are in Marlborough’s linked community of Gunjur in The Gambia this August.
The Event Programme in Brief: Mr Baai Jarbang (from The Gambia), Dr Nick Maurice on "Thriving through Venture" - the local schools connection, Fairtrade stalls, short films, Refreshments & Light Lunch, etc.
The Full Event Programme can be found HERE |
What happened in Calne during Fairtrade Fortnight 2018 - Monday 26th February - Sunday 11th March
Snow stopped play! - we rescheduled our major event to Saturday 5th May, archived above.
However, we continued with Traidcraft sales events.
Snow stopped play! - we rescheduled our major event to Saturday 5th May, archived above.
However, we continued with Traidcraft sales events.
What happened in Calne during Fairtrade Fortnight 2017 - Monday 27th February - Sunday 12th March
The Key event of the Fortnight for us was the visit to Calne (and many other towns across Wiltshire) of the Fairtrade Tea Farmer, Patrick Kaberia (pictured above), from Kenya, to our event at Calne Town Hall.
Those of you who attended the event will remember the inspiring talk given by Patrick Kaberia, and the press coverage that followed him, as he travelled across Wiltshire towns and villages with his encouraging message. See him on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shmn3A1nFLA |
Calne Community Area Fairtrade group organised the following events during FTF 2017:
CALNE Launderette: Friday 17th February 9.30am-12.30 - Coffee Morning with Traidcraft Fairtrade sales -CALNE Launderette: Friday 3rd March 9.30am-12.30 - Coffee Morning with Traidcraft Fairtrade sales -CALNE TOWN HALL: Saturday 4th March 10.00am-1.00pm - Kenyan Tea Farmer - Talk, Film and Fairtrade stalls, refreshments and light lunch -CALNE Launderette: Friday 10th March 9.30am-12.30 - Coffee Morning with Traidcraft Fairtrade sales -HILMARTON Parish Church Hall: 15th March 10am-12.00 - Coffee Morning with Traidcraft Fairtrade sales |
