About Fairtrade Fortnight Events in the CALNE Community Area
Fairtrade Fortnight 2018 - Monday 26th February - Sunday 11th March
OPEN DOORS TO FAIRTRADE - COME ON IN!
OPEN DOORS TO FAIRTRADE - COME ON IN!
The Fairtrade Foundation has announced its theme and resources for Fairtrade Fortnight 2018 (see them online)...
Fairtrade Fortnight 2018 - Events in Calne Town & Parishes
We are sorry to say this event has been
CANCELLED
CALNE TOWN HALL: Saturday 3rd March 2018
10.00am-1.00pm (Lower Hall)
Guest Speaker @ 11am: 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"
The Full Event Programme can be found 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. Over the past year much work has and will continue to been done by the MBG and by the new Wiltshire based charity “Thriving Through Venture” and its young (and older!) volunteers on looking at the barriers to the export of mangoes from The Gambia which has the potential to become a major industry and incidentally tackle the problem of unemployment amongst the young in The Gambia many of whom are taking ‘the back way’ to Europe and often drowning in their attempts. "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 will be looking into when they are in Marlborough’s linked community of Gunjur in The Gambia this August.
The Event Programme in Brief: Opens 10am - Fairtrade Stalls throughout - Fairtrade Drama - 11.00am Baai Jabang (Guest Speaker) - Light Lunch & Musical Interlude - Short Fairtrade Films- Event Closes at 1.00pm
The Full Event Programme can be found HERE |
More Fairtrade Fortnight 2018 Events - added as we hear about them from you!
TRAIDCRAFT Sales & Coffee Mornings
See Fairtrade TRAIDCRAFT Sales & Coffee Mornings for Events during Fairtrade Fortnight and other TRAIDCRAFT dates.
More events as we get them...
See Fairtrade TRAIDCRAFT Sales & Coffee Mornings for Events during Fairtrade Fortnight and other TRAIDCRAFT dates.
More events as we get them...
ARCHIVE: 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. |
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 |
