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Make Your Coffee Count: Around The World with Fairtrade
During Fairtrade Fortnight fairandfunky host TWO Fairtrade Conferences for Schools on the theme ‘Around The World’. Inspiring over 200 children to think about where products come from and who made them; empowering them to change the world. Delighted to welcome Nigel Kaye from Suma Wholefoods, one of our brilliant Conference Partners, to today’s guest blog: […]
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Around The World with Fairtrade and social media!
During Fairtrade Fortnight fairandfunky host TWO Fairtrade Conferences for Schools on the theme ‘Around The World’. Inspiring over 200 children to think about where products come from and who made them; empowering them to change the world. Delighted to welcome Conference Partners Social Progress to today’s guest blog: “Hello! We’re Janet Bebb and Esther Orridge […]
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Around The World with Fairtrade: Meet The Smallholders with JTS
During Fairtrade Fortnight fairandfunky host TWO Fairtrade Conferences for Schools on the theme ‘Around The World’. Inspiring over 200 children to think about where products come from and who made them; empowering them to change the world. Delighted to welcome Conference Partners JTS – Fair Food Fine Food to today’s guest blog: “The […]
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Around the World for Fairtrade Fortnight – Go Nuts!
During Fairtrade Fortnight fairandfunky host TWO Fairtrade Conferences for Schools on the theme ‘Around The World’. Inspiring over 200 children to think about where they food comes from and who grows it; empowering them to change the world. Delighted to welcome Conference Partners Liberation Nuts to the guest blog to take you ‘Around The World’ […]
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Fairtrade Fanatics Get Ready for Fairtrade Fortnight with fairandfunky!
Following the success of the ‘fairandfunky Fairtrade Conference for Schools’ in February 2015, this Fairtrade Fortnight, fairandfunky will host not one, but TWO Fairtrade conferences for schools throughout Kirklees! And both are fully booked! The conferences, held at the Creative and Media Studio School in Huddersfield, and at the Indian Muslim Welfare Society in Batley, […]
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Half term SCRAPtastic crafts for children with fairandfunky!
One of our many mottos in our SCRAPtastic workshops is “Don’t throw it away – make something!” and as half term begins for many of us this week we’re sharing our four favourite crafts for children…..using things we throw away everyday. Half term SCRAPtastic craft number 1 is Yoghurt Pot Puppets! Using ‘corner’ […]
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Make Your Mark – Cotton On to Fairtrade Uniform
As Fairtrade Fortnight approaches (29th February – 13th March 2016) schools, churches, businesses and towns, are busy thinking what their next step for Fairtrade might be and how to ‘Sit down for Breakfast, Stand up for Farmers!’ What about making a real statement with your next step and investing in Fairtrade uniform or […]
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Banana Farmer Drama!
All fairandfunky workshops encourage participants to look at the world around them and empower people of all ages with the knowledge that their actions can have a positive impact on the world around them; both locally and globally. Pockets Theatre creates exciting work that does something a little more than entertain; working with participants […]
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Recycling with Divine Chocolate……..packaging!
At fairandfunky we empower people to take their own little steps to change the world. Our workshops encourage people to think about the actions you take everyday and how to change those to make a positive difference in local, and global, communities. Our two favourite steps ANYONE can take to change the world are, put simply, to buy Fairtrade, […]
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! “Don’t throw it away – make something!”
“At Methley Primary School we’re launching a child led enquiry topic based on the statement: People can adapt to sustain the planets finite resources. Can you help?” Yes we can! All fairandfunky workshops encourage participants to look at the world around them and empower people of all ages with the knowledge that their actions […]
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“Nothing is truly recycled until it has been reused” – Guest Blog from ashortwalk
Take your own little steps to change the world with fairandfunky this Christmas! We have lots of new and exciting products in our online shop, with a range of Fairtrade, recycled and organic products to make your Christmas an ethical one. One of our new range of products comes from ashortwalk, who supply fairandfunky.com with […]
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Guest Blog from The Black Cat Bistro – Rice Challenge Rice Recipe
Fellow Holme Valley Fairtrade members The Black Cat Bistro join fairandfunky for the most recent guest blog here at fairandfunky.com. They have been joining fairandfunky to take their own little steps to change the world via the 90kg rice challenge, and have offered to share with us one of the many ways they make use […]
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Fairtrade Conferences for Fairtrade Fortnight 2016
We’re delighted to announce: in Fairtrade Fortnight 2016 fairandfunky will be running TWO Fairtrade Conferences for Primary Schools in Kirklees. For 2016 the theme is ‘Around The World’ and we’re inviting schools to join fairandfunky and leading workshop practitioners Coeur De Xocolat, Fair Grounds, The Fairtrade Foundation and Fair Connections, for a full day of […]
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A Trolley Load of Rice! 90kg Rice Challenge 2015
The 90kg rice challenge from JTS – Fair Food Fine Food, is the perfect challenge for fairandfunky, and this year we set ourselves the target to BEAT last year’s achievements. In 2014 we took on the challenge for the first time. We hosted a series of rice recipe blogs to inspire Fairtrade foodies, we led rice challenge […]
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Half Term Halloween SCRAPtastic crafts!
There are lots of Halloween crafts out there but at fairandfunky we like to share crafts anyone can do, anywhere, with any thing…… …..without costing the earth! In all of fairandfunky workshops we use recycled materials wherever possible – cardboard boxes, scrap fabrics, old envelopes, scrap paper – everyday household rubbish. And hope […]
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GO NUTS for Fairtrade on National Nut Day!
On #NationalNutDay we’re delighted to have a guest blog from Helen Long, campaigner and workshop leader with Liberation Nuts: “Despite the name, the journey of a Brazil nut begins in Bolivia… Gatherers forage the nuts from deep in the Amazon rainforest. They go on collection camping trips for days or weeks at a time, braving: […]
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Celebrating One World with Shared Interest
The celebrations for One World Week continue, and on Friday we join Shared Interest in Manchester, to learn more about the work they do to change the world for communities around the world. In today’s guest blog we invite you to celebrate with Shared Interest too: “This year marks Shared Interest’s 25th anniversary. For […]
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One World Week Conference – Food For Thought
To celebrate One World Week children and students from 10 Primary Schools across Kirklees came together at The fairandfunky One World Week Conference: Food for Thought to discover how we are all connected by the food we eat. Each student took part in four workshops to discover where their food comes from and explore local […]
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Inspire The Next Generation with Traidcraft
We’re celebrating One World Week 2015 with The fairandfunky Conference for Schools: Food for Thought. We’re delighted to welcome ‘Conference Partner’ Traidcraft to the guest blog to share the work they do with schools: “Here at Traidcraft Schools, we want to encourage the next generation of decision makers to be creative and pioneering in their […]
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Why #FairtradeMatters to Social Progress
We’re celebrating One World Week 2015 with The fairandfunky Conference for Schools: Food for Thought. We’re delighted to welcome ‘Conference Partner’ Social Progress to the guest blog to share why #FairtradeMatters: “Here at Social Progress we show our support of Fairtrade by providing Fairtrade tea, coffee and sugar (whenever possible) at all our meetings and events. […]
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Working for Future Generations with Stafflex
We’re celebrating One World Week 2015 with The fairandfunky Conference for Schools: Food for Thought. We’re delighted to welcome ‘Conference Partner’ Stafflex to the guest blog….. “”The Conference will empower people to take their own little steps to change the world” … is a statement that is embedded in the fairandfunky letter appealing for a […]
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Conference Champions Fairtrade and Food Sustainablity
We’re celebrating One World Week 2015 with The fairandfunky Conference for Schools: Food for Thought. We’re delighted to welcome ‘Conference Champion’ Suma Wholefoods to the guest blog to share why they champion Fairtrade and Food Sustainability: “As the UK’s largest independent wholesaler of vegetarian, organic and ethical food, Suma has been a supporter of Fairtrade from […]
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Guest Blog: ‘Time for a Whole New Ball Game – with Fairtrade Sports Balls’
fairandfunky were really excited to work with Bala Sport to feature Fairtrade footballs as a BRAND NEW product on our online shop – a product that fits with all of the fairandfunky values, changing the world with a football! Read all about Fairtrade footballs in our latest guest blog from Angus Coull from Bala Sport: […]
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Sowing Seeds For Fairtrade
Fairtrade is one of the key global themes we focus on at fairandfunky – in our school workshops, in our online shop and at our events; as well as on a campaigner level so we leapt at the chance to meet with, and learn from, other Fairtrade campaigners at the Fairtrade Foundation Regional Conference in […]
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The ‘Rice Challenge’ is back!
The 90kg rice challenge is the perfect challenge for fairandfunky. Our mission statement is ‘empowering people to take their own little steps to change the world’ and we do this through our range of workshops for schools and community groups. But we’re also always on the look-out for ways in which we at fairandfunky can […]
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The Heartbeat of Fair Trade – guest blog from Little Trove
As Fairtrade Conference season begins we welcome Ramona Hirschi, owner and MD of Little Trove to the guest blog. Ramona has written a series of blogs: “The Heartbeat of Fair Trade” where she gives her insight into what goes on behind each of the fair trade principles from the WFTO. This first guest blog looks […]
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Show Your Hand for Fairtrade
Fairtrade is at the core of what we do and as members of Holme Valley Fairtrade, we met with Jason McCartney MP this month to share our commitment to Fairtrade, to demonstrate how important this issue is to his constituents, and to ask for his support for the “Show Your Hand” campaign from The Fairtrade Foundation. […]
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fairandfunky Workshop Review: ‘Summer COOL’ with Aspirational Learning
For the beginning of the summer holidays fairandfunky joined students at Spen Valley High School and Rastirick High School at ‘Summer COOL’ with Aspirational Learning to lead workshops with a group of 10 and 11 year olds. All fairandfunky workshops encourage participants to look at the world around them and empower people of all […]
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From The Warm Heart of Africa
fairandfunky are delighted to be one of the first official UK stockists of Tickbird Soap – direct from producers in Malawi; and when we received our first order we wondered what the response would be. We didn’t have to wait long thanks to the instant feedback from twitter: “Just tried our first bar of […]
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Fairtrade for Sustainability – A Bristol Review
We were thrilled to be commissioned by Fairtrade Bristol to re-create the logo for the International Fair Trade Towns Conference to reflect the conference theme of ‘Fairtrade for Sustainability’. The original logo by Green Hat Design combined the Fairtrade colours in speech bubbles, connected by Fairtrade products, and our logo developed this idea a little […]
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