Fairtrade
Bookings for The fairandfunky Fairtrade Conference for Schools: ‘Take a Break with Fairtrade’ on Friday 3rd March 2017 at The Creative Media and Studio School are OPEN! Click here to download your booking form! The fairandfunky Fairtrade Conference: ‘Take a Break with Fairtrade’ brings together Primary Schools from across Kirklees to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight. The conference will […]
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Bookings for The fairandfunky Fairtrade Conference for Schools: ‘Take a Break with Fairtrade’ on Friday 10th March 2017 at Halifax Minster are OPEN! Click here to download your booking form! The fairandfunky Fairtrade Conference: ‘Take a Break with Fairtrade’ brings together Primary Schools from across Calderdale to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight. The conference will ignite […]
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As Christmas approaches and the shopping lists are written we thought it was a good time to share this challenging blog from Joanna Pollard – Chair of BAFTS. Her call to think about where our products come from is one we should all be listening to…… “Friday 30 September saw the latest annual conference […]
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To celebrate Chocolate Week we hear from Divine** – the chocolate company with a heart. Read here how they work to connect communities, and change the world. “Chocolate is one of the world’s favourite treats – and its popularity is growing as emerging nations discover its many delights. So how is cocoa supply going to […]
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Each year fairandfunky take on the 90kg rice challenge from our partners Just Trading Scotland. The challenge is to sell 90kg of rice – because when a farmer sells 90kg of rice they can afford to send their children to school for a year. Working with schools, churches, youth clubs and individuals the rice […]
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Show You Care about fair trade with a Traidcraft Breakfast Club! Caroline Hardaker is the Schools Co-ordinator at Traidcraft, and we’ve invited her to tell you about how easy it is to integrate Breakfast Clubs and fair trade in schools, and all the while learning about world culture. Hi everyone! Traidcraft is the UK’s […]
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A unique partnership opportunity to bring Fairtrade footballs to schools in Kirklees! We’re looking for partners to launch a unique Fairtrade football project. And bring Fairtrade footballs into communities! The fairandfunky Fairtrade football project brings cooperative learning, global citizenship and football together for Primary Schools across Kirklees. In each project five schools* will each […]
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Halifax Minster opened its doors to school children from 9 schools across Halifax on Friday 13th May, to celebrate World Fairtrade Day at a fairandfunky Fairtrade Conference for Schools. The event is part of the campaign, spearheaded by Holly Lynch MP, to achieve Fairtrade Town status for Halifax; “The campaign to make Halifax a […]
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To celebrate World Fairtrade Day we held a Schools Conference at Halifax Minster – we had a brilliant day, ending with a very special song written especially for the event by Cheryl Camm from Sea Pie Parcel: What do you get if you assemble a bunch of red and pink roses, a Tibetan Singing […]
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It is really important to us to empower people with the knowledge that you (yes you) can change the world – and this is what we do – in our workshops, at events, through our shop and as we network: we demonstrate that it doesn’t matter how big or how small you are – we […]
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World Fairtrade Day invites you to be an ‘agent for change’ – something that we are happy to embrace every day! This year we celebrate World Fairtrade Day with a Fairtrade Conference for Schools in Calderdale at Halifax Minster. The conference will inspire and engage children in Fairtrade themed workshops, empowering them to take […]
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World Fairtrade Day invites you to be an ‘agent for change’ – something that we are happy to embrace every day! This year we celebrate World Fairtrade Day with a Fairtrade Conference for Schools in Calderdale at Halifax Minster. The conference will inspire and engage children in Fairtrade themed workshops, empowering them to take […]
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Two years ago The Fairtrade Foundation launched their Fairtrade Fortnight campaign to Stick with Foncho, a banana farmer from Columbia. The campaign that Fortnight focussed on bananas……and thanks to twitter friends (including @sallyreith @FTBristol and @mrsFairtrade) the #BananaArmy was born. Fast forward to 2016 and the #BananaArmy has reached new levels of campaigning with […]
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To celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight 2016 fairandfunky held TWO fairandfunky Fairtrade Conferences for Schools in both Huddersfield and Batley. The conferences were fully booked with 170 students and 40 teachers from across Kirklees coming together to celebrate and learn about Fairtrade in creative workshops from Fair Grounds, Fair Connections, The Fairtrade Foundation, Coeur de Xocolat and fairandfunky. Four […]
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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 Nina, one of our Conference workshop providers Fair Grounds to the guest blog to take you ‘Around The […]
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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 Caroline Hardaker, The Schools Coordinator with Traidcraft – Conference Champion Sponsor for our Batley Conference. […]
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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 David Greenwood-Haigh from Coeur de Xocolat, one of our brilliant conference workshop providers, to today’s guest blog: […]
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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 Shared Interest Foundation to today’s guest blog: “Shared Interest Foundation was established […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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