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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15th JULY – SEND ENTRIES NOW!!! Speak for the Trees is an environmental themed poster competition hosted by Stafflex and fairandfunky, sponsored by Modu Exhibitions, and invites children AND their teachers from Schools across Kirklees, Calderdale and Wakefield to create an environmental artwork on the theme “Speak for the trees”. The competition […]
Continue reading »Following four fully booked Fairtrade Conferences for Schools fairandfunky GO GREEN in June with a conference for Primary School children on an environmental theme. And as an accredited partner of Eco-Schools England, the fairandfunky GO GREEN Conference can be used as evidence for your school to achieve Eco-Schools Awards! The fairandfunky GO GREEN Conference on […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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. […]
Continue reading »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: […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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: […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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’ […]
Continue reading »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’ […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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, […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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: […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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. […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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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