During One World Week we are hosting a series of guest blogs from people and organisations who work to make a difference in the world; people who connect communities through trade, and through friendship. The theme for One World Week 2013 is “More than enough?” Our challenge to our bloggers was show how we […]
Continue reading »During One World Week we are hosting a series of guest blogs from people and organisations who work to make a difference in the world; people who connect communities through trade, and through friendship. The theme for One World Week 2013 is “More than enough?” Our challenge to our bloggers was show how we […]
Continue reading »During One World Week we are hosting a series of guest blogs from people and organisations who work to make a difference in the world; people who connect communities through trade, and through friendship. The theme for One World Week 2013 is “More than enough?” Our challenge to our bloggers was show how we […]
Continue reading »During One World Week we are hosting a series of guest blogs from people and organisations who work to make a difference in the world; people who connect communities through trade, and through friendship. The theme for One World Week 2013 is “More than enough?” Our challenge to our bloggers was show how we […]
Continue reading »The Fairtrade Supporters Conference, held in London at the weekend, was a wake up call. With inspirational words from James Mwai from Fairtrade Africa and Renwick Rose from WINFA, we were left in no doubt that we are being challenged to stand taller, shout louder, and be stronger. Fairtrade is one of the ways […]
Continue reading »This week sees the launch of the first ever BAFTS (The British Association for Fair Trade Shops and Suppliers) week, so we asked Kathryn Sygrove, the Marketing and Membership Coordinator at BAFTS what is was all about: “BAFTS (The British Association for Fair Trade Shops and Suppliers) is delighted to announce its first ever […]
Continue reading »We are launching a children’s recycling competition in conjunction with the fairandfunky family food day on 22nd September. If you are 12 years and under – have a go at creating your very own fairandfunky feast using recycled materials on a paper plate. Bring it along on the day (to Holmfirth Market) and the […]
Continue reading »The fairandfunky family food day on 22nd September is the final fringe event for the Holmfirth Food and Drink Festival. It celebrates local and ethical organisations, each stall offering something different; celebrating individuality and independent businesses. We are delighted that the market will be FULL of stalls, and all will be entertained by live […]
Continue reading »We know we sell a range of brilliant fair and funky products; things we love that are either fair trade, recycled or organic or sometimes all three! So, we were delighted to receive this review of one of our bestsellers: the recycled cement laptop bag, from Janet Bebb, of Social Progress fame: “Around this time […]
Continue reading »This Summer we have done our first ever blog swap with Jen from My Make Do and Mend Year! Read our blog, on her site here, but for now, read all about it from Jen: “How exciting is this?! A real live blog swap, with the lovely ladies at fairandfunky too. As I […]
Continue reading »Schools out for Summer! Wondering what to do? Join us at one of our fairandfunky SCRAPtastic workshops for creative fun using recycled materials. Each and every fairandfunky workshop creates wonderful creations from junk to get children thinking about the world around them and teach them how to take their little steps to change the […]
Continue reading »We have been twittering on about GIANT postcards recently so thought we’d update our blog with an explanation! We have collaborated with Holmfirth Arts Festival on a new series of exciting recycling workshops, entitled “Holmfirth Driftwood”. All our workshops encourage participants to have a sense of place in the world; to think about […]
Continue reading »Keighley is the latest town in Yorkshire working to achieve Fairtrade Town status. This comes after Yorkshire was declared the very first Fairtrade Region earlier this year. Read our blog about that here! Involving schools is key to a successful application for Fairtrade Town Status so fairandfunky were invited to join in and deliver […]
Continue reading »On 9th March 2013 at Holmfirth Market Hall, an idyllic location famous for being home to the long running television comedy series ‘Last of The Summer Wine’, fairandfunky organised and facilitated a Fairtrade Family Funday. This marked the end of Fairtrade Fortnight and the achievement of Yorkshire Fairtrade, in becoming the first UK county to […]
Continue reading »We are delighted to welcome Team Pugh to the guest blog. Shopping local and changing the world! Hello – we are Team Pugh! We are made up of Ian, Becksie and little Lizzie! We are just ‘ordinary’ folk who like most other ‘ordinary’ folk thought that we could never change the world! We enjoy […]
Continue reading »This is the first Fairtrade Fortnight for fairandfunky so we’re trying a bit of everything and hoping some of it works! There is so much going on (too much for a tweet!) that we decided to put it all in a blog; that way, you can share our Fairtrade Fortnight journey with us and maybe […]
Continue reading »We are thrilled to welcome our first guest blogger to fairandfunky. We asked: “What do you do to change the world and who inspires you to do so?” This is @Jen_Atkinson‘s answer: Changing the world sounds like a grand ambition. But I do believe that if everyone takes action where they can, then together we […]
Continue reading »Earlier this year, fairandfunky was asked by Social Progress to write a story for International Womens Day. The brief was to write about a woman who had inspired us and why. These are our stories. Helen wrote about an inspirational and visionary woman called Monica Norley. “Monica Norley is the founder of the […]
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