The fairandfunky 90kg rice challenge is BACK! It’s been a while since we last took on the challenge so we thought we’d write a little blog about why we take on the challenge from Just Trading Scotland. A couple of years ago we were lucky enough to meet Webster and Howard, rice farmers from Malawi […]
Continue reading »This May fairandfunky turn TEN YEARS OLD!! Ten years of running workshops, organizing events, wearing banana suits, eating Fairtrade chocolate and taking little steps to change the world. We hope that we’ve inspired and empowered some of you along the way. As a thank you for all the support and encouragement we’ve had over the […]
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. Recently, we were asked to deliver a series of SCRAPtastic workshops for Hepwoth Junior and Infant School’s […]
Continue reading »Did you know that the average family in the UK throws away 6 trees worth of paper and card every year? Recently fairandfunky worked with students from Denby Dale First and Nursery School, on a piece of artwork to display in New Mill Community Garden for ‘Art in the Garden’ with Holmfirth Arts Festival, centred […]
Continue reading »The fairandfunky competition is open to legal residents of the United Kingdom only Entrants must be 16 years of age or older as of their date of entry in this promotion in order to qualify This competition is run by fairandfunky CIC solely and has no external official sponsors or partners By entering this competition […]
Continue reading »A brilliant and engaging workshop this Fairtrade football workshop enables participants to discover more about the people who make Fairtrade footballs in Pakistan and how Fairtrade makes a difference in supply chains. The workshops is suitable for KS2. “Interactive, engaging and age appropriate the Play Fair! Workshop provides lots of relevant information linking to real life […]
Continue reading »The GDPR EU privacy policy is due to commence on the 25th May 2018. Please read the following blog which outlines our new Data Policy detailing how fairandfunky use your data. Personal data is collected for marketing purposes – newsletters, email updates and general correspondence. The data is collected on paper and electronically. It […]
Continue reading »For the 5th consecutive year, fairandfunky were thrilled to once again join Aspirational Learning for ‘Summer Cool’ at Rastrick High School. During our time at ‘Summer Cool’, fairandfunky delivered ‘Change the World with an Eggbox’ and ‘Street Paper’ workshops to over 40 children transitioning from primary school to Rastrick High School at the start […]
Continue reading »Did you know that a rice farmer from Malawi needs to sell 90kg of rice to be able to afford to send their child to school for a year? Next week, inspired by Just Trading Scotland we launch the “Harvest Rice Challenge”: we aim to sell 90kg of rice three times over to change the […]
Continue reading »As many of you may know, bees are dying worldwide by the millions. At fairandfunky we think this is terrible news, as bees are a very important part of our ecosystem. Often, bees get exhausted buzzing about, so sometimes they need a bit of reviving. Last week we came across a dying bee, and […]
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