Fairtrade Offers at Poppy’s Pantry during Fairtrade Fortnight 2012
Wholefood store Poppy’s Pantry on Wilford Bridge Road, Melton, will have a special offer on their Fairtrade products during Fairtrade Fortnight 2012. Between Monday 27th February and Sunday 11th March 2012, anyone who spends over £5.00 on Fairtrade products will be given a 10% discount on their entire shop.
For more details go to this page and scroll about half way down. Also see the Poppy’s Pantry website.
Fairtrade Breakfast in Woodbridge – 10th March 2012
At 8:00am on Saturday 10th March, join us at St John’s Church Hall, Woodbridge for a Fairtrade breakfast. Helen Macleod, a local Traidcraft rep, will be giving a talk about her experience of the impact of Fairtrade first hand in India and Thailand. For enquiries and to book your ticket (£3.00), please call 07545 802815.
This event is organised as part of Fairtrade Fortnight.
Cafe Noel – 26th November 2011
Fairtrade coffee morning at St John’s Church, Woodbridge. With delicious homemade cakes and Fairtrade drinks to refresh you, enjoy browsing the many stalls selling fairly traded products. An excellent chance to buy Christmas gifts.
Fairtrade Fortnight 2011
On Saturday 5th March at 7.30pm, as part of Fairtrade Fortnight 2011, we are holding a Quiz Night in St John’s Church, Woodbridge. There will be Fairtrade refreshments, a Fairtrade stall, and a lot of fun to be had, with teams of up to eight people each – organize your team in advance or just join one on the night. Tickets are only £5 each and include a free cup of Fairtrade tea or coffee.
Proceeds from the night will go towards our activities, maintaining Fairtrade Town status here in Woodbridge, and also contribute towards the cost of the church’s next mission trip to Romania.
Call 01394 382589 or the St John’s church office for tickets.
For more details of Fairtrade Fortnight events, have a look at the Fairtrade Foundation’s pages.
Fairtrade Wine Tasting Evening, April 2010
Just42, a youth work charity in Woodbridge, organised a wine tasting as a follow-up to Fairtrade Fortnight.
Wine expert Jude Mullins, from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust in London, began by explaining that there are many good quality Fairtrade wines on the market. Of the 290 wines listed on the Fairtrade Foundation website we had time to sample six:
- Co-Op Fairtrade Sparkling Brut
- Thandi Sauvignon Blanc/Semillon
- Fairhills Cabernet Sauvignon Petit Verdot 2008
- Thandi Sauvignon/Merlot blend 2008
One from Argentina
- Tilimuqui Torrontes
One from Chile
- Co-Op Fairtrade Carmeniere 2008
One example of the advantage of Fairtrade certification is demonstrated in the Fairhills vineyards of South Africa set up in 2005. The Fairtrade premium has helped build schools, daycare and community centres benefitting the 1,000 Fairhills workers and their families.
Of the 25 guests present at the tasting, many were complete novices yet Jude soon had us commenting on the wine’s ‘appearance’, ‘nose’ and ‘palate’. We learned that a red wine could be clear, a nose could be clean and that a wine could be ‘long’, ‘medium’ or ‘short’ (this relates to the length of time the taste lingers). It was a fascinating evening and Jude commented that there was something suitable for any occasion, barbecue, aperitif or even a wedding in the case of the Sparkling Brut. Wine tasting usually involves seeing, swirling, smelling, tasting and not swallowing but the wines were so good the ‘not swallowing’ bit was ignored!
Personal favourites were the Sparkling Brut from the Co-Op (£7.99 a bottle) and the Fairhills Petit Verdot from Tescos (£4.49). “I would be happy to have any of them again” said Chairman of Fairtrade for Woodbridge, Anthony Lumley.
Fairtrade for Woodbridge are grateful to Just42 for organising and hosting the evening, to Jude for travelling up from London to teach us and to Budgens, the Co-Op, Wines of Interest (Ipswich) Adnams and Tescos for supplying wines.