Wandsworth Fairtrade Campaign

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Comment by Dave Kemp on June 4, 2010 at 7:05pm

Coffee Shop is happening this Saturday 5th June with all your usual tea, coffee and cake. It takes place at Wandsworth Salvation Army, 9 Ram Street SW18 from 10.30am-1pm. If you would like to help run Coffee Shop please get in touch as we could really use the help. Hope to see as many of you as possible on Saturday.

Comment by Dave Kemp on March 23, 2010 at 4:06pm

A call for help for the Wandsworth Salvation Army Coffee Shop. Hattie, who normally runs Coffee Shop is going to be unavailable for a while ao we would like to put together a rota of people to run the coffee shop each month. Ideally we need groups of 2-3 people who would be responsible for preparing and serving food, taking money and clearing up in the kitchen afterwards. Other setting up will already be done. Coffee Shop runs on the 1st Saturday of each month and is open from 10am-1pm. We need people half an hour before opening and about 30-45 minutes afterwards. If we get enough people each group could be running it 3 times a year. If anyone is interested please let me know.

Comment by Charlie Ullman on February 12, 2010 at 5:31pm

Erm, it looks like the www.wandsworthfairtrade.org.uk has been hacked by some kid. A bit annoying, but probably fairly easy to fix.

When are you guys next meeting? I'd definitely be up for doing something for Fairtrade fortnight in a couple of weeks.

Comment by Hanna Rose on December 8, 2009 at 12:35am

Was very excited about kit-kat too- think they deserve a sparkly card!

Comment by Louise on December 7, 2009 at 12:32pm

WOW! How amazing that Nestle are going Fairtrade with KitKat?!?! Fairtrade Foundation have just announced it! www.fairtrade.org.uk

Comment by Amy on October 25, 2009 at 12:14am

The Theme of Fairtrade Fortnight 2010 (22nd Feb - 7th March) has been announced - The Big Swap! The idea is that people swap their usual something for the Fairtrade version e.g. cotton wool, bananas etc. The product focus of the Fortnight is tea (Strictly Come Fairtrade Tea Dancing anyone?!). We'll use a meeting soon to discuss what we are going to do locally during the fortnight.

Comment by Dave Kemp on October 12, 2009 at 1:46pm

To keep in touch with WSA Coffee Shop please join our group at:

http://www.projectdirt.com/group/WSAfairtradecoffeeshop
We are supporting the aims of the Wandsworth FT Campaign at a local level as well as spreading the message to other churches.
We will occasionally offer special offers to members.

Comment by Amy on October 11, 2009 at 9:40pm

I recently attended the Cadbury launch of their first product to go fairtrade - their flagship Dairy Milk. At the launch were Cadbury brand and marketing managers, as well as several representatives from the Ghanaian community and various FT folks including Harriet Lamb. Whatever feelings there are about large multinationals, there is no denying that this is going to make a massive impact on the people of Ghana as that it where Cadbury source all their beans. By having them certified Fairtrade the minimum Fairtrade standards will be applied to thousaends more farmers than before which can only be a good thing. Now we just need all those other cadbury products to go FT too....

Comment by Amy on July 31, 2009 at 9:28am

Housekeeping: so that our page doesnt get out of hand please can people delete any comments that are out of date below as only the person who put it up is allowed to delete it.
thanks!!

Comment by Denny on March 19, 2009 at 10:58am

Amy

I know relations between the council and WFC are not the greatest, but have you ever considered asking the council if you could use the Town Hall as a venue? Wandsworth Environment Forum meetings are held there, although admittedly we have a slightly different relationship with the council, but it could be worth a try if you haven't done so yet.

Also, many council estates have clubrooms that you might be able to use? I'm actually a resident on the Fitzhugh Grove estate, oppositie the County Arms, and we have a community clubroom. I've got no idea how you get around to booking it, but there is a link here to other such clubrooms, so you could check them out?
http://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/Home/LeisureandTourism/Communityctrs/clubs.htm

TT Wandsworth are also interested in finding venues, so if you get any other ideas/suggestions, do let us know. Or we could even potentially collaborate at some point...

Denny