Fairtrade Fortnight 2012:  27 February – 11 March

On Saturday 3rd March Ealing Fairtrade Group held an event outside Christ the Saviour Church, Ealing Broadway, celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight 2012‘s theme, Take A Step for Fairtrade. We asked members of the public to decide on a personal step and write it on our Giant Footstep board or decorate a paper footprint to illustrate their commitment to Fairtrade.  A step could be a small step such as buying a Fairtrade banana or a large step such as asking your workplace to serve Fairtrade drinks.

We were also selling Fairtrade cakes, chocolate and fruit and raffle tickets for the chance to win a delicious Fairtrade hamper. You can see photos from the day in our slideshow below. Click on any of the slideshow photos to access our online photo album and save individual photos to your desktop.

Find out more about taking a step for Fairtrade on the Fairtrade Foundation’s website – http://step.fairtrade.org.uk/thefairtradestep.

Ealing Summer Festival, 23-24 July 2011

Thanks to all the friendly visitors to our Fairtrade stall at the Ealing Summer Festival Blues & Global music days in Walpole Park.

We had a great time giving out Divine Fairtrade chocolate samples, testing people with our Fairtrade quiz and seeing the beautiful self-portraits done by local children showing themselves with their favourite Fairtrade products. Photos below.

Fairtrade Fortnight 2011: 28 February – 13 March

This year’s Fairtrade Fortnight 2011 theme was “Show off your label”, promoting awareness of Fairtrade cotton. Fairtrade groups around the country asked the British public to decorate pieces of Fairtrade cotton bunting in an attempt to set a new world record for the longest continual piece of bunting.

Ealing Fairtrade Group held a bunting themed event in Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre on Sunday 13th March to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight in Ealing. Leading up to Fairtrade Fortnight we also worked with some of Ealing’s libraries to give local children a chance to decorate bunting, with their very artistic efforts displayed afterwards in Acton and Ealing Central Libraries.

Photos of our bunting event can be seen in the slideshow below. Click on any of the slideshow photos to access our online photo album.

Why buy Fairtrade cotton? – read more in our FAQs section.