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June 15th, 2013Fairtrade general, Welwyn HatfieldThe Fairtrade Group attended the Recent Food Festival in Welwyn Garden City on June 8th , sharing a stand with the Welwyn Oxfam Campaigns Group. Thank goodness it didn’t rain! We sold Fairtrade products and promoted the Enough Food for Everyone IF Campaign. It is a coalition of over 170 organisations, including the Fairtrade Foundation and Oxfam, who have come together to give our government one simple message . They must act now to tackle world hunger. One in eight people go to bed hungry every day and every second a child dies because of hunger.There is enough food for everyone IF there is more aid, no more tax havens, more transparency and an end to landgrabs. See www.enoughfoodif.orgWe were asking people to help us make papers flowers with a message to be taken to the big London IF rally in Hyde Park on 8 June. The spinning flowers are a symbol of childhood and will be ‘planted’ in Hyde Park to represent the 2 million children who die because of hunger every year .The Fairtrade Group were also promoting their Make Food Fair Campaign focussing on challenges met by farmers and producers in the developing world. See www.fairtrade.org.uk/makefoodfairHere are a couple of pictures of our stall at the event:
We had a very successful day attracting the crowds with samples of fairtrade chocolate, Fairtade products for sale, and many colourful paper flowers were made and signed. Group members took them to Hyde Park on June 8th.Here is a picture of the field of flowers st Hyde Park. It shows people, mostly children, grabbing a few flowers to take home at the end of the day:Tags: enoughfoodif, festival, food, IF Campaign, Welwyn Garden City
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July 14th, 2012chocolate, Fairtrade general, Welwyn Hatfield
As part of the Olympic Torch Relay events there was a food festival last Saturday in Welwyn Garden City town centre. Our group had a stall and we sold cakes and chocolate to the hundreds of festival visitors. Our homemade cakes and especially meringues went down a storm. The Rocky Road was also a big hit and quickly sold out! All were of course made with Fairtrade sugar and chocolate.
Despite the threatening weather it was a really busy, really fun day. We also raised some much needed funds. Below are a few pictures from the day. As ever we would love to hear from anybody who might be interested in supporting our group and attending our meetings which take place about every six weeks.
A huge thanks to everyone who helped on the day, and those dedicated cooks that supplied our delicious food, at the end of the day we were left with only crumbs, it all went!
Who can resist a strawberry and cream meringue?
We were running out of Strawberries!
Our home made offerings
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Tags: chocolate, Fairtrade, food festival, Welwyn Garden City
A family browse our Fairtrade wares...
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