Fair Trade Market in the Cutty Sark Gardens 12th July
The Cutty Sark Gardens, Greenwich will be hosting its first fair trade
market on Sunday 12th July from 11 am to 4 pm. There will be 25 stalls
inside the marquee selling a wonderful range of fair trade products
including clothing, jewellery, accessories, household goods, world
music CDs, food and drink. You’ll be amazed at the breadth of choice
and the quality of the work, most of which will be hand produced.
It will be your chance for some amazing buys with producers from at
least 16 developing countries represented (including Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya, India,
Mexico, Nepal, Palestine, Peru, Nepal, Tibet, Uganda and Vietnam) and
the skills range is breathtaking.
The event will be partly sponsored by The Co-operative Group, whose
supermarkets helped to pioneer the availability of Fairtrade produce,
and Infinity Foods Cooperative, the largest independent supplier of
fairtrade produce, who will be there with their range of dried fruits,
nuts and grains. Lovethatstuff, a BAFTS (British Association For Fair
Trade Shops) importer is organising the market with Greenwich Council,
and we want the whole family to come on down and enjoy themselves.
Come and listen and learn with our programme of guest speakers on fair
trade and development issues, play games to find out more about how you
can help make the lives of producers in developing countries so much
better, and buy a ticket to win some great prizes in our raffle to
raise funds for a new group of Afghan women. Get yourself some
wonderful presents for those you love (including yourself) and make a
real difference to many of the world’s poorest. And with lots of local
and global stalls you can eat there or take away.
lovethatstuff
a registered not-for-profit company
telephone: 01273 675778
http://www.lovethatstuff.co.uk/
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