Royton’s Thorp Primary School has proved-its commitment to Fairtrade by winning an award for a Second year— and celebrated with a tea party Oldham Mayor Councillor Jim McArdle, attended the event during Fairtrade Fortnight, to present the School with its Fairtrade Status award. Also enjoying the gathering were parents, children, governors and other guests Fairtrade […]
Organic chocolate maker Green & Black’s have pledged to switch its entire worldwide food and beverage range to Fairtrade by the end of next year, in a groundbreaking move that will make it the world’s leading manufacturer of organic Fairtrade chocolate. The company’sMaya Gold chocolate was the first official Fairtrade product to go on sale […]
The UK’s best-selling chocolate bar has become Fairtrade certified, increasing the amount of Fairtrade cocoa sourced from West Africa. Cadbury’s Dairy Milk has made the move – tripling the amount of Fairtrade cocoa sourced from Ghana to about 15,000 tonnes a year – in the summer. The total annual cocoa production of Ghana is more […]
Pupils at Crompton House School toasted Fairtrade Fortnight by welcoming a guest Rosa Helena Lopez de Soto all the way from Columbia . Rosa grows her coffee beans in the remote heights of the Andes Crompton House became a Fairtrade School in September 2008. We were the first school in Oldham to gain this status […]
On 6 March 2009, 12 primary schools across Oldham took part in a Fairtrade Football Tournament at Oldham Sports Centre. It proved a fitting finale to Fairtrade Fortnight. The tournament was hosted by Groundwork Oldham and Rochdale, along with Oldham Athletic Football Club. The winners were St Joseph’s Primary School, Shaw. They are pictured here […]
What is Fairtrade cotton? How is it different from ordinary cotton? Cotton is vital to the global textile industry and to the social and economic development of developing countries. There’s no difference in quality between Fairtrade cotton and normal cotton. The real difference is that the person at the very bottom of the textile supply […]