Fairtrade Fortnight 2014 Roundup
The fortnight is over for another year – and what a packed one it was in Yorkshire!
Check out our photo gallery roundup of the events taking place across the region – including the tour of our guest banana grower, Aimeth Angulo from Colombia.
Aimeth Angulo’s whistle-stop tour of Yorkshire took in Hull, Immingham, Leeds, Malton, Bradford, Hebden Bridge, Keighley, Thornton, Sheffield, Harrogate, Holmfirth, Skipton, York and Cherry Burton. Thanks to all the local groups who hosted her.
Check out the photos gallery of the tour and other events taking place across the region:
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- February 22nd: Pickering Fairtrade Fair at the Memorial Hall
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- February 26th: Fairtrade Coffee Morning in Lupin Café, Scarbrough
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- February 27th: Fairtrade in Penistone hold their annual Fairtrade Chocolate giveaway
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- February 27th: Taysir Arbasi, Zaytoun’s Community Director in Palestine, and Monica Wusteman of the York Palestine Solidarity Campaign with York Fair Trade Forum members at a special screening of ‘The People and the Olive’ at York’s City Screen cinema
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- March 1st: The Good Food stall in the Oastler Shopping Centre put on by Bradford Fairtrade Zone
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- March 1st: Ripon Fairtrade Action Group collecting signatures for the Fairtrade Banana campaign
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- March 1st: Aimeth with Co-operative members in Keighley
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- March 1st: Aimeth Angulo at a joint Co-operative and Fairtrade Keighley wine tasting.
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- March 2nd: Aimeth attends a special Fairtrade Service at Bradford Cathedral
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- March 3rd: Aimeth joins “Foncho’s Fairground” at the Sheffield Winter Gardens
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- March 3rd: Aimeth joins “Foncho’s Fairground” at the Sheffield Winter Gardens
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- March 3rd: Aimeth at Sheffield’s brand new Fair trade shop “Fair Grounds”
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- March 5th: The Harrogate Schools Conference at Richard Taylor School
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- March 7th: A Fairtrade Tea Party at Northstead Primary School
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- March 7th: Aimeth with members of the Skipton Fairtrade Town group
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- March 7th: Aimeth with pupil from Skipton Girls’ High School
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- March 9th: Rev Richard Parkinson welcomes Colombian banana farmer, Aimeth Alicia Fernandez Angulo to Cherry Burton on “Banana Sunday”
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- March 9th: Cherry Burton children and leaders with Aimeth and her very own Fairtrade bananas, courtesy of Sainsbury’s, Hessle
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- March 9th: Aimeth and villagers visit the Fair Trade stall
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- March 9th: A stall by Fairtrade campaigner Amarjit at the Beeston Gurdwara for the Fairtrade Langar
Foncho in Parliament
London, 26th February – Not in Yorkshire, but a special mention for an event organised by Fairtrade social enterprise fairandfunky at the House of Commons. Children from Upperthong school in Holmfirth met MPs and the face of the 2014 campaign himself, Foncho Cantillo.
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- Children from Upperthong School in the House of Commons with Fairandfunky
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- Fairandfunky with Foncho at the House of Commons
It’s not too late to Stick With Foncho – if you haven’t done so already, sign the petition here.
Leeds celebrates ten fair years
Leeds, March 7th – Leeds became a Fairtrade City during Fairtrade Fortnight ten years ago. It marked its tenth anniversary with a big bash at the Civic Hall with local schools, MPs, the Lord Mayor and our touring banana grower, Aimeth Angulo. The schoolchildren took part in activities such as Fairtrade pass the parcel, pin the Fairtrade banana on the world map and Fairtrade sensory challenge. The Fairtrade Bake-off was judged and a group from Sinai Synagogue was awarded first place by the Lady Mayor of Leeds for their delicious Chocca Mocha Cake.
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- Leeds schoolchildren were joined by local MPs including Greg Mulholland
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- The event saw the judging a results of the Fairtrade Bake-Off
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- A steel pan band play at the party
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- The Lord Mayor of Leeds with Leeds schoolchildren and cakes from the Fairtrade Bake-off
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- The winners of the Fairtrade Bake-off, members of Sinai Synagogue – Leeds’s only Fairtrade Synagogue, with the Lady Mayoress and expert judges Barbara and Lisa
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- Children from the Beeston Primary School choir and Burjor Langdana
..and so does York!
York, March 8th – York achieved Fairtrade City status at the same time as Leeds back in 2004. After an afternoon spent bringing the Stick With Foncho campaign onto the streets, a civic reception was held in the Mansion House. The Lord Mayor and Sheriff welcomed our roving Colombian grower Aimeth, along with Fairtrade campaigners, city councillors and local MP Hugh Bayley. Then afterwards it was over to York’s historic Guildhall for a celebratory party.
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- Aimeth joins campaigners at the Stick With Foncho campaign stall
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- Aimeth Angulo visits York’s iconic Fairtrade shop Fairer World
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- Aimeth Angulo visits York Minster with Mariela Muñoz del Valle of the Centre for Global Education; Abi Ramanan of the Fairtrade Foundation; and Kathryn Tissiman of the York Fair Trade Forum.
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- Aimeth Angulo with Fairtrade Yorkshire Co-ordinator Mark Dawson
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- Passers-by stop to make a Fairtrade Banana smoothie using St Nick’s pedal powered smoothie bike.
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- The pedal-powered smoothie maker: suitable for all ages!
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- York celebrates 10 fair years at the Mansion House. Left to right: The Lord Mayor, Cllr Julie Gunnell; Helen Harrison of the York Fair Trade Forum; Mark Dawson, co-ordinator of Fairtrade Yorkshire; Maria Muradás-Casas of the University of York; Council leader James Alexander; Aimeth Angulo; and York Central MP Hugh Bayley.
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- Aimeth Angulo talks about the difference Fairtrade has made to her business in Colombia.
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- Tom Haygarth, a pupil of Fulford School, reads his prizewinning short story “Behind the Bars”
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- City of York Council leader James Alexander and Council Fairtrade Champion Linsday Cunningham-Cross meet Aimeth at the Mansion House
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- Aimeth Angulo with the Sheriff of York, Cllr Brian Watson, and the Sheriff’s Lady.
If you’ve got photos of your event, please send them to us! Email richard (at) fairtradeyork.com
