 |
| |
Sun |
Mon |
Tue |
Wed |
Thu |
Fri |
Sat |
| > |
|
|
|
|
01
|
02
|
03
|
| > |
04
|
05
|
06
|
07
|
08
|
09
|
10
|
| > |
11
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
| > |
18
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
22
|
23
|
24
|
| > |
25
|
26
|
27
|
28
|
29
|
30
|
31
|
This Week's Events
Search events by...
Today's Events
|
|
|
FAIR TRADE IN GLASTONBURY
Printable Version |
Glastonbury is officially recognised as a Fairtrade Town. To learn more about the good work of the Fairtrade charity, visit their official website www.fairtrade.org.uk .
A number of shops and cafes in Glastonbury sell food products bearing the Fairtrade Mark, which guarantees a fairer deal for third world producers.The sale of Fairtrade food products has increased by 90 per cent in the last two years, and a wide range of Fairtrade products is now available including coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, fruit juices, bananas, oranges and snack bars. Glastonbury joins Wells and Frome in achieving Fairtrade Town status, courtesy of the Fairtrade Foundation, a registered charity that awards the accolade.
In order to qualify, a Steering Group has been set up and Glastonbury Town Council has passed a resolution supporting Fairtrade. The number of shops and cafes in Glastonbury selling Fairtrade products has increased, and a number of local businesses, schools, churches and community groups are using the products. Glastonbury Fairtrade Town Steering Group chairman Roy Ellis said: "During the last year the price of coffee on the international market has collapsed." Many thousands of coffee farmers in developing countries have had to sell their coffee beans for less than the cost of production."They have gone out of business and can no longer afford to send their children to school or pay for basic medical care, but the coffee farmers who sell to Fairtrade companies are still receiving a fair price which was guaranteed more than a year ago. By buying coffee brands with the Fairtrade mark we can ensure that more coffee farmers survive."
Mr Ellis presented the Fairtrade Town certificate to the Mayor of Glastonbury on 7th May 2003. Mr Ellis said: "We have been encouraged by the support and encouragement which the Glastonbury Town Council have given us in our bid to become a Fairtrade Town." The Somerset Fairtrade Network, with support of Mendip District Council, has produced a Fairtrade directory showing all the shops and cafes in the Mendip area where Fairtrade products are available.
For more details or for a copy of the directory, contact
Roy Ellis
telephone (01458) 442313.
|
GLASTONBURY'S FAIRTRADE SHOPS
(last updated April 2004)
Bishopston Trading Company, 8A High Street
Clothes, accessories, toys, cards, bedding and craft goods
Blue Note Café, 4 High Street
Coffee, tea, sugar
Bridie's Organic Food Co-op Old Beckery Road (off Street Road)
Coffee, tea, fruit juice
Heaphy's, 16 Market Place
Coffee, tea, sugar, drinking chocolate
Heritage Fine Foods, 32-34 High Street
Coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate
Mocha Berry Café, 14 Market Place
Coffee, tea
Rainbow's End Café, 17A High Street
Coffee
Morrisons, Street Road
Coffee, tea, cocoa, fruit juice, bananas
Fruition, 54 High Street
Coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, fruit juice
The Truckle of Cheese, 33 High Street
Coffee, cocoa, chocolate
The Wholefood Store, 28 High Street
Coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar, chocolate, dried fruit, chutney, snack bars |
|
|
|
