Winchcombe is a Fair Trade Town!!
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Town now has FIVE retail outlet selling Fairtrade goods:
Moreover ALL of the Town’s tea shops and one of the outlets selling take-away drinks serve a choice of Fairtrade refreshments:
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Winchcombe Town Council passed a resolution supporting Fair Trade in May 2005.
Shops: The Co-op store, Food Fanatics, Keelings Newsagents and Sweetbox all stock at least two Fairtrade Mark products and Sprogs stocks a wide range of Fair Trade children's toys. Catering: The Old Tea House; Lady Jane’s Tea Shop, Juri's Tea Rooms, Raja Balti and Sudeley Castle Tea Rooms all use Fair Trade products. B & B’s: ‘Mercia’ and ‘Isbourne Manor House’ both use Fair Trade products.
Fair Trade products are used at Winchcombe Abbey C of E Primary School; Winchcombe School; English Country School; St Peter's Anglican Church; St Nicholas RC Church; Methodist Church; Abbey Fields Community Centre; Probus groups. Guides and Brownies, Mothers' Union. Also a wide range of businesses within Winchcombe serve Fairtrade products to their employees and visitors. All of these will be presented with certificates when we declare Winchcombe to be a Fairtrade Town on Saturday 21st July.
There have been articles about Fair Trade in the Glos Echo; St Peter's magazine; and In Touch (Methodist magazine). Assemblies have been held on the theme in both schools. There was an attendance of over 50 people at a public meeting to launch the campaign and a further 60 people supported the concept by returning response slips following the delivery of a house-to-house leaflet.
An informal steering group was formed in March 2005 and has met on several occasions since – planning the public meeting, the leaflet drop and a Fair Trade Saturday where there was sampling and sale of Fair Trade goods. If you are a business or organisation using Fair Trade goods or an individual looking for sources of Fair Trade goods please contact: |