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The Goals for a Fairtrade Zone |
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For the Fairtrade Foundation
to have awarded Fairtrade Zone Status to Bassetlaw, 5 goals had to be met. They
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local council must pass a resolution supporting Fairtrade, and serve Fairtrade
coffee and tea at its meetings and in offices
and canteens.
- Bassetlaw District Council have give Fairtrade for Bassetlaw tremendous support, for which we are very grateful. As early as December 2008, they passed a resolution supporting Fairtrade.
The Council now use Fairtrade tea & coffee for their
meetings. In addition they have helped us produce our newsletters
and our other promotional material. After Bassetlaw was awarded
Fairtrade Zone status, they hosted a Civic Reception in our honour.
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- A
range of Fairtrade products must be readily available in the area’s shops and
served in local cafés and catering
establishments.
- As can be seen from the Directory pages, there are many Fairtrade outlets in Bassetlaw and we are adding more all the time.
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- Fairtrade products must be used by a number of local work
places educational establishments, faith
communities and other community
organisations.
- Again, the Directory pages show that the commitment to Fairtrade can been seen in many different places in Bassetlaw.
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- Attract media coverage and organise events to gain popular
support for the campaign.
- From
our Wine Tasting Evening, through Fairtrade Fortnight to having stalls
at Manton Gala & other events over the Summer, we try to keep
showing whygoing Fairtrade is important . We have also had media
coverage both in news articles in the local papers & interviews on
local radio and also articles on Fairtrade in village & church
magazines.
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- A
local Fairtrade steering group must meet regularly to ensure continued
commitment to Fairtrade Town status. The
composition of your steering group should be representative of your community overall.
- Our
Steering Group meets regularly and has a membership that mixes
both young and old and Worksopians & Retfordians
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| Full details of what we needed to demonstrate are on the
Fairtrade Foundation website at The 5 Goals |
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| Fairtrade Zone status was awarded to Bassetlaw on 16/10/2009 and you can see our application on Google Docs - Application for Fairtrade Status for bassetlaw - 09-2009. We have to submit out application to renew the status in early September. We will keep you updated on our progress. |
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