See you in the town centre (Market Cross area) for our Party! Cake! Music! Chocolate Fountain! Politicians! People in strange costumes! Free coffee!

We're setting up from 10am, so expect things to be running from 11am. We'll finish between 1pm to 2pm depending on weather. Expect to see at some point the mayor and Andrew Selous MP. And the cake...a big thanks to “Let Them Eat Cake” for providing us with the best looking and best tasting cake in town, which we'll be sharing with you good people at some point. Probably.

Anyway, it'll be a great party. I'm looking forward to it, because it's the first party I've been invited to since 2006.

 

 

 

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Five Years and still going strong!

We are celebrating the fifth anniversary of being a Fairtrade town in 2010. We're always looking for new talent and ideas, and never more so than now. If you want to get involved in the celebration, have any ideas, or can help us in any other way, please email us at the website contact address.

 

SCHOOL INTEREST IN FAIR TRADE

 

HEATHWOOD LOWER SCHOOL has shown its commitment to fair trade by making an investment with the world’s only 100 per cent fair trade lender.

Shared Interest’s Supporter Relations Officer in the South, Leighton Buzzard-based Sally Reith, led Heathwood Lower School’s assembly about the impact fair trade has on farmers and handicraft makers in the developing world.

Heathwood Lower School has been a Fairtrade school for three years and runs a tuck shop selling Fairtrade goods to pupils at break times. They will use the profits from the shop to open a Shared Interest account and start investing in fair trade businesses in disadvantaged communities overseas.

Angela Feaviour of the Leighton Linslade Fairtrade Steering Group said: “I am really impressed to see how Heathwood are taking their commitment to fair trade forward by investing in Shared Interest.”

By pooling investor funds, Shared Interest currently lends over £30 million each year to fair trade businesses in some of the world’s poorest countries. The financial co-operative is looking to raise a further four million in investment over the coming year so that even more communities are able to access the fair trade market.

A spokesperson for Heathwood Lower School Fairtrade Council said: “Heathwood Lower is looking forward to developing the partnership with Shared Interest to further the children’s knowledge and understanding of issues faced in developing countries.”

Sally continued: “We are delighted that schools are deciding to invest in Shared Interest. It means that the pupils can watch their account grow, knowing that it is helping people forge a living in other parts of the world.”

To find out more about Shared Interest’s ‘Fair Trade Fun’ school pack or to order your copy, please contact sally.reith@shared-interest.com or dial 0191 233 9100. For further details on how to become an investor, visit www.shared-interest.com