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Doors open at 10.00 am
Admission free – Fairtrade refreshments
Fairtrade stall, display and video
Please wear a face covering
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Dear <<First name>>
As we resume more of our regular community activities, we are delighted to invite you to a coffee morning to mark Fairtrade Fortnight.
Our Fairtrade coffee morning takes place in the church on Saturday 19 February, 10.00 am – 12.00 noon. All the refreshments, including tea, coffee, cakes and chocolate brownies, are Fairtrade products. Please wear a face covering (unless exempt).
There will be a stall selling Fairtrade goods, and a display and video about the work of the Fairtrade Foundation.
If you need to contact us, you can phone the church office on 020 8669 3676 or email news@carshalton-methodist.org.uk.
With best wishes,
Caroline Kingsnorth
Senior steward
About Fairtrade Fortnight
Fairtrade is about better prices, safe working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers.
For two weeks each year, at the end of February and the start of March, thousands of people across the UK come together to learn from the people who grow our food and drinks, mine our gold and grow the cotton in our clothes – people who are often exploited and underpaid.
Around the world, we are all connected through the things we eat, drink and wear. But how often do we think about the people who grow and produce the food we eat? Fairtrade Fortnight 2022 is highlighting the challenges that climate change brings to farmers.
“For generations, the exploitation of people and the planet has caused extreme global inequality and a climate emergency. Fairtrade farmers have told us that climate change is their biggest challenge right now.”
“Farmers have fewer resources to adapt to changes in the climate and the other stresses they are experiencing every day. Yet we all rely on farmers to produce the food we need for a growing global population. 80% of the world’s food comes from 500 million family farms.”
If we buy Fairtrade, we help the farmers to afford to adapt to the impacts of climate change, as well as supporting them to switch to low carbon production and transport.
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