Tatsfield is a Fairtrade village. What is a Fairtrade Village?
What is Fairtrade? Fairtrade is an alternative approach to conventional trade and is based on a partnership between producers and consumers. It is not a charity. Follow the links here to find out about standards, certification, labelling, products and producers.
What is Fairtrade? Fairtrade is an alternative approach to conventional trade and is based on a partnership between producers and consumers. It is not a charity. Follow the links here to find out about standards, certification, labelling, products and producers.
A Living Income?
Ivorian cocoa farmer, Salimata, earns less than 75p a day
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Salimata earns less than 75p a day. She needs more than twice this amount for a decent standard of life.
Unfair prices are leaving many families struggling to afford the basics: schooling for their children, medical treatment when they are ill and even access to safe water. This isn't right. Women like Salimata, often doing the hardest work while enjoying fewer rights than male farmers, deserve a living income. |
We don't want this exploitation in our chocolate and the UK government should lead the way in making international trade deals work for the poor.
and so we are asking the PM to:
and so we are asking the PM to:
- Lead the way: Support a global initiative of governments and business to reach living incomes for farmers and workers, starting with cocoa
- Make living incomes a priority in UK-funded international aid projects
- Incorporate living income into the UK's Human Rights and Business policies
And support Salimata and other hard-working farmers by making sure the chocolate you buy is Fairtrade.
It's easy to find - click here for a list of stockists and you may be surprised.
It's easy to find - click here for a list of stockists and you may be surprised.
The Fairtrade Tea Tent did a good job of warming the wet purchasers at Saturday's plant sale, as seen on this video, taken by Andrew Moore
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Sheree now stocks Zaytoun olive oil and Machu Picchu coffee. Read here a personal account by a supporter of Fairtrade Tatsfield whose family grows olives in Palestine. |
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2019 Horticultural Society Spring Show
*Best in Show* was a flower arrangement on the theme of "10 years of Fairtrade shopping". |
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In the ART section there were entries "YES to supporting ORANGUTANS? Insist on Fairtrade palm oil"
Congratulations to all who entered.
Have you seen this wonderful Fairtrade Recipe Book?
It's full of recipes brought in by Tatsfield School children.
It costs just £10 with every penny going to the school.
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It's available from the School Office
or you can contact the Fairtrade group either by using the form below
or by emailing tatsfieldfairtradegroup@gmail.com.
or you can contact the Fairtrade group either by using the form below
or by emailing tatsfieldfairtradegroup@gmail.com.
Meet some farmers. Click on the images below
... at the Coobana Co-oparative
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Marcial Quintero
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Coffee farmer, Samuel
Sainsbury's tea
Sainsbury’s own-brand Red Label and Gold Label ranges are no longer Fairtrade certified, instead these are part of its new “Fairly Traded” range. More than 229,000 farmers are affected by these changes. See the news page
Would you be interested in low priced food sourced from around the world?
Find out more by watching this video.
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The recipe for the brownies which were voted delicious at the last Fairtrade tea tent is now on the recipes page . |
Cheer up your morning with the chocolate song |
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