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Bowness and Windermere - A Fairtrade Town.
This and subsequent pages have been produced on behalf of
the Windermere and Bowness Fairtrade Group as part of the Windermere & Bowness Chamber
of Trade's commitment to community information.
The Windermere and Bowness Chamber of
Trade are indebted to the Fairtrade Group for supplying the information
for this page.
2009 Activities
In October 2009 we were delighted to
welcome Bruce Crowther, from the Fairtrade Foundation, and friends on
their Fairtrade Walk from Garstang (the first Fairtrade town in the UK)
to Keswick.
Windermere & Bowness Fairtrade Group celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight with
a series of events, including several tea parties, with the aim of
encouraging people to swap to at least one Fairtrade product. On
Sunday, February 28th, members of the group, together with Peter Rabbit
and Bill Smith, Mayor of Windermere, gathered on Bowness Bay to promote
Fairtrade products. During the course of the afternoon we distributed
leaflets and samples, and talked to hundreds of locals and visitors.
One of our members regularly mans a Fairtrade Stall at local events,
where a wide range of Fairtrade products can be seen and purchased.
We are currently working on the 3rd Edition of our Fairtrade Directory
and plan to have it printed shortly for distribution from outlets around
the towns.
Don't forget to look out for the plaque proclaiming our status as a
Fairtrade town. You will find it in the flowerbed next to the zebra
crossing, facing the steamer quay.
Judy Baily - Windermere & Bowness
Fairtrade Group
Plaque Unveiling Ceremony
Tuesday the 5th May 2009 saw the unveiling
of a plaque on The Promenade, Bowness celebrating designating Bowness
and Windermere as a Fair Trade Town. The ceremony was attended by
the local MP, Tim Farron, together with a number of local dignitaries,
business people and members of the community.
This is the culmination of a lot of hard
work by local people dating back to 2005.
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Fairtrade Fortnight 2008
Fairtrade Fortnight was a great success with local
schools taking part in making posters for competitions, cooking food
using Fairtrade ingredients and raising awareness in various other ways.
The local churches also raised awareness with their Coffee Mornings and
the sale of Fairtrade products.
The local Fairtrade Group also had a Coffee Morning at
Beck Lodge with a raffle for a beautiful basket of Fairtrade fruit which
was kindly donated by the local Booths Supermarket. The coffee was
donated by Farrers of Kendal. The group were also 'blessed' to
have Elspeth and Alan Harman for this event and they gave several talks
and slide presentations, updating the information on the progress being
made by the Fairtrade Coffee Farmers in Choche.
The Windermere and Bowness Fairtrade Group had a great
deal of support for this event and feel encouraged that so many of our
local people feel so strongly about our less fortunate members
worldwide. We would like to thanks all those who gave up their
time to support us.
We have nearly sold all the Fairtrade Bags, produced for
us by a group of ladies in Bangladesh, so it's goodbye to plastic
shopping bags!
In conclusion the group continue to enthusiastically
promote Fairtrade products throughout Windermere and Bowness and are
constantly looking for new members.
Update of Activities
Ten members of the Windermere & Bowness
Fairtrade Group manned a stall at the Windermere Air Show over the
weekend of the 28th/29th July 2007, talking to the public, distributing
leaflets and giving out samples of Fairtrade products which were kindly
donated by the Co-op shops in Bowness and Windermere.
During the summer term members of the
Fairtrade Group took assemblies in five local schools, all of whom are
now hoping to achieve Fairtrade status.
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Fairtrade Fortnight - 2007
Monday February 25th, start of exhibitions
of work centred around Fairtrade by pupils of Windermere and Goodly Dale
Junior Schools at the Bowness Bay Tourist Information Centre. These will
continue for at least 2 weeks.
Thursday March 1st, around 90 people
attended a coffee morning at Beck Lodge Troutbeck, which raised £127 for
Fairtrade funds. There were
displays of products from local stores, and presentations given by two
members of the Keswick Fairtrade Group, who had recently returned from Ethiopia
to visit Fairtrade coffee farmers and co-operatives in a remote region
in the south of the country.
Friday March 2nd, two
members of the Bowness & Windermere Fairtrade Group went to Elleray and St.
Anne's Schools to take an assembly and to meet pupils , teachers, and
parents.
 Saturday
3rd March, the Group hosted Samuel Magona a Fairtrade coffee farmer from
Uganda to a social evening at Beckside Bowness. Samuel told us at
first hand about the very big difference the Fairtrade social premium had made
to the local community. As well as getting piped water, a school
classroom had been built - attended now by children from four villages.
Villagers' homes had been improved with corrugated sheet roofs and the
coffee beans were now awarded 'organic status' and produced under
hygienic conditions.
All the posters and
poems from Goodly Dale and Windermere primary schools are now displayed
in the Windermere Library and Bowness Tourist Centre, in response to the
competition to illustrate the Fairtrade movement and its meaning.
Fair Trade in Bowness and Windermere
Fairtrade Shopping Bags
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