Aidan, Ursula and Elisabeth at the Cherry Hinton stall for Fairtrade Fortnight. Picture by Clare Sansom
Our contribution to Fairtrade Fortnight was two stalls — one in Trumpington Meadows on 6 March, one in Cherry Hinton three days later. Thanks to Ursula and Elisabeth who were the main movers and shapers of these things, and to the Co-op and Sainsbury’s for donating goods we could display and offer as samples.
And we had leaflets, posters, a quiz and a QR code to the Fairtrade Foundation site. The stalls taught us how much point there was to all this. A lot of the people we engaged with didn’t know much about Fairtrade.
But they stopped to talk, which was good of them given the weather. You may get some idea of the weather from the photo, and the clothing of the participants, and the presence of the gazebo, and the reflections on the pavement.
One particularly interesting encounter was with a restaurateur from Castle Hill, who resolved to look out for Fairtrade ingredients!
