Fairtrade will be celebrating its 30th birthday this year. 

Campaigners from all over the UK will be drawing attention to the impact Fairtrade has had on farmers and workers across the world during Fairtrade Fortnight Fairtrade Fortnight [Sunday September 9th to Sunday September 22nd] .

 Fairtrade Fortnight events in Keswick: -

There will be a small display in Keswick Library. In 2024, the stories feature Lucy Twenewaa (a Fairtrade cocoa farmer in Ghana) and Jaime Alberto García Flórez (a Fairtrade coffee farmer in Colombia).

• September 12th Jo will give a talk at Keswick Rotary Club lunch.
• On Tuesday September 17th Joe Human will give a talk, Coffee’s brewing crisis, at 7.30pm in the Keswick Quaker Meeting House. In his talk, Joe looks at the impact of the climate crisis on small coffee farmers, focussing on Ethiopia, which he has visited many times. He will go on to consider how members of coffee cooperatives who are able to sell their coffee into the Fairtrade market have benefitted from a programme which has helped them adapt and build resilience.
• September 19th A tea party will be held at Lakehead Court .
• On Sunday September 22nd at 6pm a Fairtrade Service will be held at Southey Street Methodist Church.

We hope you will be able to come to one or more of these events. Of course the aim of all these activities is to encourage everyone, where possible, to make an active choice to ensure that 2 million Fairtrade farmers and workers across 58 countries can receive a fairer price for what they grow. In the exhibition Kelvin is putting on and in the talks Joe Human and I are giving, we will be providing information on the wider context of Fairtrade in the current climate - both literally and metaphorically.

Fairtrade Fortnight