Fairtrade Fortnight 2011– Monday 28 February to Friday 11 March

BU, the Students’ Union and Chartwells are coming together to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight 2011. This year the Fairtrade Foundation is asking everyone to ‘Show Off Your Label’, with the aim of getting more people excited about Fairtrade and the difference our everyday choices can make.

BU is a Fairtrade University, and Fairtrade enables more than 7.5 million people to live better lives by ensuring better prices, decent working conditions, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world.

Staff and students can show their support for the Fairtrade campaign and post a photo of themselves showing off your Fairtrade label on BU’s Student Switch-Off Facebook page: here or email it to the Fairtrade Steering Group for the chance to win a Fairtrade hamper.

Events going on throughout Fairtrade Fortnight include:

Fair trade or Free trade, Wednesday 23 February – 12.30pm to 2pm
Student Centre, Talbot House, Talbot Campus

Join Dr Stephen Copp, Associate Professor of the Business School specialising in Law and Economics and Simon Giarchi from CAFOD a Catholic relief and aid charity that works to ease the suffering in developing countries to debate the relative values of Fairtrade and free trade.

Talks will begin from 1pm after lunch.

Food Inc (Global Cinema), Wednesday 23 February – 6.30pm
Allsebrook Lecture Theatre, Talbot Campus

See how the weight of big business influences government agencies to put profit ahead of consumer health, work safety and the environment. Watch the trailer at www.foodincmovie.com

Be a record breaker

• Poole House Atrium – Monday 28 February, 9am to 3pm
• Bournemouth House café/SU shop – Tuesday 8 March, 9am to 3pm
• The Edge LearnHigher Centre – Wednesday 9 March, 10am to 1pm

Be a part of a national world record breaking attempt to create the world’s longest string of hand-designed, bespoke Fairtrade cotton bunting. Stall will be open on Monday 28 February from 9am to 3pm in Poole House Atrium; on Tuesday 8 March from 9am to 3pm in Bournemouth House café/SU shop, and on Wednesday 9 March from 10am to 1pm in The Edge Learn Higher Centre.

Tea, Cakes and Fairtrade, Wednesday 9 March – 10am to 1pm
The Edge, LearnHigher Centre

To celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight 2011, The Centre for Global Perspectives is organising a ‘Tea, Cakes and Fairtrade’ event on the 9th March 2011, from 10am to 1pm at The Edge LearnHigher Centre.
Staff and students are warmly welcome to stop by at anytime between 10am to 1pm and enjoy some Fairtrade tea, coffee and cakes.
Events include:

• Enjoy free Fairtrade tea and coffee and lots of other goodies like Jelly Beans, Fruit Flap Jacks, Choc Chip Flapjacks, Geo Bar Honey, Geo Bar Berry, Eccles Cakes
• A chance to sample various Fairtrade beauty products, including Neal’s Yard Remedies, The Visionary Soap Company, etc.  
• Decorate a Fairtrade cotton bunting to help break a bunting World Record and stand a chance to win a £5 voucher from The Co-Op.

So come and join us at The Edge LearnHigher Centre and show your support for Fairtrade.

Throughout Fairtrade Fortnight

Chartwells food outlets will be celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight by launching One World Fairtrade Cup Cakes on sale from the Monday 28 February for 99p as well as producing limited edition home baked cakes with Fairtrade ingredients, one flavour per week, for four weeks from Fairtrade Fortnight.

The Student Union shops will also be showing off the Fairtrade products they sell during the fortnight.

For more information click here.

Further information

Contact Peng Peng Ooi: ppooi@bournemouth.ac.uk

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