{"id":4043,"date":"2011-07-06T21:22:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T20:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2011-07-06T21:22:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T20:22:52","slug":"fair-trade-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4043","title":{"rendered":"Fair Trade Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all the Fair Trade Comments on the post about the Abbey Fish Ponds here is a post about Fair Trade &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fair Trade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11070604.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe  Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s Fair Trade group met at lunchtime to discuss re-establishing Abingdon as a Fair Trade town. There were representatives from shops, including Waitrose and The Co-op, the town council, churches, schools and general consumers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fair Trade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11070602.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAs well as planning a Fair Trade day on the Market Place on 20th August &#8211; where there are still pitches available for businesses who would like to take part (contact the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonchamber.co.uk\/\">Chamber<\/a>), the group set up a steering committee.<\/p>\n<p>On 20th August, I will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/2009\/03\/fairtrade-fortnight-goes-bananas.html\">going bananas for FairTrade<\/a> again. But this time I hope to be part of a bunch. Banana costumes cost from \u00a38 and upwards on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the Fair Trade Comments on the post about the Abbey Fish Ponds here is a post about Fair Trade &#8230; The Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s Fair Trade group met at lunchtime to discuss re-establishing Abingdon as a Fair Trade town. There were representatives from shops, including Waitrose and The Co-op, the town council, churches, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-4043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-fair-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}