{"id":4359,"date":"2011-08-20T23:46:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T22:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2011-08-20T23:46:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T22:46:32","slug":"abingdon-fairtrade-event-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4359","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Fairtrade Event 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few more pictures from the Fairtrade event on the Market Place &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11082006.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Trade Day\" \/><br \/>\nMike Moon, the secretary of the Abingdon Chamber of Commerce, was the man who organised the day, along with the Chair Paul Townsend.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11082005.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Trade Day\" \/><br \/>\nDame Alison Rooke and Dame Lesley Legge were helping to promote Fairtrade products, with free samples. Skinny Hippo also had some things on display alongside.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11082007.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Trade Day\" \/><br \/>\nI was there with a stall called <em>Go bananas for Fairtrade<\/em>. With a little help from friends I gave away 5 crates of nanas &#8211; thanks to Waitrose who did the Fairtrade group a deal.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11082004.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Trade Day\" \/><br \/>\nThere is evidence that bananas make you happy, so we could have made a lot of people happy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11082003.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Trade Day\" \/><br \/>\nIt took a few goes but Duncan Brown eventuallly adapted to the flight characteristics of \u00a0 Fairtrade bananas.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11082008.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Trade Day\" \/><br \/>\nWaitrose were there providing free samples of Fairtrade products, and information about the Waitrose Foundation &#8211; a partnership created in 2005 to help improve the lives of the farm workers and smallholders who grow their produce in Africa.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11082009.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Trade Day\" \/><br \/>\nThe Co-op were also there  and a friendly rivalry developed between the two. Co-op were raffling a hamper for Mencap and giving away Fairtrade chocolate.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11082010.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Trade Day\" \/><br \/>\nAfrican Children&#8217;s Fund were there &#8230;.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11082011.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Trade Day\" \/><br \/>\nPizza Express, who do some Fairtrade products, were giving out samples.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11082016.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Trade Day\" \/><br \/>\nTraidcraft have been doing Fairtrade, and promoting Trade Justice, in Abingdon far longer than anybody else, apart from maybe Oxfam.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11082002.jpg\" alt=\"Fair Trade Day\" \/><br \/>\nThere was also Face Painting near the Added Ingredients and Choose Abingdon stalls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few more pictures from the Fairtrade event on the Market Place &#8230; Mike Moon, the secretary of the Abingdon Chamber of Commerce, was the man who organised the day, along with the Chair Paul Townsend. Dame Alison Rooke and Dame Lesley Legge were helping to promote Fairtrade products, with free samples. Skinny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359","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=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}