{"id":5950,"date":"2012-03-03T19:07:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T19:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5950"},"modified":"2012-03-03T19:07:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T19:07:28","slug":"taking-a-lot-of-steps-for-fairtrade-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=5950","title":{"rendered":"Taking steps for Fairtrade in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12030211.jpg\" alt=\"Fairtrade Market\" \/><br \/>\nThe first Market Place event of the year was a Fairtrade market. Waitrose were there showing a range of their products and offering free samples.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12030203.jpg\" alt=\"Fairtrade Market\" \/><br \/>\nThe Co-op were there selling Fair Trade products like 99 Tea with 20% off.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12030217.jpg\" alt=\"Fairtrade Market\" \/><br \/>\nSkinny Hippo were there with some of their Fairtrade craft products.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12030207.jpg\" alt=\"Fairtrade Market\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mayor received a certificate to say that Abingdon is officially recognised as a Fairtrade town.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12030216.jpg\" alt=\"Fairtrade Market\" \/><br \/>\nWe are currently into Fairtrade fortnight and \u00a0there is a national event called &#8220;Take a Step in Fairtrade fortnight (Feb 27th &#8211; March 11th). You can register a step if you like at <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131218103902\/http:\/\/step.fairtrade.org.uk\/\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About 60 Abingdon people wrote the Step they are going to take for Fairtrade on a board on the Market Place. This young lady is going to try to find Fairtrade Ice Cream.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Fairtrade is about better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Market Place event of the year was a Fairtrade market. Waitrose were there showing a range of their products and offering free samples. The Co-op were there selling Fair Trade products like 99 Tea with 20% off. Skinny Hippo were there with some of their Fairtrade craft products. The Mayor received a certificate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950","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=5950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}