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Trade Justice and Traidcraft
BURY
ACHIEVES AND EXCEEEDS THE RICE CHALLENGE!!
We are delighted to announce that we sold all our
rice, over the weekend, not the Challenge 90Kg but an amazing total of 140
kilograms, which will raise £350.00 towards high-school education in Malawi;
We also received donations, which will be sent on, gift-aided, to swell the
coffers even more. We received so much support, from all sorts of quarters,
family, friends, our own church-members, members of other churches, and the
Fair Trade Steering Committee in Bury. It was truly heartening to see the bags
of rice disappear so quickly and to know that such a worthwhile cause would
benefit. We set out to sell 90 kilograms but easily surpassed our target.
Fair Trade Status
Bury Unitarian Church has been awarded Fair
Trade Status by the Fairtrade Foundation. This means that we have undertaken
to use only fairly traded ingredients where ever possible at all Church events.
This includes all tea, coffee, sugar etc.
Please join us in supporting this worthwhile
venture.
We also support Trade Justice by operating a
stall for fairly-traded goods; on the
first and third Sunday morning in the month, after the service, from 12.15 pm to
12.45pm the stall is open for business. Anne Mills, who has organised the stall
since November , 2003, has been delighted with the response from the
congregation; an average of £2,500 worth of Fairly-traded items have been sold
from the stall each year. Trade at the church is good, and increases all the
time. The most popular items on sale are:
Brazil Nut and Fairbreak biscuits
Genoa Cake
Chocolate Bars of all kinds
Marmalade
Kitchen Towels
Tea and Coffee
Sugar
..............................and many,
many more!
Feel free to visit the stall to see what is
on offer.
For more information about Fairly-traded products
go to:
www.traidcraft.co.uk
www.fairtrade.org.uk
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