Events
The Sutton FAIRTRADE Community group meets monthly- 6 weekly at the Tariro Cafe in the Salvation Army building in Benhill Avenue, Sutton. The date of the next meeting is Wednesday 16th May. You are most welcome to join us if you are interested to find out more about what is going on and is planned locally. Contact admin@fairtrade.insutton.org - or just come along on the day!
Environmental Fair 2011
Visitors to the Fairtrade stall at Sutton Environmental fair were invited to complete the following quiz :
1. Sutton is a FAIRTRADE borough – how many other towns are there, that have been certified as FAIRTRADE?
(a) 500 (b) 1000 (c) 850
2. What product that is produced in different parts of the world is also called “white gold”?
(a) White chocolate (b) Tea (c) Cotton
3. One of the countries that produces cotton most cost-effectively, without subsidies, is?
(a) Mali (b) U.S (c) China
4. Fairer cotton prices would enable how many people to trade their way out of poverty?
(a) 500,000 (b) 5 million (c) 10 million
5. Name 3 FAIRTRADE cotton items that are available in high street shops?
6 .Where can you buy men’s FAIRTRADE trousers in Sutton borough?
(a) Debenhams (b) Marks and Spencers (c) Burton
7. Where can you buy women’s FAIRTRADE Nightwear tops in Sutton borough?
(a) Dorothy Perkins (b) Marks and Spencers (c) Sainsbury’s
8. Where can you buy women’s FAIRTRADE shorts in Sutton borough?
(a) Asda (b) Topshop (c) Debenhams .
9. Where can you buy FAIRTRADE cotton wool and ear buds in Sutton borough?
(a) Boots (b) Marks and Spencers (c) Mothercare
Other recent events
The Sutton FAIRTRADE community group hosted a stall in the St Nicholas Centre on 12th March.
Answers to Fairtrade Quiz
1b , 2c, 3a, (Mali is one of the 4 countries in west Africa ( the others are Benin, Burkino Faso and Chad ) who are highly dependent on cotton. Cotton in the US, EU and India and China is heavily subsidized (one farm in Arkansas received over 24million in subsidies between 1995 and 2009 for example) meaning that farmers in west Africa lose out.) 4c , 5 (Bags , Home ware, Work wear , T- shirts , School wear , men’s trousers, men’s shirts and T -shirts , women’s jeans , shirts, T- shirts , nightwear , underwear , cotton wool , cotton buds) 6b, 7b, 8b, 9 All of them.
N.B The buying arrangements for big stores are often centrally organised and the trying out of new products is often only limited to the bigger stores. If you would like to encourage more stores to try out stocking FAIRTRADE cotton products please sign out interest sheet Trade rules need to be changed to make the cotton market fair and the UK government are campaigning for this within the EU. You can help by ;
- Buying FAIRTRADE cotton and asking your friends and family to do so too
- Asking in stores if they would consider stocking cotton goods that are FAIRTRADE if they don’t already
- Read Cotton policy report and lobby your MEP See http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/get_involved/the_great_cotton_stitchup/default.aspx
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