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Welcome to Burgess Hill Town's Fairtrade website. Here you will find out all about Burgess Hill's 'Fairtrade Town' campaign. You will also find out how you can get involved.
If you are a business looking for a great Fairtrade coffee at the right price, please click here. The Mango Bean company is used very successfully by one of our town's Fairtrade businesses, 'Go Gourmet'. They are delighted with the 'brazil sumatra' Fairtrade coffee which has received rave reviews from customers.
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Burgess Hill Fairtrade & Freedom Festival
21st February 2009 to 8th March 2009
Fairtrade is a national movement that promotes and encourages fair trading relationships between producers and consumers around the world. As a town Burgess Hill is proud of its Fairtrade Town status and as part of the annual national Fairtrade Fortnight, the Burgess Hill Fairtrade Steering Group is putting on a festival to celebrate Fairtrade but also to continue to highlight the issue of Fairtrade and other issues relating to fair trade.
A number of events are planned which will be both educational but also entertaining and are sure to make a big impact during the Fairtrade Fortnight. These include:
A Fairtrade & Freedom Trail through the main shopping centre and in the main library;
On Tuesday 3rd March a Faith, Fairtrade and Freedom evening with artists drawn from the Christian acoustic music tradition— Andy Flanagan, Gareth Davies - Jones,
Julie Hall and Rob Halligan;
On Saturday 7th March a Grand Ceilidh with leading Ceilidh band—Asha;
On Thursday 26th February a showing of the movie, Black Gold;
On Saturday 28th February a Fairtrade Fair and Exhibition;
On Sunday 8th March a benefit gig for Fairtrade & Stop The Traffik with leading acoustic artists—Show of Hands with Miranda Sykes.
Why Fairtrade?
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Every year we drink 31 billion cups of coffee in the UK! But how much of what we spend on coffee goes to the farmer? On average small coffee farmers receive just 1.5 pence from a cappuccino that costs the consumer £1.75 here. Coffee is not unique. Many products that we use on a daily basis are unfairly traded. As a result, small producers and farmers are living in poverty.
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Buying Fairtrade products is a simple and practical way of helping to provide a better deal for Third World producers.
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As sales of Fairtrade increase, more farmers in developing countries can join Fairtrade co-operatives and receive a fair price for their goods, as well as a premium to allow them to invest in a sustainable livelihood.
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Burgess Hill was added to the growing list of 'Fairtrade Towns' in the UK in July 2006 and successfully renewed its status in October 2007.
To find out more about the five goals that we had to achieve initially, please click the Campaign Goals button to the left. Now we are working to improve awareness and uptake of Fairtrade in our town. There is still much to be done!!
We have produced a Directory of Fairtrade in Burgess Hill which is regularly updated, and available in the town's Help Point, Church Road. You can access it through the link below as well. We are always looking for more people to help us to spread the Fairtrade message. If you would like to help, or simply want further information, please do not hesitate to contact us using the Enquiry button.
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UPDATE 2009: The calendar that we have produced for Fairtrade Fortnight is available as a link below. It has been sent to all local primary schools.
This website was last updated on 13/06/09
We are grateful to iksoftware for the use of their software to promote Fairtrade in Burgess Hill.
We are also grateful to the Fairtrade Foundation for permission to use photos of Third World producers.