20 Mar 2005 - Fairtrade at St Luke's - every week!
Traidcraft at St Luke'sCoralie Slade writes...
I became involved with Traidcraft shortly after the company was formed in 1979.
I first started a regular Sunday stall at St Luke's 18 years ago. The range of goods offered included tea, coffee, sugar and a large variety of dried fruit and nuts.
At that time it was almost impossible to find fairly traded items apart from mail order and Oxfam shops.
At church each week there are now approximately 40 different items available. This includes 4 different types of coffee, 3 varieties of tea, 3 types of sugar as well as muesli, fruit, pasta, rice, honeys, 3 types of delicious cookies and different chocolates and snacks which are some of the most popular items.
The stall is available 50 weeks year due to the help of a group of volunteers.
Christmas cards sales increased in 2004 and card sales throughout the year have done well. Cards are extremely competitively priced and well worth browsing through.
The church is now officially registered as a Fair Trade church. To maintain this we must use fairly traded tea and coffee at all our church functions and aim to promote and use other items also. Traidcraft tissues, kitchen roll and toilet paper are also used in the church building.
We need to see support for fair trade not as one of the charities we support but as a response to the challenge of the gospel that we should show our faith through our deeds.
'Our love is not to be just words.' 1 John
For more information about Fair Trade or Traidcarft, click on the links below: http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/ - http://www.traidcraft.co.uk/
The stall is available 50 weeks year due to the help of a group of volunteers.
Christmas cards sales increased in 2004 and card sales throughout the year have done well. Cards are extremely competitively priced and well worth browsing through.
The church is now officially registered as a Fair Trade church. To maintain this we must use fairly traded tea and coffee at all our church functions and aim to promote and use other items also. Traidcraft tissues, kitchen roll and toilet paper are also used in the church building.
We need to see support for fair trade not as one of the charities we support but as a response to the challenge of the gospel that we should show our faith through our deeds.
'Our love is not to be just words.' 1 John
For more information about Fair Trade or Traidcarft, click on the links below: http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/ - http://www.traidcraft.co.uk/