Church of England
Diocesan Synod has
resolved that
Lichfield should become a Fair Trade diocese. That means half of all
parishes need to be Fair Trade parishes. That in turn means using
fairly traded tea and coffee for all meetings, using other fairly
traded products and promoting fair trade whenever possible.
That
done (perhaps regularly including trade justice in
intercessions, running periodic Traidcraft stalls, coffee mornings,
etc.), application forms to register as a Fair Trade parish can be
obtained from:
The Fairtrade Foundation,
Room 204,
16 Baldwins Gardens,
London
EC1N 7RJ.
Roger Miller, the secretary of the diocesan World
Development group, would be very pleased to hear of successes at:
9, The Villas,
Stoke on Trent ST4
5AH
or
r.miller365@btinternet.com
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Catholic Church
A
Fairtrade diocese is a community that has made a commitment to
supporting Fairtrade. Making your diocese a Fairtrade community is a
very effective way of spreading the word about Fairtrade and through it
supporting disadvantaged farmers amd workers in developing countries.
The more people buy Fairtrade in the UK, the more people in Africa,
Latin America and Asia can trade their way out of poverty.
You can apply for a Fairtrade certificate from CAFOD
for your diocese if the appropriate diocesan meeting agrees to meet
five goals:
- to support and promote Fairtrade, further
encourage the use and sale of Fairtrade products and to serve Fairtrade
tea and coffee at diocesan meetings
- to encourage parishes and deaneries to adopt the
same policy and to display literature advertising the fact that
Fairtrade products are used and served there
- ensure Fairtrade tea, coffee and other products,
if possible, are used and/or sold by more than a third of the parishes
in the diocese
- attract media coverage and continue to raise
awareness of the Fairtrade Mark
- set up a Fairtrade steering group to monitor
that goals continue to be met and developed.
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