Eventography

An evening of Fairtrade tea and coffee tasting to a mixture of world, wartime and big band music!
From 7:30pm, Admission £3, smart dress code.
Wandsworth Salvation Army Church, 9 Rams St, Wandsworth, SW18 1TJ. RSVP louisewandsworth@live.co.uk

We ran an information stand and raffle in the canteen at Wandsworth Council over Fairtrade Fortnight. The staff were really positive about Fairtrade and interested to learn more about the latest Fairtrade products to hit the shelves and where they could buy them in Wandsworth. Staff made pledges to swap one of their usual purchases for the Fairtrade alternative over the fortnight and stuck their pledges to the giant banana!

Group meeting to plan for Fairtrade Fortnight (22nd February - 7th March). http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/thebigswap/about_the_big_swap/

Group meeting to plan awesome Christmas publicity idea!
Held at the Wandsworth Salvation Army Fairtrade Coffee Morning.

The next meeting and summer social will be on Tuesday 18th August at 7pm at The Selkirk pub, Selkirk Road, Tooting SW17 0ES.
This will be followed by an optional summer social with SW London WDM group at the Kastoori curry house, 188 Upper Tooting Street,Tooting, SW17 7EJ.
If you haven't been to a meeting before but would like to know more about the group please come along to this informal meeting to have a chat!

On the 25th & 26th July 2009, group members supported the Fairtrade Foundation at the Ben & Jerry’s Sundae on the Common festival on Clapham Common.
Ben & Jerry’s include a range of Fairtrade ingredients in their ice creams (look for the Fairtrade mark on the tub!) and at their annual music festival, the Fairtrade Foundation hold an information stand, complete with giant inflatable banana jousting!
Group members were on hand over the 2 days to answer questions about Fairtrade in Wandsworth, gain support for the local campaign by asking residents to sign postcards to be sent to Wandsworth council asking for support, and of course assist with the free Fairtrade ice cream tasting!!
The event is a fantastic opportunity to raise awareness generally about Fairtrade and speak to local residents.

Alice, the Hatter and friends would love you to come along and help celebrate all the goodness of fairtrade drinks, cookies and other edible goodies alongside a fine selection of art and craft lovingly fabricated by local artisans.

For more info see: www.ArTeaParty.blogspot.com

For one night South Londons top comedy night, the Banana Cabaret at the Bedford in Balham, became the Fairtrade Banana Cabaret.

Members of the Fairtrade Foundation hosted a mass banana eating session as part of the wider "go bananas" theme to this years Fairtrade Fortnight.

We will be serving Fairtrade teas, coffees and other little treats at the final stop on the Tooting Earth Talk which is being organised by the fantastic Transition Town Tooting. For more info see the blogspot: http://transitiontowntooting.blogspot.com/

Teams gathered for Wandsworth Fairtrade Campaign's first quiz night at the new Salvation Army building in Wandsworth Town.
There were 2 rounds of Fairtrade related questions and a screening of "Is Wandsworth Ready", a short film on trade that focuses on Wandsworth Councils decision to not pass the Fairtrade Resolution.

Ecofair in Balham Library with a variety of stalls and workshops to be held on Saturday 20th Sept

Annual local carnival on Tooting Bec

Hundreds of people queued up to bash each other over the head with inflatable Fairtrade bananas, whilst at the same time adding their support to the campaign. Sam from Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly also found the time to come and have a dual (pictured).

Another great day in the sun, talking to Lavender Hill residents about Fairtrade and the campaign

Hanging out again at Wandsworth best kept secret - Furzedown Festival 08

Wandsworth Councils Learning at Work Day in the Town Hall canteen.

To mark Fairtrade Fortnight we organised a product tasting at Clover Browns again on Balham High Street.

We had speakers from our local coffee supplier Percol (http://www.percol.co.uk/), the Fairtrade Foundation and lots of products to taste from Percol, The Co-op and the fantastic Cream O' Galloway (http://www.creamogalloway.co.uk/).

Showing of Black Gold at the Exhibit Bar and Cinema on Balham High Street

Our First Summer Festival

Stretching our legs on Wandsworth Common to demonstrate the inherent difficulties of the global trading system through the medium of football!

And yes they were Fairtrade oranges at half time!

We held a christmaa fayre with plenty of stalls, competitions and mulled wine!