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PEOPLE in churches and church schools are gearing up to take part in Fairtrade Fortnight ( 29 February to 9 March).
Tucking into a Fairtrade breakfast are people from Warfield Church.
Colin Date Big Fairtrade Breakfasts are among the events happening across the Diocese of Oxford, raising awareness of the importance of giving a fair price to food producers globally.
The Acting Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Revd Colin Fletcher, is set to join the Oxford Fairtrade Coalition's Fairtrade Breakfast with the Lord Mayor of Oxford on 29 Febuary. In Stony Stratford, an International Women's Day event was set to recognise Fairtrade Fortnight with stalls and a focus on how women and girls can be supported to achieve their ambitions.
The event takes place at York House, London Road, Stony Stratford on Friday 4 March at 7. 30pm.
Tickets cost £10 and a raffle will raise funds for doMK Act, a charity which works to help women and children who are escaping domestic violence.
Tickets from d. greaves2015@gmail. com or by texting 07818484221. Meanwhile the Milton Keynes Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be hosting a presentation entitled Fairtrade - Bringing Resilience to Palestinian Farmers on Tuesday 1 March, 7. 30pm to 9pm at 602 North Rose, MK9 3BJ.
Email miltonkeynespsc@gmail. com for more information. Banbury, where the Real Easter Egg is now produced (see the February edition of the Door), is celebrating 10 years as a Fairtrade Town with a special Fairtrade event at Sainsbury's on 12 March.
An inter-school competition to design a Fairtrade car sticker has been held.
It was won by Harriet Lewis-Moody, who is in Year Five at Deddington CE Primary.
The prize will be presented by the BBC's John Craven at the Sainsbury's event. And Deddington CE Primary School will be having its own Fairtrade Day on 11 March with a cake/biscuit competition judged by a local caterer, as well as assemblies, a non-uniform day and Traidcraft stalls. Meanwhile at Warfield Church in Berkshire, the congregation enjoyed a Fairtrade breakfast.
Juliet Date, from Warfield, said: "We have done this to raise awareness of the importance of Fairtrade for farmers in the global south and closer to home. "What are you doing for Fairtrade Fortnight? Email Jo Duckles with details.