Fairtrade Fortnight preview at Bexhill WI meeting

By The Newsroom
Published 22nd Feb 2016, 15:23 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 20:26 BST
Jack Doherty and Alan Bearne of Bexhill Fairtrade Town Committee with early Easter eggs at a WI meetingJack Doherty and Alan Bearne of Bexhill Fairtrade Town Committee with early Easter eggs at a WI meeting
Jack Doherty and Alan Bearne of Bexhill Fairtrade Town Committee with early Easter eggs at a WI meeting
Members of the Bexhill Fairtrade Town committee made a presentation on the upcoming Fairtrade Fortnight at a Women's Institute meeting on Wednesday (February 17).

Fairtrade Fortnight starts on Monday (February 29) and aims to encourage people to buy responsibly-sourced goods to support the third-world farmers who grow them.

As Bexhill is a Fairtrade Town, the group in charge told the WI in Little Common how they can get involved and what is going on over the next two weeks.

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Committee member Jack Doherty used the hymn Jerusalem to tell the moving stories behind the labels and said he enjoyed talking to the WI.

“It was very good, there were some very good questions and answers which carried on at the stall,” he said.

“The WI were one of the founding members of Fairtrade UK 21 years ago so it’s in part of their blood and they’re quite involved at the moment, but hopefully they will become even more involved.”

The WI members bought many Fairtrade products such as kitchen and garden gloves, soaps and hand wash dispensers, chocolate and Easter eggs, muesli, biscuits and cookies – some of the 45,000 goods now available.

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