Eden Valley's guide to Fairtrade products is now on this website. It includes shops, cafes, restaurants, hotels, hostels, guest houses and B&Bs.
   Windermere and Bowness has produced the second edition of its Fairtrade guide in printed form (generously supported by Lakelovers), which can be downloaded as a PDF file. As well as showing where to buy products, it includes a case study and ten good reasons to support Fairtrade.

The first three schools in Cumbria to be awarded Fairtrade School status are: St Joseph’s School, Workington, Brampton Junior School and Ullswater Community College, Penrith. See our Schools page.

Keswick had visits from two coffee farmers from the village of Choche in Southwest Ethiopia, as well as Nekemte Melaku from the Oromia Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Union in Addis Ababa. Nekemte acted as translator to Tadesse Meskela, ‘star’ of Black Gold. Full details of the visit are on the Keswick pages.

Oxfam has published a very detailed analysis of the one full and the interim Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) which have been initialled, called Partnership or Power Play? How Europe should bring development into its trade deals with African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. Full details are in our Trade Justice Update.

News from earlier this year