Visit of the Fair Trade Wales Flag
CLOCKWISE FROM THE TOP
At the Town Hall with the Mayor Boat crew from Aberaeron Rowing Club Comins Coch Primary School Aberystwyth to Aberaeron
Llangynfelyn Primary School Welcome at Aberaeron with the Mayor
Llanilar Primary School Aberaeron Primary School
St Paul Methodist Centre Handing over the flag at Pen Morfa
Christian Aid B & C Lunch (click any photo for a larger one)
WALES - A FAIR TRADE NATION
2006: A coalition of Fair Trade communities began campaigning for Wales to become a Fair Trade Nation.
2007: The governments of Wales and Scotland joined forces to agree the criteria for Fair Trade nation status.
2008: An international panel of Fair Trade experts reviewed the evidence of support for Fairtrade in Wales provided by campaign groups and decided that the level of support met the criteria agreed for the first stage of Fair Trade nation status. The next challenge is to change patterns of consumption and procurement to include more fairly traded products.
CEREDIGION achieved Fairtrade status in September 2008 and joined thirteen other counties in Wales that have also met the five goals.
LAMPETER was declared a Fairtrade town in 2005 and CARDIGAN achieved Fairtrade status in 2008. ABERAERON has a Fairtrade campaign group working for Fairtrade status. Groups need to be set up in Llandysul and Tregaron.
Photographs: Rowing Club (Chris Haines); remainder (Schools and Fairtrade group)
FAIR TRADE WALES FLAG
To celebrate Wales’ Fair Trade status, a national Fair Trade flag set out in June 2008 to travel through all 22 Welsh counties and arrive in Cardiff on St. David’s Day, 1st March 2009.
The flag was in Ceredigion for two weeks from the 29th November being displayed at several local events and visiting local schools, colleges and organisations as well as the offices of the Aberystwyth and Ceredigion Councils.
