Archive for March, 2009
Is eating chocolate ever entirely guilt-free?!
I read in the Scotsman over the weekend that a group of city businesswomen have raised awareness of Fairtrade chocolate by eating as much of it as possible. Around 70 women were involved in Saturday’s party at a member of Edinburgh’s Soroptimist organisation, which formed part of a worldwide initiative to draw attention to the [...]
Fair Trade: Feel-good fashion or global blueprint?
Click here to access a Powerpoint presentation from a recent lecture given by fair trade pioneer and Senior Research Fellow in Economics at Homerton College in the University of Cambridge, Dr Mark Hayes. In addition to this Powerpoint presentation, you can also access all of his fair trade related work on his website. Related Articles [...]
Life after Fairtrade Fortnight
This week I have been getting back into the swing of life as an SRO after Fairtrade Fortnight and the AGM. I returned to the Islington Arts and Media School, where I gave a presentation to their year 9’s during Fairtrade Fortnight, to see how the pupils had interpreted their knowledge of Fairtrade into a [...]
Shared Interest Member and Ambassador Awards
For the first time ever Shared Interest presented Member and Ambassador Awards at our AGM. The categories and winners were as follows: Members Award for Fairtrade Fortnight Challenges Category winner- Barbara Judd who completed 10 of the 14 challenges, including holding a fair trade workshop for 150 kids, and activities at her local ASDA, library, [...]
Shared Interest Advert from 1991
A member recently sent in this advert from the March 1991 issue of New Internationalist. While the concept remains the same, the terms have changed significantly. 19 years on, we now have over 8,700 members who have invested over £24 million. The minimum deposit is £100 while the maximum is £20k and you no longer [...]
Refreshed inspiration….
Tracy Mitchell is a Shared Interest ambassador and the views expressed herein are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of Shared Interest Society. Like many other Shared Interest members, I spent Saturday at the AGM & Members’ Day in York. It was a great chance to hear how the organisation is doing [...]
Great News for the Foundation!
Great News for the Foundation The Foundation has just received £10,000 from one of our society investors. This is a massive help in pushing us further up our Fundraising Mountain! I will be making a Blue Peter type thermometer to track the progress of the Foundation as we work towards our overall Fundraising Goal, however [...]
AGM summary – Rwandan Producer Support Project
Rwandan Producer Support Project Shared Interest Foundation, working in collaboration with COFTA, received its first large grant this year. The Big Lottery Fund awarded £236,000 to train 50 fair trade businesses over three years in Rwanda. This new programme will provide three levels of learning suitable for producer groups at different stages of development, ranging [...]
AGM summary – Pan African Training Programme
Pan African Training Programme The Foundation’s pan African training programme has been running for over two years now and is a joint project with The Cooperation for Fair Trade in Africa (COFTA). This year alone we have trained in 7 countries throughout Africa. In Rwanda, Uganda. Ethiopia, Senegal, Egypt, South Africa and Ghana and we [...]
Foundation Summary from our Annual General Meeting
For those of you who weren’t able to make it to our Annual General Meeting took place in York on Saturday, I thought you might appreciate a brief run down on what we have achieved in the Foundation over the last year and what new and exciting projects we are looking to set up this [...]