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, two churches and cafes.

Ambassador Awards were awarded for the following categories:

Most Innovative Fairtrade Fortnight Plans – Shelagh Baird-Smith and her husband Iain who held a display at a Fairtrade Pancake breakfast held in the Ballroom of Nottingham Council House on Shrove Tuesday. They also had a stall at a Fairtrade tasting event in Minster School in Southwell.

Exceptional Effort Award – Tracy Mitchell who completed all the member Fairtrade Fortnight challenges, started blogging as an Ambassador, conducted 3 presentations for churches in Falkirk, represented Shared Interest at a fair trade Coffee morning in Edinburgh, secured our leaflets at the Scottish Fairtrade Forum AGM, and is in the process of making our schools pack available on an intranet for all Scottish FT schools.

Ambassador Challenge winners (x2)

1. To put as many Shared Interest posters up around your local area as possible – Reverend David Self who secured our leaflets in every box that was delivered during Fairtrade Fortnight from a local veg box scheme in Bristol.

2. To find the most creative place to display a Shared Interest poster or copy of QR.

RSA Academy, who put our poster on the top of a crane (don’t ask!) We have pictures to prove it and their prize is in the post!
A big congratulations to all the winners, and thank you to all who took part. We hope you all had a great Fairtrade Fortnight and enjoyed taking an active part in events in your area and beyond.

Remember to look out for your next challenge in the next copy of QR.