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Ambassadors Meet Kenyan Producers
Two of our Ambassadors on holiday in Kenya have managed to visit three of Shared Interest’s producer groups during their stay, including two very new customers Bega Kwa Bega and Mace Foods, and a long established customer Trinity Jewellery. You can read about their visits here and they have also taken lots of photos to [...]
Ambassador Profile
As a new feature to the Ambassador newsletter we are going to start profiling a different Ambassador every month. If you would like to be profiled please send Sarah an email to let her know. This month we start with Joan Stableford based in the North West. How did you first hear about Shared Interest? [...]
August Activities in the South East. By Sally Reith
Following a busy July that included a stall at The Retirement Show in Olympia, meetings with local fairtrade and ethical groups in Milton Keynes, Luton and London, a stall at The Fair Trade Fair by the Cutty Sark and running the schools pack activities with a group of year 6 pupils at a school in [...]
Ambassador Question Time
This month we address a question highlighted by an Ambassador attending an International Co-Operatives event in Milton Keynes: What is the minimum amount of money you need to open a Shared Interest Account? The minimum amount of money that you can open a Shared Interest Share Account with is £100. However accounts can also be [...]
Time for a ‘Big Brew’ and a ‘Big Lunch’?
Save this date –July 19th because you’re invited to a party on your street, and everyone’s street! The Big Lunch are asking people to stop what they’re doing on the 19th July and sit down and have lunch together. If there is a Big Lunch being organised on your street, why not suggest it be [...]
South East Updates from Sally
Hello, I hope you have been having an enjoyable month. It certainly seems like the events are coming thick and fast as summer approaches. The event in Holland Park last Saturday was threatened with clouds but the sun prevailed bringing families out to see what was going on. The Fairtrade Conference in Wales was a great [...]
Six Months for Supporter Relations Officer North
By Ruth Taylor During the month of June I celebrated six months working with the world’s only 100% fair trade lender and continued to explore the variety of events and conferences in the region. UKSIF (UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association) hosted the summer Ethical Investment Association conference in Edinburgh. While the conference was geared [...]
Ambassador Newsletter- Events Update
We are looking for Ambassadors who will be able to help us at the Retirement Show at Olympia in London, where we will have a stall on Fri 17th and Sat 18th July. If you could spare an hour or so to help Sally on the stand please send her an email to let her [...]
Ambassador Newsletter- Producer News
One of our producers in Nicaragua, UCA San Juan de Rio Coco, wrote to us recently to tell us what they had used their fairtrade premium for. UCA San Juan de Rio Coco are a first floor coffee cooperative of 330 farmers, who produce 70% Fairtrade Organic coffee and 30% conventional Fairtrade coffee. With their [...]
Ambassador Newsletter- Foundation News
Andrea is now back from Rwanda and she has the following to tell you about her trip: The evaluation trip was a great success, it was incredibly exciting for us to mark the end of the first year of this project and to start seeing the results, and results they were! All of the tier [...]