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Dumfries Celebrate Fairtrade status

On Saturday 25 February, Dumfries will be declared a Fairtrade Town. To celebrate there will be a stall near the Fountain on Dumfries High Street. Local MP Russell Brown will join members of the group and other local Fairtrade supporters to cut the celebration cake at 11am, and there will be activities for all the family between 10 and 3pm.
Dumfries will join over 500 Fairtrade communities in the UK and over 1000 worldwide in 21 countries across five continents and this is a step along the way for Dumfries and Galloway to be recognised as a Fairtrade region. Click here to see how you can join in the celebrations.

Cumbria Local and Fair

Fairtrade campaigners, local farmers and other organisations got together on 4th November to discuss the possibility of working towards a Fair mark for local products. The conference covered a wide range of topics and a working group is now being formed to take this forward. If you would like to put fair milk in your Fairtrade tea, watch this space...


Hadrian's Wall was declared the first World Heritage Site, National Trail and international zone to get Fairtrade status in Fairtrade Fortnight 2010.  The campaign to link all of the Fairtrade towns within the Hadrian's Wall corridor took just over a year.



To celebrate achieveing Fairtrade status, a local brewer, Fiona Deal at Geltsdale Brewery, created a new ale made with Fairtrade cocoa, 'Coco Romano'

There were already many businesses and other organisations that provided Fairtrade products for their customers or staff and our aim was to raise the profile of Fairtrade even further and encourage more people to become involved.

There are now over 125 businesses supporting the Hadrian's Wall Fairtrade campaign and all 11 local authorities in the corridor have pledged to support Fairtrade.

We celebrated this achievement on Monday 22nd February with Krishnan Sainathan, a cotton manager for Agrocel, a Fairtrade company in India, and local Roman soldier Robin Brown!

Hadrian's Wall Country is a farming region that produces a wide variety of food and other goods. We strongly believe that these products should also be traded fairly and are working with Hadrian's Wall Heritage to promote this project in tandem with their 'Locally Produced' scheme.

Hadrian's Wall photographs kindly supplied by Joan Thirlaway.

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Radcliffe & Maconie on Hadrian's Wall