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New Fairtrade Steering Group has been formed
by Yvonne Hill
A meeting took place at
Christ
church in Yarmouth on 19
th
February 2009
in order to formulate a
st
eering group to continue the campaign to make Great Yarmouth a Fairtrade borough.
Tony Wright MP for Yarmouth
was present and he was particular to point out that although he was handing over the running of the Fairtrade initiative he was not deserting the group and that
it will always be close to his heart
.
It was decided
that Mark Llewelyn would take over the chair from Tony
. After swapping seats, Mark took the chair for the rest of the meeting
. Belinda (Mia Lucy) would be responsible for the media and the secretariat would be as before.
To meet the criteria for the borough to become Tradefair they nee
d to fulfil 5 areas. It was requested that
everyone investigate the shops and make lists of all the products available
, also lists of the institutions within the borough to be submitted at the next meeting. Out of these lists
a directory will be collated
.
The steering group will meet next on the
12
th
March the venue will be Christchurch
and there will also be a meeting on
30
th
April
for everyone.
To start off the Tradefair fortnight their will be
a wine tasting on Monday
23
rd
which will be hosted by the
East of England Co-operative Society and Tony Wright
at the Priory Centre. All the details can be viewed on the upcoming events on this website.
Article printed from networkyarmouth.com at 19:44 on 21 November 2024