Fairtrade Market and don't forget eggs at Kings Heath

Traidcraft Stall at All Saints Church open on Sundays  

Beautiful sunshine, a morris dancing side and excellent products brought bumper sales for Traidcraft store at Kings Heath Market yesterday.  

Top product to look out for is the real easter egg -  http://realeasteregg.co.uk/

Hurry to put your orders in while stocks last - Gill will take your orders, and you can arrange pick up your eggs from All Saints Church.  Contact Gill on 01216046127.

Traidcraft Tour South India, Illustrated Talk, 24th June

For "Meet the People" trip to India, John and Gill met some of the Traidcraft producers as well as other interesting groups of people and doing the usual sightseeing. 

They will be giving an illustrated talk about their experiences on the Traidcraft "Meet the People" tour to the south of India on Sunday 24th June at 5p.m. in All Saints church, Kings Heath. Come and find out about the groups they met and the how the producers have been helped by Traidcraft's support and advice.

Traidcraft tour Southern India

Gill and John Parkin presents Traidcraft 'Meet the People' tour to Southern India, 2012 
(presented at All Saints Social Justice Group, February):

We started off in Kerala, landing in Kozhikode (formerly Calicut) spending some time in the city
visiting Fair Trade Alliance Kerala and visiting farmers in the hills to the north east of the city.
From there we went south by train to Allepuzha and spent one night on the backwaters before
working our way east visiting a tea growing area and the Periyar wildlife park. From there we
crossed the central Ghats into Tamil Nadu to visit a project called “Reaching the Unreached”
(which is a talk in its own right) and the Meenaskshi Temple in Madurai before travelling by
overnight train to Chennai and then by road to Pondicherry. There we visited various projects,
some connected with Traidcraft.



Fair Trade Alliance Kerala (FTAK) is spread throughout Kerala covering 3,000 small farmers
in six districts.

More fairsteps across Birmingham

More pledges, artwork, activities and chocolate (thanks Coop) across Kings Heath, and also at Evergreen Care Home, winners of our FAB photo competition, October 2011:

Fairtrade Chocolate at theTea Dance, KHCC 

Freya helps make fairtrade chocolate eggs at Evergreen Res home, Stechford 

Foot Pledges at All Saints Church, part of Fairtrade at Kings Heath Farmers Market

Traidcraft table set out for Education Sunday, All Saints Church

More footprints and handprints for fairsteps 

Israel and Palestine in a changing region

A talk by Richard Burden MP

7.30 p.m. Friday 15 July

A talk by Richard Burden MP, who chairs the all-party Palestine group in Parliament. `The entire Middle East is going through a transformation that we have never seen before – a huge upsurge in popular protest calling for rights and democracy. It is right for people to speak of the importance of pursuing the Middle East peace process at this time without soft-pedalling, but it is also true that "process" is not enough. The people of both Israel and Palestine deserve an enduring peace. And – as the Arab Spring turns to summer, autumn and winter – we need actions, not just words, by the international community to help bring that about'.

Venue: All Saints Church, 2 Vicarage Road. Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7RA