Well done Bicester!!
On 1st November, Bicester in Oxfordshire became the UK's 500th Fairtrade Town! This massive achievement followed four years of really hard work by the members of Bicester Fairtrade Steering Group, who now join a growing international Fairtrade Town movement, spanning 19 countries and uniting capital cities from Rome, Brussels, and Paris to Wales' own Fairtrade Capital City, Cardiff.
Harriet Lamb, CBE, Executive Director of the Fairtrade Foundation congratulated Bicester, adding that 'through tireless campaigning, Fairtrade supporters have won the hearts and minds of consumers and helped Fairtrade sales in the UK grow, Fairtrade Towns have helped to tip the balance in favour of some of the world's poorest producers and we hope that with the continued growth in Fairtrade Towns internationally we will see similar successes across Europe and beyond.'
Don't worry Harriet, Llanelli Fairtrade Group are on the case! We are excited by the challenge and hopeful that, before the end of 2010, Llanelli will be joining Bicester on that ever growing register of Fair Trade Towns!
For more information on Bicester's acheivement, and the Fairtrade movement in the UK, please visit http://www.fairtradefoundation.org.uk/.
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