Fairtrade events 2012

Massive banana split in Ammanford! Fairtrade cotton producers sleeping in cotton sheets in Llandeilo! ... and more!!

2012 looks like being a busy year for Ammanford Fairtrade Group. The year marks the tenth anniversary of the town gaining Fairtrade Town status. Group member Phil Broadhurst said : "We were the first Fairtrade Town in Wales, and the fifth in the UK. Now there are over 500 Fairtrade Towns in the UK, and Wales has become the first country in the world to gain Fairtrade Nation status. In those ten years we have seen grass roots campaigns like ours create a massive rise in recognition of the Fairtrade mark and what it stands for, and an ever increasing rise in sales of Fairtrade products. We are still a long way from having a fair trading system in the world, but the work we are doing with Fairtrade is helping people around the world work their way out of poverty. It is something worth celebrating, and so we will be marking the tenth anniversary with a series of events throughout 2012."

The first big event will be the return of Ammanford's annual Fairtrade Banana Split which will see a thirty foot long Fairtrade Banana Split being built, and quickly eaten, in the College Street arcade on Friday 2nd March at 6pm.