TUNBRIDGE WELLS FAIRTRADE TOWN GROUP
"Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream" Amos 5:24
© Tunbridge Wells Fairtrade Town Group 2023 Website last updated 25th March 2023
WHY NOT GET INVOLVED WITH FAIRTRADE? Teacher? get your class or your school involved - there are plenty of resources which can help to make learning fun and informative. Faith Group? Get your faith or community group to commit to Fairtrade. Take your commitment into the workplace and get your colleagues and employers involved. We need a Fairtrade Flagship Employer for the Borough. Restaurants, cafes, hotels, pubs why not support the town’s commitment to Fairtrade? Contact us for more information and get included on this website. If you are at home working to bring up your family, tell your friends. Better still, invite them round for a cup of Fairtrade tea or coffee, served with cakes made with Fairtrade ingredients! Together we can make a difference to the world. For anyone who would like to know more or get involved in the Fairtrade Town campaign, please contact us . We are always pleased to welcome new people.
Biodiversity and Climate Crisis Biodiversity is declining and more than 42,000 species of plants, animals and fungi are threatened with extinction. It is vital that we all play a part, however small, to restore the places where we live. This year the Tunbridge Wells Fairtrade events are focussing on biodiversity and the climate crisis. Working with Kent High Weald Project and the Tunbridge Wells Parks Department, local schools have been sowing wildflower seeds in Calverley park during Fairtrade Fortnight (27 th February 12 th March) to encourage local biodiversity, and we’d like to carry this on throughout the spring. The Fairtrade Group is inviting schools and local people to get involved, making seed bombs and sowing seeds in their green spaces, gardens, allotments even window boxes to help to restore biodiversity in our local area. Anyone can join in, and if you have already planted some seeds why not let us know. Take a photograph of your germinating seeds, saying where they are, and send it to us at contact@twfairtrade.org.uk . We will plot a map of the local area s howing green-spots where we have all worked together to protect the environment. The Amelia Scott team will be running Easter activities making seed bombs, and planting seeds for food that children can take home. Working with the Fairtrade Team, children taking part will find out about how to plant things and the eco-agenda of Fairtrade farmers. Check the Amelia Scott website nearer the time for more information https://theamelia.co.uk/
Creepy-crawlies at the Amelia Scott! We are launching a community art project to raise awareness of the biodiversity and climate crisis, and to show solidarity with Eco-Friendly Fairtrade Farmers. We will be working with the Amelia Scott team to devise nature-themed activities in the Amelia Scott building over the Easter holidays. The culmination of the project to coincide with the coronation of King Charles III will be an inter-schools art exhibition, creating fabulous insects for display in the Amelia Scott, and all schools are invited to get involved. Children will be making butterfly light catchers for the Amelia Scott windows, beetles to crawl up the walls, and pollinators such as bees and wasps to “fly” about the open spaces of the building. If your school or community group would like to make some creepy-crawlies for the project please email us. Guidance for teachers on bug- making can be downloaded from our Schools page.