Bookings for The fairandfunky Fairtrade Conference for Secondary Schools on Thursday 2nd March 2017 at Honley High School are OPEN! Please click here to download a booking form for your school. Exclusively for Secondary Schools across Yorkshire and the North, the fairandfunky Conference: ‘Take a break with Fairtrade’ invites schools to bring up 10 delegates to […]
Continue reading »Bookings for The fairandfunky Fairtrade Conference for Schools: ‘Take a Break with Fairtrade’ on Friday 3rd March 2017 at The Creative Media and Studio School are OPEN! Click here to download your booking form! The fairandfunky Fairtrade Conference: ‘Take a Break with Fairtrade’ brings together Primary Schools from across Kirklees to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight. The conference will […]
Continue reading »Bookings for The fairandfunky Fairtrade Conference for Schools: ‘Take a Break with Fairtrade’ on Friday 10th March 2017 at Halifax Minster are OPEN! Click here to download your booking form! The fairandfunky Fairtrade Conference: ‘Take a Break with Fairtrade’ brings together Primary Schools from across Calderdale to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight. The conference will ignite […]
Continue reading »Each year fairandfunky take on the 90kg rice challenge from our partners Just Trading Scotland. The challenge is to sell 90kg of rice – because when a farmer sells 90kg of rice they can afford to send their children to school for a year. Working with schools, churches, youth clubs and individuals the rice […]
Continue reading »To celebrate World Environment Day 2016 fairandfunky held their first ever fairandfunky GO GREEN Conference for Schools. The conference welcomed 56 students and 14 teachers from across Kirklees to celebrate and learn about local and global sustainability in creative workshops from Grow To School, The West Yorkshire Bee Keepers Association and fairandfunky. All fairandfunky […]
Continue reading »Halifax Minster opened its doors to school children from 9 schools across Halifax on Friday 13th May, to celebrate World Fairtrade Day at a fairandfunky Fairtrade Conference for Schools. The event is part of the campaign, spearheaded by Holly Lynch MP, to achieve Fairtrade Town status for Halifax; “The campaign to make Halifax a […]
Continue reading »To celebrate World Fairtrade Day we held a Schools Conference at Halifax Minster – we had a brilliant day, ending with a very special song written especially for the event by Cheryl Camm from Sea Pie Parcel: What do you get if you assemble a bunch of red and pink roses, a Tibetan Singing […]
Continue reading »It is really important to us to empower people with the knowledge that you (yes you) can change the world – and this is what we do – in our workshops, at events, through our shop and as we network: we demonstrate that it doesn’t matter how big or how small you are – we […]
Continue reading »World Fairtrade Day invites you to be an ‘agent for change’ – something that we are happy to embrace every day! This year we celebrate World Fairtrade Day with a Fairtrade Conference for Schools in Calderdale at Halifax Minster. The conference will inspire and engage children in Fairtrade themed workshops, empowering them to take […]
Continue reading »World Fairtrade Day invites you to be an ‘agent for change’ – something that we are happy to embrace every day! This year we celebrate World Fairtrade Day with a Fairtrade Conference for Schools in Calderdale at Halifax Minster. The conference will inspire and engage children in Fairtrade themed workshops, empowering them to take […]
Continue reading »DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15th JULY – SEND ENTRIES NOW!!! Speak for the Trees is an environmental themed poster competition hosted by Stafflex and fairandfunky, sponsored by Modu Exhibitions, and invites children AND their teachers from Schools across Kirklees, Calderdale and Wakefield to create an environmental artwork on the theme “Speak for the trees”. The competition […]
Continue reading »Following four fully booked Fairtrade Conferences for Schools fairandfunky GO GREEN in June with a conference for Primary School children on an environmental theme. And as an accredited partner of Eco-Schools England, the fairandfunky GO GREEN Conference can be used as evidence for your school to achieve Eco-Schools Awards! The fairandfunky GO GREEN Conference on […]
Continue reading »Two years ago The Fairtrade Foundation launched their Fairtrade Fortnight campaign to Stick with Foncho, a banana farmer from Columbia. The campaign that Fortnight focussed on bananas……and thanks to twitter friends (including @sallyreith @FTBristol and @mrsFairtrade) the #BananaArmy was born. Fast forward to 2016 and the #BananaArmy has reached new levels of campaigning with […]
Continue reading »To celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight 2016 fairandfunky held TWO fairandfunky Fairtrade Conferences for Schools in both Huddersfield and Batley. The conferences were fully booked with 170 students and 40 teachers from across Kirklees coming together to celebrate and learn about Fairtrade in creative workshops from Fair Grounds, Fair Connections, The Fairtrade Foundation, Coeur de Xocolat and fairandfunky. Four […]
Continue reading »During Fairtrade Fortnight fairandfunky host TWO Fairtrade Conferences for Schools on the theme ‘Around The World’. Inspiring over 200 children to think about where products come from and who made them; empowering them to change the world. Delighted to welcome Nina, one of our Conference workshop providers Fair Grounds to the guest blog to take you ‘Around The […]
Continue reading »During Fairtrade Fortnight fairandfunky host TWO Fairtrade Conferences for Schools on the theme ‘Around The World’. Inspiring over 200 children to think about where products come from and who made them; empowering them to change the world. Delighted to welcome Caroline Hardaker, The Schools Coordinator with Traidcraft – Conference Champion Sponsor for our Batley Conference. […]
Continue reading »During Fairtrade Fortnight fairandfunky host TWO Fairtrade Conferences for Schools on the theme ‘Around The World’. Inspiring over 200 children to think about where products come from and who made them; empowering them to change the world. Delighted to welcome David Greenwood-Haigh from Coeur de Xocolat, one of our brilliant conference workshop providers, to today’s guest blog: […]
Continue reading »During Fairtrade Fortnight fairandfunky host TWO Fairtrade Conferences for Schools on the theme ‘Around The World’. Inspiring over 200 children to think about where products come from and who made them; empowering them to change the world. Delighted to welcome Conference Partners Shared Interest Foundation to today’s guest blog: “Shared Interest Foundation was established […]
Continue reading »During Fairtrade Fortnight fairandfunky host TWO Fairtrade Conferences for Schools on the theme ‘Around The World’. Inspiring over 200 children to think about where products come from and who made them; empowering them to change the world. Delighted to welcome Nigel Kaye from Suma Wholefoods, one of our brilliant Conference Partners, to today’s guest blog: […]
Continue reading »During Fairtrade Fortnight fairandfunky host TWO Fairtrade Conferences for Schools on the theme ‘Around The World’. Inspiring over 200 children to think about where products come from and who made them; empowering them to change the world. Delighted to welcome Conference Partners Social Progress to today’s guest blog: “Hello! We’re Janet Bebb and Esther Orridge […]
Continue reading »During Fairtrade Fortnight fairandfunky host TWO Fairtrade Conferences for Schools on the theme ‘Around The World’. Inspiring over 200 children to think about where products come from and who made them; empowering them to change the world. Delighted to welcome Conference Partners JTS – Fair Food Fine Food to today’s guest blog: “The […]
Continue reading »During Fairtrade Fortnight fairandfunky host TWO Fairtrade Conferences for Schools on the theme ‘Around The World’. Inspiring over 200 children to think about where they food comes from and who grows it; empowering them to change the world. Delighted to welcome Conference Partners Liberation Nuts to the guest blog to take you ‘Around The World’ […]
Continue reading »Following the success of the ‘fairandfunky Fairtrade Conference for Schools’ in February 2015, this Fairtrade Fortnight, fairandfunky will host not one, but TWO Fairtrade conferences for schools throughout Kirklees! And both are fully booked! The conferences, held at the Creative and Media Studio School in Huddersfield, and at the Indian Muslim Welfare Society in Batley, […]
Continue reading »One of our many mottos in our SCRAPtastic workshops is “Don’t throw it away – make something!” and as half term begins for many of us this week we’re sharing our four favourite crafts for children…..using things we throw away everyday. Half term SCRAPtastic craft number 1 is Yoghurt Pot Puppets! Using ‘corner’ […]
Continue reading »As Fairtrade Fortnight approaches (29th February – 13th March 2016) schools, churches, businesses and towns, are busy thinking what their next step for Fairtrade might be and how to ‘Sit down for Breakfast, Stand up for Farmers!’ What about making a real statement with your next step and investing in Fairtrade uniform or […]
Continue reading »All fairandfunky workshops encourage participants to look at the world around them and empower people of all ages with the knowledge that their actions can have a positive impact on the world around them; both locally and globally. Pockets Theatre creates exciting work that does something a little more than entertain; working with participants […]
Continue reading »At fairandfunky we empower people to take their own little steps to change the world. Our workshops encourage people to think about the actions you take everyday and how to change those to make a positive difference in local, and global, communities. Our two favourite steps ANYONE can take to change the world are, put simply, to buy Fairtrade, […]
Continue reading »“At Methley Primary School we’re launching a child led enquiry topic based on the statement: People can adapt to sustain the planets finite resources. Can you help?” Yes we can! All fairandfunky workshops encourage participants to look at the world around them and empower people of all ages with the knowledge that their actions […]
Continue reading »We’re delighted to announce: in Fairtrade Fortnight 2016 fairandfunky will be running TWO Fairtrade Conferences for Primary Schools in Kirklees. For 2016 the theme is ‘Around The World’ and we’re inviting schools to join fairandfunky and leading workshop practitioners Coeur De Xocolat, Fair Grounds, The Fairtrade Foundation and Fair Connections, for a full day of […]
Continue reading »The 90kg rice challenge from JTS – Fair Food Fine Food, is the perfect challenge for fairandfunky, and this year we set ourselves the target to BEAT last year’s achievements. In 2014 we took on the challenge for the first time. We hosted a series of rice recipe blogs to inspire Fairtrade foodies, we led rice challenge […]
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