Peter Kent-Baguley
Stoke-on-Trent City Councillor: Leader of the Potteries Alliance group.
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Wednesday 31st October 2007
FAIR PLAY DRAMA plans for FAIRTRADE Fortnight '08 (25th February - 9th March)
One of the most truly FANTASTIC productions I have seen this year so far was FAIRGAME'S, One For Me, which I brought to 6 Stoke-on-Trent High schools during FAIRTRADE Fortnight earlier this year. It was a first rate professional touring drama focussed on the bicentenary of the abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire. My only regret was that the Cheltenham-based company were not able to tour the production throughout the year!
However, looking forward to FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT 2008, Cally Wright's brainchild, Fair Play Drama, was launched today on the web at: www.fairplaydrama.co.uk
Cally has provided scripts, free of charge, for various product centred dramas, for example, on cotton, coffee, chocolate and bananas. (Tea is due later.) The scripts include song and dance and of course they can be varied according to the needs and abilities of the group involved in the production. Cally has conceived this as an innovative ethical pyramid. She is hoping to recruit champions who will promote the project in their area (needless to say I've volunteered!) to as many groups as possible (lots of potential with schools, youth groups and church groups) so that lots of participants are enjoyably spreading the Faitrade message to hundreds, thousands even, of audience members.
Each drama can run from 10 to 40 minutes. I hope schools will present one or more of the dramas at the Annual FAIRTRADE schools one-day conference at Port Vale on Wednesday 27th February and at the Lord Mayor's Annual Fairtrade Civic Reception at Stoke Town Hall during FAIRTRADE Fortnight, on Wednesday 5th March. Be inspired, look at Cally Wright's website: www.fairplaydrama.co.uk
Saturday 21st July 2007COFFEE MORNING
After a busy, chatty session at the fortnightly Packmoor Methodists' coffee morning I drove to Leek for, yes you've gussed, a coffee at the Trinity Methodist Church in Derby Street, to support TRAIDCRAFT. Met Traidcraft's Fair Trader, Mary Bates, and congratulated her and Leek's Fairtrade Steering Group on gaining FAIRTRADE TOWN status last month from the FAIRTRADE FOUNDATION. 
There are now 272 Faitrade towns throughout the UK. Stoke-on-Trent was awarded the accolade in March 2004, becoming the 50th to be declared. The Leek Group is looking into having Fairtrade promotional shopping bags similar to the ones we have in Stoke-on-Trent.