Fairtrade Fortnight 2012
Take a step for Fairtrade in 2012! Fairtrade Fortnight 2012 runs from the 27th February to the 11th March nationally and at MMU! Get involved and come to our on campus Fairtrade events!
We’re committed to taking a step for Fairtrade to ensure that producers and farmers get a better deal from trade.
Come along to one of our Fairtrade stalls situated through campus during Fairtrade Fortnight and sample some of the products available from all MMU Catering Outlets!
Now Recruiting Volunteers
Fairtrade Event Volunteer
We are looking for student volunteers to help out during Fairtrade Fortnight.
The Fairtrade Fortnight theme for 2012 is ‘Taking a step for Fairtrade’.
This is an exciting and fun opportunity for you to help us encourage staff and students to take a step for Fairtrade.
You can pick up a Fairtrade Loyalty card and receive a FREE hot drink every time you purchase 5 Fairtrade products (excluding hot drinks).
Or you can take a step for Fairtrade and tell us what you are up to by filling out a pledge postcard at one of our Fairtrade stands! One simple step, like buying Fairtrade chocolate and swapping your normal coffee for Fairtrade coffee, can offer farming communities a brighter future by ensuring they get a fairer deal!
MetMUnch Cocoa Loco, Tuesday 6th March
Where: Holden Gallery Cafe area, 12pm – 2pm
Come along and participate in our Fairtrade edible art campaign… ‘print and lick’! MMU ‘Met Munch’ brigade are aiming to collect a mile of chocolate hand prints to raise awareness about the producers of cocoa beans in developing countries so that they get a better deal from trade.
To help us make a chocolate mile, all you need to do is…
- Come along to Holden cafe area between 12 – 2pm
- Dip your hand in melted chocolate
- Leave a hand print
- Wash your hands or lick it off!
They’ll also be a range of sustainable and local chocolate cakes for you to try and buy (proceeds go to a nominated charity), and a confessions of a Fairtrade chocoholic corner… come and tell us about your feelings when it comes to chocolate!
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Tasty Ten Competition, Friday 2nd March & Wednesday 7th March
Where: Crewe Library, Friday 2nd March 12 – 2pm & Wednesday 7th March 12 – 2pm, Library Seminar Room
Come along and enter the free competition to guess the book titles created from Fair Trade Food.
Meet the Library’s Green team – your chance to let us know how we can improve the library’s green credentials!
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Staff Fun Run, Tuesday 6th March
Get fit in the New Year for FREE!…come along to MMU’s Staff Jogging Group on Tuesday 6th March. Meet outside Sugden Sports centre at 12.15am.
Come along – let’s run as many steps as possible for Fairtrade Fortnight in 2012! Help us pass the Fairtrade banana baton as many times as we can when you run! Fairtrade refreshments and snacks provided after the jog!
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Fairtrade Stalls, 28th February & 1st March
Visit one of our Fairtrade Stalls on Tuesday 28th February at Aytoun, John Dalton, Didsbury, Elizabeth Gaskell reception areas.
Visit one of our Fairtrade stalls on the Wednesday 1st March at All Saints, Mabel Tylecote, Geoffrey Manton and Hollings reception areas.
Come along and visit us to take your step for Fairtrade. Try Fairtrade, decide Fairtrade, buy Fairtrade!
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Staff V Student Fairtrade Football Match on the 29th February, 4pm – 6pm, at Crewe Campus
Where: 3G Pitch (Moulded studs only)
Refreshments and snacks provided at half-time and more snacks after the match for all participants.
Winning team receives a Fairtrade Football and a Fairtrade Hamper!
To participate, contact Sanka, VP for Student Activities in Cheshire @ S.U.Sacheshire@mmu.ac.uk
AND ‘Keepy Uppy’ Challenge on the 29th February for football spectators! Come along and watch our Staff V Student Fairtrade Football match. Take part in the ‘Keepy Uppy’ challenge, highest number of ‘keepy uppies’ in 2 minutes wins a Fairtrade Football.
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Snakes and ladders goes Fairtrade in Didsbury!
The BA Primary students have created innovative snake and ladders games within their specialist Design and Technology lessons. The students have been learning and investigating how sustainability and global citizenship can be incorporated and taught with primary Design and Technology curriculum.
Referring to the Fairtrade website, the students worked with some of the resources and designed and made the games promoting the benefits of using Fairtrade products.
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Fairtrade Loyalty card
Pick up a Fairtrade Loyalty card at any MMU catering Outlet and receive a FREE hot drink when you’ve purchased 5 Fairtrade snack, confectionary and juice products!
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Travel Mug
Receive a free Fairtrade hot drink when you purchase a travel mug!
PLUS! 10p off refills!
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Fairtrade half price madness!
Buy any Fairtrade tea or coffee and get a Fairtrade muffin half price! Offer available at MMU catering outlets.
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more Fairtrade half price madness!
Buy any Fairtrade Juice (500ml) and receive a half price Fairtrade chocolate bar! Offer available at MMU catering outlets.
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Take a step for Fairtrade and try Ubuntu Cola at MMUnion
20% off Ubuntu Cola bottles and cans!
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20% off all Fairtrade orange and apple juices at MMUnion!
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Didsbury Catering Outlet: Play the Fairtrade Game in Fairtrade Fortnight!!
Get a STAMP for every Fairtrade product purchased (includes Fairtrade hot drinks, juices, snacks and confectionary products).
RECEIVE A FREE COFFEE when you get half way through…
RECEIVE A FREE COFFEE when you get three-quarters of the way through…
*WIN A FAIRTRADE HAMPER when all spaces are stamped!*you'll be entered into a prize draw