Country Living Magazine and Waitrose supporting FCN
This year Country Living Magazine has been running a campaign alongside Waitrose and Farmers Guardian entitled ‘Fair Trade for British Farmers’.
To mark the end of the year-long campaign, the December issue of the magazine includes an article on the work of FCN and its ‘Farming Help’ partner charities RABI and ARC-Addington Fund. The feature also includes a voucher which can be taken into any Waitrose store, and Waitrose have pledged a £1 donation to the Farming Help charities for every voucher redeemed.
Mark Price, Managing Director of Waitrose has said “After a devastating summer for so many British farmers, it is now even more important than ever to support our agricultural industry. Throughout the last year we have been encouraging customers to apply the same ethical principles to our own agricultural industry as they would to produce from the developing World, through our involvement in the Fair Trade for British Farmers Campaign. This voucher is a continuation of that commitment. It is aimed not only at providing Country Living readers with the opportunity to help British farmers in crisis, but also at raising awareness of the work of Farming Help – a unique and immensely important partnership”.
FCN has a leaflet entitled ‘Why Fair Trade Begins at Home’ which explains why UK farming and farming families are important, the work FCN is doing in the farming community and how we can all help in some way. The leaflet can be downloaded as a pdf file by clicking here or copies can be ordered from the FCN office.
The Church of England’s Ethical Investment Advisory Group has just published a report called ‘Fairtrade begins at home – supermarkets and the effect on British farming
livelihoods’ which is available to download as a pdf file by clicking here.
