May is Festival Month in Brighton and we are Joining in the Festivities!
World Fair Trade Day on May 12th is approaching and in its honour we at FAIR would
like to announce (trumpets please!) three special reasons at least for rejoicing!
First is our good news that our FAIR TRADE AND ETHICAL SALES AT FAIR ARE ON THE THRESHOLD OF REACHING A QUARTER OF A MILLION POUNDS. We are offering a prize of £100 in vouchers to the customer whose purchase
allows us to reach this momentous landmark.
Secondly, this coming SATURDAY 5TH MAY BRIGHTON CHILDREN’S PARADE is the annual event
that kickstarts the Brighton Festival 2012. FAIR is going to be marking this event with a
CHILDREN’S DAY of kaleidoscopic happiness. For those FAIR customers who usually have
to leave the shop very quickly with little ones resistant to staying, this is the day to
return to the shop WITH them! We will have SUPERNATURAL KIDS clothing range
by Brighton designer, Jenny Barrett. This Fair Trade brand is a specialist in quality children’s clothing made from soft natural fibres which have been produced sustainably with the help of modern technology and which have been developed for easy and eco-friendly aftercare. Follow the fantastic children’s parade and then pop in to see us at FAIR. We will have balloons, a drawing competition, homemade chocolate fair trade cookies and fun children activities. We will have special promotions on the wonderful children ranges of Supernatural Kids, Little Green Radicals, Oh So Shika, Kenana and Believe You Can….come and see fairies, pirates, woolly sheep, recycled trains, balloons, bubbles and more!
For our third event please join us for
WORLD FAIR TRADE DAY CELEBRATIONS
May 12th
FREE CHOCOLATE AND BANANA PANCAKES!
Come along and enjoy free Fairtrade chocolate and banana pancakes, We will be selecting the winner of the children’s drawing competition from the previous week, and a chance to win £50 of vouchers for the best ethically dressed customer. Ethical means recycled (your favorite vintage find), sustainable fabrics, Made in Britain, and of course Fair Trade. We think of all these tick the right boxes!
We will be offering 15% off our new clothing collections all day, playing great African music, and celebrating how far the fair trade movement has progressed. Our values really do place people before profit. All funds that have have been generated from our sales have been put back in to FAIR to create more and more opportunities for the organisations that work so incredibly hard to tackle extreme poverty. We have a very long way to go and so much more to learn and understand. We now feel we have made a good start and have the opportunity to develop opportunities far more. Fair Trade is a movement that respects everyone. Who would knowingly wear clothes that have created misery for the lives of the makers? We started FAIR to improve lives of people living in absolute poverty but we also now need to create more awareness about sweatshops and destruction of lives of people that have no choice but to suffer exploitation because of the retail industries insatiable desire to offer the best bargain on the high street.
Thank you to all our customers for supporting us! We look forward to bringing you more beautiful fashion that creates positive change for the planet and considers all the people on it.
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The FAIR Team
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