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 The Fairtrade Foundation awarded Durham City Fairtrade status on 21st May 2007. This ran for one year. WE NOW HAVE OUR STATUS UNTIL 11th JUNE 2010. The then Mayor of the City of Durham, Cllr. Bob Wynn, is seen below receiving the certificate on behalf of the people of Durham, from Kathryn Sygrove, Partnership Chair. Looking on is a selection of members of the Durham City Fair Trade Partnership, and the former Mayor, Cllr. Jeff Lodge.

Browse the Fairtrade Foundation website (links page) to find out about the five key goals required to obtain this prestigious status, and the work needed to maintain it! Our renewal until 2010 is proof indeed of our progression, and gives us plenty of time to work alongside the new unitary authority from April 2009, to ensure that it acknowledges the validity of our work, and hopefully chooses to support us to maintain the status well beyond this period in time.

We  have coordinated our information-spreading by linking with many other websites such as Durham County Council, the City of Durham Council, Traidcraft, and the Fairtrade Foundation. We are pleased to  publicise the County Durham Fairtrade Directory (see links page) which lists many outlets in this area, including the extra outlets which were added in PDF format in February 2008.

We aim to provide easily-accessible information about Fairtrade/ Fair Trade, to encourage many more local shoppers, workplaces, churches, schools, retail and catering outets, community organisations and businesses to join us in supporting the Fair Trade movement. We are proud to be a member of Stop The Traffik - see link below - which aims to eradicate human trafficking and raise awareness of the extent of this horrendous plight.

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