Thank you for making this year's conference a great success!

For those who couldn't make the event, or if you did and want to re-live the day, click on the film extracts below. Information about the issues discussed is also available to download.

Save the date for next year's conference - Saturday 6 October 2012

   

Speakers and awards

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Extracts of the speeches available through the links below

Keynote speakers
Harriet Lamb MBE, Executive Director, Fairtrade Foundation - Speech Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Closing speech
Allegra McEvedy MBE, Chef, Writer and Co-founder of LEON restaurants - Speech Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Fairtrade Fortnight Awards
Chris Shearlock, the Cooperative - Sponsorship speech
See the winners collecting their awards here
Information on the awards

 

Panel discussion - the future of food

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The panel discussion explored a variety of issues on the future of food from food security to commodity speculation, issues dominating the lives of both UK producers and farmers in the developing world.

Helen Browning OBE, Director of the Soil Association and British Farmer - opening speech 

Renwick Rose, Coordinator of the Windward Islands Farmers Association - opening speech
Judith Batchelar, Director of Sainsbury's Brand - opening speech 

Barbara Crowther, Director of Communcations and Policy, Fairtrade Foundation - opening speech
Final reflections from all panellists

Question put to the panel	Response
1. Is there any danger of Fairtrade exports diminishing the local economy in developing countries?	click here
2. Should the use of the Fairtrade label be allowed for produce from Britain as well as the developing world?	click here
3. Will Sainsbury's be entering a price war with Fairtrade products used as a loss leader as other supermarkets have recently chosen to change their pricing strategy discounting thousands of products instead of offering 2 for 1 or BOGOF style deals?	click here
4. As consumers, what should be our attitude towards developing world products where there is not a Fairtrade option?	click here
5. How do we convince people that the future is about the quality of the soil and not the advertising of the chemical industry or GM?	click here
6. Where can you find the statistics about the food subsidies?	click here
7. Could you explain how mobile phone payments empower women?	click here
8. Is food security only about increasing productivity?	click here
9. To what extent has the recession split our buying ethic (i.e. buy some very cheap to buy others with the ethical label)?	click here
10. How difficult is it for farmers to have solidarity as it is a very isolationist job?	click here

 

 

Discussion topics

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Many different topics were explored throughout the day, download presentations and handouts about these topics below

Topic	Downloadable information	Extras
Make Fruit Fair	Campaign information here	The banana game
Engaging local business with Fairtrade	Click here for session presentation
Campus action - student action on campus	Click here for more information
Social media - a beginners guide	Guide to using social media	Setting up a webpage
Cotton on	Great cotton stitch up webpage
Fairtrade - the new generation	Session write-up
Fairtrade and local - Cumbria	Session write-up
Fairtrade and climate change	Click here  for session presentation
Beyond price and premium	Click here for session presentation	Workshop notes
Fairtrade for first timers	Click here for session presentation

  

 

 

Market place and campaigning organisations

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Thank you to the following organisations who ran stalls in the market place:

Bananalink
CAFOD
Equal Exchange
Fairtrade Association Birmingham (FAB)
Liberation
New Internationalist
Pants to Poverty
People & Planet
Shared Interest
Tropical Wholefoods
Zaytoun

A big thank you to Fairtrade Association Birmingham (FAB) for hosting the wonderful after party!

 

Supporter Conference 2012

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This will be held in central London on Saturday 6 October - make sure you save the date. Registration opens in Summer 2012.