Your Fairtrade swap still counts

Fairtrade Fortnight is finished for another year, and what a two weeks it has been. We’ve seen tea ladies dancing their way to Downing Street, human tea bags hurling themselves into the sea, tea dances in their hundreds and baboons swapping their usual bananas for Fairtrade ones. Even Paolo Nutini got in on the swapping, switching his usual band for The Big Ghana Band. The nation’s swapping added up to over 800,000 by Sunday evening, including swaps from schools, workplaces and companies.

We’re busy totting up all the swaps and we’re so close to our target of one million and one Fairtrade swaps. We’re sure there’s loads more swaps out there just waiting to be added to the swap-o-meter, so don’t forget to register them. It’s not too late to join in and make them count towards the target, each one proving that the UK supports a better deal for developing world producers