Venue

The Avenue Methodist Church, Rutland Avenue

Those present

Lesley Hatton
Ed McKeon
Mike King
Sarah Moroz
Sheena King
Tim Nolan
Angus Massie
Tony Thornby

Apologies:

Andrea Baughan
Steve Morton
Jhon Munoz

Topics discussed

• Treasurer’s report
• Schools link
  • 4 joint teaching sessions held
  • MK/SK visited the school in Grecia on their recent trip and were very impressed
• Other matters
  • MK has finished interviews for 2nd article in Journal of Fair Trade
  • Renewal date for Fairtrade Town status is now 01/08/23
  • Meeting with new Mayor and Deputy Mayor has been arranged
  • Discussion re: if we should change to using single word ‘Fairtrade’ in our group’s name
• Coope Victoria coffee
  • Discussion re: possibility of marketing a coffee from Coope Victoria to advertise the link between Wycombe and Grecia and involving students at Highcrest in designing the packaging
• Social media issues
  • We need to produce more content to engage the people in Wycombe
  • Other ways to reach people e.g. Wycombe Sound, local magazines
• Costa Rica trip
  • MK/SK had a brilliant time in Costa Rica and were made extremely welcome
  • Visits included the Colegio school linked with Highcrest, a coffee and sugar cane farm, Coope Victoria, a water company, a farmers market, an alcohol production plant, planting trees with local school children and meeting the Mayor and Deputy Mayor

Next meeting

Tuesday 12th July at The Avenue Church – at 8pm