“On top of that fair price, they also get a premium too,” she adds.
Elaine Coltham, third from right, is Ipswich Fairtrade Steering Group s chairman. She, along with other group members, work tirelessly to explain the benefits of buying Fairtrade to the people of Suffolk
- Credit: Elaine Coltham
It’s with that additional premium that the farmers and suppliers can improve their communities alongside their living and working conditions. Premiums are often spent on education, medical care, water facilities and infrastructure.
On average, each Fairtrade producer will receive around £108,000 in premiums.
“It’s important the people receiving the premium have the right to decide what’s best for their own communities. It’s all about making people’s lives safer, better and more dignified.”
“On top of that fair price, they also get a premium too,” she adds.
Elaine Coltham, third from right, is Ipswich Fairtrade Steering Group s chairman. She, along with other group members, work tirelessly to explain the benefits of buying Fairtrade to the people of Suffolk
- Credit: Elaine Coltham
It’s with that additional premium that the farmers and suppliers can improve their communities alongside their living and working conditions. Premiums are often spent on education, medical care, water facilities and infrastructure.
On average, each Fairtrade producer will receive around £108,000 in premiums.
“It’s important the people receiving the premium have the right to decide what’s best for their own communities. It’s all about making people’s lives safer, better and more dignified.”
Christmas cakes made at Hadleigh High School in December 1979
- Credit: Archant
The run-up to Christmas is always an exciting time at Suffolk schools, with a whole range of festive events.
Stowupland High School pupils rehearse for their Christmas Concert in Stowmarket Parish Church in 2004
- Credit: Andy Abbott/Archant
Today we are looking back at fun activities which youngsters around the area have taken part in over the years.
Pupils at Whitton Junior School, Ipswich, taking part in the school s first pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, in December 1964
- Credit: Archant
Our gallery features events from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s onwards, including pantos and Christmas plays.
Christmas cakes made at Hadleigh High School in December 1979
- Credit: Archant
The run-up to Christmas is always an exciting time at Suffolk schools, with a whole range of festive events.
Stowupland High School pupils rehearse for their Christmas Concert in Stowmarket Parish Church in 2004
- Credit: Andy Abbott/Archant
Today we are looking back at fun activities which youngsters around the area have taken part in over the years.
Pupils at Whitton Junior School, Ipswich, taking part in the school s first pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, in December 1964
- Credit: Archant
Our gallery features events from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s onwards, including pantos and Christmas plays.