Scottish Fair Trade Forum Celebrates at 10 Downing Street

Martin Meteyard - Chair of the Scottish Fair Trade Forum was celebrating
the 15th Birthday of the FAIRTRADE Mark yesterday at a special birthday
tea party hosted by Sarah Brown at No 10 Downing Street.  Martin (right of
Harry Hill) pictured with comedian Harry Hill was joined by other
Fairtrade campaigners, celebrities, and Fairtrade businesses from around
the country.  Justino Peck one of the first Fairtrade certified cocoa from
Belize came to the UK to specially join in the celebrations. For the last
15 years, Justino Peck's cocoa beans have gone into Green & Black's Maya
Gold chocolate, one of the first products to get the FAIRTRADE Mark in
1994.

At the tea party, Sarah Brown talked warmly about her husband's
constituency of Lochgelly which has been Fairtrade town since July 2005.
She also said that their next task is to get Fairtrade status for the
whole of Fife, as the world's first Fairtrade Kingdom.

The Scottish Fair Trade Forum was established by a group of Scottish Fair
Trade campaigners, Scotland-based NGOs and the Scottish Executive in
January 2007 to take forward Scotland's work to become one of the world's
first Fair Trade Nations. They work to support ongoing Fair Trade activity
in Scotland and regularly bring campaigners together to network and share
expertise as well as working to build the capacity of local groups to make
them more sustainable and independent.