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Southend Together Partnership is teaming up with Britain’s biggest supermarket chains to support ‘The Big Swap’ as part of Fairtrade Fortnight.
Fairtrade is about establishing better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world. Offering a fair price for goods enables them to improve their [...]

Tools with a Mission (TWAM) is sending a container to Ahkom School, Sierra Leone with equipment such as tools,
school books, science equipment etc. We have all that but they hope to start a marching band.  This would really help the morale of the school. They deserve help, it is in a poor area.  The instruments should fit in a brass [...]

‘Many people are concerned about “cheap” chicken available in the supermarkets. Often, these chickens have been kept in inhumane conditions - squashed together in squalid cages with no natural light - and fed a diet with excesses of growth hormones and antibiotics.
But what happens once these birds are killed? We are aware some companies pump [...]

Are you concerned about genetically engineered food products? Please read the following information from Greenpeace and sign the petition: 

GE Rice

Stand up for your rice! Sign the petition

Dear friends,
The world’s most important staple food is under threat and we need your help urgently.
Sign the petition
Rice is daily food for half of the global population. It has [...]

There is a G20 conference in London on 28th March when world leaders will be meeting to discuss the economic crises.
Avaaz are arranging a Citizens’ March to ensure the leaders ‘Put People First.’ Would you like to be involved and ensure we, the people, are listened to?
The following is their news bulletin:
“This is an urgent [...]

Just a reminder that FairTrade fortnight has already started. Of course, many of you buy Fair Trade products as much as possible and it is great to know that we are helping support farmer’s and other producers. Everyone should be entitled to fair pay and acceptable working conditions.
Although the symbol is widely recognised, our article [...]

I am working on fundraising to help the lives or farmers in India who, dependant on their crops have used GM seeds which cannot be saved, and require higher and higher levels of expensive pesticides and fertilisers. This has required farmers to take on expensive loans and now unable to pay, and with no way out, one [...]

Southend Library are screening a thought provoking film that should be well worth going along to.
‘Front Line- A Class Divided’
Southend Central LibraryLecture Theatre
Wednesday 28th January7.30 – 9pm
 Southend Library will be screening the classic documentary on the ‘blue eyes/brown eyes’ classroom exercise created by third grade teacher Jane Elliott, which was originally conducted in America following [...]

The people of Burma continue to face poverty and oppression as their dictator generals become increasingly wealthy. But a new way of putting pressure on the military junta has been discovered.
Many of their western-linked business ventures are insured by Lloyds of London. Lloyds is one of the oldest and most respected insurers in the world [...]