Here you find updates on WI campaigns!
Fairtrade Tea
Campaigners from Tradecraft and the WI have now sent over 35,000 postcards to al the tea campanies calling for them to make their tea Fairtrade; over 2,000 postcards have been requested by the WI members.
The EDWI have completed and sent 449 postcards!
However the five tea companies have yet to rise to the challenge and pledge to Make it Fair.
The tea companies have sent their reactions to the campaign which you can read on the national WI website.
Bee Ambassadors' Conference 2010
On 29th March 2010 WI members from the around the country came together in Denman College to learn more about the honeybee and what is being done to ensure its survival. The day had a great line-ip of speakers from academia, the Government and the beekeeping community, and was sponsored by the UK's largest honey company, Rowse. You can read a full report of the day on the national WI website and the event got a write up in the Daily Mirror.