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1. 1. chelmsfordfairtrade.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

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   Published on: 3/20/2008   Last Visited: 3/20/2008

   Held at Christ Church, New London Road, Chelmsford and attended by nearly 100 people from a wide range of Christian and community groups, the speakers were Simeone Greene (Former teacher and farmer in St. Vincent and the Grenadines), and Bruce Crowther (a Fairtrade Co-ordinator).
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   Bruce told us how his group had made Garstang the UK's first Fairtrade Town and Simeone spoke of his experiences of the banana industry, with particular reference to the Windward Islands.

2. 2. Fellows in the News - The Beacon Fellowship Charitable Trust

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   Published on: 2/19/2008   Last Visited: 2/19/2008

   Bruce Crowther
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   Bruce Crowther, Beacon Fellow 2004 and Fairtrade towns co-ordinator at The Fairtrade Foundation, has helped to successfully create a new fair trade borough in Portsmouth after 18 months of campaigning was done there. In order to achieve accreditation, 16 are needed to sign up to become Fairtrade and Portsmouth recruited 30.
   
   Crowther received the Beacon Prize for his extraordinary contribution to the sustainable development of farming in the developing world by creating a nationwide movement of Fairtrade Towns.
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   Beacon Fellow Bruce Crowther and Two Beacon Prize Finalists are featured in Gordon Brown's new book, 'Britain's Everyday Heroes'.
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   Kate King (2006 Finalist Community Builder Category), Director Dreamscheme Network, Benita Refson (2006 Finalist Leadership Category), founder of The Place2Be, and Bruce Crowther (2004 Prize Winner Creative Giving Category), founder of Garstang Oxfam Group, are part of 33 'unsung heroes' - ordinary people doing exceptional things, acknowledged by the Prime Minister.
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   Bruce Crowther initiated the first Fairtrade Town campaign was established in 2000 in Garstang, Lancashire, by Bruce Crowther, a local Oxfam supporter. Since then, the campaign has caught the imagination of communities across the UK and is now spreading to Europe and beyond. The 242nd Fairtrade Town was recognised in March 2007.

3. 3. Stoke-on-Trent - a Fairtrade City

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   Published on: 2/18/2008   Last Visited: 2/18/2008

   The Fairtrade Towns movement was started in 2000 by Bruce Crowther, now the national Fairtrade Towns Co-ordinator for the Fairtrade Foundation. At the time Bruce was a full-time vet and local campaigner in Garstang, which became the world's first Fairtrade Town.
   
   The idea came to him in the middle of the night. "I think the best ideas do," says Bruce.