Nippers Nursery

Nippers Nursery Newsletter Spring 2018

Paul Barclay — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:37:00 +0000

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Dear Parents

In November 2017 we celebrated our 25th Birthday we cannot quite believe how much of an achievement it is to know our little company is 25 years old something we are very proud of.

As it was such a busy time of the year we decided to wait and have a big celebration in the new year. On 20th January we had a Silver Ball with all our staff enjoying a dinner and overnight stay and award ceremony at Kaevil House Hotel in Dunfermline it was so nice to see our staff out of uniform and all glamorous. We had a wonderful evening and have lots of photographs to share with you of our event in the next week or two so look out for them.

Many thanks to the parents who gave us some very kind words of support, poems and memories in our 25 years memory book which will be treasured.

Our awards went to the following people for length of service:
Julie Laidlaw – 25 Years
Rose Wright – 15 Years
Janice Robertson – 14 Years
Amanda Barton – 8 Years
Peter Goy – 7 Years
Ashleigh Fleming – 7 Years
Lauren Jackson – 6 Years
Gemma Cherry – 5 Years

Please congratulate them if you see them around, and I hope they stick around for many more years to come.

We are planning with the Parent Committee another few 25 years celebrations involving the children, news and dates on these will follow soon.

As I said in my last newsletter, our planning permission has been passed for a new extension onto the side of the building next to the toddler room that will provide us with much needed spaces. However there has been major delays in the building warrants due to the lack of staff at Edinburgh Council able to deal with issuing these. We hope to have this started shortly and will inform you as soon as I have further information.

Unfortunately, this year sees us having to increase our fees again. Significant increases in costs to our business with living/national wage rises, and pension contributions are the main reason for this. Please be assured the increase we are having to apply, will go directly to cover these costs only and is not something I would have done if it was not necessary.

The fees will increase by £1.50 per day taking them to £41.50 for a full day and £31.50 for a half day. This still makes Nippers the most competitively priced nursery with other companies in this area charging more than £45 per day.

Discounts for siblings will still apply if your children attend 3 days or more per week. The increase will apply from April 2018 and we will forward on to your shortly the new amounts to allow you to increase standing orders or vouchers.

We would encourage you to take a few minutes to take a look at the floor books within your child’s room in the nursery. These are full of pictures of what your children have been experiencing at nursery and are full of quotes from the children too. The staff take a lot of time with the children to prepare these books and work on them on a daily basis. If you do not see them in the room, ask the staff to see them.

As part of our Child Protection requirements we have introduced a new form called Accident at Home Forms. These forms will be required to be filled out if your child has had a significant accident out with nursery and is then returning to nursery with signs of an injury. If they require medication you will also be required to sign this in before we can administer it.

As you will see around the nursery we are trying to use more materials within our
setting that are natural rather than plastic toys. We would be grateful if you can take
a look at the types of materials we are looking for on the displays in our entrance
areas and it you have any at home you want to get rid of we will be more than
happy to take them. I have attached a nice document about loose parts play and
how important it is for our children’s experiences. If you can take a few minutes to
read this, we would appreciate it.

https://www.speelplein.net/Download/loose-parts-play-toolkit

Our parent area on the page. Here you will find newsletters, news on general events or celebrations as well as our planning for the rooms so you can see what the children are doing at nursery on a weekly basis. We will continue to add to this page anything that we think will be of interest to you.

Please log in and take a look your feedback would be very useful;
www.nippersnursery.com/parents

Parent Area Password is: n1ppers

Staff have been busy attending training over the last few months we would like to congratulate the following on completion of:

Bug Books Bringing Stories to Life – Jessica Williams
Transitions and Journey Learning – Caitlyn Gordon, Siobhan Graham, Ashleigh Fleming, Lauren Houston
Introduction to Creativity – Natasha Cowin
Creative Learning – Wendy Mart, Andrea Heigh
Bubble Oligy – Ashleigh Fleming, Andrea Heigh
Autism Training – Caitlyn Gordon, Jessica Williams, Fiona Venelle,Lauren Houston, Ashleigh Fleming,
Wendy Mart
First Aid – Nicole Oliver, Chloe Irvine, Charlotte McQueen, Rebecca Stewart, Alison Scotland
Child Protection Level 4 – Lauren Houston
Pre-Birth to 3 Planning – Wendy Mart
Pre-Brith Developing Environments – Judy Forsyth

We would like to congratulate Charlotte Gilchrist, Siobhan Graham and Ally Pearson who gained their qualification in SVQ 3 Early Years and Childcare this month. They have shown great commitment to their training and we are delighted that they will both be staying on with us as fully qualified practitioners. Well Done Girls!

There will be a few changes of staff coming in up a few weeks unfortunately Fiona Venelle has decided to step down from her role as Senior Pre-school Leader at Dalmeny. Fiona has started a BA in Childhood Studies and she is finding this along with her current role just a little too much work, which we can totally understand. Fiona will be staying with us in the preschool room as a Practitioner. I am delighted to announce that Ashleigh Fleming will be taking over from Fiona moving from our Tweenie Room and Andrea Heigh will be stepping up to Senior Practioner taking over from Ashleigh. We hope this will not cause any disruption and the handover between them will take place over the coming few weeks.

Natalie Main from Kirkliston will be leaving us to spend more time with her son before he goes to school. Thankyou Natalie and we hope you enjoy the next few months with Zach.

Natalie will be replaced with a new member of staff Megan Farrell who joins us in mid February from another nursery. She is a fully qualified practitioner and we look forward to welcoming her.

Below is an up to date list of our staffing:
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Lauren Houston (Senior Practitioner Babies & Toddlers)
Rose Wright (Practitioner)
Lauren Clarkson (Practitioner)
Charlotte Gilchrist (Practitioner)
Megan Beveridge (Practitioner)

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Andrea Heigh (Senior Practitioner)
Ashley Allan (Practitioner)
Siobhan Graham(Practitioner)
Ally Pearson (Practitioner)

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Lauren Houston (Senior Practitioner Babies & Toddlers)
Julie Laidlaw (Practitioner)
Gemma Cherry (Practitioner)
Judy Forsyth (Practitioner)
Rebecca Stewart (Practitioner)
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Ashleigh Fleming (Senior Practitioner)
Fiona Venelle (Practitioner)
Nicole Oliver (Practitioner)
Chloe Irvine (Practitioner)

*Alison Scotland – Modern Apprentice will work across all rooms where needed

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Lauren Jackson (Senior Practitioner)
Megan Farrell (Practitioner
Frankie McAllistair (Practitioner)
Kelsey King (Apprentice)

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Hannah Sneddon (Senior Practitioner)
Jessica Williams (Practitioner)
Kimberley Miller (Practitioner)

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Caitlyn Gordon (Senior Practitioner)
Shannon Kane (Practitioner)
Natasha Cowin (Practitioner)
Charlotte McQueen (Practitioner)
Josh Rimmer (Apprentice)

*Kelsey King – Modern Apprentice will work across all rooms where needed

Come and Play Day – Saturday 28th April

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Nippers Nursery Newsletter Winter 2017/18

Paul Barclay — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:47:50 +0000

The last few months have been very busy, we seen 32 children leave the nursery to go to school our leavers party was lovely and there were a few tears amongst us!

The last few months have been very busy, we seen 32 children leave the nursery to go to school our leavers party was lovely and there were a few tears amongst us! We are now well into the new term with lots of new babies and families joining the nursery we hope your children are starting to settle in well. This term will be a busy one for the children who will be learning all out Autumn, enjoying Halloween parties and of course dare I say it Christmas…..I have given you as many dates as possible in this newsletter for the up and coming events however if there are any ad hoc days out your room seniors will let you know.

Our planning permission has been passed for a new extension onto the side of the building next to the toddler room that will provide us with an additional 12 spaces. We are currently developing a plan of works to allow the minimum disruption to our
service during the building work and will share this with you in due course. We hope to have it started as soon as possible and should be complete within 4 weeks.

Many thanks to everyone who came along to our parent committee organised fun day, your attendance was much appreciated and was an enjoyable fun day for everyone involved.

We have introduced a new parent area on the page. Here you will find newsletters, news on general events or celebrations as well as our planning for the rooms so you can see what the children are doing at nursery on a weekly basis. We will continue to
add to this page anything that we think will be of interest to you. Please log in and take a look your feed back would be very useful;

www.nippersnursery.com/parents

Parent Area Password is: n1ppers

Can I ask parents who book their children on holiday to let us know if they change their plans. We arrange our staff rota according to how many children we have in on each day and if you have booked holidays with us and then bring in your children we may not have the correct number of staff so it’s very useful to us if we are aware of your plans.

Can I ask you to take a few minutes to help us improve our service to you by completing the survey www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/FX3PV6V

Staff have been busy attending training over the last few months we would like to congratulate the following on completion of:

Leading the Strategy for Childcare – Fiona Venelle
Scottish Learning Festival – Fiona Venelle
The Importance of Fine Motor Skills – Nicole Oliver
Numeracy in Preschool – Nicole Oliver & Andrea Heigh
Managing Child Protection – Asheligh Fleming
Child Protection Level 4 – Asheligh Fleming
Autism Training – Fiona Venelle, Lauren Houston
Inclusive Play – Charlie McQueen, Jessica Williams
Developing Exploratory Play – Natalie Main, Frankie McAllister, Natasha Cowin
First Aid – Josh Rimmer, Kimberley Miller, Charlie McQueen, Shannon Kane

We would like to congratulate Chloe Irvine and Kimberley Miller who gained her qualification in SVQ 3 Early Years and Childcare this month. They have shown great commitment to their training and we are delighted that they will both be staying on with us as a fully qualified practitioners.

I would like to welcome the following members of staff:

Judy Forsyth – Practitioner joins us in our preschool room in Dalmeny
Rebecca Stewart – Practitioner joins us in our baby room in Dalmeny
Alison Scotland – Joins us as a Modern Apprentice in Dalmeny
Lauren Jackson – Senior Practitioner joins us in Kirkliston
Leah Adams – Joins us as a Modern Apprentice in Kirkliston
Kelsey King – Joins us as a Modern Apprentice in Kirkliston

Please note Chantelle Clark is now on maternity leave.

Over the summer we also said goodbye to Andrea Munro, Robyn King and Chelsea McQueen who have moved on to pastures new.

Below is an up to date list of our staffing:

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Lauren Houston (Senior Practitioner)
Rose Wright (Practitioner)
Lauren Clarkson (Practitioner)
Rebecca Stewart (Practitioner)
Siobhan Graham (Apprentice)

Ashleigh Fleming (Senior Practitioner)
Ashley Allan (Practitioner)
Megan Beveridge (Practitioner)
Ally Pearson (Apprentice)
*Alison Scotland – Modern Apprentice will work across all rooms where needed

Lauren Houston (Senior Practitioner)
Julie Laidlaw (Practitioner)
Gemma Cherry (Practitioner)
Chloe Irvine (Practitioner)
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Fiona Venelle (Nursery Teacher)
Andrea Heigh (Practitioner)
Nicole Oliver (Practitioner)
Judy Forsyth (Practitioner)
Charlotte Gilchrist (Apprentice)

Lauren Jackson (Senior Practitioner)
Natalie Main (Practitioner)
Frankie McAllistair (Practitioner)
Josh Rimmer (Apprentice)

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Hannah Sneddon (Senior Practitioner)
Jessica Williams (Practitioner)
Leah Adams (Apprentice)
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Caitlyn Gordon (Senior Practitioner)
Shannon Kane (Practitioner)
Natasha Cowin (Practitioner)
Charlotte McQueen (Practitioner)
Kimberly Miller (Practitioner)

*Kelsey King – Modern Apprentice will work across all rooms where needed

Parent Committee Meeting – 5th October @ 8.00 pm Inchcolm Inn

Hanna Beaton Photography – 24th October, Dalmeny
Hanna Beaton Photography – 26th October, Kirkliston

Halloween Parties in both nurseries – 31st October

Parents Evening in both nurseries – 9th November

Children In Need in both nurseries– 17th November

Beatury and the Beast Panto (preschool) – 19th December, Kirkliston
Jack and the Beanstalk Panto (preschool) – 14th December, Dalmeny

Christmas Party – 21st December, Kirkliston
Christmas Party – 22nd December, Dalmeny

The nursery will be closed from Monday 25th December – 2nd January (inclusive).

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Funtastic Play Day

Paul Barclay — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 08:41:49 +0000

Join us for a day of fun and play with all your Nippers friends.

Father’s Day

Paul Barclay — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 11:45:10 +0000

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The children have been preparing for fathers day by making colourful card and tasty treats for the best people in the world, their Father.

Father’s Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. In Catholic Europe, it has been celebrated on March 19 (St. Joseph’s Day) since the Middle Ages. This celebration was brought by the Spanish and Portuguese to Latin America, where March 19 is often still used for it, though many countries in Europe and the Americas have adopted the U.S. date, which is the third Sunday of June. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the months of March or May. It complements similar celebrations honoring family members, such as Mother’s Day, Siblings Day and Grandparents Day.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_Day

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Nippers Nursery Newsletter Summer 2017

Paul Barclay — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 09:59:21 +0000

The last few months have been very busy and this term has flown by so much so that my newsletter is a little late!

The nurseries have been busy, out and about in the community and enjoying trips to the farm, zoo, museums & festivals and the nurseries will continue to do so over the coming months. Each room will continue with their own topic of choice in addition to this. Your room seniors will provide you with more information on any outings planned over the weeks ahead.

It will be a very emotional time for us over the next month or two when 32 children will be leaving the nurseries to go to school some of which have been with us since they are 6 months old. Please bear with us over the next few months it is a very busy time for us in the office preparing for new arrivals and departing children and trying to co-ordinate all this is quite a task!! If your child is leaving and you have not provided us with leaving dates can you please do so as soon as possible.

The Kirkliston nursery has seen a revamp of our nursery garden in Kirkliston with our new Astro Turf area which is proving a big hit with the children. Many thanks to our Parent Committee and Parents who kindly donated £500 towards the cost of this. This area is still being developed and we will continue to add new resources over the coming months.

In Dalmeny our new outdoor class room is up and running and the children have been instrumental in providing us with ideas of what they wanted to see in the classroom. We have decided to call it “The Barn”. If you have not had a chance pop in and take a look we love it!

We are in the process of applying for planning permission to add on a small extension to our building in Dalmeny to the side of our toddler room. This will allow us to expand our numbers and assist in reducing our very long waiting list! We are awaiting approval on the plans by our landlord and should have them back soon. It will then simply be a matter of time awaiting approval of planning permission so fingers crossed!

We hope you like our new developments!

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We have introduced a new parent area on the page. Here you will find newsletters, news on general events or celebrations and we will also be introducing the room planners so you can see what the children are doing at nursery on a weekly basis. We will continue to add to this page anything that we think will be of interest to you.

Please log in and take a look your feed back would be very useful;

www.nippersnursery.com/parents

Parent Area Password is: n1ppers

Staff have been busy attending training over the last few months we would like to congratulate the following on completion of:

Counting in Context – Fiona Venelle, Hannah Sneddon
Mindfulness in Early Years – Ashleigh Fleming
Magic of Music – Lauren Houston, Ashleigh Fleming
Taking a Closer Look at 2 year olds – Lauren Houston, Charlie McQueen
Introduction to Creativity – Megan Beveridge, Nicole Oliver
Managing Child Protection – Asheligh Fleming
Child Protection Level 2 – Frankie McAllister, Robyn King
Curriculum for Excellence – Hannah Sneddon
BTA Support Active Learning – Caitlyn Gordon, Natalie Main

We would like to congratulate Frankie McAllistair who gained her qualification in SVQ 3 Early Years and Childcare last month. She has shown great commitment to her training and we are delighted that she will be staying on with us as a fully qualified practitioner in our Kirkliston nursery.

I would like to welcome the following members of staff:

Megan Beveridge – Qualified Practitioner in Dalmeny
Shannon Kane – Qualified Practitioner In Kirkliston

Please note Amanda Barton is now on maternity leave.

Wendy Mart will be taking up a position as Assistant Manager in June. Wendy will spend her time equally across both nurseries assisting both Janice and Tracy in their busy roles as managers.

We have had to make a few tweaks in our staffing due to holidays, mix of experience and working hours:

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Andrea Munro (Senior Practitioner)
Rose Wright (Practitioner)
Lauren Clarkson (Practitioner)
Siobhan Graham (Apprentice)

Ashleigh Fleming (Senior Practitioner)
Ashley Allan (Practitioner)
Megan Beveridge (Practitioner)
Ally Pearson (Apprentice)

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Robyn King (Senior Practitioner)
Natalie Main (Practitioner)
Chantelle Clark (Practitioner)
Josh Rimmer (Apprentice)

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Hannah Sneddon (Senior Practitioner)
Jessica Williams (Practitioner)
Frankie McAllistair (Practitioner)
Chelsea McQueen (Apprentice)

Lauren Houston (Senior Practitioner)
Julie Laidlaw (Practitioner)
Gemma Cherry (Practitioner)
Chloe Irvine (Apprentice)

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Fiona Venelle (Nursery Teacher)
Andrea Heigh (Practitioner)
Nicole Oliver (Practitioner)
Charlotte Gilchrist (Apprentice)

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Caitlyn Gordon (Senior Practitioner)
Shannon Kane (Practitioner)
Natasha Cowin (Practitioner
Charlotte McQueen (Practitioner)
Kimberly Miller (Apprentice)

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School Leavers Party – Friday 28th July

Nippers Family Fun Day @ Port Edgar – Sunday 10th September

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Parent Committee

Paul Barclay — Wed, 31 May 2017 09:19:02 +0000

The Parent Committee have prepared their first newsletter to let you know what they are planning in the coming months.

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Easter 2017

Paul Barclay — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:47:57 +0000

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Easter, one of the oldest Christian traditions, is the celebration of the last week of Jesus’ life, his death, and his resurrection. For Christians, Easter symbolises the dawn of a new life and the high point of the Christian calendar.

While defined as a Christian holiday, Easter has many of its roots in the traditions and rituals of the pagan people who inhabited the United Kingdom before its wide spread conversion to the Christian faith. Scholars believe that Easter was named for “Eostre”, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of the spring.

The actual day of Easter, unlike Christmas, is not a set date. Always on a Sunday, Easter can vary in date by country depending on whether the Gregorian or Julian calendar is being used. The UK, which follows the Gregorian calendar, celebrates Easter on the Sunday following the first full moon that occurs after the first day of spring. Using this timeline, Easter can vary in date from as early as the 22nd of March to as far into spring as the 25th of April.

Or it is a celebration of chocolate eggs, egg hunts, messy play and a great excuse to get out doors in the fresh air and mess around with water.

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Red Nose Day

Paul Barclay — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 09:46:29 +0000

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Red Nose Day is a UK-wide fundraising event organised by Comic Relief every two years. On Red Nose Day everyone is encouraged to cast inhibitions aside, put on a Red Nose and fundraiser – celebrities included!

It culminates in a night of cutting edge comedy and moving documentary films on BBC One. Red Nose Day unites the entire nation in trying to make a difference to the lives of thousands of people across Africa and the UK who are facing terrible injustice or living in desperate poverty.

This year Nippers Nursery did various activities including a sponsored walk with banners and flags, we would like to thank everyone who was involved. Together we raised over £800 for good causes.

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Saint Patrick’s Day

Paul Barclay — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:18:45 +0000

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Saint Patrick’s Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, “the Day of the Festival of Patrick”), is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461), the foremost patron saint of Ireland.

Saint Patrick’s Day was made an official Christian feast day in the early 17th century and is observed by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion (especially the Church of Ireland), the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Lutheran Church. The day commemorates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland, and celebrates the heritage and culture of the Irish in general. Celebrations generally involve public parades and festivals, cèilidhs, and the wearing of green attire or shamrocks. Christians who belong to liturgical denominations also attend church services and historically the Lenten restrictions on eating and drinking alcohol were lifted for the day, which has encouraged and propagated the holiday’s tradition of alcohol consumption.

Patrick was a 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Much of what is known about Saint Patrick comes from the Declaration, which was allegedly written by Patrick himself. It is believed that he was born in Roman Britain in the fourth century, into a wealthy Romano-British family. His father was a deacon and his grandfather was a priest in the Christian church. According to the Declaration, at the age of sixteen, he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Gaelic Ireland. It says that he spent six years there working as a shepherd and that during this time he “found God”. The Declaration says that God told Patrick to flee to the coast, where a ship would be waiting to take him home. After making his way home, Patrick went on to become a priest.

According to tradition, Patrick returned to Ireland to convert the pagan Irish to Christianity. The Declaration says that he spent many years evangelising in the northern half of Ireland and converted “thousands”. Patrick’s efforts against the druids were eventually turned into an allegory in which he drove “snakes” out of Ireland (Ireland never had any snakes).

Tradition holds that he died on 17 March and was buried at Downpatrick. Over the following centuries, many legends grew up around Patrick and he became Ireland’s foremost saint.

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Fairtrade Fortnight

Paul Barclay — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 11:22:44 +0000

[cmsmasters_row][cmsmasters_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsmasters_text]Fairtrade Fortnight is a fun-filled highlight of the year, when campaigners, businesses, schools and places of worship show their support for the farmers and workers who grow our food in developing countries.[/cmsmasters_text][cmsmasters_heading type=”h2″ font_weight=”normal” font_style=”normal” text_align=”left” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”20″ animation_delay=”0″]Fairtrade Fortnight 2017: Monday 27 February – Sunday 12 March[/cmsmasters_heading][cmsmasters_text animation_delay=”0″]

The food on our tables, the tea and coffee in our mugs, all from farmers who toil, sweat and slog.

However hard they work to provide the things we depend on, millions of farmers in developing countries aren’t paid what they deserve. It’s not a new problem.

We need to amplify the voices of marginalised producers as much as ever in 2017.

When we come together we can change the way people think about trade and the products on our shelves – the Fairtrade movement is made up of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in their communities for Fairtrade. Your actions help shoppers to make choices that change the lives of farmers and workers.

Join thousands of others across the UK this Fairtrade Fortnight to help our friends, neighbours, colleagues and communities to put Fairtrade in their break and take exploitation out.

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