Fairtrade Fortnight is nearly here
22nd February – 7th March)

Across the UK the Fairtrade Foundation are aiming to get 1,000,001 pledges to make a BIG swap. This means choosing to change one of your every day items to its Fairtrade equivalent. In Wales we are organising a BIG tea party for our Assembly Members and will ask them to commit to their BIG swap. Outside of the Senedd you will be able to see our special BIG table and chairs complete with a Fairtrade cotton tablecloth made from squares of Fairtrade cotton decorated by schools across Wales. There will also be a ‘strictly come tea-dancing’ event in Cardiff on Saturday 27th February.

There will be scores of events going on in every part of Wales, from talks by a Fairtrade farmer, to tea dances, to fashion shows. To find out what’s going on in Wales for Fairtrade Fortnight in your area please visit the events calendar on our website:

Fair Trade News

Vote for your favourite Fairtrade cuppa

The Wales Co-operative are asking you to show your support for the catering outlet that gives you your favourite Fair Trade hot drink. You can nominate and vote for a café, restaurant, pub, hotel or community centre. You’ll also be entered into the draw for a Fairtrade Tea Hamper (kindly provided by Clipper).
To vote click here...

Second stage Fair Trade nation criteria - Fair Trade Wales is currently creating the second stage criteria for what it means to be a Fair Trade nation and would like to know your thoughts and ideas. Please email fairtradenation@fairtradewales.com or call Elen on 02920 803 293.

Olympic Games and the Ryder cup goes Fairtrade! - The Ryder cup have committed to serving Fairtrade tea, coffee and sugar. The Olympics and paralympics will offer Fairtrade bananas, tea, coffee, sugar and chocolate, across 40 locations.

Kitkat goes Fairtrade - the chocolate giant has announced a big Fairtrade switch: their 4 finger kitkat bar will now be Fairtrade! For more details visit: http://www.thecocoaplan.com/

Helpful Info for Fair Trade Groups

New welsh language resources available

The Fairtrade Foundation have printed new Welsh language posters, window stickers and the Little Book of Swaps. They have created a new Welsh language section on the website to make them easier to find.
To place an order click here...

Big swap sign up sheet The aim of this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight is to get 1,000,001 ‘swaps.’ This means people and organisations committing to swapping their every day buys for its Fairtrade alternative. You can register your swap online...

Fairtrade tea tasting kits Cafédirect is asking people to make a BIG swap to their Fairtrade tea. To help you to convince people they have made tea tasting kits. These kits will be available online from early February, until then join the event on Facebook link and sign up to be a Friend of Cafédirect to find out more!

How can we help you?

we would like to know what one thing we could give you that would help you out the most e.g. leaflets, samples or mini grants? Please let us know as we are currently looking at our plans for the next financial year. Email info@fairtradewales.com with  your suggestions.

Fairtrade Groups News

Congratulations to Dinas Powys who have achieved Fair Trade village status and to Llangefni for achieving Fairtrade town status.

We now have 41 Fairtrade town, villages and cities in Wales!

Schools News

In conjunction with supporting organisations, Fair Trade Wales has put together a schools resource CD on cotton containing lesson plans, assemblies, short films and more for primary and secondary schools. To order your copy email schools@fairtradewales.com or download direct from our website:

http://fairtradewales.com/schools/resources/493 (English)
http://fairtradewales.com/ysgolion/adnoddau/614 (Cymraeg)

Thank you to all schools who are taking part in helping to create the world's largest Fairtrade tablecloth. 125 squares of cotton have been sent out to schools across Wales. The cotton will then be stitched together and displayed at the Big Swap event for the Assembly Members during Fairtrade Fortnight. The theme being 'Big' for the big swap, the tablecloth will be displayed on a 'BIG' table, at a 'BIG' tea party outside the Senedd in Cardiff. If schools would like to come along contact schools@fairtradewales.com

If you didn't take part in creating the tablecloth then it's not too late to get involved with Fairtrade Fortnight. There are lots of ways to get involved: schools up and down Wales will be holding their very own Fairtrade tea parties on the 5th March. Schools can pledge their Big Swap, or turn their world book day into a Fair Trade themed book day, using books with tea parties (Mad Hatters, Teddy Bears Picnic etc)! If you would like to find out more ways that your school can become involved with Fairtrade Fortnight click here.

In the next few months Fair Trade Wales and the Co-operative are launching new Fairtrade School flags, which will be sent to schools who achieve Fairtrade School status. For more details on becoming a Fairtrade School visit: http://fairtradewales.com/schools/become_a_fairtrade_school/489

We did not have a single nomination for school of the month December!! Keep your nominations coming in! Without your nominations, we can't recognise all the great work from schools.

And finally, we'd love to hear what schools have planned for Fairtrade Fortnight, so please let us know, and we'll add it to our website.

Jim’s Hot Fairtrade Tips!

A happy new year to you all!  I was one of the lucky few to be able to wear the world’s first Fairtrade Santa suit in December (I’m sure you have all seen the suit), doing an event with Starbucks in Morfa Park, Swansea. 

Well Christmas is now gone and another FT fortnight is coming – another exciting event!  I’m still thrilled with finding my first FT certified Kitkat!  As if I need another excuse to eat more choc.  Anyway, well done Nestle!  Hopefully there’s more to come.  There’s also more Cadburys and Tate and Lyle certified products appearing on the shelves weekly.  Anyway, check out all these deals, product information and our chocolate taste test, and please don’t hesitate to mail me if you have any tips or want your business/products to feature in the next hot tip!  Mail me on jim@fairtradewales.com

Choc taste test: Finn, Neve, Linda and I did a Chocolate taste test for this hot tip.  We tested Marks and Spencer Organic Milk Chocolate (36% cocoa), Hotel Chocolat Milk Chocolate (40%), and Cadbury’s Dairy Milk (20%).  The clear winner was M+S, with only Neve choosing Dairy Milk.  You could really taste the quality on the M+S choc, it’s slightly higher cocoa content gave a slight bitter aftertaste, which was just right.  We found the Hotel Chocolat bar a little bit dry and crumbly – this we thought, was because of the high cocoa content.  I am still a fan of Dairy Milk though – we all are.  It is a ‘safe’ choice and is “creamy” and “so milky”.  M+S Organic Milk Chocolate £1.65 for 100g – arguably a little expensive, but worth the extra!! 

• Cadbury’s 230g DM: half price with any purchase at Superdrug.
• Boots Fairtrade tights: “soft and smooth” says my friend Beth.  Have a look in store for them.
• Tate and Lyle FT light cane sugar – a third less calories!  Does what it says on the tin!  I really can’t taste any difference!  This could be the first FT ‘low cal’ sugar?  (600g/£1, Iceland).

Check out more amazing top tips...

Uganda Update

John Harrington is a volunteer from Newtown in Powys. John is currently in Mbale in Uganda with Gumutindo, a Fair Trade Co-operative. He is working with them in a number of ways including organisational development, governance issues and supporting the staff team.John is going to keep in contact with us regularly with his experiences at the Co-operative. To read the latest update click here: http://fairtradewales.com/news/updates_from_uganda/865

Mae Pythefnos Masnach deg bron yma
(22 Chwefror – 7 Mawrth)

Ledled y DU mae Sefydliad Masnach Deg yn anelu at gael 1,000,001 o addewidion i wneud cyfnewid MAWR. Golyga hynny ddewis cyfnewid un o'ch eitemau bob dydd am un cyfatebol Fasnach Deg. Yng Nghymru rydym yn trefnu te parti MAWR ar gyfer ein Haelodau Cynulliad ac yn gofyn iddyn nhw ymrwymo i'w cyfnewid MAWR. Y tu allan i’r Senedd fe welwch ein bwrdd a’n cadeiriau MAWR arbennig gyda lliain cotwm Masnach Deg, wedi’i gwneud o sgwariau cotwm Masnach Deg ac wedi’u haddurno gan ysgolion ledled Cymru. Hefyd cynhelir digwyddiad "strictly come tea-dancing" yng Nghaerdydd ddydd Sadwrn 27 Chwefror.

Newyddion Masnach Deg

Pleidleisiwch dros eich hoff baned Masnach Deg

Mae Canolfan Cydweithredol Cymru’n gofyn i chi ddangos eich cefnogaeth i’r man lle cewch eich hoff ddiod poeth Masnach Deg. Gallwch enwebu a phleidleisio dros gaffi, bwyty, tafarn, gwesty neu ganolfan gymunedol. Byddwch hefyd yn cael eich rhoi mewn raffl ar gyfer Basged o De Masnach Deg (anrheg caredig Clipper).
I bleidleisio, ymwelwch â...

Meini Prawf ail gyfnod cenedl Fasnach Deg - Mae Masnach Deg Cymru ar hyn o bryd yn paratoi meini prawf ail gyfnod o’r hyn y mae’n ei olygu i fod yn genedl Fasnach Deg ac fe hoffem gael eich syniadau. E-bostiwch fairtradenation@fairtradewales.com neu ffoniwch Elen ar 02920 803293.

Y Gemau Olympaidd a Chwpan Ryder yn mynd yn Fasnach Deg! - Mae Cwpan Ryder wedi ymrwymo i weini te, coffi a siwgr Masnach Deg. Bydd y Gemau Olympaidd a’r Gemau Paraolympaidd yn cynnig bananas, te, coffi, siwgr a siocled Masnach Deg mewn 40 o fannau.

Kitkat yn mynd yn Fasnach Deg - mae’r cawr siocled wedi cyhoeddi newid mawr at Fasnach Deg: bydd eu bar kitkat 4 bys yn Fasnach Deg! Am ragor o fanylion, ymwelwch â: http://www.thecocoaplan.com/

Gwybodaeth ddefnyddiol i grwpiau Masnach Deg

Adnoddau Cymraeg newydd ar gael

Mae Sefydliad Masnach Deg wedi argraffu posteri newydd, Cymraeg, sticeri ffenestri a’r Llyfr Bach o Gyfnewidiadau. Maen adran Gymraeg newydd ar y wefan i’w gwneud yn haws i’w canfod. I osod archeb ymwelwch â...

Dalen llofnodi ar gyfer y cyfnewid mawr nod Pythefnos Masnach Deg eleni yw cael 1,000,001 o ‘gyfnewidiadau’. Golyga hynny fod pobl a sefydliadau’n ymrwymo i gyfnewid eu nwyddau bob dydd am rai Masnach Deg. Gallwch gofrestru’ch cyfnewidiadau ar lein neu os ydych yn mynd allan ac yn cynnal digwyddiad cyhoeddus gallwch lawr lwytho 'dalen cyfnewid' yma...

Pecynnau blasu te Masnach Deg Mae Cafédirect yn gofyn i bobl wneud cyfnewid MAWR i’w te Masnach Deg. I’ch helpu chi i argyhoeddi pobl, maen nhw’n  cynnig pecynnau blasu te. Bydd y pecynnau ar gael ar lein o’n gynnar ym mis Chwefror.  Tan hynny, ymunwch yn y digwyddiad ar ddolen Facebook a llofnodwch i fod yn Gyfaill Cafédirect  er mwyn canfod rhagor!

Sut allwn ni eich helpu chi?

Fe hoffem wybod pa un peth allwn ni ei roi i chi a fyddai o fwyaf o gymorth i chi e.e. taflenni, enghreifftiau neu grantiau bychain iawn? Rhowch wybod i ni gan ein bod yn ystyried ar hyn o bryd ar ein cynlluniau ar gyfer y flwyddyn ariannol nesaf. E-bostiwch info@fairtradewales.com gyda’ch awgrymiadau.

Newyddion Grwpiau Masnach Deg

Llongyfarchiadau i Ddinas Powys sydd wedi cyrraedd statws pentref Masnach Deg ac i Langefni am gyrraedd statws tref Fasnach Deg.

Erbyn hyn mae gennym 41 o drefi, pentrefi a dinasoedd Masnach Deg yng Nghymru!

Newyddion i Ysgolion

Gyda’r sefydliadau sy’n ein cefnogi, mae Cymru Masnach Deg wedi paratoi adnodd ysgolion ar CDd ynghylch cotwm sy’n cynnwys cynlluniau gwersi, cyfarfodydd gwasanaeth, ffilmiau byr a mwy i ysgolion cynradd ac uwchradd. I archebu’ch copi ebostiwch  schools@fairtradewales.com neu llawr lwythwch yn syth o’n gwefan  

http://fairtradewales.com/schools/resources/493 (Saesneg)
http://fairtradewales.com/ysgolion/adnoddau/614 (Cymraeg)

Diolch i bob ysgol sy’n helpu i baratoi’r lliain bwrdd Masnach Deg mwyaf yn y byd.  Cafodd 125 o sgwariau o gotwm eu hanfon i ysgolion ledled Cymru.  Bydd y cotwm yn cael ei wnïo gyda’i gilydd ac yn cael ei arddangos yn y digwyddiad Cyfnewid Mawr gydag Aelodau’r Cynulliad yn ystod Pythefnos Masnach Deg.  Gan mai ‘Mawr’ yw thema’r cyfnewid mawr, bydd y lliain bwrdd yn cael ei ddangos ar y bwrdd ‘MAWR’ mewn te parti ‘MAWR’ y tu allan i’r Senedd yng Nghaerdydd.  Croeso i ysgolion ddod yno, cysylltwch â schools@fairtradewales.com

Os nad oeddech yn cymryd rhan mewn creu’r lliain bwrdd, dyw hi ddim yn rhy hwyr i ymuno â Phythefnos Masnach Deg.  Mae sawl ffordd y gallwch gymryd rhan: bydd ysgolion ym mhob rhan o Gymru’n cynnal eu te parti Masnach Deg eu hunain ar 5 Mawrth.   Gall ysgolion wneud addewidion ar gyfer eu Cyfnewid Mawr neu roi thema Masnach Deg i’w diwrnod llyfr y byd a defnyddio llyfrau gyda’r te parti (Mad Hatters, Picnic Tedi ayb). Cliciwch yma i ganfod mwy o fanylion sut y gall ysgolion gymryd rhan ym Mhythefnos Masnach Deg.  

Yn ystod y misoedd nesaf bydd Cymru Masnach Deg a’r Co-operative yn lansio baneri newydd ar gyfer Ysgolion Masnach Deg ac yn eu hanfon i ysgolion sydd wedi llwyddo i gyrraedd statws Ysgol Masnach Deg.  I gael rhagor o fanylion ynghylch dod yn Ysgol Masnach Deg, ewch i: http://fairtradewales.com/schools/become_a_fairtrade_school/489

Chawson ni'r un enwebiad am ysgol y mis yn ystod mis Rhagfyr!! Daliwch ati i enwebu! Heb eich enwebiadau, allwn ni ddim cydnabod y gwaith gwych y mae ein hysgolion yn ei wneud.  

Ac yn olaf, fe fyddem wrth ein bodd yn clywed beth sydd gan ysgolion ar y gweill ar gyfer Pythefnos Masnach Deg, felly gadewch i ni wybod ac mi fyddwn yn ei roi ar ein gwefan.  

Awgrymiadau Masnach Deg Jim!

Blwyddyn newydd dda i chi i gyd!  Roeddwn yn un o’r ychydig lwcus i allu gwisgo siwt Santa Masnach Deg cyntaf yn y byd ym mis Rhagfyr (rwy’n siŵr bod pawb wedi gweld y siwt) wrth wneud digwyddiad gyda Starbucks ym Mharc Morfa, Abertawe. 

Wel, mae’r Nadolig wedi mynd erbyn hyn ac mae pythefnos Masnach Deg arall ar ddod – digwyddiad cyffrous arall!  Rwy’n dal wrth fy modd ar ôl canfod fy Kitkat ardystiedig Masnach Deg cyntaf!  Fel petawn angen esgus arall i fwyta mwy o siocled.  Ta waeth, da iawn Nestle!  Gyda lwc bydd rhagor i ddod.  Hefyd mae rhagor o gynnyrch ardystiedig Cadburys a Tate and Lyle yn ymddangos ar y silffoedd yn wythnosol.  Beth bynnag, chwiliwch am y bargeinion, gwybodaeth am y cynnyrch a’n prawf blasu siocled a chofiwch fy e-bostio os oes gennych unrhyw syniadau neu os ydych eisiau eich busnes / cynnyrch ymddangos yn y syniadau swynol nesaf!  E-bostiwch fi ar jim@fairtradewales.com

Prawf blasu siocled: Bu Finn, Neve, Linda a minnau ar brawf blasu siocled ar gyfer y syniad swynol hwn.  Siocled Llaeth Organig Marks and Spencer (36% coco), Siocled Llaeth Hotel Chocolat (40%) a Cadbury’s Dairy Milk (20%) oedd ar y fwydlen.  Yr enillydd clir oedd M+S gyda dim ond Neve yn dewis Dairy Milk.  Roeddech blas ansawdd siocled M+S yn treiddio.  Roedd yr ychydig yn fwy o goco yn rhoi ôl flas braidd yn chwerw a oedd yn berffaith.  Roedd bar Hotel Chocolat ychydig yn sych a briwsionllyd - roedd hynny, meddyliwn, oherwydd bod llawer o goco ynddo.  Rwy’n dal yn gefnogwr Dairy Milk – ond dydy pawb!  Mae’n ddewis ‘diogel’ ac mae’n ‘hufennog’ ac ‘mor llaethog’.  Mae Siocled Llaeth Organig M+S yn £1.65 am 100g – o bosibl ychydig yn ddrud, ond yn werth yr arian ychwanegol!!

• Cadbury’s 230g DM: hanner pris gydag unrhyw bryniant yn Superdrug.
• Teits Masnach Deg Boots: “yn feddal ac yn llyfn” meddai fy ffrind Beth.  Chwiliwch amdanyn nhw yn y siop.
• Siwgr cansen golau Masnach Deg Tate and Lyle - traean yn llai o galorïau!  Mae’n gwneud yr hyn mae’n ei ddweud ar y tun!  Allwn ni ddim blasu’r gwahaniaeth – wir!  Gallai hyn fod y siwgr ‘calorïau isel’ cyntaf Masnach Deg   (600g/£1, Iceland)

Cliciwch yma am lawer mwy o nwyddau Masnach Deg…

Y Newyddion Diweddaraf O Uganda

Mae John Harrington yn wirfoddolwr o’r Drenewydd ym Mhowys. Ar hyn o bryd mae John ym Mbale yn Uganda gyda Gumutindo, Cwmni Cydweithredol Masnach Deg. Mae'n gweithio gyda'r cwmni mewn sawl ffordd gan gynnwys datblygu cyfundrefnau, materion trefniadaeth lywodraethol a chefnogi staff y tîm.  Bydd John yn cadw mewn cysylltiad â ni’n rheolaidd gyda’i brofiadau yn y Cwmni Cydweithredol. I ddarllen y diweddaraf cliciwch yma: http://fairtradewales.com//news/updates_from_uganda/865

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