About Fairtrade Yorkshire
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Photo of Ethiopian Fairtrade Coffee Beans
Courtesy of Joanna Brown
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Welcome to the Fairtrade Yorkshire website.
This website provides information on the regional Fairtrade project for Yorkshire and the Humber. Twenty two local authorities in Yorkshire and the Humber region have been invited to work together to promote Fairtrade among their own community and support towns and cities in the region in achieving Fairtrade status.
FairtradeYorkshire is a unique partnership of the local authorities and other interested public sector organisations in the region who have come together to increase the awareness of Fairtrade and the associated issues and thereby increase the use of such products by councils, businesses and individuals alike.
The partnership will undertake various activities across the region in conjunction with individual councils and steering groups who will continue to undertake their own promotional activities.
This project has been funded by the Yorkshire and the Humber Centre of Excellence (Y&H CoE), one of nine regional centres of excellence in the UK. The regional centres were created by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) in February 2004 - originally to deliver the National Procurement Strategy and, more recently, the Gershon Review. The Y&H CoE helps the 22 local authorities in the region (plus the Fire and Police Services and the National Parks) by:
- Co-ordinating and analysing data relating to local authority performance
- Providing support to local authority led projects designed to achieve efficiencies
- Developing opportunities for shared working across local authorities and the wider public sector
- Co-ordinating support for local authorities to ensure that the efforts of a number of organisations meet the needs of the region.
Website: Yorkshire and the Humber Centre of Excellence (Y&H CoE)
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