Fairtrade Big Brew

Join the Dunscore Fairtrade team for the annual, and always well supported, Fairtrade Big Brew event.

This years Big Brew will be taking place on Saturday 28th February from, 11:00am – 2:00pm and everyone is welcome. As always, admission is free but donations are always appreciated to help support our Fairtrade work throughout Dunscore village and surrounding communities.

What’s happening on the day?

Come to Dunscore Church for the stalls and to the Glenriddell Hall for a Fairtrade Café. There will be lots of Fairtrade activities and talks and why not have a go at the Fairtrade wordsearch while having your soup, tea, coffee and baking? There’s also a raffle. Remember that not all stalls will have a card machine and we are asking for donations (in cash please!) for the delights in the café.

We do hope you can make it along to find out more about Fairtrade in the area and, of course, support local craft businesses and enjoy locally produced foods, snacks and beverages.

Supporting the Fairtrade “Brew It Fair” campaign

Tea is the world’s most popular drink apart from water – in Britain alone we drink over 100 million cups of tea every day.

But right now, too little of the money in the industry goes back to the people who grow and pick our tea. As tea drinkers we have become used to paying very little, with an average tea bag today costing just two or three pence, while the cost to grow and pick our tea is increasing.

Urgent action is needed to support the people at the end of tea supply chains to create positive change for themselves, their communities and our shared environment.

It will require a collective effort to change the future with the people behind Britain’s favourite drink.​ Together, Governments, businesses and civil society organisations can work alongside tea growers and pickers to raise low tea prices, increase pay and demand human rights for the people behind the tea we drink.​

In Britain alone, we drink over 100 million cups of tea every day, and behind every cup we drink, there are millions of people who work hard to nurture and grow the tea leaves.

But many of the people behind our daily brew face poverty, unsafe working conditions, and the mounting threat of climate change – leaving them unable to plan for their future.

You can help by asking the UK government to protect human rights, collaborate for change and honour their international climate finance commitment.