You might recognise the Fairtrade logo from when you go food shopping, but what exactly is it all about? Should we even care about it? The Fairtrade Foundation is an […]
Fairtrade Fortnight 2022
Monday the 21st of February marked the start of Fairtrade Fortnight, a two-week event designed to draw attention to where our food and drinks come from, and the inequality faced […]
Chocolate Tasting Evening: Review (01/03/2017)
Over the course of your lifetime, on average you will have consumed 10,000 chocolate bars.
A chat with Erik from Divine Chocolate
As you may already know, on 1st March 2017, we are holding our second evening of Fairtrade chocolate tasting with Divine Chocolate – a London based organisation that creates an […]
SGO: Fairtrade at CCCU
As we discussed in previous articles, choosing Fairtrade products means contributing to the welfare of the workers and to the development of their communities.
Fanatic about Fairtrade: SGO’s Fairtrade Taste-Off
Has it really been 2 months since our Taste-Off? How time flies! To promote Fairtrade Fortnight, the SGO ran a Fairtrade Taste-Off in Touchdown Café, giving you lovely students a chance to taste a variety of Fairtrade chocolate and vote for your favourite! Here is a review from the SGO’s wonderful Francis Olaku, who volunteered at the event. This is what he thought about it.
SGO: The Only Way is Cake
Food, glorious food! Everybody has got a guilty pleasure for some kind of tasty treat, in my case it’s the unbelievable amounts of takeaway I get with the excuse that […]
SGO: Fairtrade chocolate ‘Taste-Off’ event!
While Fairtrade products offer a wide range of benefits, one of the greatest things about choosing Fairtrade chocolate is ensuring a fair wage to the cocoa farmers and their employees, […]
SGO: A student review of our Fairtrade ‘Divine’ Chocolate Tasting Evening
Erik, the resident Divine Chocolatier, a bubbly chocolate expert, who knew everything about chocolate, from the origins of hot chocolate in Mexico to the cool historical facts about the first modern wrapped chocolate bars (its origins were in Bristol, by the way) charmed the audience with his passion and excitement for chocolate.