During this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight held from 24th Feb to 8th March 2020, the Luton Fairtrade Steering Group, GRASSROOTS & LUTON COUNCIL OF FAITHS joined hands with St Christopher's Church (Round Green) for the second time, for a Fairtrade Cake Baking Competition. Contestants from across diverse backgrounds and age groups participated in the competition. The cakes were presented with recipe and the packaging as evidence of fairtrade ingredients used.
Everyone present tasted a variety of cakes and marked the score sheets. Later 3 prizes were given for the ‘Best Sponge Cake’, the ‘Best Fruit Cake’ and the second highest scoring cake for its presentation and taste. Two of the prizes were given in the memory of the Late Mr Natu Bhai Solanki, who was the Vice Chair of LUTON COUNCIL OF FAITHS and the Late Ms Maureen Borbone, a Catholic committed Fairtrade activist and Campaigner, who was also one of the Trustees of GRASSROOTS.
In her welcome address, Revd Anne Crosby, Vicar of St Christopher’s Church said it is good that we can respond to God’s call to love one another and love God’s creation in this way too. Later Cllr Tahmina Saleem invited all to attend the Deputy Mayor’s Fairtrade Afternoon Tea in the Luton Town Hall on 11th March from 2-5pm and she also invited the Fairtrade Cake Bakers, particularly the Winners, to bring in their Cakes, if they wished to.
It is great that Luton Borough Council has also issued a Press Release in support of Fairtrade, which can be found here:
https://lutonbcouncil-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/luton-celebrates-fairtrade-fortnight-1
