Petition: to make Witney a Fair Trade town

Encourage others to sign our petition! Download and print it out from here. Send completed petitions to the address at the bottom of the page on the sheet.

If you find the petition file prints large, try this: right mouse click on the picture, "save image as", then save to your computer or desktop. Then you just open the file as normal and print from there.

About the petition:

Witney Area Fair Trade Action Group (WAFTAG) would like Witney to become a Fairtrade Town. The Fairtrade Foundation confers Fairtrade town status on towns that can meet a number of criteria that demonstrate a town and its population is actively supporting Fairtrade. WAFTAG is working towards helping Witney achieve these; however a key point of the criteria involves enlisting the support of the local Town Council. Although the council has passed a resolution supporting the aims and objectives of Fairtrade, they don’t yet wish to take the steps that would enable WAFTAG to apply for Fairtrade Town status (such as making Fairtrade drinks available in their offices and on other appropriate occasions).

WAFTAG have collected signatures from many people, including from Witney MP, David Cameron. We also have the support of many local businesses and groups including Base 33, Oxfam, The Fabulous Bakin’ Boys, Hackett’s Coffee Bar & Bistro, the Salt Box Music Company, Co-op, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, Churches Together in Witney and Meller Art Gallery. We need your signature to show that the people of Witney do support fair trade, and that you would like the Witney Town Council to take all the steps required so that we can formally apply for Fairtrade status. So if you haven’t already signed the petition, please do so. And encourage your friends, family and colleagues to do so too!