Green Fair

Easter Saturday 11th of April 2009 - St John's Hall, Alverton, Penzance

Organisation:  PEN, Cornwall Waste Action (CWA), West-Cornwall Friends of the Earth (WCFOE), Penwith Central Initiative (PCI)
General contact:info@p-e-n.org.uk
Stall booking: Stephanie on stephirtenstein@yahoo.co.uk  
Café coordinator:

Theme For 2009 - Bees

The Green Fair is a great family event with local music and local produce on show. It has been running for over 20 years.

After many months of planning it is time to brush up on networking skills, take a look at what Penwiths finest environmentally concerned groups have to offer and be inspired to get involved. There will be a bounty of stalls this year; local spinners will be on hand to demonstrate their skill, delicious curries from Ruby’s, locally grown veg, plant sales, real nappies, handmade crafts, Cornish honey, and amongst others an electric car will be out on the forecourt of St.John’s Hall. There will be local musicians and dancers to entertain us and a cafe full of local yummy homemade food. A selection of short environmental films will be shown throughout the day.
Penwith Environmental Network will be collecting unwanted bras to send to a charity for reuse, please only bring in clean unbroken bras, and they will also have a disposable razor sharpener on their stall available to file your blunt razors therefore keeping them out of the bin and keeping more money in your pocket!

The fair will be opened this year by the Green party’s parliamentary candidate Tracy Stanton. The doors open at 10am, the café ladies will be ready to serve you a hot drink and cake, and the fair will run until 2pm. Stephanie Hirtenstein of Penwith Environmental Network says, “We want to inspire people to get involved in their local community groups and become part of the positive action to reduce the emissions of green house gases. Environmental issues like Climate Change or pollution can seem too big and out of one person or families reach but there are many ways to be part of the change."

Shopping locally, growing some of our own food, and helping to create a real community in Penwith are all small steps towards a larger goal and better future.

We hope everyone who is in Penzance on Saturday will come and have a look round the fair to see what local groups are going to be doing this year. All we ask is that when you come in and when you enjoy your food or drink you show your appreciation of the day with a donation as the fair is organized by volunteers, and of course that you have fun”.

The event will be plastic bag free. The Greenfair also serves as main fundraising event for PEN and WCFOE.

Any organisation, charity, company or group that is working to preserve the environment or for world justice can book a stall (stallholders in 2009). The prices are £10 for profit-making (commercial) organisations, and non-profit-making organisations make a donation of what they feel they can afford.


The Café
The Green Fair café offers drinks and home-made food, where ever possible made from locally sourced/organic/fair trade ingredients, the cafe also caters for vegetarians, vegans and other special diets. Price is by donation.

Entertainment
Various artists have volunteered to provide entertainment for children and adults during the Green Fair.
In the past there were: Kites and stilt-walking by Skylark, music by PenSamba, puppet theatre, and wool spinning demonstration.


Your Involvement
Café helpers
The Café is run by members of PEN and WCFOE, and we can always do with an extra hand (selling food, washing up, clearing tables, etc).

Cake or salad makers
Vegetarian or vegan cakes, quiches, other savoury morcels, buns, salads etc are always welcome.

Door persons
We need someone at the door to collect £1 fee from all adults not in possession of a re-usable non plastic carrier bag! Adults in possession of a non plastic carrier bag can come in for free! Got that? (children up to 16 are free).

Contact stephhirtenstein@yahoo.co.uk

Entertainers
If you would like to provide entertainment as a voluntary contribution to the Green Fair, please contact Michele 01736 363500

Previous Stallholders
Amnesty International
Animal Charities
British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Community Sustainable Energy Plus
Compassion in World Farming
Cornwall Waste Action
Council for the Protection or Rural England
Craftswomen making Jewellery and hair braidsEcodrive
Education Otherwise
Falmouth Green Centre
Free Tibet
Friends of the Earth
Green Computing
Herb Plants
Local Exchange Trading System
Marine Conservation Society
Mousehole Bird Hospital
Natural Health Centre
Oxfam
Penwith Conservation Partnership
Penwith Environment Centre
Penwith Organic Gardeners and Growers
Sustrans
Tibetan Nuns
West Cornwall Badger Group
Wind Turbines