Green
Fair
Easter
Saturday 22nd of March 2008 -
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: pen@wasteaction.org.uk
Stall booking: Stephanie on
stephirtenstein@yahoo.co.uk
Café coordinator:
Theme
For 2008 - MARINE CONSERVATION
The
Green Fair is a great family event with local music and
local produce on show. It has been running for over 20 years.
This year there will be a wide variety of stalls ranging
from Electric Cars (on show outside) to Chickens made out
of old curtains. In the café the usual scrumptious
veggie food plus hot and cold drinks will be available.
The
Green Fair is a meeting place to exchange information and
ideas on an informal basis for a great variety of organisations,
charities and individuals who are connected to the environmental
movement in Penwith in one way or other. Entertainment and
a café make it a great place for children and adults alike.
This year will be the first event to be completely plastic
bag free. The Greenfair also serves as main fundraising
event for PEN and WCFOE.
Over
40 stalls have already been booked, they represent the many
different environmental and green groups in this area. Organic
plants will be on sale, local green energy firms, green
computing advice, and many more. The fair is a great chance
for people to meet and get involved in the local environmental
community. There are many wonderful and deserving projects
that need the community’s support and interest in
to continue successfully. Any funds raised go to the two
local groups who organise the event; Penwith Environmental
Network and West Cornwall Friends of the Earth.
Any
organisation, charity, company or group that is working
to preserve the environment or for world justice can book
a stall (stallholders in 2008) (link to stall holders).
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, providing a healthy vegetarian or vegan lunch
at a reasonable price.
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
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
