Fairtrade Coffee morning report

Had a great time this morning at the Fairtrade Coffee morning. It was busy all morning except for a 10 minute lapse after the crowd from the 10.30am Mass.

We put these ten minutes to good use planning out our plans for the conferring celebrations which will take place on Feb 8 at 7.30pm in Hotel Westport. This will be a joint celebration between Westport and Castlebar and both of us will be receiving our official status on the night. We are organising invites to make sure we leave no one out and have arranged for a banner to put up over Bridge Street to mark the occasion.

Westport Town Council have really helped out with the celebrations and are making a substantial contribution towards the costs.

We are currently arranging a bit of music, food and of course Fairtrade wine for the evening and I have promised to ask the speakers to keep the speeches short!

There was a good crowd in from the 10.30am Mass, the Holy Trinity and the 12 o'clock Mass and I tried to help out and not get in the way too much. We met lots of supporters of Fairtrade and made a few converts to the cause as well. It was a nice way to mark the end of the status campaign.

Now we have to keep the momentum up over the coming years.