Walk held for World Fair Trade Day 2024

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May is also marked as National Walking Month. Here is the team at the Cathedral, before they tucked into some well deserved refreshments!

The walk was around 5.7 miles, which took them a fraction under 3 hours to complete, meaning an average of 1.9mph. The walk took in cycleways, the Gaisby Lane site of the Bradford Cathedral Woodland Project, and Bolton Woods.

Mike de Villiers said of the walk:

"It's important to mark World Fair Trade Day as it raises awareness of the importance of trading fairly. We dedicated today to Rev. Dr. Frans van der Hoff, who started buying coffee beans from Mexican producers, and he realised that they had wonderful coffee that they need to sell somewhere. He worked out the whole idea, from the producers' point of view, so they wouldn't get cheated by international trade. Van der Hoff was a fighter for this until he died earlier this year.

"It's so important - as Canon Ned Lunn says about the Cathedral's eco work - it's about providing for people where they are, being just so they can keep on making a living. It's to make sure they are treated justly."