Hi everyone,

Hi everyone, 

Please download our event flyer and poster and distribute amongst your networks.  We would love your help with advertising this event!

I'm am so incredibly excited about this market - we have over 45 businesses and organisations attending (double the size of last year!), we have a bigger and better venue, a wonderful planning team and the biggest group of volunteers from both churches we've ever had.  Please help us out with advertising so we can get the most people we've ever had there before too.  My desire is to see a 'heart change' amongst our local community - that people will learn about and engage with global issues such as child labour and abject poverty, that they'll realise the power their consumer dollars have and that they will embrace the vision of hope that fair-trade brings.Don't forget to follow us on facebook and twitter to keep up to date with latest news!Kate

Just thought I'd share our current stallholder list - it's epic!

Oxfam Shop Chermside
Life Straw
Tapas Spanish BBQ
Luminade
Siham Craftlink
Fair Choices
Operation Christmas Child
Gifted Hands
Fair Trade Connections
One Coffee
Playing Fair
Pure Revolution
Go Fair 
Leprosy Mission
TEAR
Moral Fibre
Afri Beads
Seven Women
Operation Uganda
Moselle Clothing
Klong Toey
Kaya Collection
The Giving Tree
Zenana Women
World Vision
Out From Africa
The Trading Circle
One Colour
Kwetu Handmade
Compassion
Ethica Accessories
Sustainable Solutions
Freeset
Cocolo
Sacred Grounds
Artisan House
Last First Network
Earthtribe
Koguis
Senhoa
Mokosh


41 stalls! This GMD will be double the size of last year!

Hi everyone,

Hi everyone!

We have set a date for our Christmas Market - and we have a new venue!

Hills Church have partnered with us to put on a bigger and better event this year.  They have a fantastic hall and ample parking space - no more parking on the street miles away! 

Date: Friday 18th November
Time: 6pm - 9:30pm
Venue: Hills Church, 79 Queens Rd, Everton Hills, Brisbane

Do you own a fair trade business?  We'd love to see you represented at GMD!  Register online here.

For more information, contact Kate on admin@globalmarketday.org

I am very excited to announce that Global Market Day will be starting up in Byron Bay!!

They are having their first fair trade market on Thursday, December 2 from 5 - 9pm NSW time at 20 Centennial Circuit, Byron Bay Arts and Industrial Estate.

Presented by Eastgate Christian Community, this will be a great family event with fun for the kids, tasty local food, fair trade and ethical gifts for sale, and great music!

Perfect time for ethical Christmas present shopping!! You can choose from an awesome range of Christmas items available on the day.

All net proceeds go to World Visions "Don't trade lives" campaign against human trafficking.

For further enquiries phone 0266856763 or email Isobel and Robin at byronbay@globalmarketday.org.

ALSO...

On Saturday 27th of November, 9am - 2pm NSW time, Bangalow Uniting Church, on Station street in Bangalow invites all to the Fairtrade Christmas Fair.  Contact byronbay@globalmarketday.org for more info.

Room to Read seeks to transform the lives of millions of children in developing countries by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education. Working in collaboration with local communities, partner organizations and governments, they develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children, and support girls to complete secondary school with the relevant life skills to succeed in school and beyond.

We'd love to invite you to their next wonderful fundraising event called Illustrations.  All details can be found here.

Fore more info about Room to Read, visit www.roomtoread.org or email brisbane@roomtoread.org

Hi everyone,

Thank you to all who had stalls, shopped and volunteered last Friday at Global Market Day!

We had such a fantastic time despite the drizzle and the atmosphere was so positive and enthusiastic. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Also very exciting - we raised over $1000 for Operation Christmas Child and packed 25 shoeboxes with more to come in!

For more info on our next market, keep checking this blog, twitter and facebook.

L

So much happening in the Global Market Day office today!! Thanks to the awesome Pam McGann from Siham Craftlink, we will have a WHOLE table full of drastically reduced price fair trade goodies for you to pack in your shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child!!  Pam has gorgeous little goodies for as cheap as $2 - so you can pack your shoebox to the brim!

Packing a fair trade shoe box is so awesome:
1. You feel great about doing something for someone else living in poverty
2. The people who make the products get paid fairly and have the chance to break the cycle of poverty through fair trade initiatives

3. AND the child receiving it feels loved and special!!

A present that gives three-fold. Love it.

Who's life will your shoebox change?

Kate