Calling all creative writers and would-be poets. Chesham4Fairtrade is challenging the people of the Chilterns to write a poem about Fairtrade, to help celebrate Chesham’s five years since becoming the first Fairtrade Town In Buckinghamshire. Wannabe poets might win prizes of book vouchers and Fairtrade chocolates. There is the chance to read your poem, or have your poem read, at an awards evening at the Elgiva next year. The inclusive theatre company, Shed @ thePark is promoting the competition and will lead a day workshop on poetry and Fairtrade at Thomas Harding Junior School later this month. Winning poems from the five age categories and those which achieve a second or commended placing will be displayed at Chesham Library.
Chairman of Chesham4Fairtrade, Rev Colin Cartwright commented, “I am very grateful to our four judges and our volunteer co-ordinator, Jessy Roope. I know there is a lot of untapped creative talent in Chesham, among both schoolchildren and adults. I look forward, with our four judges, to reading the poems and to seeing how the good news of Fairtrade has inspired local people to make a difference in our world by supporting farmers in the developing world when they go shopping.” Rules are available from the Town Hall, Chesham Library or from the website of Chesham4fairtrade www.chesham4fairtrade.co.uk. Deadline for the competition is Sunday 31 January 2010. Call Colin Cartwright, Chair of Chesham4Fairtrade on 01494 775651 or Miss Gonzalez Romero, Shed@thePark, email lgonzalezromero@bucksgfl.org.uk. Refer Chesham’s got talent from Thursday, 13 August 2009.
