For the second year running, a group of Buxton and Leek
College Hospitality and Catering students made a gigantic Banana Split to mark
Fairtrade Fortnight (23rd February – 8th March
2015). Last year’s Split was ten metres long
and made with 100 Fairtrade bananas. “I
was a bit concerned that we wouldn’t be able to find 100 volunteers to eat it,”
said Ingrid Keith, Chaplain at Buxton and Leek College, who commissioned it. “But it disappeared within seconds. So this year we thought we’d add another two
metres and make it twelve metres all together.
The students once again did us proud.”
The Split was brought out into the Dome in six lengths of
two-metre guttering and was devoured by staff, students and visitors to the
Dome as part of the Chaplaincy’s Fairtrade Day.
There were four public showings of the new film, “Fairtrade Matters”
with free Fairtrade tea and chocolate brownies made by MA student Ellie
Melissourgaki. Meanwhile Charles Jolly
of the Buxton Fairtrade Town Steering Group ran a Fairtrade Hoopla and Pingpong
stall where players could bag prizes such as a Fairtrade pineapple.
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