Dear Val,

Alison Donovan forwarded me to you as you will be
taking onboard the herts area for co-op affairs.

We had been discussing co-op provision and assistance
for a fair trade market to be held at Hemel Hempstead
Marlowes Shopping Centre for the last day of Fairtrade
Fortnight 13th March. This would be foods.

The Centre Manager quoted me for £100 for a large
space opposite Littlewoods and with four stall holders
minimum this would be £25 each. i'm hoping for the
Co-op to be there and i'll sort out Oxfam, possibly
Traidcraft, local farm producers organic or farmers
market approved traders. Alison said that for such a
sum the co-op might approve the whole sum of £100 for
the hire of the space.

i now need to set up a meeting with the centre manager
as soon as possible. In any case i'm phoning him this
afternoon to say we are going ahead so he can sort out
early publicity.

I may try to meet with him provisionally and get a
floor plan and sketch some details of stall sizes,
layout and general ideas.

I know you don't officially take up your post until
the 3rd February but can you let me know if you are
available for a meeting before then? Perhaps sometime
towards the end of next week?

The easiest way to notify all the parties in advance
is to post to our yahoo group DacFT@...
that way everyone gets the email at the same time and
we can then post a meeting on the yahoo calender
online.

Looking forward to hearing from you

Francois Henderson
Dacorum Fair Trade Action Group



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