Chester Cathedral Public Workshop. There is a huge humanitarian crisis affecting many countries across the world today, none more so than Syria. Come and learn about the work going on locally to support refugees both in Chester and internationally with speakers from Jacob’s Ladder (the cathedral awareness-raising group), P3 (providing housing support), CHAWREC (providing language […]
Livison Chipatiso is the Programme Officer from the CAFOD office in Harare. He will be speaking about CAFOD projects tackling hunger and malnutrition in Zimbabwe and will be sharing his personal stories of the need faced by families and the impact the projects are having on the whole community. Tea and coffee will be available […]
Stop Arming Saudi Silent Vigil Chester CND are holding a silent vigil on the Saturday 24th February, 12.30 until 1.30 pm at The Cross, Chester to highlight the plight of the people of Yemen and UK arms sales to Saudi. Black dress is invited and you are welcome to join in for as long as you can manage. More info from chestercnd@gmail.com
The 2018 theme and resources for this annual celebration of the ideals and practical benefits of "Fairtrade" will be announced soon. See www.fairtrade.org Watch out for local events facilitated by the Fairtrade Steering Group
This film showing is part of the 32nd Chester International Film festival Three Palestinian women live in an apartment in Tel Aviv. Very much differing in their outlooks, they all suffer from belonging neither to traditional Arab society nor to secularised western society: they are "in between".
This film showing is part of the 32nd Chester International Film festival. In a remote Zambian village, an 8 year-old girl is accused of being a witch following an accident. She is found guilty and sent to a’ witch camp’. Writer-director Rungano Nyoni, born in Zambia and part-raised in Wales, was inspired by real-life reports […]
Plans are underway for the Fairtrade Steering Group to host a visit by Marcial Quinteros, a banana producer from Panama. The day will include a talk/presentation at Wesley Church Centre, to be followed by a visit to the Fairtrade shop at Wesley and to And Albert, and in the afternoon a school visit and visit […]
Cheshire West and Chester Fairtrade Steering Group are organising this Fairtrade Funday at Storyhouse in Chester as part of Fairtrade Fortnight 2018. It will be a family event with art activities, tastings and samples, literature to take away, photo matching activities, plus a storytelling session in the Storyhouse den area . Volunteer helpers will be […]
