The Fairtrade Civic Reception at Wolverhampton Civic Centre.

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00:00Hiya, I'm Julie Farrell and I'm chair of Wolverhampton City Fair Trade Partnership

00:04and we're here at the City Suite, the Mayor's Parlour, celebrating 21 years of Wolverhampton

00:10being a fair trade city. It's absolutely wonderful, we've had a massive turnout of support, there's a

00:16lot of love in the room, the young people have been amazing, we've had almost an SWB academy

00:21playing music, we've had young people stand up and do poetry from the schools, an impassioned

00:29talk from a young lady called Mia Bedi who spoke about child poverty and we're just incredibly

00:36lucky to have such support and proudly claim that Wolverhampton is a fair trade city. I'm delighted.