Title

Mr

Name

Arton Medd

Address

65 Winchester Avenue

Lancaster

LA1 4HX

Phone

01524 64730

Mobile

Fax

eMail

arton.medd@btinternet.com

Diocesan Webpage

www.blackburn.anglican.org

Diocese of the Free State, South Africa

Diocese of Braunschweig, Germany

 The Group comprises clerical and lay volunteers who are ultimately responsible to the Bishop of Blackburn.

Our Mission Statement reads as follows:

The Group will encourage and help people - particularly members of the Church of England - in the area covered by Blackburn Diocese to foster, directly and/or indirectly, sustainable economic development in the underdeveloped world abroad.  Amongst other things, the Group will seek to ensure that trade to which such development gives rise offers a fair return to producers.

We are nearly half-way through the implementation of a three-year Forward Strategy, which essentially reads as follows:

In ways which seem likely to lead to the best possible outcomes (including collaboration with other interested parties when this promises to bear extra fruit), the Group will:

        continue to run the Bishop’s annual Harvest Appeal [which has for many years raised well over £20,000 annually to support specific World Development projects];   

        continue to foster Fair Trade in Parishes and Church Schools in the Diocese [which has for several years been a Fair Trade diocese] and generally throughout the diocesan area;

        campaign, and encourage parishioners and others in the Diocese to campaign, appropriately on World Development issues - focusing on one campaign at a time.