NJU product development workshops at Fairtraders’ Cooperative The NJU teams have been working hard on developing their products. They had a fantastic day at the fair traders’ cooperative in Holmfirth when groups from Doncaster Leeds and Huddersfield met up for the day to take part in workshops around developing and marketing fairly traded and ethical [...]
We chose this name because of the programme’s mission to not only be about the ‘individual’ but about whole communities, and to overcome the stereotype of young people not being concerned about the bigger picture of their local and global communities. We have been very busy setting up 2 new Not Just Us youth enterprise groups. [...]
June has been a very busy month for LYFs youth enterprise groups! Sadly, we weren’t able to bring the young Kenyan farmers to the UK, as their visas were denied (twice) by UK immigration. But in spite of the disappointment of the Kenyans not being able to take part, the groups decided to go ahead [...]
Thanks to Leeds DEC, last month the Not Just Us teams in Leeds and Huddersfield were given the fantastic opportunity to spend the weekend in the Lake district learning about social justice issues and ethical trading. Here is a reflection of some of their adventures. On March 18th, 11 budding young ethical entrepreneurs piled into [...]
