Fair Square Meal Rules

Make a food dish or full meal, that best demonstrates how fair trade food can be at the centre of our everyday cooking and eating. The adults prize is a hamper of Fair Trade food, and the children’s (under 16s) prize is a selection of fine chocolates..

Bring your entries between 12 - 3 pm
Judging takes place 3 – 4 pm
Prizes awarded at 4:30 pm

A wide range of fairly traded foods and other products is now available in Oxfordshire. This contest aims to challenge and inspire us, to show how creatively we can go beyond just drinks and snacks, to use fair trade ingredients as a mainstream part of our daily lives.

Entries will be judged on:
1.Creative, extensive use of fair trade ingredients (50% of score)
2.Delicious-ness, Nutritious-ness, and visual attractiveness (30% of score)
3.Good use of local, sustainably grown ingredients (20% of score)
We do not have any facilities to keep food hot for the competition, so judges will use their imaginations and take account of how the food would look and taste when freshly hot. Judges may (or may not) choose to taste the dishes, at their discretion. Judges decisions will be final. Entrants are free to take back their food and accompanying dishes etc any time after 16:45.

The judges will comprise:
Maranda St John Nicolle – Director of Christian Concern for One World, and expert in fair trade
Martin Rasgauski – Highly experienced chef and catering manager
Martin Jarrett – Chipping Norton’s Town Mayor

Please supply the following on a sheet of paper with your entry:
1.*Entry number – given at time of entry
2.*Entrant’s public identity
(can be anything you like so long as not offensive; alias, nickname, team name, etc)
3.*Real name and contact details (kept confidential; it’s so we can contact you if we need to)
4.*Name of entry (what is your meal/dish called?)
5.Description of entry and how it meets aims, and why you think it should win..
6.Ingredients, identifying fairtrade, local and other items
7.Any other relevant information
(how you made it, how it helps people use more fair trade items, etc)
Items marked with a * are essential; the others are optional. The better the information you supply with your entry, the better it will be judged! Only written information will be taken into account..

For more help and inspiration visit:
Local and national information
Chippy’s own Fair Trade info resource
Fair Trade in Oxfordshire
National/International Fair Trade info
Local and national supplies
Oxfordshire directory
National directory Recipes
Fairtrade Foundation
Fairtrade CookbookTraidcraftYouth/Tearfund
Divine Chocolate!