Fairtrade Town?

I was passing the Sensible Bookshop this morning when I saw a sign in their window, saying that they were starting a campaign to make Hay a Fairtrade Town.
Being nosy, naturally I went in to find out more.
This is an idea that has been floating around since the Timbuktu twinning party in January. Kirsty Williams, our newly re-elected AM, is in favour, and so is Rhodri Morgan, the leader of the Assembly. In fact, the Assembly would like Wales to become a Fairtrade country!
In Hay, it should be fairly easy to achieve. We already have Shepherds and the Wholefood Shop, and Nepal Bazaar which sells fairly traded clothes (Nancy Palmer-Jones, who runs the shop, goes to Nepal regularly to meet the producers in the villages. The Nepalese flag she flies was given to her by a member of the Nepalese government several years ago). Charlie Hicks, the greengrocer, is campaigning for independent grocers to be able to get more than just Fairtrade bananas - at the moment all the Fairtrade produce is taken by the supermarkets, with none left over for anyone else who wants to sell it.
Derek Addyman is keen on the idea - and he's one of the people in Hay who Makes Things Happen - so I think it's got an excellent chance of success.
No-one can do anything before the Festival, of course - we're all too busy getting ready for the hordes of Festival goers - but things will start moving after that.