Fairtrade Fortnight at Green Templeton
Green Templeton is supporting Fairtrade Fortnight, which takes place this year from Monday 22 February to Sunday 7 March 2021.
The college ensures that only Fairtrade coffee and tea products are served for our conference and dinner refreshments, and in the on-site coffee machines, all available teas are Fairtrade and all coffees are Rainforest Alliance. We also provide Fairtrade sugar and bananas.
Anyone using the Drop Off Dining Service during Fairtrade Fortnight can purchase a bar of Divine Fairtrade Milk or Dark Chocolate (35g) for just £0.50.
To mark Fairtrade Fortnight, our Head Chef Chris Lyford’s mum Sheila has shared her special recipe for Fairtrade banana bread, which can be viewed on the recipes from the Green Templeton kitchen webpage, along with other delicious treats.
This year’s Fairtrade Fortnight will focus on how climate change is impacting farmers and workers around the world. An online ‘Climate, Fairtrade and You’ festival will run during Fairtrade Fortnight, highlighting the challenge of climate change and poverty that is affecting the future of food and those who produce it, and looking at how the COVID-19 pandemic has further impacted their lives.
Events open to everyone during Fairtrade Fortnight include a discussion with Fairtrade farmers on the front line of the climate crisis, a webinar on growing climate-friendly plants at home and on sustainable cooking, and a live quiz night featuring a special guest appearance from Fairtrade Foundation Patron Nick Hewer.
Green Templeton is committed to working sustainably and embedding sustainable thinking through education. We recently won a gold award in the sector wide Green Impact Awards, which recognises changing behaviours and making physical steps towards improving sustainable practices. Find out more about sustainability at Green Templeton.
The college is delighted to welcome a new Oxford PharmaGenesis DPhil Scholarship in Translational Health.
The scholarship has been established through an endowment gift of £1,660,000 from Oxford PharmaGenesis, now part of the Klick family, creating a permanent fund to support doctoral students undertaking outstanding postgraduate research in the field of translational health at Nuffield Department of Primary Care @oxford_uni
Yesterday our alumni celebrated the 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong alongside @st_annescollege alumni at the two societies’ first co-organised event.
The group gathered at a Michelin-starred restaurant to mark the joyful occasion, make new connections and enjoy exquisite traditional food together.
It is wonderful to see the two college alumni societies bringing the wider Oxford community together for what Nathaniel Chan (MBA, 2016), co-chair of the Green Templeton College Hong Kong Alumni Society, described as ‘a memorable occasion’.
Plans are already taking shape for a hike and karaoke event in November, following an ‘impressive impromptu a cappella performance by one alumnus’ at the lunch.
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Here’s some advice from our freshest crop of graduates to our incoming new students 🧑🎓👩🎓👨🎓
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🌌 Last weekend, Green Templeton welcomed Nobel Prize-winning astronomer Professor Brian Schmidt for the latest event in our Astronomy for All series.
Professor Schmidt took a packed audience on a journey through more than 13 billion years of cosmic history, from the Big Bang to the distant future of the Universe. He explored what we know about the cosmos, how we know it and some of the biggest mysteries that remain.
The lecture was chaired by Governing Body Fellow Rob Fender, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, and continued our celebration of Green Templeton’s connections with Oxford Astrophysics.
Our Oceania Alumni Group is on a roll after successful events in Sydney, Brisbane and last night in Perth.
We`re very thankful to the group`s committee for their energy, commitment and hard work in bringing the community together. It’s wonderful to see connections being strengthened, engagement growing, and the alumni community going from strength to strength.
Exciting times ahead!
If you would like to join a local alumni group, let us know!
