After celebrating ten years of the Foundation in 2019, we thought we would revisit some of the first projects we supported, to see how they were doing. Fotobi School applied to the Foundation in 2009. At the time, students at the Junior High School were forced to study in unsafe, […]
Category: General News
DFID Minister, Baroness Sugg, visits Blue Skies in Corby
Blue Skies calls on support for more businesses to make value-added products in Africa, during visit by UK Minister for International Development to factory in Corby. Baroness Elizabeth Sugg, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, today visited the Blue Skies fresh-cut fruit facility in Corby. Blue Skies is […]
Download our December edition of Pelican News
The latest edition of the Blue Skies Newsletter ‘Pelican News’ is out now. Pelican News is a monthly newsletter written by our staff about what’s happening at Blue Skies. In this month’s newsletter: -Our School Farm Competition awards its 2019 winners -We launch our Blueprint monthly campaigns -Mohamed Shalaby speaks […]
School Farm Awards inspire the next generation
Blue Skies is encouraging the next generation of agricultural entrepreneurs after crowning the winners of its 2019 School Farm of the Year Competition in Ghana. The School Farm Competition of the Year Competition was launched by the Blue Skies Foundation in 2015 as a way of encouraging more young people […]
Download our November edition of Pelican News
The latest edition of the Blue Skies Newsletter ‘Pelican News’ is out now. Pelican News is a monthly newsletter written by our staff about what’s happening at Blue Skies. In this month’s newsletter: -Blue Skies Ghana fights off attempt to cut down protected tree -Annual Conference unveils Future Fit plan […]
Fatou Guere wins our 2019 Chairman’s Award
Congratulations to Fatou Guere from Blue Skies Senegal who has won our 2019 Chairman’s Award, which was announced at our conference on the 18th of November. Fatou Guere joined Blue Skies Senegal in July 2012. She was quickly noticed and the following year she was promoted to the position of […]
Twelve new Foundation Projects Approved for 2020
The Blue Skies Foundation has approved twelve new projects for 2020, including its first project in Brazil. The projects were approved at a Board Meeting in Ghana attended by representatives of Blue Skies, Waitrose and Albert Heijn. Our 2020 projects include: A maternity clinic for a community near to our […]
Conference unveils Future Fit plan
Blue Skies held its annual conference on the 18-20 November at Sedgebrook Hall in the UK. The conference brings together people from each of our sites around the world and offers an opportunity for sharing ideas and collaborating on our plans for the future. This year’s conference adopted the theme […]
Blue Skies Ghana announces voluntary redundancies
Blue Skies Ghana have announced a voluntary redundancy programme for staff at its fresh fruit processing facility near to Nsawam. The announcement comes as the business makes adjustments in response to a struggling market in the UK due to uncertainty over Brexit, and continuing challenges over raw material availability in […]
Download our October Pelican News
The latest edition of the Blue Skies Newsletter ‘Pelican News’ is out now. Pelican News is a monthly newsletter written by our staff about what’s happening at Blue Skies. In this month’s newsletter: Blue Skies publishes its Blueprint 2020 Top Ten FPJ Fruit Supplier of the Year awarded to Blue […]
