Thank you!

Thanks to all of you who attended the first ever Toledo Cacao Festival - from what we hear, you all had a good time! As well as our visitors, the Toledo Cacao Festival would not have been possible without the support of many people, organisations and businesses. So many have unselfishly donated their time, support, money and advice to help organise the first of this annual community development event, and our heartfelt thanks go to you all!

We must especially thank the Governor General, HE Sir Colville Young, for taking time out from a very busy schedule to open the Festival, Paul Mahung, MBE, who acted tirelessly as our MC for the entire weekend, and the Toledo Cacao Growers Association.

We must also make special mention of the following:

Major Festival sponsors

  • Irish Aid for their support and assistance with the entire Festival, but particularly in relation to establishing the CacaoTrail tours - the first step of a longer-term plan to introduce FairTrade tourism to the area, to benefit both farmers and the villagers
  • Love FM for their superb promotion of the Festival, as well as live broadcasting throughout the Festival weekend
  • Belize Tourism Board for their assistance with the Festival Finale
  • Tropic Air, the Festival's official airline, which has supported us in many ways, including the provison of additional flights to Punta Gorda, and for their donation of the Ambergris Caye 'mini-break' raffle prize
  • Smart, the official CacaoFest communications provider which, with the widest cell phone coverage in Belize, helped spread the word by means of their SMS text message campaign, as well as their donation of a Kyocera camera phone raffle prize
  • Green & Black's for their contributions to so many areas of the Festival, including office space and equipment, expertise and, of course, their superb chocolate!
  • Benny's, who provided the lion's share of the paint required for the completion of our Central Park project

Chocolate and wine sponsors

Raffle sponsors

Other event sponsors

  • Toledo Environmental Educators Group (Cacao for Kids) 
  • TIDE Tours (Sea Toledo)
  • TASTEE Tours (Sea Toledo)
  • Garbutts Marine (Sea Toledo)

And special thanks to Tony Rath and the team at Naturalight Productions for the provision of numerous photos for this website!


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