Portsmouth Fairtrade Forum |
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Questions
2. What products are available? 4. What does it mean to be a Fairtrade City? 5. What's happening in neighbouring towns?
6. What organisations are campaigning on Trade Justice?
7.
What campaigns are taking place at the moment?
8. Are there resources for students? 10. How could we become a Fairtrade school? 11. I need some Fairtrade recipes 2. What products are available? Top of page 3. Where can I get them? Companies which produce retail goods carrying the
Fairtrade logo The British Association of Fair Trade shops Other suppliers of Fairly traded goods LOCAL FAIR TRADE SHOPS Chandni
Chowk The
Fair Trade Shop Southampton Traidcraft
World Shop For shops in other areas: British
Association for Fair Trade Shops (BAFTS) Earth
Squared Ethical
Junction
Free
Range Kids
Ganesha Go
Fair Gossypium The
Hemp Trading Company One
Village People
tree(Fairly traded clothing) Ralper
Clothing Smilechild Some of the main suppliers: Cafedirect,
Teadirect, Cocodirect Clipper
Teas The
Day Chocolate Company Equal
Exchange Fruit PassionPercol Simply Fair Tropical
Wholefoods You can find more information onwww.fairtrade.org.uk/suppliers_retailers.htm
4. What does it mean to be a Fairtrade City? The Fair Trade City initiative 5.
Neighbouring Fairtrade
Campaigns
6. What organisations are campaigning on Trade Justice? For links to all the organisations campaigning on Fairtrade: One World is a gateway to all the organisations campaigning on trade plus news of trade issues For links to all the organisations in the Trade Justice Movement Oxfam's 'Make Trade Fair Campaign The World Development Movement Methodist Church “World Action: Throw your weight around for Trade Justice” 6. What campaigns are taking place at the moment? The World Development Movement 7. Are there resources for
teachers and students? TO FIND LINKS AND RESOURCES: Global Dimension http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/ Fairtrade in Norfolk includes a range of downloadable resources: http://www.fairtrade-in-norfolk.org.uk/resources.html RISC http://www.risc.org.uk/education/teaching_resources.html GENERAL SITES WITH LOTS OF DIFFERENT TEACHING MATERIALS: OXFAM http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/index.htm Try for instance: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/mappingourworld/index.htm (geographical skills for 8-14 year olds) http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/milkingit/index.htm on trade rules (13-16) For an introduction to some of the issues around Fairtrade: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/food.htm Christian Aid http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/learn/index.htm Try for instance: http://www.globalgang.org.uk/images/chocolate_tcm7-1153.pdf http://www.globalgang.org.uk/goats/launch5.htm CAFOD http://www.cafod.org.uk/ http://www.cafod.org.uk/resources/secondary_schools/fairtrade http://www.cafod.org.uk/resources/primary_schools/aid_debt_and_trade Action Aid http://www.actionaid.org.uk/100006/schools.html The Fairtrade Foundation Save the Children http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/ The Coop has loads of interactive materials and downloadable packs on http://www.co-opfairtrade.co.uk/schools_pack/ The Young Co-operatives is an initiative to help secondary school students and other young people to establish and run their own co-operative businesses selling Fairtrade products http://www.youngcooperatives.org.uk/ Dubble is a chocolate bar aimed at children and their site has lots of ideas. http://www.dubble.co.uk/ You can also enter the Divine chocolate poetry competition (7+) http://www.divinechocolate.com/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=90789&strAreaColor= Traidcraft is an organisation selling fairly traded products. They have useful background information plus resources for teachers: http://www.traidcraft.co.uk/template2.asp?pageID=1793&fromID=1652 Tearfund is a big Christian relief organisation which also imports fairly traded goods. For teaching resources see: BAFTS, the British association of fairtrade Shops has resource sheets including background information on their products. http://www.bafts.org.uk/Index.asp The Methodist Relief and Development Fund has produced good materials: http://www.mrdf.org.uk/pages/youth_and_children's_activitie.php People and Planet is a group working with students, including sixth forms http://peopleandplanet.org/sixthforms/ Jubilee Debt Campaign is still calling for debt cancellation and has lots of useful resources: http://www.jubileedebtcampaign.org.uk/?lid=1310 World Development Movement Has lots of background briefings on aid, trade and debt http://www.wdm.org.uk/resources/briefings/index.htm One World Week 22-29 October A special week each year to think about our links with the rest of the world: Friends of the Earth http://www.foe.co.uk/learning/educators/ The Young Co-operatives is an initiative to help secondary school students and other young people to establish and run their own co-operative businesses selling Fairtrade products http://www.youngcooperatives.org.uk/ OTHER USEFUL SITES: One World is a gateway site to lots of organisations and articles on issues to do with human rights and sustainable development They have a special section for children: http://tiki1.oneworld.net/penguin/ Trocaire (the Irish development site) http://trocairecspe.kerna.ie/menu.htm SCIAF (the Scottish Development Education site) SPEAK is a Network connecting young people to campaign and pray on issues of global justice. The Trade Justice Movement For background information on trade issues and links to their members War on Want campaigns for workers' rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice. Hampshire Development Education Centre http://www.hampshiredec.org.uk/ Activities The Beekeeper game on trade produced by Shared interest World Action ( Methodist organisation supporting action among young people)
9 Becoming A Fairtrade School Could you make your school a Fairtrade school? It’s not difficult and you’ll get lots of support from students. You need to do five things:
1. Approve official Fairtrade policy
2. Set up an institutional steering group
3. Commit to selling Fairtrade in all outlets
4. Commit to using Fairtrade at internal meetings and events
5. Commit to campaigning for increased consumption of Fairtrade
10. Fairtrade recipes
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