E E R SCOTLAND F FAIR TRADE
GUTHIE DULTIEMAT E2 G0UID1 E T2O FAIR TRADE IN SCOTLAND
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sponsored by WELCOME FIONA HYSLOP to the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs Scotland Scotland recognises its place in the world as an innovative, influential and caring nation. Fair Trade We are renowned for our work with developing countries and for helping others to build themselves a better future. Our support for Fair Trade is a prime example of this. Guide 2012 This promises to be the most exciting year yet for Fair Trade, as 2012 is when Scotland aims to become a Fair Trade Nation. It is encouraging that, throughout Scotland, towns, schools, churches, universities, businesses and all local authorities are actively involved in the Fair Trade Nation campaign. The Scottish Government remains committed to building on this existing momentum and promoting the Fair Trade agenda in Scotland. In becoming a Fair Trade Nation, this will Look for this Mark contribute to poverty reduction by paying people a fair price for their goods, improving fairtrade.org.uk the lives of countless producers in the developing world and setting an example for other nations to follow. PAGE 3 Welcome Page PAGES 4 & 5 MARTIN RHODES Fair Trade in Scotland Director of the Scottish Fair Trade Forum PAGES 6 & 7 Fairtrade Products PAGE 9 The Scottish Fair Trade Forum is pleased to be supporting the Scotland Fair Trade Guide. Q&A with Brad Hill The Guide gives an indication of just some of the activities happening all over Scotland PAGES 10 & 11 in support of Fair Trade. Throughout Scotland, campaigners; businesses; schools, colleges Producer Stories and universities; public agencies and local authorities; voluntary sector organisations, PAGES 12 community and faith groups, are showing their solidarity with farmers and producers A World of Co-operatives around the world by supporting Fair Trade. PAGES 13 The Fair Trade movement in Scotland started because of the commitment of the Fair Trade and Me pioneering work of individuals and communities and when Scotland achieves Fair Trade PAGES 14 - 21 Nation status it will be the shared achievement of those pioneers and those who today Local Authority Pages continue that work. “Scotland is going Fair Trade. Are you?” Hopefully, this Guide will PAGE 23 inspire more to get involved and help take Scotland on the next stage of its continuing Youth in Fairtrade commitment to Fair Trade. PAGE 25 Faith in Fair Trade PAGE 26 JOSEPH CHERUIYOT Fairtrade or Fair Trade Fintea Growers co-operative, Kericho, Kenya PAGE 29 Places to buy Fair Trade Joseph Cheruiyot is the 67 year old chair of the newly created Fintea Growers PAGE 30 co-operative in the Kericho area of Kenya. As a tea farmer, Joseph has been the driving Recipes force behind the new Fintea co-operative. Fintea is the ultimate demonstration of co-operation in action, for its existence is the result of investment by The Co-operative Group in the UK. Having already switched all of its own brand tea to Fairtrade in 2008, The Co-operative sought to improve the livelihoods of small holder tea farmers who often depend solely on the income from the volatile tea market. Joseph was hosted by The Co-operative for a nationwide tour during Fairtrade Fortnight 2012. "Fairtrade means we all win. As buyers of our tea, Co-op customers can be assured of quality, and the additional monies support our co-op and are invested in com munities.” Produced by Hand Up Media , the ethical publishing, media For more information visit: www.scottishfairtradeforum.org.uk and events company “ www.handupmedia.co.uk 3 ”
FAIR TRADE IN SCOTLAND From small beginnings to a movement sweeping the nation
The origins of Fair CCS had a strong campaign 1989 also saw the launch Behind Lorna’s efforts were Trade in Scotland – and advocacy message, of the International Fair an army of campaigners and indeed the UK - producing educational Trade movement IFAT (marshalled by Christian What YO go as far back as the materials and selling by (now the World Fair Trade Aid and other organisations) U can do to 1960s, when Oxfam direct mail. In late 1984 Organisation – WFTO) who wouldn’t take no for become a Fairtrade Town! shops first began the group got a foot in at a conference in the an answer. Efforts were selling handicrafts the door of commercial Netherlands. Delegates redoubled with the first GOAL 1 ade produce as I can, Local council pa and Christmas cards distribution through heard at first hand about Fairtrade Fortnight in “I do my best to buy and try as much Fairtr sses a resolution supporting rs! It’s great to see Fairtrade, and agree made in developing GreenCity Wholefoods the success of the new 1997, and soon the Co-op especially the pastas and the chocolate ba s to serve Fairtrade products (for otton, and now even example, in meetings a countries. co-operative in Glasgow, Dutch ‘Max Havelaar’ was pledging to stock how Fairtrade has evolved from coffee to c nd in its offices and canteens). and the two organisations Fair Trade mark. Fairtrade products in every s will have Fairtrade gold. I hope one day the Olympic The 1970s saw the jointly organised the first store – a lead which other G establishment of first UK delegates came Fairtrade gold medals. OAL 2 Fair Trade conference in supermarkets began At least four Fair Tearcraft and then back inspired to attempt de is a great source of information and trade product ranges are readily Scotland in May 1986. to follow. The Scotland Fair Trade Gui availab something similar here. cotland of becoming a le in the area’s retail outlets (shops, Traidcraft as specialist inspiration and in this very special year of S ople of supermarkets, newsagents, petrol st craft importers in the UK. The time was right as by This led not only to the As the 21st century n testament to the work achieved by the pe ations) and Fair Trade Natio two products served in loc Distribution was via mail then the first specialist eventual launch of the dawned, it was clear that ading it and continue to make a real al catering outlets Scotland. I hope you enjoy re (cafés, restauran order and a network of Fair Trade shops had also FAIRTRADE Mark in 1994, Fair Trade in Scotland and ent.” ts, pubs). effort to support such a remarkable movem mainly church-based been established, including but just as significantly to the rest of the UK was really representatives, many the One World Shop in the launch of Cafédirect in starting to go places. But Sir Steve Redgrave GOAL 3 Local wor of them in Scotland. Edinburgh and the Coach 1991 as a flagship brand even then it would never kplaces and community organisations House in Balmore. for the whole movement. have entered our minds (places of worship, schools, unive At the same time rsities, colleges and that in little more than a to other community organisations) s campaigners in Oxford In 1987 the collaboration Equal Exchange was one of “I support the campaign upport Fairtrade and decade Scotland would be use Fairtrade products wheneve began importing Tanica between CCS and four partners in Cafédirect – otland a Fair Trade r possible. Populations on the brink of declaring make Sc over 100,000 will also GreenCity led to the the others being Oxfam, need a flagship employer. instant coffee powder itself a Fair Trade Nation. Nation. Fair Trade makes a from Tanzania, the first launching of the Equal Traidcraft, and Twin ce in the fight fairly traded food product. Exchange brand of food Trading – and it was the differen GOAL 4 Media cover Campaign Coffee Scotland products, distributed by co-operative’s dynamic against global poverty.” age and events raise awareness and understanding of Fairtrad was established in 1979 co-operative wholesalers sales manager Lorna Sir Alex Ferguson e across the community. by a group of returned VSO throughout the UK. Sales Young (who sadly died in volunteers and by 1981 grew so rapidly that Equal 1996) who won the first GOAL 5 A local Fa was importing and packing Exchange was launched as supermarket listings for the information or to get involved irtrade steering group is convened to For more ensure the Fairtra this coffee on its own a co-operative business in brand in the Co-op and www.scottishfairtradeforum.org.uk de Town campaign continues account. its own right in 1989. Safeway’s Scottish stores visit to develop and gain new support. in 1992.
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WITH OVER 4,500 FAIRTRADE MARK PRODUCTS, WE HAVE Price around £10.50 SELECTED A TASTY SAMPLE FOR YOU TO CHECK OUT!! Available from Real Foods, Oxfam shops, Hadeel, Planet Organic, Wholefoods, (also in The Co-operative & Sainsbury’s stores under Equal Exchange Look for the FAIRTRADE Mark when you’re shopping. Over 4,500 products Look for this Mark label) and other independent retailers. from coffee to cotton, from flowers to footballs are Fairtrade certified fairtrade.org.uk and available in many major supermarkets and independent shops. Football’s Magic If you are unable to find a specific product, please speak to the Buying Fairtrade Footballs helps to ensure that the children of Sialkot in Pakistan manager and ask for it to be stocked. Here are just a few tasty spend their time where they should be - in a school and not a factory. Fairtrade products in our store cupboard available across Scotland. Start around £12 Available from Rainbow Turtle, Paisley and online at Cuppa Good www.thefaircorp.com/category/footballs. Equal Exchange Original, Buchu, Masala and Wild Rooibos teabags are available in small and family sized packs – cuppa anyone? Cheer up Choc Cafédirect’s delicious and luxurious instant hot chocolate drink has Prices range from £1.79 - £4.59 been made with premium fine grade cocoa beans from São Tomé. Available from Real Foods and most independent wholefood retailers and It’s undeniably intense and wonderfully aromatic. Fair Trade outlets across Scotland. Find your nearest stockist online at Price around £2.69 www.equalexchange.co.uk Available in selected Oxfam and independent stores, Snack Attack Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Waitrose and Sainsbury's. Tropical Wholefoods delicious bars are all Organic and Fairtrade: the perfect light snack. Easy Beans Easy Bean’s Spanish Puchero pot of Fairtrade white beans, Price 79p for a 40g bar Riojan chorizo, sweet red pepper and rich smoky pimentón Available from health food shops and from www.tropicalwholefoods.com is the perfect choice for lunch or a delicious dinner. £2.69 www.easybean.co.uk Divinely Good Price around £2.99 Divine’s smooth dark chocolate is bursting with pieces of zesty Available from selected Waitrose and independent shops. orange and spicy notes of ginger. For more information about the wide range of Price £2.00 for 100g bar CO-OPERATIVE SUPPLIED PRODUCTS Fairtrade products available at The Co-operative Available from Real Foods, One World Shop, Highland Wholefoods, stores visit www.co-operative.co.uk Rainbow Turtle, Balmore Coach House, selected Sainsbury’s stores IN CO-OPERATIVE & SCOTMID SHOPS! and online at www.divinechocolate.com/shop Bananas Tea Chocolate The Co-operative introduced the As well as being 100% Fairtrade, The Co-operative chocolate bar Natural Beauty UK to Fairtrade bananas back in The Co-operative tea goes further range is the only 100% Fairtrade Bubble & Balm’s natural products are enriched with glycerin to soothe 2000. Today all the bananas The to support farmers. 10% of the own brand range. Cocoa beans and moisturise also contain Fairtrade sugar from Malawi. Co-operative sells are not just 99 Tea blend is supplied by the are sourced from three Price around £4.99 Fairtrade but sourced from fellow 11,000 farmers of the Fintea co-operatives including the Available from independent retail across Scotland including Created co-operatives. In a unique sourcing co-op in Kericho Kenya that CONACADO co-op Gifts and at selected Waitrose stores, Wholefoods and online at plan, half of the fruits are grown by The Co-operative funded. in Dominican Republic www.bubbleandbalm.co.uk small holder farmers in countries where The Co-operative such as the Windward Isles and funds additional projects Nutty Spread Dominican Republic, so benefits such as a recent Harry’s Nuts Crunchy Peanut Butter is simply scrummy! £1.99 are reaching the most marginalised various new school building. Harry Hill doesn’t make a penny from this. in the supply chain. packs Price from £1 Price Price around £1.99 from 79p from Available from 200 Sainsbury’s stores and Oxfam shops. per kg www.chooseliberation.com 48p Fintea co-op in Kenya 6 Photo: Mercy Maritim from 7 Qwith B&rad AHill Brad Hill, Fairtrade Strategy Development Manager at The Co-operative Group talks about the relationship between Brad Hil co-operatives and Fairtrade. l meeting the community o f Puente Blanco, Panama.
Can you tell us the How does The Co-operative What are the benefits of working background of co-operatives? support Fairtrade producers as part of a co-operative? The modern co-operative movement across the globe? Co-operatives are underpinned by a dates back to 1844 when a group of Like co-operation, Fairtrade stands strong set of co-operative values and working-class people from the town of for democracy, equality and social principles meaning they are more Rochdale came together to change the responsibility. It is that resonance of focused on issues like supporting local unfair society they were living in. They values that led The Co-operative to communities, tackling global poverty were fed up with the dishonest and embrace Fairtrade on its launch in the and protecting the environment. But corrupt shopkeepers who sold poor UK in 1994. Since then we have what makes them really different is that quality products at high prices and followed a strategy aimed at taking they are democratically owned and decided to take matters into their own what was a niche sector and creating controlled by their members rather than hands. By pooling the few resources a viable mainstream commercial shareholders, so they care about more they had the group managed to get marketplace. A dedicated product than just maximising profits for enough money together to open their strategy saw us launch the UK’s investors. Whether customers or own shop and pledged to only sell first Fairtrade bananas back in 2000 employees, every single member has quality, unadulterated products, sharing and many world firsts and own brand an equal say in how the business is the profits fairly with their customers. whole category conversions such as run and how its profits are spent. The shop was only small and stocked tea, coffee, cotton wool, sugar and Taking Fairtrade as an example, a just a handful of products like butter, chocolate bars. With support from our co-operative structure would give flour and sugar, but the idea was active campaigning members, we have farmers in the developing world more revolutionary and spread widely. From achieved the objective of bringing control over their livelihoods as they these somewhat humble beginnings Fairtrade into the mainstream. The UK own the organisation they work for and it is estimated that there are now leads the world and The Co-operative play a role in its governance. The 1.4 million individual co-operative leads the UK and so our impact on co-operative also ensures the farmers enterprises globally securing the hundreds of thousands of producers receive a higher premium for their livelihoods of over three billion has been direct and indirect as we have goods and can choose what this money people – that’s almost half the convinced the industry to follow is used for. They may want to spend it world’s population! our lead. on a community project like building a new school or they may reinvest the amount back into their co-operative. “It is estimated that there are Either way, as owners of the co-operative , the decision lies in their hands. It’s a now 1.4 million individual fairer and more ethical way of doing co-operative enterprises globally business, and that’s why three quarters of all Fairtrade producers are already securing the livelihoods of members of co-operatives with more over three billion people ” groups coming together every day. 9 our women PRODUCER are paid a fair wage STORIES Look for this Mark fairtrade.org.uk
JOSEPH NORMA ELENA HOWARD HANAN CHERUIYOT GADEA PAIVAS MSUKWA ALSANEH Tea Grower Soppexcca Cooperative Rice Farmer Lakiya Project Kenya Nicaragua Malawi Palestine
Joseph Cheruiyot, chair of Visiting the UK was inspiring. Norma Elena, is an organic Fairtrade market as it’s Rice farmer Howard Msukwa Together with NASFAM, we Hanan Alsaneh, 33, is an The rugs are labour- the newly created Fintea I was impressed with how coffee farmer who comes given me this opportunity to speaks about the benefits are helping youngsters with activist on women’s rights intensive, making them Growers co-operative in the Fairtrade Towns have from the rural community value myself. I love being a of Fair Trade and the support their education. If the market among Bedouin communities expensive; however, women Kericho area of Kenya is developed. Scotland's plan of Los Alpes in northern coffee farmer. All my coffee received as members of expands, we can do more. of Israel’s Negev and are paid a fair wage, and a married with grown up is to become a Fair Trade Nicaragua and has been a goes to the Fairtrade and The National Smallholder With premiums, we can use Director of the education new generation of educated children. Joseph was in Nation is a great example of member of SOPPEXCCA for organic market. With the Farmers' Association of them for development in our and community-building Bedouin women is emerging. banking before his retirement the leadership that Fairtrade eight years. SOPPEXCCA is profits I can buy another half Malawi (NASFAM). community, such as helping programme of Al Sidreh. Visiting Scotland has been in 2000. needs. a Union of Co-operatives acre and I have received a our local hospital, with "I’m from Karonga, the Hanan is involved in the positive for us. People can whose coffee is sold through loan to buy another acre.” transport like ambulances. As a tea farmer, Joseph I thank everyone I met northern part of Malawi. I carpet-making project appreciate our project as the Fairtrade market in has been the driving force during my visit and also Visiting Scotland, Norma grow rice which is imported My message to the people Lakiya, which incorporates it's becoming better known. Europe and North America. behind the new Fintea The Co-operative for the says, "I am happy Scotland into Scotland by Just Trading of Scotland is that it’s not traditional design methods Scotland becoming a Fair co-operative. Fintea is the opportunity to promote “I am an active member is to become a Fair Trade Scotland. I have a wife, 5 easy to become a Fair Trade and production and enables Trade Nation is a great step." ultimate demonstration of Fairtrade and Fintea. and involved in organising Nation. We hope to diversify children and we live together Nation. It requires passion women to gain skills and For more information co-operation in action, for and leading this umbrella what we sell and offer with my father. All my from the citizens, thinking employment. The scheme My final message is - buying visit www.hadeel.org Scotland more products. its existence is the result Co-op 99 Fairtrade tea may co-operative (a large children attend school about a world far from them, is partnered with Edinburgh- Fairtrade has been of investment by The not seem significant to you, co-operative with 15 or nursery. the poverty and people based Fair Trade Palestinian Co-operative Group in the associate cooperatives). important for us in they don't know. We are shop, Hadeel. but it makes life changing I head up about 4,000 UK. Fintea has brought My husband and I started Nicaragua" . poor! it’s not a joke! One differences to us farmers. farmers, scattered over Carol Morton, manager and together 11,000 farmers in with one acre of land, assurance I can give you is Please don’t think you For more information visit a 45km area. We have buyer at Hadeel, says: “The a co-operative allowing harvested our first lot of that our rice is terrific and can’t make a difference. www.equalexchange.co.uk 1-2 acres each. We use benefits to Bedouin women them access to the UK coffee, then bought another people like it. Everyone can.” traditional tools, a hoe involved in rug-making are Fairtrade market through area of coffee with the which we use for digging. I've enjoyed my trip to phenomenal – benefiting the The Co-operative 99 Tea. For more information visit profits. www.co-operative.coop We don't have machinery Scotland and the many entire Bedouin community The Co-operative recently When I started there were like combine harvesters statues that depict your as they seek to maintain their hosted Joseph for a UK tour five women and now there in Scotland history, which I think is great! traditional lifestyle during Fairtrade Fortnight, are 283 women farmers. We Please, people of Scotland, and remain on the land The impact Fair Trade has during which he addressed have a women’s only brand keep on supporting us." where they have lived on our lives is something we the benefits of Fairtrade. for a coffee buyer, called for generations.” are thankful for. Before we For more information "Las Hermanas". We get a “Fairtrade means we all win. started participating in Fair visit www.justtrading About 100 women are good price plus a premium, As buyers of our tea, Co-op Trade activities in Scotland, scotland.co.uk employed by the Lakiya which is a real motivator. customers are assured of prices of rice were low, project, the largest quality, and the additional At harvest time, I wake at but after dealing with Just employer in the monies support our 4am and go to bed at 9pm. Trading Scotland we saw big Bedouin community. co-op, and are then invested I prepare food, pick, select improvements. We now get The women use their in communities. and dry the coffee and look Fairtrade premiums from the sales traditional skills of after my 5 children. I am has been of rice in Scotland. weaving tents and grateful for SOPPEXCCA important rugs, while and the for us in professional “FAIRTRADE Nicaragua “our rice is designers update MEANS WE ALL WIN” terrific and the products. people like it” 10 11 e United According to th e es M tiv o-opera & Nations, c Trade ods of air A World of liveliho F cure the se PLE EE BILLION PEO Co-operatives THR What drives me to support Fair Trade? Against the backdrop of a world left poorer by the effects of the credit crisis, the co-operative business model is viewed as increasingly relevant because it operates in a fundamentally different way to those businesses motivated purely by profit. Co-operatives are run democratically and exist to serve their members, not shareholders.
For me it all started 35 years The big challenge came It is the direct connection It all started with a poster The United Nations has dedicated The array of enterprises is staggering, Two thirds of Fairtrade producers ago. We didn’t call it Fair after a visit to Maputo, with producers and farmers showing a wizened old lady. a year to raising awareness of but they are all underpinned by the organise themselves as co-operatives Trade, it just seemed a fair Mozambique in 1989 – that continually motivates The slogan read “Poverty is co-operatives, recognising how they same co-operative values that unite and the democratic roots of Fairtrade thing to do. We wanted to three years before the end of me to work in Fair Trade. being old at forty, dead at contribute towards the achievement of them as a movement. The biggest are reason enough for the UK give people a hand-up, not a the 15 year civil war. Having Hearing how Fair Trade forty-five”. It struck a chord the Millennium Development Goals, giants run global operations valued in consumer co-ops such as The hand-out. We wanted to give been welcomed and given impacts so positively on their with me, so when I saw generating employment and helping billions in the world’s most competitive Co-operative Group to embrace, people the dignity of being hospitality by people all families and communities an advertisement for an tackle extreme poverty. The UN Year economies. Take the many successful partner and support their development. able to provide for their own living with the brutal effects whether through the building education worker at shines a spotlight on co-ops across the co-operatively run businesses in the As we embrace together the UN families. of the conflict I was sent of a new school, well or road Aberdeen’s Third World globe and celebrates member-owned consumer, financial and agricultural International Year of Co-operatives, I saw it as the outworking of away with the words ‘you inspires me in my work at Centre shortly afterwards, I enterprises. sectors across Europe, North America Fairtrade in the wider international my Christian faith. My must now go and be an the One World Shop. Since applied. I’ve been there ever and Asia, for example. Whilst many of There is much to celebrate. Nearly 200 consumer marketplace continues to husband and I started to sell ambassador for our country’. the One World Shop started since, spreading the word these are household names in their years of sustained and continuous grow. The UK continues to lead the way some crafts, mainly hanging These words continue to in 1983, we have always put about Fair Trade and trying countries or produce familiar brands growth and more than 300 different and The Co-operative continues to baskets and jute angels. We motivate me to try to effect the producers first, aiming to to make a difference to like Kerrygold butter or Ocean Spray sell as much as possible to the lives of the poorest kinds of organisations, serving nearly push the boundaries. Uniquely spoke about it to anyone change for communities all juice, in many cases you wouldn’t make a small but significant producers in the most every economic purpose. Vital positioned to do so, The Co-operative who would listen! over the world – and what recognise their co-operative nature on difference in the massive obvious way open to me as resources in hundreds of thousands of has begun to drive Fairtrade from a In 1994 I visited Bangladesh better way to do that than first glance. inequalities that exist. a consumer, which just communities, fostering economic distinctively co-operative perspective and I saw for myself the through Fair Trade? Rainbow importance of employment Turtle (Fair Trade shop in Knowing that we are part seems like basic justice. All growth, the training of untold numbers A significant proportion of the 1.4 adding support beyond Fairtrade our producer visitors tell us of people and the bringing together million individual co-operatives globally benefits to thousands of fellow - the whole family benefited Paisley) trades because of of a dynamic worldwide all the people who have movement adds to the that Fair Trade really does of individuals in mutual help and are found in the world’s poorest co-operators through funding and with education, health care, caught the vision of a world feeling of connection and change lives and when inclusiveness. According to the United countries, made up of smallholder lending schemes that will further better housing, improved where people are free from now Scotland is close to Scotland finally becomes a Nations, co-operatives secure the farmers grouping together to form strengthen their position in the global sanitation and occasionally legal advice. It confirmed for poverty and can flourish. becoming a Fair Trade Fair Trade Nation, just think livelihoods of three billion people. democratic organisations that bring supply chain and deliver much Meeting producers whose Nation is nothing less than how many more people all benefits to their community and me the value of "Created" The diversity and robustness of the needed social benefits to producer livelihoods depend on our inspirational. over the world will benefit improve living standards. These kinds and fair trade. co-operative business model is based communities. sales confirms that what we from our enterprise. of co-operatives are helping millions of Now the catalogue and on a set of seven principles. These are online shop www.created do collectively in Scotland is RACHEL FAREY people across Africa, Latin America and SUE GOOD what made co-operatives so resilient gifts.org reflect the skills of really making a difference. Business Manager Asia to work their way out of poverty. Third World Centre during the global financial crisis; while craftspeople around the One World Shop and Aberdeen City corporations fight for market share, world in several different LIZ COTTON www.oneworldshop.co.uk Fairtrade campaign co-operatives continue to grow steadily, countries, benefiting many Director Rainbow Turtle raising the overall welfare of people producer groups. Buy www.rainbowturtle.co.uk around the world. an item and the skilled craftsperson benefits. “We wanted to give people the FIONA CHIRNSIDE CreatedGifts dignity of being able to provide For more information visit: www.2012.coop www.createdgifts.org for their own families.”
12 13 3. ANGUS 5.CLACKMANNANSHIRE 7. DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY WORKING Angus Council agreed to support Fairtrade in 2003, Clackmannanshire is working to obtain Fairtrade Zone Our region has a Fairtrade village, Dunscore, and four encouraging the support for Fairtrade principles through the status in 2012. The county is home to a Fairtrade School Fairtrade Towns: Wigtown, Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbright and wider community and local businesses. Montrose became and Scotland's first Fairtrade College and to a host of Dumfries. Dumfries, our regional capital, is the most recent, TOGETHER the first Fairtrade Town in 2008 and Montrose Academy the organisations and individuals working to promote and declaring at the start of Fairtrade Fortnight 2012. In addition first Fairtrade secondary school in the Angus area. Places of support Fair Trade. Clackmannanshire's Fairtrade steering a Fairtrade Town group is being formed in Annan. There are TO MAKE SCOTLAND worship also play an important part and in some towns this group was formed in May 2011 and has hosted an African many shops and cafés across the region selling Fairtrade A FAIR TRADE NATION! is where the co-ordinated effort arises. cooking demonstration, an art competition, and a Fairtrade products as well as food producers using Fairtrade A range of exciting events have taken place and olive oil tasting, as well as talks to schools and ingredients in their goods. The Church of Scotland communities in Angus have been able to hear first hand from workplaces. The campaign's profile has been raised by a Presbytery in Annandale and Eskdale has a Fairtrade group. Towns, cities, islands and villages across monthly Fairtrade column in a local newspaper, and by the Over the years we have been pleased to host visits from Scotland have pulled together to support Fair producers from countries such as Palestine and Malawi of the positive effects which buying Fair Trade in Scotland can Council's adoption of a resolution in January 2012, formally many Fairtrade producers. Trade. All 32 Local Authority areas have come committing its support for Fair Trade and for the steering make to communities around the world. Angus now strives Contact: www.dumfriesfairtrade.org.uk Other groups together to share with you their commitment to group. The Co-operative's Central Area Committee has to encourage private enterprise to follow the lead that have sections on www.dunscore.org.uk www.kirk Fair Trade and how they are supporting Scotland community groups and the education sector have provided supported the campaign since its inception. to become a Fair Trade Nation later in 2012. cudbright.com www.wigtown-booktown.co.uk and aiding us in achieving “Fairtrade Zone Status”. Contact: John Lamond [email protected]