Fairtrade is about better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world.

Fairtrade Fortnight is the annual promotional campaign of the Fairtrade Foundation, which encourages people to buy products carrying the FAIRTRADE Mark.

Special promotions

To support Fairtrade Fortnight, a range of promotions will take place in Angles Food Mall on the first floor of Fulton House throughout Fairtrade Fortnight. Look out for:

• Fairtrade display table with awareness video and leaflets
• Promotion of organic produce e.g speciality filled rolls & organic soup
• Fairtrade cookies (reduced selling price) for the two week duration
• Fairtrade fruit given free with every salad purchased
• Fairtrade wine for raffle no purchase necessary

And don’t forget to come along on Thursday 6 March for a free tasting session of Fairtrade chocolate and fresh juices.

Spreading the word

Fairtrade sales increase by around 40% every year in the UK, giving hundreds of thousands of producers in developing countries the chance to build a better future and to compete in cut-throat global markets.

But Fairtrade Foundation Executive Director Harriet Lamb wants the movement to go further: "Fairtrade has demonstrated its potential to help producers improve their livelihoods, strengthen their businesses and benefit their communities, but compared with what is needed in the poorer countries of the world, we’ve really only begun to make a dent in the struggle against poverty and unfair trade."

"With more local campaigns, products, shops and companies in Britain and Ireland involved in Fairtrade, we all now have the chance to play an even bigger part in helping bring about much more significant change," she adds.

"Communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America have done so much with the leverage of Fairtrade, and there is so much more they want to do, so many more changes they want to make in their lives too. But to achieve that, we need even more buy-in from businesses and consumers at home."

Read about Fairtrade Fortnight.

 

The Fairtrade Foundation, the UK’s leading fairtrade body.

Join the ‘Big Noise’ to make trade fair.

A number of Fairtrade businesses:

www.fairtradefederation.com/ 

www.cafedirect.co.uk/index2.php 

www.divinechocolate.com/