Fair Trade Campaign Day, 1st September 2012

The Scottish Fairtrade Forum would like to invite you to their Annual Campaign Day on 1st September at Paisley Town Hall from 11:30am. Please see their website for more details.

Pledge your support to make Scotland a Fair Trade Nation

The Scottish Fair Trade Forum need your support to make Scotland a Fair Trade Nation!

Pledge Postcard photo from: http://www.scottishfairtradeforum.org.uk/

If you wish to pledge your support for the Campaign to make Scotland a Fair Trade Nation please send them an email to info@sftf.org.uk

Please see our blog about the campaign for more information.

Make Scotland a Fair Trade Country!

The Scottish Fair Trade Forum has published a Fair Trade Scotland Guide: http://www.scottishfairtradeforum.org.uk/assets/299

Our Fair Trade Nation Criteria

Why become a Fair Trade Nation?
In July 2006, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Scottish Government agreed a set of groundbreaking criteria to work toward to become the world's first two Fair Trade Nations. These represent the beginning of a long process, not a tick-box exercise, and reflect a desire to will work to make Fair Trade Nation status a genuine achievement. By changing attitudes and habits through a more widespread awareness and understanding of the way we in Scotland live, we can have a positive impact on people in the developing world whom we may never even meet.
The Aims of this campaign are:
 • To increase awareness of Fair Trade and surrounding issues
 • To increase the sale of Fair Trade products
 • To contribute to greater trade justice
 • To engender a meaningful commitment to Fair Trade from the Scottish Parliament
   and executive bodies
 1. The following must be achieved in order to become a Fair Trade Nation:

• 100% of local authority areas have Fair Trade groups working toward Fairtrade Zone status
• 55% of our local authority areas having achieved Fairtrade Zone status. In following years, this must increase 10% per year until all 32 are Fairtrade Zones        
• 100% of cities have achieved Fairtrade City status         
• At least 55% of towns have Fair Trade groups working toward Fairtrade Town status   
• 60% of universities have active Fair Trade groups working toward Fairtrade status

• The percentage of people who know about Fair Trade must increase 5% every year to reach 75%.

•     75% of those people must buy a Fairtrade product every year
• 40% of those people must regularly buy Fairtrade products

2. The Scottish Parliament must:

• Produce an annual statement in support of Fair Trade
• Use and promote Fairtrade products internally including Fairtrade tea, coffee, sugar and biscuits at all meetings
• Ensure Fairtrade is available at all catering outlets
• Actively promote Fairtrade Fortnight each year

 3. The Scottish Government must resolve to:

• Use and promote Fairtrade products internally including Fairtrade tea, coffee, sugar and biscuits at all meetings
• Ensure Fairtrade products are available at all catering outlets
• Actively promote Fairtrade Fortnight each year
• Produce an annual public report on the progress of the Fair Trade Nation campaign
• Actively support the promotion and development of Fair Trade including:
    - Seeking to develop pro-Fair Trade public sector procurement guidance and promote Fair Trade public sector procurement wherever possible
    - Promote Fair Trade in schools through curriculum, procurement and any other means possible
• Promote Fair Trade at an international level and through international trade agreements, where appropriate.
• Acknowledge the role of Fair Trade in economic development policies

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