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Go further for <strong>Fairtrade</strong> in 2013<br />
This <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight it’s time to take a<br />
stand for the food we love and the people<br />
who grow it. Without our support now,<br />
farmers in developing countries face an<br />
uncertain future.<br />
Together we’re making prog<strong>res</strong>s towards<br />
a fairer deal for farmers and workers in<br />
developing countries. Nearly 1.5 million farmers<br />
across the world are benefitting from a price<br />
that means they can provide for their families,<br />
and in 2011 farmers’ groups spent <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
Premiums worth over £20million to improve<br />
their communities and their productivity.<br />
But there’s still a lot to be done to support<br />
the people who grow the food we eat every<br />
day. Millions more farmers struggle to make<br />
ends meet year on year, and face a crippling<br />
combination of challenges including volatile<br />
prices, p<strong>res</strong>sure from huge multinationals,<br />
the effects of climate change and lack of<br />
access to credit.<br />
From banana growers in St Lucia to cocoa<br />
growers in Ghana, huge numbers of farmers<br />
are leaving the land forever, or struggling to<br />
convince their children to take over the family<br />
farm. If they don’t grow our bananas, our<br />
cocoa, our coffee, then who will?<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> is one way we can support them<br />
to farm sustainably and earn enough from<br />
their crops to provide for the future of<br />
their families and communities. So that’s<br />
why we’re asking everyone in the UK to<br />
go further for <strong>Fairtrade</strong> in 2013!<br />
<strong>Schools</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> to <strong>Fairtrade</strong> in 2013<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are so many ways to go further,<br />
whether you’re thinking about <strong>Fairtrade</strong> in<br />
class, making a creative splash to demand<br />
change or spreading the message to parents<br />
and the wider community.<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight is a great time of year<br />
to focus on <strong>Fairtrade</strong> in assembly, or check<br />
out our new interactive tools and <strong>res</strong>ources<br />
focusing on life for young people in Malawi<br />
who are part of the <strong>Fairtrade</strong> movement.<br />
You could get together your school’s steering<br />
group to target your canteen, a local shop<br />
or anyone else you think could do more for<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong>, and p<strong>res</strong>ent them with a beautiful,<br />
original work of <strong>Fairtrade</strong>-themed art to make<br />
your point.<br />
Whatever your school’s group decides to<br />
do, you’ll be helping create a fairer world<br />
and taking another step along your school’s<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> journey.<br />
Thank you.<br />
this guide is bursting with ideas to<br />
inspire you to take the next step for<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong>, during <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight,<br />
on world Fair trade day and beyond.<br />
Check out…<br />
fairtrade.org.uk/gofurther<br />
for more ideas, <strong>res</strong>ources and<br />
campaign updates.
Go further for<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> in school<br />
Learn<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight is a chance to get the whole school<br />
community thinking about the reasons why poor farmers in<br />
developing countries struggle to survive, and how <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
can help them transform their lives.<br />
young people<br />
go further…<br />
…with parents<br />
Young people at Churchtown<br />
Primary School learnt about<br />
chocolate and <strong>Fairtrade</strong>, then<br />
made chocolate sweets using<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> chocolate. ‘We sold<br />
them to parents as part of an<br />
enterprise activity’, said their<br />
year 5 teacher.<br />
Churchtown Primary School<br />
raised £133.05. Raising money<br />
for the <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Innovation Fund<br />
is one way your school can<br />
support farmers in developing<br />
countries. We use the money to<br />
bring a fair deal to more farmers<br />
and workers. See what happens<br />
to the money at fairtrade.org.<br />
uk/fundraise.<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong><br />
goes further…<br />
…with a new campaign<br />
At a time when farming is in<br />
crisis all over the world, we’ll<br />
be drawing on our unique<br />
experience of working with over<br />
1.5 million farmers and workers<br />
to call for change in our food<br />
system. Together we need to<br />
challenge a deeply unfair system<br />
where the majority of growers<br />
are still not getting a fair share.<br />
With your help we can change<br />
this. Look out for new campaign<br />
actions in the new year.<br />
<strong>The</strong> campaign will seize the<br />
opportunity offered by the UK<br />
hosting the G8 meeting of world<br />
leaders in summer 2013. We’ll<br />
call on governments, citizens<br />
and companies to fix the broken<br />
food system by making sure<br />
small-scale farmers can grow<br />
enough nutritious food and<br />
adapt to the challenges of<br />
climate change.<br />
Superhero goes<br />
further…<br />
…with assembly<br />
During <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight,<br />
Primary Four at Portlethen<br />
Primary School in Aberdeenshire<br />
wrote and performed a <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
assembly to the <strong>res</strong>t of the<br />
school. It featured a <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
superhero taking some children<br />
Have<br />
fun<br />
around the world and teaching<br />
them about different <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
issues.<br />
<strong>The</strong> school also held a competition<br />
to design a <strong>Fairtrade</strong> P.E.<br />
T-shirt, ran a coffee morning,<br />
and formed a <strong>Fairtrade</strong> cluster to<br />
bring young people from<br />
several local primary schools<br />
together. <strong>The</strong>y learnt how to<br />
organise a <strong>Fairtrade</strong> tuckshop in<br />
their schools, and all the schools<br />
bought stock together to<br />
save money.<br />
Campaigners<br />
go further…<br />
Help<br />
change the<br />
world!<br />
…with <strong>Fairtrade</strong> cotton<br />
During <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight<br />
2012, Selkirk <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Town<br />
Group held a <strong>Fairtrade</strong> cotton<br />
fashion show to raise money<br />
for <strong>Fairtrade</strong>. Models (including<br />
students from Selkirk High<br />
School and even the local<br />
MSP) sported <strong>Fairtrade</strong> cotton<br />
clothing, trainers and other fairly<br />
traded items. <strong>The</strong>y raised an<br />
amazing £1,026 for the <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
Innovation Fund by selling<br />
tickets, holding a raffle, selling<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> ref<strong>res</strong>hments and<br />
auctioning modelled clothing.<br />
Check out fairtrade.org.uk/<br />
innovation.<br />
fairtrade.org.uk/gofurther 3
4<br />
Learn<br />
Have<br />
fun Help<br />
change the<br />
world!<br />
Chifundo is part of a<br />
sugar-growing community<br />
that grows <strong>Fairtrade</strong> sugar that<br />
ends up in hundreds of things<br />
we eat every day, from Sainsbury’s<br />
sugar to Divine chocolate.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Premium has<br />
transformed Emma’s life as well. It<br />
used to take her up to eight hours<br />
a day to fetch water, carrying heavy<br />
canisters several miles in the searing<br />
heat, until the <strong>Fairtrade</strong> co-operative<br />
decided to spend the <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
Premium on wells around the village.<br />
‘Now,’ she says, ‘We put the dinner<br />
on, and go to fetch water. When we<br />
get back, dinner’s cooked.’<br />
Challenge everyone in<br />
school to go Further for<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> in 2013<br />
<strong>Schools</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> to <strong>Fairtrade</strong> in 2013<br />
Meet Chifundo…<br />
He’s 14 years old and lives in a<br />
village in Malawi with his four<br />
brothers and sisters and his<br />
mum and dad.<br />
Every morning, Emma and Elliott,<br />
Chifundo’s parents, are on their<br />
farm by 5am to look after the sugar<br />
cane plants, do the weeding and<br />
make sure the drainage ditches are<br />
working, before the heat of the day<br />
is too hot. <strong>The</strong> fair price they get for<br />
their sugar cane means they can buy<br />
everything they need for the family,<br />
and could afford a new roof for their<br />
house. Last year they even bought<br />
a cow.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’s still a lot more <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
could do for Chifundo, his family<br />
and his community, and everyone<br />
has different ideas about what the<br />
money should be spent on next<br />
year – more school buildings,<br />
books and materials for the children,<br />
water pipes into the houses so<br />
Chifundo’s family don’t have to<br />
go and collect it at all.<br />
Meanwhile, Chifundo is off to school<br />
with his friend Francis. ‘We start<br />
school at 7 o’clock,’ he says. ‘If<br />
we’re late, we have to do a chore,<br />
like sweeping the classrooms or even<br />
cleaning the toilet!’ A year ago, lots<br />
of children in Chifundo’s village were<br />
missing out on education, but thanks<br />
to the <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Premium, there’s a<br />
new school for everyone.<br />
Whatever the farmers and<br />
their families decide, <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
campaigners all across the UK<br />
just like you know that you’ve<br />
helped put them in charge of<br />
their future.
ASK<br />
MALAWI TV<br />
Want to know more<br />
about Chifundo’s<br />
community and others<br />
like it across Malawi?<br />
now you can ask Malawi!<br />
Q<br />
ENTER YOUR QUESTION HERE<br />
If you could ask a <strong>Fairtrade</strong> farmer anything,<br />
what would you ask? Well, now you can ask<br />
whatever you like. Just type in your question<br />
and someone from a farmer’s community<br />
will answer.<br />
askmalawi.tv is a revolutionary new channel<br />
that gives farmers and their communities the<br />
chance to tell their stories, their way.<br />
What’s more, there’s a special section for<br />
schools where teachers can save their favourite<br />
<strong>res</strong>ponses, access innovative learning materials<br />
and support, including a film and interactive<br />
map about Chifundo, and guide young people<br />
through the channel safely. As a teacher, you’ll<br />
also get access to more answers from young<br />
people – meaning your students’ peers in<br />
Malawi get to tell their own stories.<br />
If you’ve already got a <strong>Fairtrade</strong> <strong>Schools</strong> Award<br />
login, just use that. If not, then register on the<br />
site and you’ll be ready to Ask Malawi!<br />
Check out www.askmalawi.tv now<br />
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fairtrade.org.uk/gofurther 5
Have<br />
fun<br />
Learn<br />
You already know how a focus on <strong>Fairtrade</strong> fits into subject areas like Geography, Citizenship,<br />
Religious Education and others, and you tell us about learning activities you do across the<br />
curriculum at all ages. And here’s a great reason to focus on <strong>Fairtrade</strong> in Art or Design lessons.<br />
This <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight, bring <strong>Fairtrade</strong> to life through art!<br />
6 <strong>Schools</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> to <strong>Fairtrade</strong> in 2013<br />
Creating an eye-catching work of art is<br />
a brilliant way to grab people’s attention<br />
and create a talking point – including<br />
in the media – and it’s a fun way to get<br />
lots of people involved too.<br />
Get everyone in the school<br />
community to collect wrappers<br />
from <strong>Fairtrade</strong> products and use<br />
them to make a collage, sculpture<br />
or picture to display in school.<br />
win!<br />
Help<br />
change the<br />
world!<br />
Go further for <strong>Fairtrade</strong>: get creative<br />
Everyone in school could write their<br />
pledge for <strong>Fairtrade</strong>, challenge the<br />
school to go further, then create and<br />
display all their pledges.<br />
Why not use the Go Further<br />
postcards to highlight <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
products, events or activities in<br />
your school? Or use your school’s<br />
sculpture to ask local sto<strong>res</strong> or<br />
MPs to Go Further for <strong>Fairtrade</strong>?<br />
<strong>The</strong>n take a photo of the artwork<br />
and upload it to our gallery, to<br />
join thousands of others across<br />
the UK calling for fairer trade.<br />
And of course there will be money-can’t-buy<br />
prizes for the entries we think get the go further<br />
message across in the most effective and<br />
original way! Your school’s group could even<br />
win a school lunch cooked by celebrity chef<br />
and <strong>Fairtrade</strong> campaigner Levi Roots.
top tip: amplify your voice<br />
How can you get as many people as possible<br />
to Go Further for <strong>Fairtrade</strong> with your creation?<br />
Will it be one large, or lots of small ones? Are<br />
there any schools or other community groups<br />
you can involve?<br />
top tip: collaboration<br />
Are there any local artists or groups who can<br />
help your school out? <strong>The</strong>y may give you<br />
creative inspiration, and help you make some<br />
unusual pieces to attract more attention.<br />
top tip: show off your creation<br />
with an event<br />
Why not unveil your school’s artwork at a<br />
special event? You could invite families, p<strong>res</strong>s,<br />
your local MP or MEP, the Mayor or anyone<br />
else you think should be going further for<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong>. Your school could even raise money<br />
for <strong>Fairtrade</strong> by selling <strong>Fairtrade</strong> ref<strong>res</strong>hments<br />
or baking <strong>Fairtrade</strong> treats!<br />
top tip: investigate the issues<br />
Your school could combine your creativity with<br />
a focus on developing young people’s critical<br />
thinking skills. Debates or discussions are great<br />
ways to delve further into the issues behind<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> and create a real buzz around the<br />
school, helping young people make up their<br />
own minds about the challenges facing our<br />
globalised world today. Why not get young<br />
people’s <strong>res</strong>ponses to a discussion displayed<br />
on screen or around school?<br />
Here are a few ideas to get everyone thinking:<br />
Chocolate is too cheap<br />
<strong>The</strong> future of our food is threatened, along<br />
with the livelihoods of those who grow it. Low<br />
prices keep farmers in poverty and threaten the<br />
sustainability of our food.<br />
Do we need to choose between <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
and local food?<br />
In an era of climate change and local farmers’<br />
markets, what role is there for <strong>Fairtrade</strong> in<br />
helping us live sustainably?<br />
top tip: young people can<br />
gather evidence<br />
Everything your school does during <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
Fortnight and beyond counts towards your<br />
school’s <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Award. Young people can<br />
take photos, save receipts, write a short report<br />
and even upload films as evidence. Keep a<br />
record of what has been going on in lessons or<br />
assembly, along with some examples of work,<br />
to make the most of your activities.<br />
top tip: get help from your local<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> group<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are over 500 <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Groups in<br />
communities across the country that can help<br />
your school put on an event, find out more<br />
about <strong>Fairtrade</strong> products, run workshops and<br />
more. This <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight, your local<br />
group will be running exciting activities, and<br />
there may even be the chance to meet a<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> farmer. Find your nea<strong>res</strong>t group at<br />
fairtrade.org.uk/townslist<br />
For more ideas and support, check out<br />
fairtrade.org.uk/gofurther<br />
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Learn<br />
Have<br />
fun<br />
Help<br />
change the<br />
world!<br />
Oxfam’s Food<br />
for Thought<br />
www.oxfam.org.uk/education/<strong>res</strong>ources/<br />
food_for_thought_<strong>res</strong>ources<br />
Food for Thought includes a downloadable<br />
<strong>res</strong>ource to get young people learning, thinking<br />
and taking action about our unfair food system.<br />
Green <strong>Schools</strong><br />
Revolution<br />
www.greenschools.coop<br />
From <strong>The</strong> Co-operative, this inspiring<br />
sustainability education programme challenges<br />
young people to become green pioneers with<br />
<strong>res</strong>ources, activities and trips for young people<br />
aged 5-16 to get them changing the world<br />
around them, including a focus on <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
through Fair Enterprise. Look out for two Fair<br />
Enterprise <strong>res</strong>ources especially adapted for<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight in this <strong>Action</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>.<br />
8 <strong>Schools</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> to <strong>Fairtrade</strong> in 2013<br />
Our pick of some other great<br />
<strong>res</strong>ources to use in school this<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight<br />
Traidcraft’s Snack<br />
Attack Challenge<br />
www.traidcraftschools.co.uk<br />
Traidcraft’s competition is back – get your<br />
school to design and market a new fair trade<br />
snack and you could win a cash prize for the<br />
school! This activity will tick some boxes for the<br />
school too, with links in to DT, Literacy, English<br />
and Citizenship. It’ll also help to foster an<br />
enterprising spirit and awareness of the global<br />
dimension. Enter by 29 March 2013.<br />
For more ideas and support, check out<br />
fairtrade.org.uk/gofurther<br />
PaPaPaa Live!<br />
www.papapaalive.org<br />
Pa Pa Paa LIVE brings a child’s eye view of<br />
everyday life from a school in Ghana, with<br />
webcasts made by the children of <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
cocoa farmers. Young people can ask<br />
questions via the website. Each webcast lasts<br />
up to ten minutes, includes subtitles, and is<br />
supported by teaching <strong>res</strong>ources on <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
and cocoa. Pa Pa Paa Live is the latest<br />
<strong>res</strong>ource from a partnership between Comic<br />
Relief, Dubble chocolate and Trading Visions.
Activity for young people aged 6-11<br />
Why not organise a short assembly<br />
or play about the difference <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
makes to the lives of farmers in<br />
poorer countries? Young people<br />
could p<strong>res</strong>ent this in as little as 10-15<br />
minutes at a <strong>Fairtrade</strong> event or in a<br />
lesson. <strong>The</strong>y’ll also need a bit of time<br />
to prepare and make props.<br />
What will you need?<br />
Print the script, or put each part on some card or laminate it.<br />
Before you start, you could use a slideshow or short film to introduce how farmers grow and harvest<br />
bananas and how <strong>Fairtrade</strong> helps them and their communities. <strong>The</strong>re are lots out there, or you could<br />
check out the <strong>res</strong>ources at:<br />
www.fairtrade.org.uk/schools/bananas<br />
www.fairtrade.org.uk/<strong>res</strong>ources/films/tipping_the_balance.aspx<br />
www.greenschools.coop<br />
www.oxfam.org.uk/education/<strong>res</strong>ources/go_bananas/?30<br />
You could also think about:<br />
Costumes and props<br />
A projector and screen, if you<br />
also want to show everyone how<br />
bananas are grown, watch a video<br />
or show the FAIRTRADE Mark and<br />
photos of other <strong>Fairtrade</strong> products<br />
Backdrops, such as a<br />
cardboard mock-up<br />
of a shop in the UK<br />
and some cardboard<br />
banana plants<br />
rep<strong>res</strong>ent where the<br />
growers live<br />
Samples of <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
bananas and other<br />
products<br />
<strong>The</strong> script is about banana farmers, but it’s quick<br />
and easy to amend it to focus on another <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
crop or product, like chocolate, cotton or sugar.<br />
Young people can act out the parts of children in<br />
the UK, buyers and growers.<br />
A teacher or adult p<strong>res</strong>ents the play with young<br />
people, who work in two groups. <strong>The</strong>re are two<br />
p<strong>res</strong>enters, up to seven farmers, two buyers and<br />
four young people in brief roles.<br />
SHOP<br />
Script overleaf…<br />
fairtrade.org.uk/gofurther 9
10<br />
Script<br />
Welcome everyone and explain that today they’re learning about something very important: when<br />
we buy food, the choices we make affect the lives of people who grow crops in other countries<br />
If you like, ask for ideas about which crops grow in other countries, and where. Ask them what they think<br />
life might be like in other countries – how is it similar or different to the UK?<br />
grOup 1<br />
P<strong>res</strong>enter 1: [hold up bunch of bananas] Who can tell me what today’s play is about?<br />
That’s right, bananas.<br />
Lots of us love to eat bananas but how much do you know about the people who work hard to grow<br />
them? Without banana farmers, we can’t enjoy bananas. But do banana farmers get a fair deal? Let’s<br />
find out.<br />
Young person 1: Yum! I love bananas. I wonder who grew it?<br />
Young person 2: Who ca<strong>res</strong>? I want something else to eat now! How about some chocolate?<br />
Young person 3: Um, I care! I hope banana farmers can earn a living. That only seems fair<br />
Teacher: Ask everyone: who has ever wondered about the lives of the people who grow the food<br />
they enjoy? Do they think their lives are like ours, or perhaps very different?<br />
Farmer 1: I work hard to grow and harvest bananas. I have to make sure they look and taste great so<br />
people in the UK want to buy them.<br />
Farmer 2: It’s not always easy growing bananas. Some of my plants died in a hurricane.<br />
Buyer: I want to make as much money as I can! I know – I’ll pay these farmers as little as possible.<br />
Farmer 1: I don’t earn enough to pay for growing my bananas.<br />
Farmer 2: I can’t always pay for what my family needs, like food and school.<br />
Farmer 1: Our village doesn’t always have clean water. My children’s school doesn’t have many<br />
books or <strong>res</strong>ources.<br />
Teacher: Ask everyone for their reaction. What do they think life must be like for these growers,<br />
who can’t earn enough to live on? Do they think this is fair?<br />
Gather ideas about what young people think might be a fair solution to this problem.<br />
<strong>Schools</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> to <strong>Fairtrade</strong> in 2013<br />
Activity for young people aged 6-11
grOup 2<br />
P<strong>res</strong>enter 2: What about if we start with a different idea? What about if we think that farmers should<br />
get a better deal? What about if we chose a special sort of bananas?<br />
Bananas that make sure farmers earn enough to live on? Let’s find out.<br />
Young person 3: Yum! I love bananas. I wonder who grew these ones.<br />
Young person 4: Look – the packet tells you! And because they’re <strong>Fairtrade</strong>, we know the farmers<br />
got a better deal.<br />
Farmer 3: We work together to grow our bananas.<br />
Farmer 4: We share what we know and we help each other. Together we can sell more bananas<br />
to buyers.<br />
Buyer 2: I’m a <strong>Fairtrade</strong> buyer. I’ll give you a better price for your bananas.<br />
Farmer 3: <strong>Fairtrade</strong> will also help us improve our farms and community. That’s only fair!<br />
Farmer 5: We’ll decide together what we’ll do. That’s fair!<br />
Farmer 6: I earn more money now. I can buy food, and send my children to school.<br />
Farmer 7: I now have clean, safe water.<br />
Farmer 5: We also have a better school in our village.<br />
Teacher: Remind everyone that <strong>Fairtrade</strong> helps by paying growers and farmers a fair price, and also<br />
by paying an extra sum of money (the <strong>Fairtrade</strong> premium) that they can spend on improving their<br />
communities.<br />
Tell the audience what else is planned for <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight and encourage everyone to get involved.<br />
If you have time, you could<br />
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Ask the audience how they can tell that<br />
a product is <strong>Fairtrade</strong>, and show the<br />
FAIRTRADE Mark. Does anyone remember<br />
seeing this on other products in shops or<br />
at home?<br />
Show examples of other <strong>Fairtrade</strong> products<br />
Ask what we can all do: we can tell other<br />
people about <strong>Fairtrade</strong>, and look out for<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> products when we are shopping, to<br />
help make sure growers get a better deal. If<br />
we can’t see any, we could even ask for them!<br />
This activity was adapted for <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
Fortnight from an existing <strong>res</strong>ource with kind<br />
permission from <strong>The</strong> Co-operative’s Green<br />
<strong>Schools</strong> Revolution. For more <strong>res</strong>ources visit<br />
www.greenschools.coop<br />
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<strong>Fairtrade</strong> group challenge<br />
Run a <strong>Fairtrade</strong> stall in your school<br />
during <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight!<br />
If everyone in your school has the chance to choose a product made with <strong>Fairtrade</strong> ingredients,<br />
this will make a real difference for workers and farmers in poorer countries. Choosing <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
means a better price for their crops, fair terms of trade and decent working conditions.<br />
Run a co-operative <strong>Fairtrade</strong> shop during <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight so your friends can choose <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
products, and you could raise some money for your school, or even for the <strong>Fairtrade</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong>,<br />
so that even more farmers can join the <strong>Fairtrade</strong> movement.<br />
What you need to do:<br />
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Run your stall and use your profits to help your school – and communities in the developing world.<br />
Step One: Form a co-operative<br />
‘Co-operating’ is not just about being a good team – it’s a whole way of doing business.<br />
A co-operative is a business that’s owned and controlled by its members.<br />
In this project, you can develop your enterprise skills, and raise money which can be reinvested.<br />
Your co-operative will need some money to invest so you can buy stock or make products to sell on<br />
your stall. Where could this come from? Would any of your teachers invest in your stall, or would you<br />
invest your own money? Would families help with providing ingredients to make your own products<br />
with <strong>Fairtrade</strong> ingredients? Could you bake during food lessons? Would a local supermarket or fair<br />
trade company help with free products you could sell, or could you get any on a ‘sale or return’<br />
basis, meaning if you don’t sell them you can send them back and get your money back?<br />
Get inspired!<br />
Form a co-operative<br />
www.dubble.co.uk<br />
www.traidcraftschools.co.uk<br />
www.greenschools.coop<br />
www.co-operative.coop/food/ethics/Ethicaltrading/<strong>Fairtrade</strong>/Our-fairtrade-products/<br />
<strong>Schools</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> to <strong>Fairtrade</strong> in 2013<br />
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Think up some<br />
great <strong>Fairtrade</strong> snack<br />
and product ideas that<br />
you could sell<br />
Plan how you’ll<br />
promote and run your<br />
shop to make a profit
Step twO: think up some<br />
great <strong>Fairtrade</strong> snack and<br />
product ideas<br />
Make your shop a success! What will your<br />
friends want to buy?<br />
You may want to make snacks using <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
ingredients, or buy some ready-made <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
products to sell at a profit. Why not do a bit<br />
of both?<br />
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•<br />
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Agree a list of possible recipes and products.<br />
Remember in a co-operative, each person<br />
has an equal say<br />
List the products you need to buy as stock<br />
Test your ideas on some potential customers<br />
and make sure your ideas will sell<br />
Think about how your stall will work:<br />
- How much should you charge?<br />
- How much will people want to spend<br />
in your shop?<br />
- Work out your price range, from cheap<br />
treats to something more indulgent<br />
If you’re making snacks using <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
ingredients:<br />
- Add up the total for each product, and<br />
then the cost per item<br />
- See how you can vary the size of each<br />
item (eg make 10 cakes, not 8) to fit your<br />
price range<br />
If you’re buying products to sell:<br />
- See what you can buy in bulk and then<br />
sell at the right price<br />
Step tHree: plan how you’ll promote and run your shop<br />
to make a profit<br />
<strong>The</strong> right place… the right time… when and where will you sell your snacks?<br />
You can’t eat in lessons. So breaks and lunchtime are the obvious choices for grabbing the attention<br />
of your hungry mates.<br />
But how about…<br />
• Opening before or after school?<br />
• Selling to the staff room?<br />
How will you promote your stall?<br />
• Plaster your halls and classrooms with eye-catching designs and smart straplines<br />
• See if you can get a slot in a school or year group assembly. Give them the facts. Make them laugh!<br />
• Get people talking about your shop using social media and word of mouth – make a buzz!<br />
• If your school uses flat screen displays, why not produce a video or audio ad?<br />
You might also need to think about:<br />
• Where you’ll store products and equipment when closed<br />
• Safety and security<br />
Diet and health matters<br />
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<strong>Fairtrade</strong> stall top tips<br />
top tip: work co-operatively<br />
Help each other, act <strong>res</strong>ponsibly, be honest<br />
and open, play your part and give everyone<br />
an equal say.<br />
top tip: Have some rules<br />
Agree how you’ll work together and make<br />
decisions. How will you make sure everyone<br />
has an equal say? How will you vote<br />
on decisions?<br />
top tip: Have a plan – and a<br />
budget<br />
Write down what you’re going to do and how<br />
you’ll work as a team: who will do what – and<br />
when? Have a budget for buying stock or<br />
ingredients and for promotional materials –<br />
and stick to it.<br />
top tip: Be safe<br />
Take <strong>res</strong>ponsibility for your safety and that of<br />
your friends. Fol<strong>low</strong> your teacher’s instructions<br />
about food safety and using equipment. Look<br />
after your money and ensure it is locked away<br />
in a safe place.<br />
This activity was adapted for <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
Fortnight from an existing <strong>res</strong>ource with kind<br />
permission from <strong>The</strong> Co-operative’s Green<br />
<strong>Schools</strong> Revolution. For more <strong>res</strong>ources visit<br />
www.greenschools.coop<br />
<strong>Schools</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> to <strong>Fairtrade</strong> in 2013<br />
top tip: put customers first<br />
Be friendly and helpful! Give everyone a good<br />
experience when they come to your stall.<br />
top tip: Manage your money<br />
Have a ‘float’ of about £10 in change. Take<br />
care when you count peoples’ change and ask<br />
them to check it before they go. Keep a record<br />
of your sales and profits.<br />
top tip: Have fun!<br />
Co-operatives are about working together and<br />
doing something good.<br />
top tip: reinvest in your school<br />
community – and in communities<br />
in the developing world<br />
A co-operative is a business that is owned<br />
and controlled by its ‘members’ - the people<br />
who use its goods and services. As well as<br />
developing your enterprise skills, you hope to<br />
make a profit! If you’re successful and you do<br />
make a profit, decide together what you’ll do<br />
with it. You could:<br />
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Invest some in your stall and open it again<br />
another time<br />
Raise money for <strong>Fairtrade</strong> to help even more<br />
farmers join the <strong>Fairtrade</strong> movement<br />
Remember that in your co-operative, every<br />
member gets an equal say in how you use<br />
any profits!<br />
<strong>The</strong>re’s more help and support for setting up a<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> stall at www.greenschools.coop<br />
Teachers and schools can sign up and download<br />
more <strong>res</strong>ources to help you run your stall.
Case Study<br />
Year 9 at Madani Girls School in Tower<br />
Hamlets, London, set up a stall selling <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
products. <strong>The</strong>ir teacher, Talat Anwer, said<br />
‘<strong>The</strong> girls worked hard running the<br />
stall and are really proud of their<br />
effort. We are very excited about<br />
making the stall a regular feature.’<br />
Margaret Demidecka<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> Award for the<br />
Best <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight<br />
event in a school<br />
Learn<br />
Have<br />
fun<br />
Help<br />
change the<br />
world!<br />
<strong>The</strong> Margaret Demidecka <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Award was started by the Justice and Peace Group,<br />
in memory of the late Margaret Demidecka, a <strong>Fairtrade</strong> supporter who died suddenly in<br />
December 2005. This is the fifth year that the Justice and Peace Group has come together<br />
with the <strong>Fairtrade</strong> <strong>Foundation</strong> to provide prize money to make the Margaret Demidecka<br />
Award a national competition.<br />
A cash prize of £350 is offered for the best activities organised in one primary and one<br />
secondary school during <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Fortnight. This prize is to be used to strengthen<br />
<strong>Fairtrade</strong> activities in school.<br />
Competition is tough and the judges look<br />
for innovation and inte<strong>res</strong>ting ideas, and<br />
a real understanding of what <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
is. To enter this year’s competition go to<br />
fairtrade.org.uk/schools/demidecka<br />
Find out more about the Demidecka<br />
Award and last year’s winners at<br />
fairtrade.org.uk/schools/demidecka<br />
What’s more, when your school enters the<br />
Demidecka <strong>Fairtrade</strong> Award and includes a<br />
photo of your creative sculpture or artwork,<br />
you’ll automatically be entered into our<br />
creative competition to win an exciting<br />
money-can’t-buy prize!<br />
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Answers to quiz<br />
Here are the answers to the quiz in the <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
Fortnight booklet for young people:<br />
1) <strong>Fairtrade</strong> price/<strong>Fairtrade</strong> Premium<br />
2) Farmers and workers in poorer countries often<br />
struggle to make enough money from their<br />
crops to cover the cost of production, and<br />
don’t have enough information about how to<br />
improve their farms. Many communities<br />
don’t have things like schools, clean water,<br />
hospitals or electricity.<br />
3) True<br />
4) Farmer groups can spend the <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
Premium on things that benefit the farmers,<br />
their families and their community. Some<br />
examples include: providing water, electricity,<br />
schools, hospitals, clinics or other basic<br />
Product code: SCHG6<br />
services; providing farmers with subsidised farm<br />
inputs like machinery, fertilisers or protective<br />
equipment; providing education and information<br />
to farmers to improve their productivity or<br />
to help them grow other crops; sponsoring<br />
community sports clubs; improving farm<br />
buildings and roads.<br />
5) C. 3,000<br />
6) B. 75%<br />
7) B. 100<br />
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Photography credits: Simon Rawles 2012. Thank you to all the <strong>Fairtrade</strong><br />
groups who contributed photos to this guide.<br />
www.fairtrade.org.uk<br />
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