Schools Action Guide (low res) - The Fairtrade Foundation

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Fairtrade group challenge
Run a Fairtrade stall in your school
during Fairtrade Fortnight!
If everyone in your school has the chance to choose a product made with Fairtrade ingredients,
this will make a real difference for workers and farmers in poorer countries. Choosing Fairtrade
means a better price for their crops, fair terms of trade and decent working conditions.
Run a co-operative Fairtrade shop during Fairtrade Fortnight so your friends can choose Fairtrade
products, and you could raise some money for your school, or even for the Fairtrade Foundation,
so that even more farmers can join the Fairtrade movement.
What you need to do:
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Run your stall and use your profits to help your school – and communities in the developing world.
Step One: Form a co-operative
‘Co-operating’ is not just about being a good team – it’s a whole way of doing business.
A co-operative is a business that’s owned and controlled by its members.
In this project, you can develop your enterprise skills, and raise money which can be reinvested.
Your co-operative will need some money to invest so you can buy stock or make products to sell on
your stall. Where could this come from? Would any of your teachers invest in your stall, or would you
invest your own money? Would families help with providing ingredients to make your own products
with Fairtrade ingredients? Could you bake during food lessons? Would a local supermarket or fair
trade company help with free products you could sell, or could you get any on a ‘sale or return’
basis, meaning if you don’t sell them you can send them back and get your money back?
Get inspired!
Form a co-operative
www.dubble.co.uk
www.traidcraftschools.co.uk
www.greenschools.coop
www.co-operative.coop/food/ethics/Ethicaltrading/Fairtrade/Our-fairtrade-products/
Schools Guide to Fairtrade in 2013
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Think up some
great Fairtrade snack
and product ideas that
you could sell
Plan how you’ll
promote and run your
shop to make a profit