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ST ANDREWS HAS BEEN A FAIRTRADE
TOWN
SINCE ST ANDREWS DAY 2005
Former events and news
- The St Andrews Fairtrade Town Campaign is
part of a
wider network promoting Fairtrade. Read the latest issue of
the Scottish
Fair Trade Forum newsletter to learn more.
- Congratulations to St Andrews University who have retained their University Fairtrade status.
- The March/April issue of St Andrews in Focus,
the magazine
for St Andrews, featured this article
about the on-going St Andrews
Fairtrade Campaign.
- UK sales of products carrying the FAIRTRADE Mark grew
an amazing 92% in 2007 to reach £493m, having jumped 45% from
the
previous year in 2006.
- The Sustainable Living Fair took place on Thursday 13
March
in the St Andrews University Student's Union, St Mary's Place.
The fair was bigger than last year and many students and
others
visited the Fairtrade Campaign stall.
- Fairtrade Fortnight 2008 ran from 25 February until 9
March.
Check here
for events that took place in St Andrews, information around the UK and
to view photographs.
- St Andrews has successfully retained its Fairtrade
Town
status, following review by the Fairtrade Foundation. Thank
you
to all the shops, workplaces, cafes and restaurants, and community
organisations that continue to promote Fairtrade goods and products.
We only retain our Fairtrade Town status because of your
committment.
- Congratulations to all who took part in our 'Spot the
Certificate' competition during St Andrews Festival Week 2007.
We would like to
thank everyone who took part and all the premises that have
their signs so prominently displayed.
Thank you all. These Certificates were designed and
distributed as part of the 2007 campaign and are available to all
businesses that provide fairtrade goods.
- Look out for St Andrews Fairtrade Town certificates
in shops and cafés where fairly traded products are
available.
- With the recent addition of Bottoms Up to our
directory there are now 48 shops,
cafés,
restaurants and churches
in St Andrews where you can buy fairly traded products. This means that
there are now over 80 entries in the St Andrews Fairtrade Directory,
the others being workplaces
and community organisations
where Fairtrade tea and coffee is regularly used, and hotels and B&Bs where
guests are served Fairtrade beverages.
- Fairtrade Fortnight 2007 in Feb/March saw a huge
range of activities in St Andrews, including the screening of Jan
Nimmo's latest film 'Pura
Vida? at the opening of an exhibition of her woodcut
portraits of banana workers at the Byre Theatre, and a talk by St Lucia
Fairtrade banana producer, Conrad James.
- Scotland is to become a Fair Trade Nation. Members of
the St Andrews Fairtrade Town Campaign joined nearly two hundred other
members of the fair trade movement from all over Scotland at the Dewar
Centre, Perth, on 27th January to discuss a mechanism for establishing
a Scottish Fair Trade Forum to take the project forward.
- St Andrew's Festival 2006, 28 Nov - 1 Dec: exhibition
of entries for the primary schools Fairtrade collage competition, won
by P6/7 Kingsbarns Primary School, runners-up P6 Canongate Primary
School.
- September 2006: Fife Council puts up signs announcing
'A Fairtrade Town' on the four main routes into St Andrews.
(last updated October 2008)
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