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ST ANDREWS HAS BEEN A FAIRTRADE TOWN
SINCE ST ANDREWS DAY 2005

Former events and news

  • Thank you to all who took part in the People's Summit Event on Saturday 7th November while the Finance Ministers of the G20 nations met in St Andrews.  Our new St Andrews Fairtrade Town Campaign banner was prominently displayed and a number of Fliers distributed.
  • The Fairtrade Foundation has produced its Annual Review for 2008/9.  Read what is happening around the world here.
  • Fairtrade Fortnight 2009 ran from 23 February to 8 March this year. The highlight of the Fortnight in St Andrews was the talk by Towera Jalakasi hosted jointly by the University and the town Campaign Groups with the help of the Scottish Fairtrade Forum. Have a look at the pictures from Towera's visit.
  • We ran a successful competition to celebrate St Andrews Day and another year of Fairtrade in St Andrews.  You can view the prizewinning webpages here.  Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to everyone who took part.


      • Here are the winners from Lawhead School with their prizes!!!

  • 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 July 2010)