Inspiring co-operative enterprise through education
Fairtrade Organisations
- The Fairtrade Foundation
- The website of the Fairtrade Foundation includes: case studies of producers; resources you can buy; and details of the campaign for Fairtrade towns, schools and universities. Fairtrade Fortnight takes place every year in the first two weeks of March and this website is the best place to get information about events and resources to help you take part.
- www.fairtrade.org.uk
- Scottish Fair Trade workers' co-operatives
- A wide range of exciting Fair Trade products can be found at these workers co-operatives near you.
- www.highlandwholefoods.co.uk in Inverness
- www.greencity.co.uk in Glasgow
- www.equalexchange.co.uk in Edinburgh
- Scottish Fair Trade Forum
- Works to support ongoing Fair Trade activity in Scotland and regularly bring campaigners together to network and share expertise and build the capacity of local groups to make them more sustainable and independent.
- www.scottishfairtradeforum.org.uk.
- Divine Chocolate
- Hear firsthand the impact getting a Fair Trade deal for their cocoa, and sharing in Divine's profits, has on the lives of Kuapa cocoa farmers. Divine supplies the Co-op with Fair Trade chocolate.
- www.divinechocolate.com
- Papapaa
- Comic Relief's Fairtrade website, which contains teaching materials about fair-trade.
- www.papapaa.org
- Transition Towns
- A Transition Initiative (which could be a town, village, university or island etc) is a community-led response to the pressures of climate change, fossil fuel depletion and increasingly, economic contraction.
- www.transitionnetwork.org