Fabulous Fairtrade

Fairtrade Fortnight 2025 will take place from the 22nd of September to the 5th of October. Once again the UK will be celebrating the difference we can all make when we choose Fairtrade and campaign as part of the global fair trade movement.

Our fabulous Fairtrade talks, training and children’s workshops can be run any time of the year as we offer support to help you investigate the impact and benefits of Fair Trade. This popular topic links well to children’s sense of fairness and unfairness and can enrich all areas of the curriculum.

We can share resources and simulation games to enable children to role-play the production of cocoa, find out about the journey of a banana, hold a fair-trade fashion show, wear fair-trade cotton and explore the life of a fair-mined gold miner. Our training is designed to support staff with classroom activities, resources, displays and websites to investigate the impact and benefits of Fair Trade and how this links to the climate crisis, curriculum, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Fairtrade School Award.

We regularly have new school packs from the Fairtrade Foundation which will help you explore the ideas of making better choices when buying your chocolate bars, fruit, tea and coffee.

The theme for 2025 is to celebrate the impact of Fairtrade on farmers and workers, and to highlight the need for fair incomes and climate justice.