Scottish Fair Trade Forum

Scottish Fair Trade Forum
The official logo of the Scottish Fair Trade Forum
Abbreviation SFTF
Formation 2007
Legal status Charity
Headquarters Edinburgh, Scotland
Location

The Scottish Fair Trade Forum is a Scottish charitable body that describes its mission as '...to gain Fair Trade Nation status for Scotland and build upon that achievement to embed the values of fairness in all aspects of Scottish society'.[1] This goal was achieved in February 2013.[2] The Forum continues to promote the inclusion and use of Fair Trade products through involvement in helping individual towns, schools,[3] councils [4] and public bodies [5] throughout the country achieve Fairtrade Status.

Organisation

The Forum consists of a headquarters in Edinburgh with a board convening in Glasgow, and relies on a nationwide network of volunteers to help support Fair Trade Groups throughout the country. In addition, it also relies on voluntary work to carry out its more centralised functions -including administrative work- and to help carry out the charity's campaigns.

History

After the Labour and Liberal Democrat coalition government of the Scottish Parliament engaged in talks with the Welsh Assembly over each country's commitment to the Fair Trade Movement, the Scottish administration publicly committed to the Forum's creation on 27 January 2007.[6][7] The Forum was officially launched by the Scottish Parliament on 27 October 2007.[8] As Wales reached Fair Trade Nation status in 2008,[9] the Fair Trade Forum aimed to make Scotland the second Fair Trade Nation in the world. This goal was achieved on 25 February 2013 [10] and was celebrated at an event in Perth on 7 September 2013 [11]

Campaigns

In order for Fair Trade status to be granted, the Forum worked to ensure that Scotland met the following goals:[12]

·Having every Local Authority in Scotland containing Fair Trade groups working toward Fairtrade Zone status,

·Having 55% of Scotland's Local Authorities with Fairtrade Zone status, increasing 10% per year until all 32 are Fairtrade Zones,

·Having all of Scotland's city's declared Fairtrade,

·Having 60% of Scottish universities contain active Fair Trade groups working toward Fairtrade status for their institutions,

·Having the percentage of Scots who know about Fair Trade increase 5% every year to 75%, with three quarters of this number buying a Fairtrade product every year and two fifths doing so regularly.

Supporting campaigns

Additionally, the Forum runs other sub-campaigns to continue the promotion of fair Trade products in Scotland. Previous campaigns included the Countdown Campaign, which aimed to secure Fair Trade Nation status through encouraging both individuals and organisations to devote a single day in 2011 to engaging with the Fair Trade movement in some form. It also runs a yearly Campaign Day at a different place each year in Scotland, where it gathers people from all over Scotland to coordinate progress towards Fair Trade Nation status.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Scottish Fair Trade Forum- Vision, Mission and Aims". Scottish Fair Trade Forum. Retrieved 2010-04-11.
  2. ↑ http://www.scottishfairtradeforum.org.uk/about-sftf/who-we-are.html#.Ut580dJFDcs. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ "City School is Awarded Fairtrade Status". Edinburgh Evening News. Retrieved 2010-04-11.
  4. ↑ "Fair Trade". Midlothian Council. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
  5. ↑ "SQA Fair Trade". Scottish Qualifications Authority. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
  6. ↑ "Scotland: A Fair Trade Nation". The Scottish Government. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
  7. ↑ "Fair Trade Country Campaign". Fair Trade Wales. Retrieved 2010-08-11.
  8. ↑ "Scottish Parliament to Host Fair Trade Forum". Scottish Parliament. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
  9. ↑ "Fair Trade Wales". Fair Trade Wales. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
  10. ↑ http://www.scottishfairtradeforum.org.uk/about-sftf/who-we-are.html#.Ut580dJFDcs. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ↑ http://www.scottishfairtradeforum.org.uk/fair-trade-in-scotland/history-of-fair-trade-in-scotland.html#.Ut5_GtJFDcs. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ "Our Fair Trade Nation Criteria". The Scottish Fair Trade Forum. Retrieved 2010-11-23.

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