PROMOTING
FAIR TRADE LOCALLY
AND CAMPAIGNING FOR
FAIRER TRADE WORLDWIDE
We know that simply through shopping for Fairtrade and other fairly traded products we can help transform the lives
of countless farmers, workers and their families in developing countries.
We know because we have seen it for ourselves.
The pictures below show improvements in water provision through Fairtrade investments
in the coffee farming community of Choche, Ethiopia, which we frequently visit.
ABOUT US
Keswick & District Fair Trade Campaign, together with local businesses, have been promoting Fairtrade since 2003. We became a Fairtrade Town in March 2005.
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FIND
In and around Keswick there are many businesses serving and selling Fairtrade and other fairly traded products. Find where you can buy, stay, drink and source these.
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SUPPORT
You can promote Fairtrade and other fairly traded products by buying as much as you can. You can also help our campaign by becoming a member or supporter.
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COFFEE & ETHIOPIA
Coffee is a good example of how conventional trade can be tough for small farmers, like the ones we know in Ethiopia, and also how Fairtrade can help them.
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TRADE JUSTICE
Conventional trade often works against the interests of small producers, both here and in developing countries, because they are rarely involved in making the rules.
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FAIRTRADE or FAIR TRADE?
Confused? You are not alone – many are! Here we explain how Fairtrade and Fair Trade and similar terms are used and what the different ethical marks mean.
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Support Fair Trade Keswick and help make a real difference
WHY SUPPORT FAIR TRADE KESWICK
FOUR FAIR TRADE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH WE CAMPAIGN
We promote Fairtrade, and any other trading system which has at its heart genuine concern for poor and marginalised producers and workers. Below you will find the bottom-line principles by which we work:
Fairtrade does this by taking account of all production costs through extensive consultation and regular review with producer organisations worldwide, and fixing a guaranteed minimum price for each product.
SAYING ‘NO’ TO CHILD LABOUR
Fairtrade does this by requiring, amongst many other things, that no child under 18 can undertake work which jeopardises his or her schooling, or social, moral or physical development.
ENSURING WHOLE COMMUNITIES BENEFIT
Fairtrade does this specifically through the payment of a ‘social premium’, to be invested in business and community development projects, such as new classrooms, clinics and clean water supplies.
BUILDING ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Fairtrade does this by encouraging long-term trading relationships, so that producers and their organisations, such as cooperatives, are not trapped in short term arrangements, but are able to plan for the future.
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The latest news from Fair Trade Keswick
The Fairtrade Foundation has provided this information about Fairtrade during the coronavirus:- 1. Farmers and workers have been receiving advice and support through their local Fairtrade Producer Network. These Networks operate in Africa, Latin America and Asia, and each body is working hard to understand how the COVID-19......
28 April, 2020Fairtrade Fortnight began for the Keswick Fair Trade Campaign with a service at Southey Street Methodist Church. Joyce Ellis took the service and Roy Ellis, who was an active member of the campaign in its early days and was a lead on making Cumbria a......
09 March, 2020 Fairtrade Fortnight will start on Monday February 24th and finish on Sunday March 8th. The purpose of Fairtrade Fortnight is, of course, to remind people about the importance of Fairtrade to producers in the developing world. This is what is happening in and around......
13 February, 2020
Fair Trade Locally. Fairer Trade Worldwide.