This year, Bristol celebrates its 15th year as a Fairtrade City, marking fifteen years of campaigning from individuals, commitment from businesses and support from Bristol City Council.
To mark this important milestone as a city, some of the individuals and organisations who are helping to shape a fair and resilient future for Bristol and beyond have told Bristol Fair Trade Network what Bristol’s 15 years as a Fairtrade City means to them. The network has also had a chat with Bruce Crowther, founder of the first International Fair Trade Town, and heard from just some of the businesses around the city supporting Fair Trade through their supply chains.
Fair Trade is a way of trading with small-scale farmers and producers around the world, ensuring that they are paid a protected fair price for their produce and that their business and communities benefit from long term improvement projects. What’s more, Fair Trade certification schemes address workers’ rights, equality and protection of the environment.
Right now, Fair Trade supply chains are working harder than ever: to protect farmers from the crushing impact of Covid-19 on their supply chains, the mitigate the very real impacts of the climate emergency on their crops and land, and to give those with no privilege and no voice a platform from which to be heard.
Show your support for Fair Trade farmers and workers by choosing Fair Trade certified products every time you shop, and inspire others in Bristol to do the same using the hashtag #BristolFairTrade.