What is FAB?

FAB promotes fair trade in Birmingham.

FAB is a network of individuals, businesses, community organisations, not-for-profit organisations, faith groups, the City Council and anyone with the shared purpose of tackling poverty guaranteeing growers and producers in developing countries a fair return for their crops and goods.

FAB could be you and your community.
FAB is supporting the Climate Change Festival.
For fully details download the Guide.
Fair trade Fortnight, 25 Feb-9 March, 2008
Change Today, Choose Fairtrade
Change Today. Choose Fairtrade, is an urgent call to the people of Birmingham. It is the theme of Fairtrade Fortnight 2008 (25 Feb-9 March), which encourages people to buy products carrying the FAIRTRADE Mark.
Birmingham is the largest fair trade city in the world, and Fairtrade Association Birmingham (FAB) is urging more people to buy fairly traded products than ever before. The FAIRTRADE Mark is the only consumer label that focuses on ensuring farmers in developing countries receive an agreed and stable price for the crops they grow, as well as additional income to invest in their communities for the future. It appears on more than 850 varieties of coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, sugar, honey, snacks, wine, cakes, biscuits, fresh fruit and juices. Fairtrade cotton is now available and even fairly traded footballs.

Fairtrade changes the lives of producers, workers and their dependents, because the mark means fair prices and fair wages, decent working conditions, improved health and safety standards, security of long-term contracts, respect, environmental improvements and more control over their own lives. Fairtrade is not about charity - where producers are paid a fair price for their products, they don't need charity.


See the programme on our News & Events page.
Five Fabulous Fairtrade Facts
  • At present, the British public drink more than 4.3million Fairtrade hot drinks and munch through 750,000 Fairtrade bananas every day.
  • Fairtrade products are available in more than one hundred Birmingham shops, and served in over 60 local cafés and restaurants.
  • The Fairtrade Foundation estimates that the sale of Fairtrade products worldwide benefits more than 5 million people.
  • Stirchley Cooperative store stocks the largest range of fairtrade food products in the country
  • There are more than 2,000 fairtrade certified products in the United Kingdom.

The next meeting of FAB is on Thursday 15th May - Faber Maunsell 5.30pm.

To contact or join FAB, call Lorraine Cookson, Sustainability Officer for Birmingham City Council, on 0121 303 5449 or email info@fairtradebirmingham.org.uk.