Get Involved!

What can you do to support Fairtrade?

Take individual action

You can:

buy fairly traded products (see our list of shops and cafés).
always ask for Fair Trade when you go shopping or out to eat and drink.
encourage family, friends and workplaces to buy fairly traded goods.
gain Fairtrade status for your place of work, study or faith group. You can find out how schools, universities and workplaces have gained Fairtrade status from websites such as people & planet, Fairtrade Foundation, and Oxfam
be a fair-trade representative and sell fair-trade items through the catalogues such as Traidcraft, People Tree and Bishopston.
Register your support for Fairtrade on this website!

Join the FAB network

If you'd like to join the FAB network, receive our quarterly email newsletter and meet other Brummies promoting fair-trade, please email us.

A great way to learn more about fair trade is to come and help out on a stall. You'll be working alongside an experienced FAB member who can answer your questions. FAB runs stalls at various events in the city centre, and sometimes further afield.

FAB Officers 2008

Chair - Alastair Gibson chair@fairtradebirmingham.co.uk or phone 0845 224 9162
Treasurer - Jane Colbourne
Secretary - Sue Cockroft and Georgia Stokes
Projects - Lorraine Cookson
Business and Media Contacts - John Boyle
Communications - Kate Baker
Website - Karen Walford with Duncan Miller
Newsletter - Marcus Belben

We've now got quite a long list of shops and cafés which sell fair trade items, but we're always interested to hear about new places, so please let us know if you find somewhere that's not already on our list!

Forthcoming FAB meetings

Steering committee normally on the third Thursday of the month.
The next meeting of FAB is on Thursday May 15th - Faber Maunsell 5.30pm - 3rd floor of Beaufort House, 94/96 Newhall Street (B3 1PB).
Later meetings are on:
19th June
17th July
21st August
18th September
16th October
20th Novemeber
18th December
15th January
19th February
19th March 2009, which will probably be the AGM.

Reception will want to know that people are coming to Faber Maunsell and then reception on the 3rd floor will point at the meeting room. Please Phone: 0845 224 9162 or Email: chair@fairtradebirmingham.co.uk beforehand.
Could you help us develop a strong fair-trade future for Birmingham? The FAB steering committee would welcome both new individual members and representatives from other organisations. Please come along to one of our meetings to find out more.

To become involved with FAB, please call Lorraine Cookson on 0121 303 5449 or email info@fairtradebirmingham.org.uk