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First Ever Scottish Fairtrade University and College Conference
Edinburgh University is hosting a FREE conference aimed at getting more Fairtrade products into universities and colleges around Scotland.
Win £500 Worth of Fairtrade Designer Clothing!
We now have £500 worth of vouchers for Emma Watson's exclusive new People Tree collection to give away to the winners of our Wear Fair fashion show competition.
Sibford School Wear Fair for Sports Day
Sibford school’s People & Planet group have stormed ahead with the Wear Fair campaign for Fairtrade cotton, and have convinced the school to stock Fairtrade cotton t-shirts ready for their summer sports day.
Week of Naked Action
On the week starting 1 March join a week of student action against sweatshops, as part of the Buy Right campaign
The unaccountable power of corporations drives policies that keep the poor poor, degrade our environment, abuse human rights and undermine democracy.
Higher education in the UK is a powerful force intellectually and financially. At the moment it is complicit in human rights abuses, environmental destruction and perpetuating poverty through its procurement and research relationships with irresponsible corporations.
There is currently a massive missed opportunity for higher education to pioneer new models of operating and innovating in a way that is socially and environmentally beneficial not just for corporate profit. This campaign therefore aims to both Reclaim Procurement and Reclaim Research for positive social and environmental change.
