Local Authorities
"Aiming for Fairtrade Zone status can seem like a daunting task, but signing up to this commitment qualifies your area for a colourful label that generates enough publicity and momentum to help the movement to drive itself. Working towards, gaining and maintaining Fairtrade Zone status delivers benefits on many fronts and allows a demonstration of joined up working in every sense - joining up thinking on social, economic and environmental issues; joining up local concerns with concern for people outwith the area; and joining up action between the Council and the local community."
- Sylvia Gray, Sustainable Development Officer, East Dunbartonshire Council
"We climbed our mountain one step at a time and confronted each new barrier and setback positively. There are now several Fairtrade Zones in Scotland, an application for a Fairtrade Region and hopefully soon a Fairtrade Nation. The campaign has grown from small beginnings to one of the largest achievements in the UK."
- Angela Oakley, East Dunbartonshire Fair Trade Group member
In order to become a Fair Trade Nation, all Local Authorities in Scotland must be working toward achieving Fairtrade Zone status.
The following Local Authorities in Scotland have achieved Fairtrade Zone status (and if you know your Local Authority is a Fairtrade Zone and isn't on the list, send us an update and we'll be happy to add them!):
- Aberdeen
- Dundee
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Renfrewshire
- Edinburgh
- Falkirk
- Glasgow
- Stirling
Many more are in the process of achieving Fairtrade Zone status and we look forward to making this list longer in 2009!
To find out the 5 steps to becoming a Fairtrade Zone, click here.