2024 is the 30th Anniversary Year of the Fairtrade mark in the UK.
It is also the 20th Anniversary Year of Preston becoming a Fairtrade city.
St Anthony’s is committed to supporting, using and promoting Fairtrade, wherever possible. We believe Fairtrade can make a difference to the lives of young people and their families throughout the world by improving living and working conditions for people who grow the things we buy.
At St Anthony’s we have an established Fairtrade Warrior group comprising of KS2 pupils that meet regularly to promote Fairtrade in the school.
We have achieved the highest level of the national school award accredited by the Fairtrade Foundation, known as the FairAchiever Schools Award.
Our Fairtrade Warriors raise awareness and support Fairtrade through many different activities including: delivering whole school assemblies; fundraising events; promoting Fairtrade products to visitors to our school; embedding Fairtrade within our Geography lessons; having a whole school policy and by attending regular Fairtrade Warrior meetings.
In Spring 2024, St Anthony’s Fairtrade Warriors were invited to support Preston’s 20th Anniversary Year Fairtrade Project by designing and creating paper mache Fairtrade Eggs. These were displayed around Preston’s shops and businesses to promote Fairtrade and encourage children to participate in the Great Fairtrade Easter Egg Hunt. Some of our children were lucky enough to complete this egg hunt with their parents during the Easter holidays and collect a chocolate egg reward!
September 2024 saw the launch of Fairtrade Fortnight nationwide with the theme of ‘Be the Change’. As part of this campaign St Anthony’s FTW contacted their local Member of Parliament, Sir Mark Hendrick, asking him to sign the pledge ‘Be the Change’. This pledge asked him to make a simple personal commitment to work with Fairtrade and fair trade campaigners here in the UK, and to listen to farmers and workers around the world, to make sure policies developed at Westminster contribute to a future that is fair for all.
To further support this, our FTWs have recently launched their own school campaign called:
‘Be the Change- Save the Change’. This is an inter-class competition to raise money for the Fairtrade Foundation. Each class has been given a special ‘Save the Change’ bottle (designed by the FTWs) to try and fill with loose change brought in from home. They decided upon having reward incentive lines marked on the bottles and provided a list of suggestions for classes to agree on and be rewarded with, as they fill their bottle to the top! It’s proving to be quite competitive so far!
FairAchiever Award Certificate
St Anthony’s Drive
Fulwood
Preston
Lancashire
PR2 3SQ
