Fairtrade Forum AGM

On Thursday evening I was delighted to chair the Annual General Meeting of the Dundee Fairtrade Forum.  It was good to reflect on the work of the forum over the last year.  The main achievement of the forum over the last year has been to ensure that Dundee City Council updated its Fairtrade policy. You can read the council's Fairtrade policy here and the picture here shows one of the fruits of that policy, namely signage at the entrances to the city of Dundee which proudly proclaim the city as a Fairtrade City.

It is important that Dundee plays it part in making Scotland a fairtrade nation.  I hope that Scotland is declared a Fairtrade Nation before the end of the year.

The AGM was very well attended and included a very healthy representation from students at both Dundee University and Abertay University.  There was a great selection of fairtrade stalls and good to see Abertay's Save the Children Society raising money by selling Fairtrade cupcakes.

It was good to watch very interesting video from New Zealand on Fairtrade coffee which looked at the production of Fairtrade coffee in Colombia.  You can see the film below.