Fair Trade Communities is an initiative developed by FTAANZ in order to provide a generic set of goals or guidelines which institutions and communities across Australia and New Zealand can adopt as a focus to promoting fair trade within their area of influence. Participating organisations work towards achieving a set of goals to promote fair trade within their procurement practices, workplaces and membership or community (where relevant). The program can be applied to a wide range of institutions including councils, government offices, universities, schools, faith groups and workplaces.

Participation in Fair Trade Communities helps institutions meet corporate and social responsibility goals. It will help build awareness among consumers of inequalities in international trade and empower people to make socially responsible choices. And it will provide a higher standard of living for disadvantaged producers in developing countries.

Specific guidelines have been developed for councils, universities, faith groups, workplaces and schools.

***Note - there is no longer any cost to become a Fair Trade Workplace, Faith Group or School***

The initiative has been developed from the experience of the hugely successful UK Fair Trade Towns program. As an indicator of the program’s popularity in the UK, as at March 2007 there are 220 declared Fairtrade Towns and a further 250 towns working toward Fairtrade status in the UK.

To see the growing list of organisations signing up to become Fair Trade Communities, click here.

Downloads now available:

• Fairtrade Procurement Guide - Government, business and community group guide to sourcing Fairtrade certified products
• 2 x A5 Flyer - Fair Trade Communities (Aust) (340KB pdf)

• Guidelines for Councils including the six goals (104KB pdf)
• Council Application Form (77KB doc)
• Sample Council Resolution as PDF (140kb) or Word document Goal 1
• 2 x A5 Flyer - Fair Trade Councils (Aust) (380KB pdf)

• Guidelines for Australian and New Zealand Universities (360KB pdf)
• Universities Application Form (100KB pdf)
• 2 x A5 Flyer - Fair Trade Universities (Aust) (380KB pdf)
• FTAANZ Media Release - RMIT and Macquarie take top spot as Australia's first Fair Trade Universities.pdf

• Guidelines for Australian Workplaces (107KB pdf)
• Guidelines for New Zealand Workplaces (177KB pdf)
• Workplace Application Form (70KB pdf)
• 2 x A5 Flyer - Fair Trade Workplaces (Aust) (380KB pdf)

• Guidelines for Australian Schools (107 KB pdf)
• Guidelines for New Zealand Schools (330KB pdf)
• Case Study - New Zealand's First Fair Trade School (400KB pdf)
• Schools Application Form (70KB pdf)
• 2 x A5 Flyer - Fair Trade Schools (Aust) (380KB pdf)

• Guidelines for Australia Faith Groups (107KB pdf)
• Guidelines for New Zealand Faith Groups (343KB pdf)
• Faith Group Application Form (70KB pdf)
• Click here for fair trade worship resources for churches
• 2 x A5 Flyer - Fair Trade Faith Groups (Aust) (380KB pdf)