What we do
Our Commitment
We are Scotland’s Fair Trade network, supporting grassroots action across Scotland to maintain our commitment as a Fair Trade Nation, promoting Fair Trade as a solution in bringing about global wellbeing through fair, ethical and sustainable business and trade.
To ensure widespread awareness of Fair Trade
To significantly engage different sectors of Scottish society in Fair Trade
To increase the consumption and production of Fair Trade products
To gain political support and engagement for Fair Trade
To promote the role of Fair Trade in challenging inequalities in climate, global trade and society
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The session, held as part of Scotland’s Human Rights Festival, will connect everyday products – coffee, cocoa, clothing, electronics – to the human rights realities behind global supply chains.
Launching to coincide with Fairtrade Fortnight, Scottish Fair Trade has developed a new resource: Fair Trade in Scottish Public Procurement: Practical Guidance for Procurement Officers.
Join us in Edinburgh for this special edition of our Campaigning Together sessions with a particular focus on political engagement.
IN MEMORY OF CATHERINE NEWMAN
Support the Catherine Newman Youth Bursary
Created in memory of our friend and colleague Catherine Newman, this bursary will support young people in Scotland to connect with the international Fair Trade movement and become the next generation of advocates for global justice.
Catherine played a central role in organising the International Fair Trade Towns Conference when it was hosted in Edinburgh in 2025. She brought huge energy, creativity and care to the event, and was passionate about encouraging more young people to get involved in Fair Trade campaigning through initiatives like our Youth Collective.
The Catherine Newman Youth Bursary will fund one young person to attend the 2026 conference in Belgium, while helping us build a lasting fund for future youth participation opportunities.
With your support, more young people will have the chance to learn, connect and create change, just as Catherine inspired others to do.
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Scotland is a Fair Trade Nation and we are dedicated to driving a fairer, more sustainable economy.
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Join the Network
Show your support for Fair Trade producers and businesses around the world and here in Scotland who are taking a different approach.
Joining as a member of Scotland’s Fair Trade network helps us build Scotland’s support for Fair Trade.
Our members are small Fair Trade groups in communities and schools to big public organisations, businesses and individuals. Across Scotland people support Fair Trade’s drive for a fairer world.
The future of fair trade
“As we grow in numbers, backed with evidence of the impact of our work and when our voices get stronger, we can collectively make a change in the current social and economic systems, in our often-exploitative supply chains, and create a new reality where Fair Trade enterprises are recognised as the relevant business models of our time. Therein lies the future of Fair Trade.”
ROOPA MEHTA, World fair trade organization
Insights
Earlier this summer, Scottish Fair Trade was invited to take part in an expert panel discussion convened by twentyfifty, working with Scotland’s International Development Alliance (SIDA), to help one of the “Big Four” major banking group in the UK think through one of the hardest questions in responsible business: how do the producers, farmers and workers at the very end of a financing chain actually raise a concern when something goes wrong?
In this guest blog, responding to the context of the 2026 Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow, SCIAF Intern Rebecca Foster turns our attention away from the physical hurdles faced by athletes towards the invisible hurdles faced by many previously colonised nations. Read on to learn more about the high-level roundtable on debt justice hosted by the Scottish Government in partnership with SCIAF, attended by Scottish Fair Trade among others.
Many organisations are doing well on environmental issues, but there’s often a gap when it comes to people. Fair Change Co (Scottish Fair Trade’s trading subsidiary) brought on Maëlle Tholomé as a volunteer to help us understand that gap better and identify where we can support change.
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