Fairtrade
Fairtrade Pledge - February 2026
Upton-by-Chester High School is committed to supporting Fairtrade wherever possible. As a Fairachiever school, it is a way for us to make a difference to the lives of the people who grow the produce that many learners and members of staff enjoy. By supporting Fairtrade, we encourage a better deal for third world producers.
In particular the school will continue to:
- Support the Fairtrade Group
- Use Fairtrade products wherever possible:
- Tea, coffee, sugar and biscuits in the staffroom and at meetings
- In Food Technology and Food Nutrition activities
- In the Canteen
- In the Fairtrade Tuck Shop
- Develop our Learner run Fairtrade Shop - ‘The Hut’
- Ensure Fairtrade products are available and used, wherever possible. For example, at events in the school and the community.
- Ensure Learning about Fairtrade happens in a range of lessons and in whole school activities
- Promote Fairtrade within the school and wider community, particularly during Fairtrade Fortnight.
- Add new activities each year during Fairtrade Fortnight to promote Fairtrade.
2026 - 27
The school will relaunch our Fairtrade group.
The group will meet once per half-term with MNO.
Purpose:
- Ensure the school community are aware of the Fairtrade Pledge.
- To develop Fairtrade produce within the school
- Update the Fairtrade display and website
Evidence of Status
Congratulations on achieving the FairAchiever Award!
Kind regards,
The Schools Team
What is Fairtrade?
Millions of farmers depend on their crops to survive, but it is a risky business. When prices drop it usually spells disaster. If farmers earn less money than it costs to run their farm, they face real hardship, struggling to buy food or keep their children in school. They may even lose their land altogether.
Fairtrade makes sure that farmers and producer organisations get a fair and stable price for their products to help them support their families and invest in a better future. Find out more from www.fairtrade.org.uk
What is the FairAchiever Award?
The school has fully embedded Fairtrade into their daily life and work to raise awareness of Fairtrade in their local community.
Fairtrade at Upton-by-Chester High School
Before we began the Fairtrade committee there was little knowledge or understanding amongst staff and pupils about the Fairtrade cause. We carried out an audit in October 2008 and the main recommendations were:
- More students need to be made aware of the Fairtrade in the school, this could be done by having more posters, assemblies and events.
- The students feel that the school is a community that is trying to make the world a better place, so this should be encouraged in a widely publicised Fairtrade fortnight.
- Stalls at school events are noticed, so is there the opportunity to have them at other events? There was a real passion to take part in raising awareness of Fairtrade issues once staff and students knew the aims of the Fairtrade movement.
The impact of the lessons and activities which staff and students are involved in is high. Both groups have become highly motivated in furthering the cause. Staff and students now arrange their own sub group meetings and come up with new ideas on their own.
