Resources



We recommend you visit Birmingham Archives and Heritage to find resources particular to Birmingham, or access material through our community libraries, like 'The Liberty Box' Brigitte Winsor, Izzy Mohammed, Marcus Belben 2008, for which FAB was a partner.








Fairtrade Foundation:

http://www.fairtradeschools.org/activities/
http://www.fairtradeschools.org/schools-area/
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/schools/
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/category.htm?30
http://www.fairtraderesource.org/
http://www.cafod.org.uk/secondary/fairtrade
http://www.actionaid.org.uk/100006/schools.html
Youth media and engagement

http://practicalparticipation.co.uk/yes/
http://meshedmedia.com/
http://podnosh.com/





Other books


Fighting the Banana Wars and other Fairtrade battles, Harriet Lamb 2008


In Fighting the Banana Wars and Other Fairtrade Battles, Executive Director of the Fairtrade Foundation in the UK Harriet Lamb relives the dramatic campaigns and successes that have brought Fairtrade to this point, outlines the hurdles still to be overcome and shows what we can all do to help achieve global Fairtrade


Coffins, Cats and Fairtrade Sex Toys, Jeremy Piercy, 2009


is a light-hearted look at what fair trade means to individual people. It's also the story of a fantastically successful business, charting the growth of SHARED EARTH from an unknown shop in York to the UK's largest fair trade retailer. It asks questions too. Is fair trade a long term trend or a short term fashion? Will there be a fair trade label for crafts as well as food? Is global warming a more important problem than poverty?



Fair City,  Warren Bardsley 2008

Tells the story of Lichfield's campaign to become a Fairtrade City. it is set against the background of the trade justice movement in Britain from the 1960's and the drive to abolish slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is by local author, Warren Bardsley who has worked in Sierra Leone and is a member of Fairtrade Lichfiel'd campaign group.  As George Alagiah writes in his commendation "I hope this book will encourage other communities to make similar jouneys". - can be ordered from Warren Bardsley (w.bardsley39@btinternet.com) or Michael Hawkes at hawkes.madiba@btinternet.com