Click here to find out about: buying Fairtrade products ; businesses ; campaign action ; your local Fairtrade group ; schools; places of worship.
First – check out current action suggestions on the Activities page here
Then you could get involved in any of these areas:
Buy Fairtrade Products!
With thousands of products now available from single origin coffees to delicious chocolate and fashionable cotton T shirts, from food to flowers and cosmetics to gold jewellery, you can change your everyday products to Fairtrade today.
Where you can buy Fairtrade products
In Gosport
All of the large supermarkets in Gosport Borough stock a range of Fairtrade certified products. The Coop is a longstanding champion of Fairtrade and has a wide range (including flowers and the widest selection of Fairtrade wines of any supermarket in the Borough). Aldi’s also stocks Fairtrade flowers. All of Waitrose and Partners’ own brand tea, coffee and chocolate confectionary is Fairtrade. Lidl has a large range of Fairtrade chocolate and confectionary products. Corner shops, too, have some Fairtrade products from chocolate to ice cream.
Nationally and on line
Visit the Fairtrade Foundation website to find out the full range of products and where you can buy them. and down load the National Fairtrade Buying Guide 2025.
Ask for Fairtrade
in cafes and restaurants. If your local food store does not have the Fairtrade product you are looking for, speak to the manager and ask them to stock it.
Introduce your friends to Fairtrade products.
Say thank you with a bunch of Fairtrade flowers, bring a bottle of Fairtrade wine to a dinner party or make them a cup of refreshing Fairtrade tea.
Persuade your workplace, place of worship, school or club to switch to Fairtrade:
Find out more about Fairtrade and spread the word.
Visit www.fairtrade.org.uk for news, ideas, events and information.
Get involved with Fairtrade Fortnight. Find out what’s going on in Gosport.
In recent years we have been focussing on the challenges posed by the climate crisis facing farmers in the low income countries of the Global South; how Fairtrade enables them to earn a living income and provides training to equip farmers to tackle the problems caused by climate change. In 2023, we looked at how climate change threatens the continued production of some of our favourite foods. By choosing Fairtrade products and adopting more sustainable lifestyles ourselves we can support farmers’ efforts.
There’s lots of information about Fairtrade Fortnight activities in Gosport in recent years in the Archive pages. For the most up to date information go to This Year – If there is anything you’d like to be involved with or you have some new ideas we’d love to hear from you. Please contact us.
Campaign
Fairtrade addresses key issues from climate justice to rights of producers to a living income and the empowerment of women though specific projects and advocacy. Visit our Campaigns page for more details.
Work with your local Fairtrade group.
Fairtrade Communities have groups of volunteers who work with their local Council, businesses and local organisations, to promote Fairtrade products and an understanding of the work Fairtrade does to support projects to bring Fairtrade to more farmers and workers: it provides training to support farmers in improving their farms, builds demand for their produce and strengthens their voices to negotiate a fairer deal – so they can truly trade their way out of poverty.
The Fairtrade Foundation had published a Campaigners’ Guide to help individuals and Fairtrade Grassroots Groups, like Gosport Fairtrade Action, find the most effective actions for them to take. GFA does many of them but not all! Download the guide and see if you could help us achieve more!
Gosport Fairtrade Action would love to hear from anyone interested in knowing more about Fairtrade or attending a event or if you would like to hold an event (more about the group here )
We meet infrequently and keep in touch by email and WhatsApp.
These are some of the things we do:
- We keep an eye on who’s selling Fairtrade products and make sure our lists are up to date on our website and on printed guides we produce.
- We give talks about Fairtrade
- We work with local businesses to help promote Fairtrade products
- We set up stalls and displays at various events
- We organise events, especially during Fairtrade Fortnight which is late Feb- March each year. See our “Recent events” pages for what we have done in recent years.
- We support local schools and churches which are working towards Fairtrade status
- We join in campaigns organised nationally by the Fairtrade Foundation
- We maintain this website and respond to those who contact us
If you could help with any of these activities – just get in touch.
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page updated 2025-04-09