YORK St John University has become the latest organisation in the city to be awarded official Fairtrade status.
The award came on World Fair Trade Day on Saturday.
Since 2007, the university has been working towards successfully achieving Fairtrade status, developing five specific goals set by the Fairtrade Universities Initiative, part of the Fairtrade Foundation.
The five goals set by the Fairtrade Foundation included establishing a Fairtrade policy, making Fairtrade products available in all the university’s campus shops and cafés, setting up a Fairtrade steering group, serving Fairtrade products at all meetings hosted by the university and an ongoing commitment towards campaigning for increased Fairtrade consumption on campus.
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