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Case Study 1: Thomas Adams School
Case Study 2: St. Benedict’s College
Case Study 3: The Young Co-operatives
Case Study 4: Whitby High School
Fairtrade products and suppliers
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This report is from St. Benedict’s College in Colchester, Essex:
St Benedict’s College is delivering a programme to explore the idea that social and co-operative enterprises have a distinct and valuable role to play in creating a strong, sustainable and socially inclusive economy.
Students are developing an understanding of the key role social and co-operative enterprises play in tackling a wide range of social and environmental issues.
They are also developing a commercial and entrepreneurial awareness by setting up and running their own mini-businesses with a focus on ethical trading.
The project is being delivered to our students via PSHE/Citizenship, Religious Education, English, Business Studies, extra-curricular activities and social enterprise events.
The programme is being delivered in collaboration with a number of partner primary and secondary schools, Essex Education Business Partnership (EEBP), local businesses e.g.NE Essex Co-operative Society, Colchester Fair Trade Town Steering Group, Business Dynamix, Christian, Traidcraft and Young Co-operatives.
In July of last term St Benedict’s was successful in becoming an Enterprise Education pathfinder school and received funding to promote Fairtrade and Social Enterprise Education in a cluster of schools in the Colchester area.
This is an exciting new initiative and offers both St Benedict’s College and our prospective partner schools an opportunity to forge closer links, whilst at the same time enriching the enterprise programme our students follow.
Students at St Benedict’s and from a cluster of feeder primary and secondary schools to set up and run Fairtrade Young Co-operative companies, serving the needs of their schools and their communities.
St Benedict’s has recently opened a new Fairtrade Shop and 20 of our Year 9 and Year 10 students have been trained to set up and run their own Fairtrade Young Co-operative. The structure of their new business is such that branch companies will be set up in partner primary and secondary schools to run Fairtrade shops. St Benedict’s students will support the shops in our partner primary and secondary schools through visits and video –conferencing. Selected students will represent each school and will be encouraged to communicate electronically once a week. The use of web cams will personalise the process further and will give students an understanding of how they are used in business and industry.
All schools within the cluster will raise awareness of the key role social and co-operative enterprises play in trying to tackle a wide range of social and environmental issues and how they operate in all aspects of the economy.
With our partners, we are planning a Fairtrade Convention to be held at the end of the summer term. This showcase event will be an opportunity for us to celebrate the year’s achievements and will include an inter-school ‘Fairtrade’ awareness competition.
Photo: St. Benedict’s Fairtrade shop
Photo: Students from St. Benedicts giving training to local primary school students so they can set up a branch company to run Fairtrade shops.
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