'Comic Relief Loves Fairtrade Chocolate!' Activity

Tell the 'Comic Relief Loves Fairtrade Chocolate' story with your pupils using a fun, simple script with downloadable props. You can even finish it with the Red Nose's Quiz!

This simple interactive activity will help your pupils understand the basic principles of Fairtrade, with a focus on the chocolate industry and why Comic Relief absolutely supports Fairtrade.

Comic Relief Loves Fairtrade Chocolate! activity (5.7 MB)

You can use this resource as an assembly or class based activity. Just print off and use when you're ready!

Why is Comic Relief involved?

Comic Relief has a serious commitment to tackling poverty and social injustice. Since 1985 we have raised £600 million, with every penny donated by the public going to projects in the UK and in some of the poorest countries in the world.

However, as well as making grants and raising awareness, Comic Relief is constantly looking for long-term solutions to the bigger problems that keep some of the world's poorest people poor. Ideas that we hope will one day end the need for aid or charity altogether. We believe fairer trade is one of these.

Many poor farmers and workers in the developing world simply do not get a fair deal for all their hard work, especially when producing the things we use, wear or eat every day. We have supported projects across Africa that look at ways of dealing with this.

In Ghana we have worked with Kuapa Kokoo, a co-operative of small-scale cocoa farmers, to help them get a better price for what they grow and become self-reliant. In October 2000, as part of the Comic Relief commitment to fairer trade, we worked with Divine Chocolate to launch our very own Fairtrade chocolate bar: Dubble.

Since Dubble was launched over 10 million Dubble bars have been sold - supporting more than 45,000 Kuapa Kokoo cocoa growers in Ghana and promoting Fairtrade in the UK.

Through these teaching resources, we hope to show young people that they have a part in this too and that through their shopping, they have the power to help create a brighter, fairer future for everyone.

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Once you've run the Comic Relief Loves Fairtrade Chocolate activity, you can teach your students all about Fairtrade and cocoa with the comprehensive lesson plans on this website.