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When the people of Garstang, an ordinary market trown in the North West of England made their self declaration as the world’s first Fair Trade Town in the year it attracted media from as far as NHK in Japan and ABC News in Australia. Read here the news stories from the past that make Fair Trade Towns what they are today.


2019-10-18 2019-10-20International Fair Trade Towns Conference 2019

2018-10-17 2018-10-21The Fair Trade Towns Conference in Madrid coming soon

2018-03-23 2018-03-25Fair Trade Campaigns National Conference in the USA

2017-09-14 2017-09-1711-th Fair Trade Towns Conference – Saarbrucken (D) 14-17 September. Register now.

2017-09-14 2017-09-17Next Fair Trade Towns Conference will be held in 3 European countries

2017-09-14 2017-09-17International Fair Trade Towns Conference in Saarbrücken

2017-06-19 2017-06-19Northern Ireland a Fairtrade devolved region

2017-04-20 2017-04-30Join the International Festival Of Fair Trade Walks

2016-03-27 2016-03-27Switzerland becomes part of the Fair Trade Town family

2016-03-14 2016-03-14COMSA empuja las campa?as en Marcala (Honduras)

2015-09-29 2015-09-29New Global Goals launched to end poverty by 2030

2011-06-04 2011-06-041,000 Fair Trade Towns – Join in!

2024-09-20Global Fair Trade Towns: 2024 Overview and Key Developments

2023-12-07Who will host the International Fair Trade Towns Conference in 2025?

2022-09-08International Fair Trade Towns Conference 2022

2021-07-22Think Globally, Act locally: A new guide to sustainable procurement for local authorities

2021-07-22European Commission confirms Fair Trade public procurement is a great way to achieve social sustainability objectives

2020-06-26International Fair Trade Town Conference 2020 postponed to 2021

2020-06-18The role of Fair Trade Towns in the time of Covid-19 and post-pandemic time

2020-04-29Strengthening the IFTTSC