People Tree's Social Review

Safia and producers

People Tree carried out its fourth biennial Social Review in September 2006. The review aims to evaluate the impact of People Tree's Fair Trade work, based on responses to questionnaires sent out to all stakeholders - producer partners, customers, staff and investors. Representatives from each stakeholder group discuss findings, analyse improvements and assess where action needs to be taken. The review gives People Tree the chance to regularly revisit the objectives of the mission and evaluate performance against Fair Trade standards. We hope that this will help others in the Fair Trade movement and will be of special interest to all our customers, producer partners, supporters, staff and friends whose close partnership has helped miracles happen!

People Tree's Mission

To support producer partners' efforts towards economic independence and control over their environment and to challenge the power structures that undermine their rights to a livelihood.
To protect the environment and use natural resources sustainably throughout our trading and to promote environmentally responsible lifestyles and environmental initiatives to create new models to promote sustainability.
To supply customers with good quality products, with friendly and efficient service and build awareness to empower consumers and producers to participate in Fair Trade and environmentally sustainable solutions.
To provide a supportive environment to all stakeholders and promote dialogue and understanding between them.
To set an example to business and the government of a Fair Trade model of business based on partnership, people-centred values and sustainability.