Overview of application process

It’s easy to apply – just follow these simple instructions:

• Click on the Home Page to register.
• Fill in the registration form and press the ‘Submit’ button.
• You will receive a confirmation email from the Fairtrade Foundation.
• Now you may begin uploading your documents whenever you like.
• Use your email and password to access your ‘My Fairtrade School’ files. You will see a list of Five Goals.
• When you are ready, click on the button to the left of the Goal where you want to begin.
• You will see the evidence that is required for that goal.
• Browse to find your documents and double click on them. When you have selected all your files, click on ‘Upload now’.
• If you are uploading photographs or scanned documents, please ensure that any single file is no more than 500 kilobytes.
• Now you have begun to enter files, you can delete or add to them anytime.
• When you are happy that you have supplied all the evidence required, press the ‘Submit’ button and your application will be sent to an assessor.
• Within a few weeks you will receive an email to tell you that your application has been assessed.
• Go into your ’My Fairtrade School’ file again and you will see the assessor’s comments. No school will ever ‘fail’ but you might be asked to supply some additional evidence.
• Simply add the missing files whenever you are ready and submit them again.
• When you are successful you will receive our official certificate and ‘We are a Fairtrade School’ logo.
• Continue with your activities, and don’t forget to renew your Fairtrade School status in a year’s time.