Students campaigning at the Mass Lobby for Trade Justice during the Make Poverty History campaign in 2005. Photo (c) Simon Rawles/TJM

Once your university has achieved Fairtrade status, don't stop there. Fairtrade status involves an ongoing commitment to the principles of Fairtrade.

As far as possible, everything your school or university does (and everything it buys and sells) should declare that it is committed to poor farmers.

Check out who represents the student body on the Fairtrade Steering Group - it may be members of the People & Planet group, or another campaign group, or a student union representative. Hopefully, the steering group will be active and they'll welcome new ideas. If not, then get involved!

If your school, college or university has gone Fairtrade, then it can be a great way to persuade them to do more. New Fairtrade products are becoming available all the time, including Fairtrade cotton and footballs. So why not insist that staff uniforms, school uniforms and sports kit are all made from Fairtrade cotton?

The Fairtrade Mark does not yet apply to manufactured products, but the issue of workers' rights in these areas is still crucial. Look at the rest of the supply chain: you could ask your school or university to ensure that the goods they buy and use are not manufactured in sweatshops. Find out more on People & Planet.

Also, try to link Fairtrade with the Make Trade Fair campaign. To help poor farmers even more, you could campaign to change the unfair rules of world trade so that they work for small-scale producers as well as rich multinationals.

A whopping total of 18 MILLION people have signed the Big Noise petition to Make Trade Fair, including farmers, city workers, community leaders and students.