Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC) is a Development Education Centre close to the heart of Reading town centre. They work with schools and community groups to raise the profile of global issues and promote action for sustainability, human rights and social justice.
RISC is home to one of the UK’s largest Fair Trade shops. A member of BAFTS (British Association of Fair Trade Shops), it raises awareness of fair trade through the products it sells as well as encouraging the use of eco-friendly household products.
A large section of the shop is devoted to a resource centre selling teaching packs on global citizenship, and non-fiction on various global issues, as well as fiction from majority world authors, and a large selection of children’s books further promoting global citizenship at an early age.
The onsite RISC Global Cafe is a fully licensed venue providing daytime and evening drinks using fairly traded and local products where possible. Live music and events often take place in the cafe. The cafe is also home to Tutu’s Ethiopian Table who provides food in the cafe from lunchtime through to the evening.
