Sustainable Promotional Product Ideas for Freshers' Fair 2021

After all of the uncertainty that’s continued into 2021 surrounding Covid-19 and the ongoing restrictions this brings with it, it is still unclear in which capacity Freshers' Week (or Welcome Week) 2021 events may happen this September. 

Hopefully universities will be able to hold them in person. Nothing beats the buzz of students walking around a Freshers' Fair finding out more about the various societies and groups that are available to make their university experience even richer. 

Whether Freshers' Fairs are held in person or virtually this year, it’s important to have some great products to offer students either way. 

Students are perhaps the most dominant age group when it comes to concern about the environment, with 91% of students being “fairly or very concerned” about climate change and 80% of students wanting their institution to be doing more on sustainable development (NUS)*.

With students showing solid commitment to the environment and the future of the planet, it is important to be able to help them with this cause by providing eco-friendly and sustainable merchandise to make the biggest impact. 

Wheat Straw Mobile Stand and Holder

A handy addition to any phone, this product makes for both a phone stand and a holder; the ideal gift to give to students. Made using wheat straw, a strong and durable alternative to paper and plastic. 

rHIPS.b Trolley Stick Oblong Keyring

This eco Trolley Stick Keyring will be the ideal useful gift for students when they have to do that supermarket shop each week (when they realise that’s where food used to appear from in the cupboards at home!). It has an additional larger branding area, giving you even more space for your marketing messages, and also comes complete with snap hook fitting.

It is made with rHIPS.b, a revolutionary new polymer made from 100% waste materials and fully biodegradable.

Organic T-shirt

This 100% certified organic cotton t-shirt can be branded with your logo and is the perfect gift for students at their fresher’s fair; who doesn’t love a freebie you can wear time and time again! 

Grass Seed Paper Memo Block

Students are always going to be making quick notes for revision once they get stuck into their studying, so a stack of sticky notes will always be necessary.

This memo block of 50 grass seed paper sheets will make the perfect addition to their desktop, and after use a selection of wildflower meadow seeds will grow when planted in soil. 

Hygiene Hook

The Hygiene Hook was designed in 2020 to support people through the Covid-19 pandemic by limiting the amount of surfaces people come in to contact with.

The keyring features a flat stylus tip, finger hole, keyring loop and handy door hook, perfect for when students are out and about and need to open doors, use chip and pin touch pads, soap dispensers etc. The Hygiene Hook can be branded both sides in full colour.

Kraft A5 Notebook

Another necessity when studying and taking notes in lectures is of course a handy notebook! This eco notebook with Kraft paper cover also comes with an elastic pen loop and ribbon available in a variety of colours, and can be branded to the front or back.

This notebook also supports Trees for Cities, and with every 300 Kraft Notebooks sold, Trees for Cities will plant a tree.

Stainless Steel Bottle

This stainless steel reusable drinks bottle makes for the perfect drinks bottle day-to-day, and is both BPA & PVC free.

Perfect for students to pack in their bags for the day knowing that it will not leak thanks to its screw top lid. 

The Universal Tumbler

The Universal Tumbler is perfect for hot drinks and keeps them warm for up to 2 hours. 100% recyclable; unlike other plastics it breaks down much faster if it ends up in landfill or the ocean.

Once disposed of, in a few years it becomes food for microbes, leaving behind no micro plastics, just natural remnant. 

Wheat Straw Ballpen

A real handy product, this pen also features a screen cleaner, stylus and phone stand! As well as being extremely useful, the pens’ barrel and trim is made from 60% wheat plastic from a natural and sustainable source making it eco friendly too.

Available in one colour and ready to be branded with your logo. 

Cotton Shopper Tote Bag

Of course students will need something to carry all of their sustainable goodies around in and what better than this recycled cotton tote bag. The fabric used to manufacture this bag is 70% recycled cotton from off cuts and waste cotton blended with 30% polyester rPET (recycled fabric from plastic bottles) for extra structure.

Available to be branded front and back with your logo. 

Hopefully this has helped you think of what giveaways you could provide at your Freshers' or Welcome Week events this year, with our range of useful, sustainable merchandise sure to create a lasting impression. For more product inspiration, click here