Welcome

This site gives you information on what we do and why we do it.

The product photographs are provided to give you some idea of the quality and variety of the products that form our trade. We carry a wide range but a only a small stock of any one item, and quite often only one. So just because there is a photo on the website doesn't mean we still have the item. We will make every effort to remove photos if we sell the products, and can't replace the item quickly.

Selling online

We do not yet sell online, and have no current plans to do so.
Several of our suppliers have online ordering systems and you can reach their sites via our links page.
So for now, the best way to buy our products is to come to the shop with your UK currency or a UK cheque book and bankers guarantee card.
We also take Visa credit and debit cards, but because we do have to pay huge bank charges which reduces the money to Third World activities, however, it is more convenient for customers.

If you cannot physically come to the shop, and you have spotted an item on the website that you think you would like to buy please call us on 01482 327727 and talk to a member of staff. We would be pleased to send you an item by post, but we will need pre-payment by cheque.

Privacy policy

If you e-mail us, write to us, or in any way make yourself known to us, our promise to you is that we will not disclose any of your personal information to anyone else, and we will not "spam" you or pester you in any way.

Environmental Approach

Many people who visit us have deep concerns about society and about the environment. We share those concerns, and as a business our purpose is to redress some of the iniquitous inequalities that blight so many lives.

We acknowledge our responsibility to act in a manner which preserves the environment for use by our children. But whilst we are not perfect, we are facing the right way, and moving forward as best we can.

• We re-use materials for shop fittings.
• We avoid using materials altogether, where-ever possible.
• We re-use plastic bags, cardboard boxes where possible, and wrapping paper and other materials.
• We use re-cycled paper products in preference to virgin pulped wood paper.
• We use shredded paper as bedding litter for pets.
• We sell organic Fair Trade products.
• We sell recycled paper products.
• We sell re-used/recycled metal products (including spark plugs and make-up bags).

Many of our suppliers also share the concerns and equally are striving to reduce wastage, packaging and energy usage.

Fair Trade Recipe Book

Vegan, vegetarian, carnivore, or just plain hungry like a teenager?. The Fair Trade Cook Book Visit our FairTrade CookBook and see where you can use Fairtrade products in everyday meals.
With over three hundred recipes with
Hummus
and Harissa,
or Jamaican Baked Bananas,
or basic curry with variations,
you too can cook with Fair Trade products, and produce delicious meals, whilst supporting those who need help.

About Us

Follow About us
to see the legal stuff, and location information.

Education

Really we do need to change some hearts and minds on what life is all about, and we try to help folks learn a bit about trade and all that stuff.
Go to the education page to find out how we support teachers, organisations like churches, and other groups.
Education.

Ten Ways you can tell if you are a new Fair Trader

• Your hallway has cardboard boxes in it.
• You can spot a Fairtrade label on a packet of coffee at 50 yards.
• You can list all the FAIRTRADE labelled products in every shop within a 5 mile radius of where you live.
• You get all angry in Starbucks when you have to ask for FAIRTRADE.
• You get all angry in Tesco when there is no FAIRTRADE fruit.
• You shop at the Co-op.
• You carry "I want to buy FAIRTRADE" cards in your wallet.
• You see the five days between Boxing Day and the New Year as a "FAIRTRADE free" zone.
• You read "New Consumer" 6 times per year.
• When you changed your car you chose one with more storage space in the boot, or even an estate car.

Ten Ways you can tell if you are an old Fair Trader

• Your hallway still has cardboard boxes in it, but you run a Fairtrade Shop as well.
• You can remember the flavour of Campaign Coffee.
• You know where sikas come from and what they should be used for.
• You still have a £4.50 Jotter Block Holder next to the phone.
• Your stationery drawer contains green post-its that fall off.
• A "No Vacancies" sign at the B&B reminds you of Christmas Cards.
• You tremble with fear when Traidcraft announce a change of computer system.
• You had a Traidcraft Rep Number below 1,000.
• You make filter coffee using an ancient brown plastic filter cone.
• "Felix was a nervous cat" makes you smile.

Ten Ways you can tell if you work in a Fair Trade Shop

• You never spend your change because you will need it for the float.
• You save all of your plastic bags for re-use in the shop.
• You refuse to drink Nescafe under any circumstances.
• You can instantly tell the country of origin of a Fair Trade pair of earrings, mirror, wooden box, handbag, incense stick, elephant, etc.
• You have an unparalleled lunchtime choice of ethical, organic snack bars, chocolate, and fruit juice, all bearing the fairtrade label..
• You could find tea bags, coffee, muesli, snacks and honey with your eyes closed.
• Doing a “z” has a special meaning, you get the remains of your float back.
• You can tell it is Thursday because of all of the Sale or Return boxes you need to make up, and you can tell it is Monday because all of the Sale or Return boxes come back in again.
• You can tell it is Sunday because your car is full of cardboard boxes of Fair Trade stuff you are taking to sell in Church.
• You have bad dreams where cardboard boxes gang up on you.