Have a Fairtrade Christmas

Fairtrade

You can make a difference while you eat, drink and make merry!

Fairtrade goods come from mainly small independent producers who are paid a fair price for their products, and where workers receive fair wages and conditions. Profits made from the products goes towards clean water supplies, training, education, or other things of benefit to the community.

Here’s some ideas:

Shopping

Look for the Fairtrade label when shopping for your Christmas supplies. Most major supermarkets including Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsburys, and the Co-Op stock not just Fairtrade tea and coffee, but sugar, pineapples, grapefruit, bananas, nuts, cakes, Christmas puddings, snacks, spreads, wine and beer, flowers, and chocolate!

Oxfam shops stock a range of yummy Fairtrade goodies from coffee to Christmas cakes, and loads of tempting gift items, with prices to suit every pocket.

Order your supplies, Christmas cards, wrapping paper and gifts online from Fairtrade suppliers, and save yourself from having to go out in the cold while you’re helping to make a fairer world!

Why not split a bulk purchase with neighbours, friends or work colleagues, and save on postage?

For more information about ethical shopping and where to buy Fairtrade goods, check out the links below:

Manchester sites

Fair-trade gifts

Buy a gift that really makes a difference

After-shave and socks don’t do it for you? Why not buy them a loo instead? Or maybe seeds, tools, water, medicine, food, goats, piglets, school starter packs, and more, for people who really need them: