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Development agencies recognised the important role that consumers could play to improve the situation for producers. By buying direct from farmers at better prices, helping to strengthen their organisations and marketing their produce directly through their own one world shops and catalogues, the charities offered consumers the opportunity to buy products which were bought on the basis of a fair trade.

The fairtrade Mark is an independent consumer label which appears on products as an independent guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal.

Traidcraft

Traidcraft is the UK's leading fair trade organisation, fighting poverty through trade. Established in 1979 as a Christian response to poverty, the organisation combines a trading company and a development charity with a vision that sees a world freed from the scandal of poverty, where trade is just, and people and communities can flourish. Traidcraft pioneers the development of fair trade by:

building lasting relationships with small-scale producers in developing countries
supporting people to trade out of poverty
working to bring about trade justice
being open and transparent about our practices.

Why do we sell Traidcraft products in church?

Although many products can now be bought at your local supermarket, it is still important that you buy products from church. You demonstrate your willingness to fight poverty through your action buy buying products that you know will help their producers and their families in the third world. It is in fact allowing you to put your faith into practice, albeit in a small way, but many small actions make for a large voice. It may be that you have actually been surprised in that the quality of the goods sold is very good and there is actually no need to buy non-fairtrade goods. We don't actually mind if you buy some fairtrade products from supermarkets - we do as well - as long as you buy fairtrade products.

More information can be found at the following websites:

Traidcraft: http://www.traidcraft.co.uk/

Fairtrade: http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

Trading Fairly: www.tradingfairly.co.uk

How to order Traidcraft products from church

Traidcraft will aim to be on sale at St Oswald's church on Parade Sundays, which is usually the 2nd Sunday of the month. We have catalogues that can be borrowed or browsed at each church on request. This will help you to order items - we need the page number, the product reference number and a brief description.

Please telephone your order to 01943 878878 or e-mail it to traidcraft@guiseleyparish.org.uk and we can arrange to deliver your goods on any Sunday, stock permitting.

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