Fairtrade

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.

Although we used to sell products from Traidcraft at church, it was found that the rate of sales has reduced as Fairtrade goods became easier and cheaper to buy in supermarkets and other high street shops. The decision has therefore been take to stop selling products at church and instead to campaign on behalf of producers in third world countries by promoting Fairtrade products more generally and by keeping awareness of these products alive within the parish.

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

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