How Fair?
Fair Trade is a partnership between producers and consumers which ensures producers receive good working conditions and fair prices.
Fair Trade principles include:
- Paying fair prices to the producers which reflect the true cost of production - world market prices often do not cover even the raw materials!
- Supporting producer organisations in their social development projects- many provide health and education facilities.
- Promoting the empowerment of women.
- Advising on product development to increase access to markets.
- Encouraging environmental responsibility.
- Committing to long term relationships to provide stability and security.
- Campaigning to highlight the unequal system of world trade.
As a member of the British Association of Fair Trade Shops I am bound by the association to sell a minimum of 70 percent of goods which have been traded through recognised sources. Everything I sell has been supplied by others who subscribe to the same principles that I do and are registered as such.











