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Cred Jewellery is the original ethical luxury jeweller who has been pioneering a responsible supply chain for the last 10 years.
As this week’s featured supplier, we are pleased to bring you once again the summary of founder of Cred Jewellery, Greg Valerio’s talk from this year’s World Fair Trade Day.
On World Fair Trade Day 2008, [...]

Gina Johnson and her husband Philip set up Chocolate Couture to offer high quality ethical jewellery at a reasonable price.
The couple create beautiful wedding and commitment bands individually crafted in the UK from mostly recycled metals and with coloured gemstones, certified diamonds or fair trade gems.
As your ring is a symbol of love and commitment, [...]

Wow, this is…interesting!
We’ve written many times on this blog about ethical jewellery and the environmental and social impact of gold and diamond mining, and have told you all about the jewellery designers trying to make a difference.
But this is something else! Spotted on Springwise, we learn that none other than Wal-Mart has launched an ethical jewellery [...]

On Saturday 10 May we held a fair trade event in Brighton to celebrate World Fair Trade Day, at which Greg Valerio of Cred Jewellery gave a talk about the future for Fair Trade gold and diamonds.
A month on (where has the time gone?!), we thought it was about time we let you know how it went… although  I’m afraid we [...]

I was engaged on 29 February after proposing to my H2B. It wasn’t exactly planned, so there were no rings exchanged on the said day. In fact, we had no idea how to go about things. So after the initial shock/excitement of deciding to get married, we set about trying to find a ring.

I guess [...]

I’ve had a long absence from this blog… while I enjoyed my wedding and my month long honeymoon!
 
Everything was a huge success and Phil and I enjoyed every minute of our day. So here’s a little list of the best and the worst of our green successes and failures, for anyone who is planning to [...]

Our featured supplier this week is a familiar name to followers of ethical fashion.  Fifi Bijoux designs luxury ethical jewellery and features regularly in the weekend papers’ sustainable style guides (yesterday’s Times ‘Style’ magazine, for example) while also being recently shortlisted for an Observer Ethical Award.
Describing her products as ‘an intoxicating blend of conscience and luxury’, Vivien Johnston, [...]

Tim Rhode of Ingle & Rhode, ethical jewellery designers and our featured supplier of the week, shares some practical tips on choosing an engagement ring… over to Tim:
How to choose the right engagement ring?
Choosing a ring can be time consuming, expensive and stressful. So how do you find a deal that will leave both you and your [...]

For today’s post, we’re delighted to present an interview with this week’s featured ethical wedding supplier, ethical jewellery designers: Ingle & Rhode:
Name: Tim Ingle and David Rhode
Location: Piccadilly, London
Tell us a bit about yourself and your business
We offer ethical fine jewellery - engagement rings and wedding bands whose provenance we can guarantee. Our gold is [...]

I know we’re in the middle of Fairtrade Fortnight events at the moment but just to confuse you, I thought I’d let you know about an event we’re planning for World Fair Trade Day on Saturday 10 May.
We will be hosting the event with Cred Jewellery and the Sussex Fair Trade Network to raise awareness of [...]

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