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Brighton’s favourite fair trade hot spot, FAIR is celebrating the arrival of the latest ethical fashions with a fantastic 20% off the brand new collections by: Nancy Dee Bibico People Tree – including the new range by Orla Kiely Whether it’s a unique piece of jewellery to complement your wedding gown or a fairest of [...]

Belated congratulations to Greg Valerio – founder of Cred Jewellery and now full-time fair trade campaigner – who won the Global Campaigner category of the Observer Ethical Awards 2011 back in June. Up against Avaaz and Greenpeace, Greg didn’t think he had any chance of winning but for all of us who know him and [...]

One of the easiest ways to get Fairtrade in front of your wedding guests is to plonk it in the middle of each table. A bottle of Fairtrade white or red will give your friends and relatives a warm, fuzzy feeling – not just from the alcohol but from knowing the good it’s doing in [...]

Continuing our fair trade wedding theme for Fairtrade Fortnight, we’ve dug into our (personal) archives and found these tasty Fairtrade Divine chocolate eggs that we offered our guests as favours at our own wedding back in 2005. Perfect for munching while you wait to join the buffet queue. We made the little bags ourselves – [...]

In honour of Fairtrade Fortnight, we invite you to (virtually) tuck in to Jenny and Phil’s yummy fair trade wedding cake. They made it with their own fair hands from Fairtrade, organic and local ingredients. Read the full story of Jenny and Phil’s ethical wedding. What next? Talk to other brides and grooms in the [...]

I thought it was about time I got around to telling you about the launch of Fairtrade gold.  After building it up all these months I missed the launch date! But now it’s Fairtrade Fortnight so what better time? And what better person to tell you about it than Greg Valerio, founder of Cred Jewellery, [...]

Leblas can now give customers the choice between fair trade ethical gold or recycled – as they still feel it’s important to use gold that is already above ground. Take a look at the Leblas fair trade wedding ring collection The collection starts at just £245 for 9ct options (perfect for our economic climate!) and [...]

Fair trade jewellers, CRED invite you to take a look at their beautiful collection and meet their designers in person. When: Friday 26 November, 10am-6pm Where: Unit 1.03 Clerkenwell Workshops, 27-31 Clerkenwell Close, Farringdon, London EC1R 0AT Find out more about CRED Jewellery. Katie

The mainstream jewellery industry is finally getting ethical. We reported back in April that the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation (FLO) and the Association of Responsible Mining (ARM) had launched Fairmined and Fairtrade standards for gold and precious metals. Now the National Association of Goldsmiths (NAG) is putting together an ethics working committee to help connect socially [...]

We’re delighted to report that Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International (FLO) and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) have launched the first ever third party independent certification for gold, opening up market opportunities for millions of impoverished artisanal small-scale miners and their families. This means that by the time you say ‘I do’ you could be [...]