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The Fair Trade Wedding List company - and Ethical Weddings supplier - Fairgift®, is offering help to any Wrapit customers worried about their wedding list. They are also offering advice for couples thinking about setting up an online wedding list for the first time.
With the recent announcement that the wedding list company Wrapit has gone into [...]

Find out what my friends and I are getting up to in the world of ethical fashion!
While Primark reels from Panorama’s high profile attack, 3 ethics girls from Sussex set out to show the fairer face of fashion at the Horsham EcoFair this month.
At 2pm on Sunday 20 July, three ethical businesswomen from Sussex will be striding [...]

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 enjoyed writing my post about frilly ethical knickers so much I’ve decided I’m going to do more posts pointing out pretty ethical and green wedding things I’ve spotted…
My friend who is getting married in July - and trying to go as ethical as possible, of course! (I feel a bit guilty actually as all [...]

For today’s post, we’re heading back to this week’s featured supplier, Fifi Bijoux, to find out a bit about her project, ‘From Little Acorns’, which shows us how small things can make a big difference…
What is the ‘From Little Acorns’ project?
‘From Little Acorns’ came about when Vivien Johnston of Fifi Bijoux met Margaret Tumuwire , [...]

We are really excited about our World Fair Trade Day event this Saturday 10 May!
Greg Valerio of Cred Jewellery is going to be telling us all about the process of seeking Fair Trade certification for gold and diamonds.  So if you’re on the lookout for an ethical engagement or wedding ring, are confused about conflict diamonds [...]

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 [...]

Wow… I just received Cred Jewellery’s Spring 2008 newsletter and out of curiosity clicked on the link to US website, The Consumerist, where they were debating the recent Reuters article on Cred’s efforts - working with the Fairtrade Foundation and the Association for Responsible Mining - to find a way to certify gold as ‘Fairtrade’ by [...]

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