New Fairer World price lists
New Fairer World price lists are now available to download for Food Products, Cleaning and Household Products and Short-date Foods & Old Stock Cleaning Products, each dated for 22.02.24. There is low stock on most items on the Short-date Foods & Old Stock Cleaning Products list. (See our orders and deliveries page for how to order.)
Fairer World sales increasing
Charlie has recently finished our Quarterly VAT accounts for the period 1.10.23 to 31.12.23 and can see that sales are increasing both at the Fairer World shop and also on church stalls. Thank you very much to everyone.
Easter eggs and seasonal chocolate – all in stock
Fairer World has Divine milk chocolate speckled mini eggs and dark chocolate mini eggs available. There are no Divine milk chocolate mini eggs this year, so we have obtained some from Tony’s and Cocoa Loco.
Fairer World has Divine dark chocolate + raspberry flat eggs and milk chocolate + salted caramel flat eggs, plus a few dark choc + raspberry hollow boxed eggs.
Our Meaningful Chocolate Company eggs are almost the same as previous years: milk choc boxed Real Easter eggs and dark choc boxed Real Easter eggs plus Real Easter Egg milk choc hen’s egg size eggs in a Fun Pack. All of these have an Easter story book / leaflet supplied with them. Special Edition milk choc boxed eggs have now sold out.
We also have some Cocoa Loco hand made organic (and expensive) chocolate mini eggs in three varieties and other seasonal chocolate.
And, new to us, Tony’s milk chocolate boxed large eggs, milk choc mini eggs and mini choc egg assortment.
More details on the food price list!
Palestinian products
Palestinian products are selling particularly well as customers respond in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Fairer World has most sizes of olive oil in stock, plus four varieties of loose olive oil soap (i.e. not wrapped), with wrapped olive oil soaps on order, and stocks of Medjoul dates. Zaytoun has recently emailed us to tell us about the difficulties being faced at present, saying the violence and restrictions are affecting every aspect of daily life in the West Bank as well as agriculture and trade. Full text of this email is at the Fairer World shop. Maftoul remains out-of-stock both at Fairer World and at Zaytoun’s warehouse.
(See also our dedicated Palestinian products page.)
20th Anniversary of York as a Fairtrade City
Next month, March 2024, will see the 20th anniversary of York being declared a Fairtrade City, an important landmark, steered by York Fair Trade Forum https://fairtradeyork.org.uk/. Details of how the Fairer World shop will mark the occasion will be in the next Fairer World update.
28th Anniversary of Fairer World opening at 84 Gillygate
1st February 2024 was the 28th anniversary of Fairer World opening the shop at 84 Gillygate. (We had previously had a short-let shop in Jubbergate and, before that, one in Goodramgate, the latter being operated as York Traidcraft).
30th Anniversary of Fairtrade Fortnight and date of the Fortnight moved
This year Fairtrade Fortnight is celebrating its 30th anniversary and has moved the date of the Fortnight to September – Mon 9 to Sun 22 Sept 2024. This move to September is due to be on a permanent basis. This year’s theme has not yet been announced. More details at www.fairtrade.org.uk.
Stock update
Fairer World has been able to start ordering from Essential Trading once again as our recovery from Covid-caused disruption continues. Essential Trading is a wholefood co-operative like Suma, and supports fair trade like Suma does. It stocks many of the same lines as Suma, but some different ones, too. As a result we have the return of Essential Trading own brand organic dark chocolate spread and organic chocolate hazelnut spread, Tropical Wholefoods organic chewy banana chips, Clipper decaf organic instant coffee 500g size and Zapatista organic ground coffee and beans from South Mexico.
On the cleaning and household products front, we have now obtained most 5 litre size containers of the Bio-D and Ecover lines which we stock, so customers can do their own refills at home, if they wish. Any 5 litre containers we don’t happen to have in stock at any time, we would be pleased to order quickly (and we make deliveries, so customers do not need to carry the heavy containers home themselves). D2w black refuse sacks are once more available in a more economical 20 roll size.
We understand that Ma’s coconut milk and Just Trading Scotland lentils have been discontinued by True Origin, who are the importers of these products into the UK.