The Fairer World shop is now open to customers to browse the contents of the shelves and make their purchases inside the shop, rather than being served at the shop entrance.
The core shop hours remain at 11.00 to 5.00, Monday to Saturday, but the shop is usually open either side of those times and on Sunday afternoons, too. Card payments remain the most frequent method of payment, but cash is welcome, as are bank transfers and cheques.
Some photographs of the stock on sale can be seen on the previous post, courtesy of Christine. Big thank you to her, as ever. Please do browse the rest of the website while you are here!
Short stock update
Fairer World has this year’s Christmas cards from Amnesty International and Transform Trade (which used to be called Traidcraft Exchange) as well as previous years’ Traidcraft Christmas cards.
Our main wrapping paper this year “Mountains Giftwrap”, which is from Nepal and made out lokta, a rapidly regenerating shrub, so it is both fair trade and sustainable. Supplied to us by one of the oldest fair trade companies: One Village.
Milk chocolate Advent calendars are very low stock at Fairer World. Meaningful Chocolate were unable to manufacture as many Real Advent calendars as they planned and were unable to fulfil our most recent order to them. All of our suppliers of Divine milk choc Advent calendars do not have any in stock in their warehouses, so we are unable to replenish our dwindling stocks. Dark choc Advent calendars are in better supply.
Fairer World has found a new supplier for Divine chocolate and now has the full range of Divine available, both seasonal chocolate – including milk and dark chocolate coins, dark choc mint and ginger thins, 12 mini bar tasting sets and Joyful flavoured milk chocolate 180g bar – plus all the 90g and 35g bars, hot chocolate varieties and cocoa.
We have a range of (expensive) Cocoa Loco Organic and Fairtrade chocolate truffles and “cathedral” packs of flavoured chocolate, plus Seed and Bean Organic Fairtrade choc bars.
Fairer World has the full available range of Zaytoun Palestinian food products, including Caramelised, Roasted Chilli and Smoked almonds, but Medjoul dates 500g size and Maftoul are out-of-stock at Zaytoun’s warehouse. Zaytoun tells us they are very busy. We will re-order these products soon. Our Palestinian crafts at present are from previous years – including glass baubles from Bethlehem, kufiyas and some pottery from Hebron plus a range of olive wood products.
At the moment our main new crafts are Lanka Kade painted wooden toys, jigsaws and Noahs Ark from Sri Lanka and Just Trade Mexican jewellery.
Having found a source of cash for ordering, at last, we will be ordering from some of our other craft suppliers in the next few days.
Thought clothing company – the source of the best-selling bamboo socks – has been taken over, so we don’t quite know what the future will hold, but we have managed to place a big order before this happened, so Fairer World will have some stock in the short-term. A second big order of socks from Fairer World has been caught up in the change of company and has been consequently delayed.
Price lists
A new food price list is available here and on the Price Lists page. A new cleaning and household products price list and a new short-dated foods and old stock cleaning products price list will be issued shortly; until then, please use the existing lists here.