The Fairer World shop is open 11.00am to 5.00pm, 6 days a week, Monday to Saturday. Customers are not admitted inside the Fairer World shop, however, but are being served by staff from the front entrance. Payment is usually by card (or by bank transfer, or by cheque), please, although some customers have occasionally paid with the correct amount of cash.
News about our suppliers
Traidcraft, which was previously our biggest supplier, went into administration at the end of January this year. The impact of Traidcraft’s closure on our stock position is still being felt, although we have been working hard to provide substitute products where possible.
Some former Traidcraft products have been purchased by a new company https://www.wearefairtrade.com/ and mixed with non-fair trade products on its website. The best before dates on the products, the limited range of products concerned, the small discounts for bulk purchases and our present lack of cash has meant that we considered that buying from this new company was not suitable for Fairer World, for the moment at least.
Fairer World has found new suppliers for Cafedirect coffee and Divine chocolate, however, enabling us to have more products in stock. New sources of fair trade tea have been hard for us to find, with the result that Clipper tea products dominate the tea shelves. Sources of fair trade biscuits and muesli are proving to be the biggest challenges for us – we haven’t found any so far but are still searching. Much of the fair trade dried fruit products which Traidcraft used to include in its range remains stubbornly out-of-stock at other wholesalers. We keep watching and waiting for them to re-appear.
Updated price lists now available!
Fairer World has brought out new price lists for Food Products, Cleaning and Household Products and Short-dated Food Products, each dated 5.7.23. We have pared our Foods products price list to better reflect what is available given our present cash shortage. We are trying to increase the range of our stock but some products on the new price list are not yet in stock. Towards the end of the summer we expect to have more money available to buy stock and will try to widen the range of products we have on the shop shelves. The price lists do include a number of price rises especially for coffee and tea products, unfortunately. Some cleaning products have increased in price, too.
Some new products
Cafedirect Mayan Gold Freeze Dried Instant coffee 100g – a strength 5 instant coffee.
Suma Organic Medium Ground coffee 1Kg size – to replace Traidcraft ground coffee 1Kg.
Clipper Earl Grey Organic teabags, 80 bag box – to replace Traidcraft Earl Grey.
Cafedirect Everyday teabags 440 bags size and Clipper One Cup teabags 440 teabags size – to replace Traidcraft catering teabags.
Clipper Organic English Breakfast loose tea 80g. An existing product which has been revamped, reduced in weight and the price increased.
Various nut products on the new price list but not available yet at our suppliers.
Equal Exchange Organic Raw Cane Sugar 500g and Suma Golden Granulated Sugar 500g – to replace the Traidcraft range from Mauritius.
Fairtrade certified sugar sticks in 1,000 stick sizes, both brown and white, but at different prices to replace Traidcraft catering sugar sticks. The new sugar sticks are 2g in weight on average compared to Traidcraft’s which were 3g in weight.
More supplies of Mexican earrings are on their way to us to complement the large range we have already.