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Calling all chocolate lovers and all who are young at heart…

The delicious Fairtrade Dubble Chocolate Bar is celebrating it’s 10th Birthday!

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The phrase ‘Fair Trade’ has been in the press a lot of late. Kit Kat, Cadbury’s and organic chocolate connoisseurs Green & Black’s have all pledged their intention to go Fairtrade, and not long ago, Fair trade was named by the BBC as one of the ‘Words of the Decade’.

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After the success of the the Fairtrade Wine Tasting, our friends at Shared Interest decided they’d like to try out a Fairtrade towel. After all, we shouldn’t just be thinking about swapping our food and drink during Fairtrade Fortnight, Fairtrade cotton is a must.

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We’re more than half of the way through Fairtrade Fortnight, and people have been swapping to Fairtrade in their thousands – just check out the Fairtrade Foundation’s Big Swap-ometer to see how it’s been going.

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Tropical Wholefoods

It’s Fairtrade Fortnight, hurrah!  It’s the season when we all have a chance to consider what we buy and where it’s come from.  As we’re munching on some yummy food or dressing ourselves in new clothes in the morning, this is the time for us to have a good think about who is involved in producing some of the things we buy.  Are the workers who pick my bananas being paid properly?  Are the weavers of my new top given a fair wage?

Read the rest of Fairtrade Fortnight Producer Stories: Tropical Wholefoods »

Are you joining in the Big Swap?

Read the rest of The Big Fairtrade Swap with Harriet Lamb »

Breakfast - The most important meal of the day?

We all know the theory. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But in practice? Not a chance. Not in our house anyway. How can the most important meal of the day happen first thing in the morning?

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Fair Trade or not Fair Trade?

You will no doubt have heard of, and probably experienced compassion fatigue. You know the symptoms – arranging a day’s holiday for the date of Children in Need or Comic Relief; busily texting as you walk past the Big Issue seller; never having any change in your pocket; writing off sponsored abseils and runs as publicity stunts…..and then a tsunami causes devastation in Asia, an earthquake creates tragedy in Haiti and our compassion is reawakened. We respond, we give, we care.

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Less than a year ago, Cadbury’s announced their first foray into the Fairtrade arena. Since then, Kit Kat have also acquired the Fairtrade mark, and despite many raised eyebrows that people have directed at them, in my opinion this can only be a good thing in the long term.

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What better way to celebrate it being Friday than with a delicious bar of Fairtrade Divine Chocolate?

But the big question is – do you think about where your chocolate comes from every time you enjoy a bite..?

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