Fashion & accessories
Life is Not Fair but my Knickers Are is the latest range of Fairtrade nightwear and underwear.
Beautifully designed and made from certified Fairtrade cotton, the UK label includes flirty lingerie, flattering loungewear and seriously luxurious pyjamas.
With Fairtrade Fortnight and Valentines just around the corner, there is no better time to show commitment to Fairtrade and share it with a loved one.
Now available from By Nature and Fashion-Conscience.com. Prices range from £10 to £25.
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During the week commencing November 23rd, AMT Coffee will be celebrating the fifth anniversary of its conversion to selling 100% Fairtrade coffee throughout its shops.
To thank customers for their support over the past five years, AMT will offer anyone who purchases a Fairtrade drink the chance to buy a Fairtrade brownie for half price. The offer will take place nationally at AMT's railway and airport outlets.
Say Allan McCallum Toppin, Operations Director for AMT: "We went Fairtrade as that is what our customers wanted and we believed it was the right thing to do. Seeing the growth in Fairtrade since that time has been fantastic and hopefully we played our part in that change. Our company mission statement and proven track record of delivering a high quality product at a reasonable price really dispels the myth that going Fairtrade will mean compromising on either of these factors".
The first national coffee company to go Fairtrade, AMT were also the first to use 100% organic milk.
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To celebrate the launch of the first Fairtrade beauty products this summer we are pleased to offer 40 goodie bags to give away.
To date, 57 beauty products have been licensed by the Fairtrade Foundation from six companies including Boots, Bubbles & Balm, Essential Care, Visionary Soap, Lush and Neal's Yard.
Each beauty product contains one or more Fairtrade certified ingredient such as cocoa butter, shea nut butter, sugar or brazil nut oil, benefitting disadvantaged producers from countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Through Fairtrade labelled beauty products, producers will benefit in three ways.
• Producers will get the Fairtrade minimum price plus a premium, a bit extra to invest in community projects such as schools and healthcare.
• The companies behind the products will have a partnership plan in place showing how they will additionally support producers to develop their businesses and communities.
• The Fairtrade Foundation has worked hard to set minimum thresholds of Fairtrade ingredients at levels which allow best selling volume lines of beauty products containing natural ingredients to be certified.
Introducing Fairtrade labelling to beauty products will increase the overall number of Fairtrade products in UK shops and the volumes of ingredients which producers are able to sell under Fairtrade terms, which in turn increases the benefits back to farmers.
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Bochica, a pleasingly affordable eco-chic boutique for men and women that's usually to be found only on the web is teaming up with bespoke textile design team Emmeline 4 Re to open a pop-up shop in London for one week only (this one). So I recommend a visit if you're in the London area and want to stock up on some ethical threads before summer kicks in properly.
Prices start at just £8 (almost unheard of in the eco fashion world!) which is why I'm heading over there right now!
Related: Emmeline 4 Re: from landfill to catwalk
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We're into the second week of Fairtrade Fortnight now, and judging by the official calendar of events, this second half of the event seems to be all about the tastier things in life: if you're in Brighton, you can drop in on Infinity Foods on North Road for a spot of chocolate tasting, all day with Divine. In Leicestershire, kids can take part in what's promisingly called a 'choca moneky challenge' at South Wigston High School, Wigston, while Bassaleg school in Newport is holding 'Bring a banana to school day'.
So what's the big deal with bananas?
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Green News
Divine make some of the scrummiest fairtrade chocolate around, in my opinion, and to mark the start of Fairtrade Fortnight, they're giving away a free bar to anyone who takes the time to fill out this form.
The reason Divine tastes so good may well come down to the quality of the cocoa butter that goes into the chocolate and I was interested to learn that Divine uses the very same melt-on-the-skin cocoa butter from Kuapa Kokoo as The Body Shop includes in its Body Butter products. Through trade with both organisations, over 50,000 small-scale farmers now receive a fair, above average price for their above average cocoa butter. The trade also contributes to Kuapa's social fund which is used to provide schools, wells, drinking water and medical facilities.
Related: Recipes with a heart from Divine Chocolate
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Fairtrade fortnight gets underway from next week, and alongside the official programme of events, there are loads of activities with a fairtrade theme going on.
Cafédirect are marking the occasion with a programme of foodie-friendly events at Whole Foods Market, Kensington High Street in London, and they're offering you the chance to win a pair of tickets to any of the 'Meet the Expert's sessions and Acoustic Music nights during TasteFair
Read on after the jump for details
Related: Stars go nuts for Fairtrade Fortnight
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Life is Not Fair but my Knickers Are is the latest range of Fairtrade nightwear and underwear. 
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