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July 29th  Yet another fairtrade café - lots of options for fairtraders - see Local News

June 27th  Hopefully up and running again and news of Nigel Quarrell’s Autumn adventure around the local fairtrade towns.

May 29th  A local fair-trade ice cream - see Local News

March 8th  Painswick becomes fair-trade town - see Local News

Christian Aid has been instrumental in launching Fairtrade Networks in various parts of the country. These draw together locally agencies and individuals who are active in promoting Fairtrade.

Fairtrade can bring enormous benefits to producers by providing stable markets and fair prices as well as social support for the whole community. In addition to helping people in other parts of the world it come bring benefits to us.

More and more people are shopping with their hearts and we can encourage this process.

We are the local county network for Gloucestershire and are affiliated to the Fairtrade Foundation.