Intro Pages

CONTENTS

JANUARY 2022

2-3 Intro Pages 4-5 Happy Veganuary 6 Traidcraft Winter Sale

7 Product Update 8 Reduce Your Carbon Footprint 9 Traidcraft Exchange Update

Finley Theo

Welcome to the Traidcraft Family…

A huge congratulations to Traidcraft’s Lizy and Jo, who both welcomed their babies in the run up to Christmas! A note from Lizy – “Finley George Wright made a slightly early arrival on 2nd November weighing 7lb 2oz. He enjoys bumpy walks in his pram and going along the beach and I am enjoying being able to now put my socks on! Luna (our dog) is getting used to her new human brother but keeps a distance when Finley turns into a grumbly monster.” A note from Jo – “Introducing Theodore (Theo) Alexander Lambert, born at speed on 16th December! He’s doing really well, and Max, his big brother, is very taken with him which has been really lovely."

Letter of the Month

Thank you to Christine and Michael Ward who sent us a letter last month, telling us all about their journey as Fairtraders of 24 years, and their Christmas stall this year which they ran from their conservatory! Their well wishes and thanks meant a lot to us and helped the whole team get through the extremely busy October/November/ December period. Thanks again Christine and Michael – we hope you had a fantastic Christmas break after all of your hard work.

Here are just some of our highlights…

Donating to Local Good Causes

At Traidcraft, we do sometimes encounter short-shelf life items; still perfectly good to eat and drink, but technically reaching the end of their sellable period. Rather than sell them onto a wholesaler at discount, we often decide to donate them to local causes, helping to fight injustices we here in our community.

Planting Trees

With your help, we boycotted Black Friday 2021. Together, we contributed to climate projects and planted over 23,000 trees in Madagascar, Mozambique and Nicaragua, directly reducing carbon in areas of the earth which suffer greatly due to climate change, yet are often those with the smallest carbon outputs. Since then, collectively we’re almost at 50,000 trees planted in total!

Traidcraft ‘On the Road’ Again

Although the pandemic stopped our regular roadshows in their tracks, we did still manage to get to Living North, to meet and greet many of you, and spread the fair trade message to many more people in our locality.

WELCOME

The start of a New Year always seems to put a spring in your step; renewed vigour and enthusiasm for the year ahead, despite the roller coaster of the previous few years. This year, one message that is very definitely playing on my mind is the need to manage better what I eat, especially in terms of carbon output. I find myself drawn to the benefits of veganism and introducing it in some capacity into my food choices. Meat Free Mondays feel’s a good place to start. I’d also love to learn more recipe and food options, so please do feel free to share. As it impacts most areas of life, it’s great that our friends at Bio-D are supporting Veganuary with some very welcomed reductions on their vegan household cleaning products. In the meantime, happy ethical shopping.

Jo

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