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The International Fair Trade Towns Conference
The Fair Trade Towns movement, started in Garstang by our founder Bruce Crowther, is celebrating 25 years. Now a truly global grassroots...
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Sep 42 min read
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Cocoa Kitchen Update
We recently returned from New Koforidua where the cocoa project is taking shape There are a few things you need to make chocolate - like...
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Sep 22 min read
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Do We Know It's Christmas?
Today is Giving Tuesday when we're encouraged to take some of the money we usually spend on Christmas gifts and festivities and donate to...
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Dec 3, 20243 min read
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Cocoa Experience at The Co-operative House
On my first visit to Ghana in October 2022 I had decided I wanted to wake up at the Co-operative House in New Koforidua, Africa's first...
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Jul 16, 20243 min read
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Fair Trade Fairer Future
Four years ago this week our inbox at All's Fair started to fill up with emails regretfully cancelling events. Food festivals, craft...
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Mar 19, 20242 min read
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Let's Fix Our Future
Why are so many people globally still living in poverty? Why are so many families in the UK forced to choose between putting the heating...
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Feb 29, 20242 min read
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It's #Fairbruary
February is usually an important month in the Fairtrade calendar as we're gearing up to Fairtrade Fortnight - but this year is a very...
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Feb 1, 20242 min read
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Happy Christmas Jumper Day
They can be fun, seasonal gifts for family, and bring festive cheer to Christmas parties and every year lots of money is raised for Save...
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Dec 7, 20232 min read
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Happy Social Enterprise Day
Today is Social Enterprise Day - a moment to raise awareness of our pioneering business model and celebrate the more than 100,000 social...
joannaaztecarts
Nov 16, 20232 min read
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Golden Exotics Bananas - the power of the Premium
Ghana is one of the biggest exporters of Fairtrade cocoa but it also supplies Fairtrade bananas, so when we visited Ghana in 2022 we just...
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Nov 13, 20233 min read
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Shop to change the world
Just launched: our new eBay store All's Fair was a fair trade retail brand for many years and we've always been convinced that buying and...
joannaaztecarts
Oct 23, 20231 min read
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Joanna is proud to be a Judge of Gift of the year 2024
While All's Fair is now mainly about welcoming visitors to our Co-operative House at New Koforidua, Joanna ran the business of the same...
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Oct 17, 20232 min read
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People and Planet First
Since we started All's Fair Tours a year ago there have been lots of changes, as we worked out how we can best achieve our social mission...
joannaaztecarts
Oct 10, 20231 min read
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What are we doing and what are we planning?
Our latest visit to Ghana concluded last weekend, and we are delighted to finally announce the plans we have been making. The...
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Apr 22, 20232 min read
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Our co-founder Joanna named as one of Europe's Top 100 Women In Social Enterprise
Congratulations to Joanna who was named among this illustrious group of women on International Women's Day 8 March 2023. The Euclid...
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Mar 17, 20231 min read
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Why Ghana? Why Cocoa? Why Fair Trade?
In the summer of 2020 I was privileged to have weekly Zoom meetings with cocoa farmers in Cote d’Ivoire as part of the campaign to Keep...
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Feb 5, 20233 min read
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Fairbruary starts now - Let's Connect
After Veganuary comes Fairbruary - when we choose products that are kind to both people and planet. Fair trade campaigners and supporters...
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Feb 1, 20232 min read
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It's Veganuary but what comes next? Fairbruary of course!
Veganuary is a really successful and important time of year where we think about the impact on the planet of what we choose to buy and...
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Jan 10, 20231 min read
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Seasons Greetings and important news
We want to wish all our supporters and customers happy holidays whatever and however you're celebrating at this time. When we launched...
joannaaztecarts
Dec 19, 20221 min read
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Ghana and the past, present and future of chocolate
70% of all the world's cocoa is grown in just two countries in West Africa - Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire. In summer 2020 I had been speaking...
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Nov 24, 20223 min read
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