Fair Trade Policy
What sort of shop are we talking about?
Opening times
How to make sure that we are still open when you want that card / gift / wrapping paper with a difference.
Buying and Selling
What are we trying to achieve?
Clothing
We sell superb hand knitted winter garments.
Coffee, Tea, Cocoa.
Percol, Cafe Direct, Equal Exchange, Traidcraft, Suma Coffees.
Mainstream Fairtrade Teas plus tea from the smaller groups. Brilliant Cocoa.
All carrying the Fairtrade label.
Food!.
The Traidcraft range of foods, Swazi Kitchen Chutneys, Jams and Marmalade, Tropical Wholefoods.
Chocolate.
Traidcraft range, Dubble, Divine, Maya Gold. All the chocolates with the Fairtrade label.
Paper products.
Hand made greetings cards, wrapping paper, Albums, notebooks, writing sets, Kitchen rolls.
Toys.
Jigsaws, rainsticks, windchimes, nodders, spark plugs, . . .
Household
Doormats, Tea towels, letter racks, picture frames, mirrors, room tidies, tiles, stoneware, pottery,
pestles, calabash, salad servers, . .
Jewellery
Earrings, bangles, bracelets, slides, grips, brooches.
Accessories!.
Neckties, scarves, hats, purses, wallets, keyrings, worry egg
Stone.
Small decorated boxes, desk tidies, worry eggs, pestle and mortar, figures, elephants,
or just a simple paper weight.
Carved Wood.
Small decorated boxes, desk tidies, letter racks, bowls, puzzles, infuriating hidden hinges,
the intricate inlay work is a delight to the eye.
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One World Shop, Hull
The shop exists for several reasons but primarily it exists to demonstrate
that an alternative approach to trade,
trade based on mutual respect and partnership, is feasible.
So the shop is a Fair Trade shop.
Photographs on this site are provided as examples of the types of product that we make available.
Whilst striving to build long term relationships with our importers and the artisans who make the products
we aim to provide quality and variety to our customers. The range is, therefore, constantly changing.
It is not an organic food shop, although some of our products are organic.
It is not a "nick nack" shop although we do sell items in the £1 to £2 range
that are attractive to both children and adults.
And the shop is a member of BAFTS.
BAFTS.
Our membership of BAFTS is part of our guarantee to our customers that the products we sell are fairly traded.
See Fair Trade or Links for more information.
Crafts Buying
We buy from importers chosen from the BAFTS importers directory. Our policy is to buy a range of goods, consistently over time, that are popular with the customers. In so doing, we build a relationship with the importer, and through them with the producers of the goods.
Hand made crafts are beautiful and often unique, and whilst this makes the products very attractive it causes problems for some customers. When an item is on display, that is usually our stock, and there are no more, and often we cannot order more. When you are disappointed we are disappointed too, but we hope you will understand.
Clothing
Our approach is to work with local, small scale Fair Trade suppliers such as
Black Yak. eg:
Click the pic to see more clothing.
Food buying
We attempt to stock as wide a range as possible of tea, coffee, fruit juice, chocolate, snacks, snack bars.
Coffee, Tea, Cocoa
Our policy is to stock a wide range of products as possible to give the best possible choice of Fair Trade.
Go to
Beverages
for a complete list drinks.
Food
Follow the link to see a list of food items.
We carry the widest range of Fair Trade consumables in the city of Hull.
Chocolate
Aaah. Chocolate. Delicious darkly Divine, or deep rich Cappucino,
or smooth Milk, or Dubble for fun. Once bitten, forever smitten.
Just too good to be true.
Paper products
We are proud of the paper range.
Greetings cards without smutty messages, hand made paper, even the Tibetan alphabet.
Click to see a few more pics and a list of items normally in stock.
The Toy Range
is really for children, but we wont "sprag" on any adults that buy elephants or nodders.
Bright jigsaws for little ones, soft toys for babies, . . . good stuff.
For the home
A deep bristly coconut doormat, or a washable calabash, decorated in african designs, and use as a salad bowl. No chodoku here.
Jewellery
to adorn the ears of all who wish to wear them.
Handmade in Mexico.
Stone
Cool to the touch, and beautiful to look at, our range of stone work is some of the most exquisite work in the shop. So good, that much of it has had to be locked in a display case. But if you have a genuine interest we will be only too glad to open the case for you.
Hand Carved and inlaid boxes from india, smooth cool kisi stonework from Africa, figurines, elephants, desk tidies. Mind you, they are a bit pricy to send to the rellies in Australia.
Wood
Warm to the eye, but beautiful and intricate in the inlay work, carved shesham wood from India is one of our most popular lines of craft work.
Accessories
Practical coin purses, scarves, evening bags, . .
Opening times
Please see the Home Page.
Directions to the shop are provided on the
about page.
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