The Ultimate Ethical Gift Range?

So many gifts we buy today are made in poorer developing countries. And, we've all heard the horror stories of children working as slaves in weaving workshops, trainer factories with criminally-low wages and toys made with toxic substances. It may lead us to wonder how our own gift was produced. Was anyone exploited? Were children harmed? Was the environment damaged? Well, with this new gift range, buyer and recipient can rest easy.

Our new Fair Trade gift range is an ethically and environmentally-sound collection. It celebrates the skill and artistry of the worker, rather than exploiting them. Each item is hand-made using traditional age-old skills and traded under Fair Trade principles. In other words, the worker was paid a decent wage for their work and they worked in safe conditions. Also, no children were exploited to make these gifts.

These gifts also tick the environmental box. Eco-friendly production methods are used and materials come from sustainable resources. So the Sheesham wood for the frames is from managed forests, for example. While natural materials are used in favour of man-made alternatives - even the dyes are all vegetable-based.

The result is a beautiful range of gifts packed with hand-made charm and untainted by exploitation - of any kind.

Browse the Fair Trade gift range

Of course, buying UK handmade is another great way to avoid supporting unsavoury business practices. By doing that you are supporting UK arts and crafts skills, localised production (which is always going to be better than shipping products halfway around the world) and low environmental-impact production (no nasty factories, natural materials, etc).  Our hand-made gifts and UK hand-made jewellery.