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Retailers in Stoke-on-Trent who stock Fairtrade products.

Asda,
Scotia Road,
Tunstall.

The Bridge Centre,
Birches Head.

Burslem Bible Centre,
60 Hamil Road,
Burslem.
Tel: 01782 823035.
Opening hours:     Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.,
                                Wednesday 1.15 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.
                                Saturday 10.00 a.m. - 2.00 p.m.

All Co-Op stores.
The Co-op believes that it is wrong for many of the world's citizens to be condemned to a life of poverty and, while recognising the limitations of its influence, will seek, whenever it can, to ensure that producers in developing countries get a fair reward for their efforts.

Expressions Community Shop,
Church Street,
Stoke

Holland & Barrett,
8 Upper Market Square,
Hanley.

is Lidl's own mark for fairly traded products, and is used in conjuction with the usual Fairtrade mark.	High Street, Tunstall, ST6 5EG Telephone: 823073	Dividy Road, Moss Green, ST2 0SP Telephone: 596217	The Strand, Longton, ST3 2PB Telephone: 370382	London Road, Stoke, ST4 5AD Telephone: 746717
	Currently stocking Fairtrade Bananas, Orange Juice, Chocolate, Coffee and Sugar. The Fairtrade coffee is a blend from Ethiopia, Peru and Papua New Guinea. Twelve hundred farmers of “La Florida” Co-operative in Peru deliver coffee to Fairtrade. The co-op is paid at least $133 US per 50kg of Arabica coffee, and $150 US for that which is organically grown. In addition, a FAIRTRADE premium of $5 US per 100lb is paid.

London Road Bakery,
285 London Road,
Stoke.

The Bakery sells several Fairtrade products PLUS make their own Fairtrade Coffee Cake.

Marks and Spencer, 11 Upper Market Square, Hanley.
As of March 2006, M&S are converting all the coffee they sell to Fairtrade, with tea to follow later in the year. M&S are also extending their commitment further through areas such as cotton, honey, chocolate, avocados, pineapples, mangoes and bananas. They already sell Fairtrade-only tea and coffee in their Café Revive coffee shops.

Morrisons,
Ridgeway Drive
Festival Park
The priorities for Morrisons' Corporate Social Responsibility programme include fostering fair and ethical trade.

Sainsbury's,
Etruria Road,
Hanley.

Sainsbury's,
London Road
Stoke

"Fairtrade offers our customers an independent label that guarantees a fair deal for marginalised workers and small farmers in developing countries. It’s very important to Sainsbury’s, and we intend to develop it more in 2006."

Staffordshire University Campus,
College Road,
Shelton.

Tesco, New Hall Street, Hanley.	Tesco, Bath Road Longton.	Tesco, Lysander Road, Meir.	Tesco, 291 Newcastle Rd Trent Vale.
Fairtrade is vital in bringing stability to many small suppliers in developing countries. Tesco stock approximately 90 Fairtrade lines, of which 14 lines are own-brand, including roses, mangoes, avocados, citrus fruits and cookies. Tesco continue to work closely with the Fairtrade Foundation to bring new products to customers.

Trade Aid Fair Trade Centre,
Methodist Book Centre,
Gitana Street,
Hanley.
Tel: 01782 212146
Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday, Saturday 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.
Images of Trade Aid Fair Trade Centre and some of the Fairtrade goods available.

Fairtrade products recommended in the
Observer Food Monthly No. 59, February 2006

Best Hot Chocolate - Cocodirect What it tastes like: chocolatey, comforting and delicious Who it helps: the cocoa in this drinking chocolate (40 percent) comes from grower co-operatives in the Carribean, Latin America and Africa - allowing them to invest their profits in projects like cocoa plant nurseries. Widely available. "Through the Fairtrade premium we have established a nursery so we can sell young plants to farmers at a low cost. This provides both an alternative source of nutrition and income for our farmers" Beato Guillermo de la Gues, Dominican Republic	Best coffee - Co-Op After Dinner Roast Coffee What it tastes like: strong rich coffee to give you a major kickstart. Who it helps: all the Co-Op's coffees are Fairtrade - the price of coffee has dropped dramatically in recent years, and as a consequence some growers find themselves making less than half of what it costs to grow their crop. The Co-Op wants to alleviate the poverty this causes by paying extra for their beans, bought from countries like Nicaragua. The Co-op only puts Fairtrade beans into its own brand coffee range. It costs well under a penny more a cup, but because growers get a much higher price, it makes a big difference to them.
Best cereal bar - Traidcraft Geobar What it tastes like: foods which are both worthy and healthy, as these are, do have the potential to taste like sawdust. However, these bars are very tasty indeed. Who it helps: Traidcraft deal directly with the producers who grow the ingredients for their Geobars in Chile, Ghana, Malawi, Pakistan, Paraguay and South Africa. Widely available. Honey from Chile - "Apicoop gives us a permanent market for our products and this helps us develop. Before we kept bees we had no jobs and now we have been able to develop ourselves as people." Celia Gonzales is one of the 14 women beekeepers who belong to Apicoop, along with 106 men. She is also on the co-op's board. The Apicoop members are all in the area east of Valdivia, but some 500 beekeepers in other parts of the country also benefit from Apicoop's fair trade export sales.	Best wine - Thandi Chardonnay What it tastes like: a zesty white, very easy to drink. Who it helps: the wine is a product of a black empowerment initiative in South Africa, which helps support two villages in the Elgin Valley. Tesco. Thandi is a Xhosa word that means 'nurturing love'. It lies at the heart of one of South Africa’s most significant transformation stories. Established in Elgin in 1995, Thandi’s aim is to empower previously disadvantaged communities. From the outset, the imperative was to involve community members at all levels, from growing to actual wine making. A milestone was achieved in 2003 when Thandi became the first wine brand in the world to achieve Fairtrade accreditation.
Best tea - Co-Op organic tea bags What it tastes like: a mellow cuppa. Who it helps: an isolated community in southern Tanzania, who have been able to construct a maize mill, community centre, nurseries, water pumps and start work on both a primary and secondary school. Luponde Organic Tea Gardens are amongst the oldest and largest Organic Tea estates in the world. Situated high in the Livingstonia Mountains in southern Tanzania, the Gardens have been Fairtrade and Eco-Cert registered for over a decade. The extra premiums earned from Fairtrade have had an enormous and lasting impact on the livelihoods of the community that live in this relatively isolated part of Tanzania. Premiums from Fairtrade have been utilised to build medical centres; purchase and install maize mills; construct and equip social community halls, nursery schools, shopping centres and food stores; construct and commission water tanks and village borehole pumps; contributed building materials to local primary and secondary schools. A revolving loan facility has also been established so to allow farm employees to empower their livelihoods and that of their families. By giving them access to funds for various income generating projects, small micro-enterprise businesses; purchasing of agricultural inputs and bicycles; build homes and contribute towards paying school fees for their children, and thereby improve their living conditions. The fund is managed by a joint body made up of elected workers whose responsibility is to allocate funds to projects which, they feel will have the most positive impact on the workers and their families.