Abingdon Fairtrade Directory
Extract from the Oxfordshire fairtrade directory 2007 (let us know if your business needs adding to the list)Abingdon Shops:Added Ingredients 16 Stert Street OX14 3JP Tel: 01235 537405 Budgens 39 Northcourt Road OX14 IPJ Tel: 01235 520279 Budgens 3 Peachcroft Shopping Centre OX14 2QA |
The FAIRTRADE Mark is an independent consumer label which appears on products as an independent guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal. 
Abingdon is a FairtradeTown
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Frugal Food 17 West St Helen Street OX14 5BL Tel: 01235 522239 During the fairtrade fortnight in 2007, Frugal Food were giving away a Fairtrade hamper. |
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Oxfam Gift Shop 30-32 Stert Street OX14 3JP Tel: 01235 528592 Oxfam have a large range of Fairtrade chocolates and bars and biscuits and jams and more serious things like coffee, tea, fruit juice, and leaflets explaining about Fairtrade. Oxfam often give away free samples, like little sachets of Fairtrade tea coffee and sugar, and broken bits of biscuits. |
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Tesco Marcham Road OX14 1TU Tel: 0845 6778994 Tesco are into Fairtrade in a big way. Earlier in the year they had extra clubcard points for buying Fairtrade products. The Tesco corporate website says "Tesco strongly supports Fairtrade which guarantees that developing world farmers are paid a price that covers the cost of production, plus a premium to be spent on community projects such as better healthcare, sanitation, education" |
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Traidcraft The Abingdon Traidcraft group sell goods at 35 Ock Street, and at various functions and fetes, and from most of the churches in Abingdon. The picture is of Chris Caddy who has been out this year doing Fairtrade assemblies and talks in the Abingdon Schools. |
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Waitrose Abbey Close OX14 3HL Tel: 01235 5355003 The front page of Waitrose.com was devoted to Fairtrade fortnight. They had fairtrade recipes, a podcast discussing the Fair Trade debate, and highlighted products. The Abingdon shop also gave Fairtrade an important place, with a billboard advertising pink Fairtrade roses from Kenya, and this display as you walk in. |
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Abingdon Refreshments:Cafe Gia's 12 Ock Street OX14 5BZ Costa Coffee 39 Bury Street Tel: 01235 559897 Crown and Thistle Hotel 18 Bridge Street OX14 3HR Tel: 01235 522556 | |
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The Broad Face 30-32 Bridge Street OX14 3HR Tel: 01235 524516 The Broad Face pub near the bridge has been serving Fairtrade beveridges for many years. Mellie Ferrier, who runs the pub, is the spokesperson of the Abingdon Fairtrade Group, who have helped get Abingdon Fairtrade status. But really it is due to all the people out there who buy Fairtrade and encourage the shops and businesses to stock Fairtrade. |
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The Guildhall Abbey Close The Guildhall serves Fairtrade tea and coffee and biscuits at events. There was a Fairtrade display on the Guildhall noticeboard a while back. The OX 15 Oxford Road OX14 2ED Tel: 01235 520962 |
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