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Divine Chocolate Fairtrade Fortnight competition | H is for Home

Fairtrade Fortnight logoThis month, we’re linking up with Divine Chocolate to commemorate Fairtrade Fortnight which began yesterday. It runs until 13 March and shines a spotlight on all the farmers around the world who are now thriving thanks to them receiving fair prices for their crops.

Divine is one of a growing number of companies who only use fairly traded ingredients in their products. Not only this, the company is 44% owned by the cocoa farmers so they receive a direct share of the profits.

If you like chocolate (and who doesn’t?) you can enter to win one of Divine’s tasting hampers – gift boxed & filled with 13 bars of delectable deliciousness! Even if you don’t like chocolate, you can still enter and, if you win, you can give it to a loved one as a present and score some (chocolate) brownie points!

Simply leave us a comment below telling us what is your favourite type of Divine Chocolate.

Divine Chocolate tasting hamper

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Gimme Five! Fairtrade homewares

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selection of 5 fairtrade homewares

We’re coming to the end of Fairtrade Fortnight and we wanted to mark it in our own little way.

When we think of Fairtrade most of us think of the coffee, tea, sugar etc  with the green & blue Fairtrade logo that we see in the supermarket. But it’s much more far-reaching than that. Flowers, wine, cosmetics, clothing, gold… even homewares! Here are some of the ones that caught our eye…

  1. Striped jute storage bags (set of 2): £22, Traidcraft
  2. Tree of life cushion covers (set of 2): £27.95, Natural Collection
  3. Sheesham wood side table – grey: £57, Ethical Superstore
  4. Oka film light: £200, Nkuku
  5. Recycled grow bag: £14.99, Notonthehighstreet

Here’s a short film of one tea farmer’s experience of fairtrade…