I hope that everybody else had a great World Fairtrade day on Saturday too.  

Kirsty here wrote a quick blog with some questions and answers about Fairtrade gold that you might be interested to read.

Best wishes,

Harriet

As we amble into Fairtrade Fortnight, it was great to be asked to comment on how Faitrade gold has gone in the Retail Jewellery Magazine.  We are now exactly one year on from its launch, after all.…

Hi there we are recruiting for 3 separate roles at the moment and I'd really appreciate your spreading the word because we particularly like to hear from people with an ethical outlook.

We are looking to fill 3 different roles in Hertfodshire:-

a Sales and Front-of-House Team Leader

an Accounts Assistant

a Junior Design Assistant

You can see more details about our vacancies on our the…

Recently, I was delighted to be asked to design and make some bespoke jewellery for DJ, Model and Presenter Lisa Snowdon.  I was even more thrilled when she chose to have her pendant made from Fairtrade Gold.

When I explained about there being a Faitrade gold option now, and what this menat, Lisa was keen to learn more and then quickly chose…

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I realise I might well be preaching to the converted, but how about we all make a new year's resolution to buy 1 extra Fairtrade product (additional to our normal Fairtrade shopping) each time we are at the supermarket?  it is easy to do, only costs a few extra pennies and can make a huge difference.  There are soooo many Fairtrade products available now it isn't just bananas and coffee!  There are even yummy things like biscuits and nuts on the Fairtrade list.

Of of…

Somthing that is often on my mind, is what the fashion industry does with last season's lines.

Now I am a jeweller so we are quite lucky.  If we do ever end up with precious materials that haven't sold, we can melt them down and make them into something else!  Also as most of what we make is a bespoke design or a one-off design so we almost never need to do this.

However we also do have some lines of…

It is a worrying time for the Kimberley Process.  Many of us in the jewellery industry are baffled that Marange diamonds are available for export.

Simon has written a great blog about the current situation with the Kimberley Process explaining it all which is well worth a read.

I know our own diamonds…

Last weekend, I sat down at the jewellery bench with my 6 year old son for the first time.  It was brilliant to show him a bit about jewellery.

The reasons that led up to this were all about his passion and enthusiasm about Fairtrade gold.  They have been doing the subject of Fairtrade at school and…

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We are delighted to announce that we are the very first independent jewellery to have been certificated by the Respobsible Jewellery Council. 

What this means is that we have held up our company against a list of 'good practices' and checked that we are doing everything we can, and then we have been indepenently audited to check on this.

It was a long and complicated process but I am…

Fairtrade gold launched in February 2011 and we were lucky enough to b one of the first jewellers allowed to used this new certificated Fairtrade gold.

We had supply problems at first but are now almost managing a supply of Fairtrade gold when we need it, at least in some forms.  Here are a few of our…

Hi - thought you might be interested to read this article - 6 reasons to buy a few Fairtrade things each time you shop.  Hope you like it!  Harrietx