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
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.
Local Roots
4 East St. Helen Street
OX14 5EA
e-mail: enquiries@localroots.co.uk
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.
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"
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.
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.
