Take a look to see  what our friends, customers, suppliers, and some of the people we admire are up to:

• Trade Justice Movement  Significant global initiative to re-write the priorities of the World Trade Organisation.
• British Association of Fair Trade Shops (BAFTS)    A collective body for many fair trade identified retailers in the UK.  BAFTS is linked to wider fair trade structures representing fair trade like WFTO & NEWS (see below).   BAFTS undertakes a brave, necessary but difficult and often controversial role in developing operational fair trade criteria for retailers and suppliers  in UK.
• Suma Wholefoods  Possibly the most successful co-op in the country.
• Traidcraft PLC      Market leaders & market makers in the UK Fair Trade scene.
• Reading International Solidarity Centre     A lovely, spacious shop, meeting place resource and education centre in Reading, Berkshire.    Members of BAFTS. WONDERWORLD stockist.
• Crafty Kitchen   Fair Trade Shop & Cafe in idyllic scenery at Ardfern, Argyll, west coast of Scotland.   Very convenient to visit by yacht as you can drop anchor in the sea loch and hop ashore. Occasional WONDERWORLD stockist.
• Radish Lovely shop in Chapel Allerton, Leeds, selling books, fair trade handicrafts, offering a valuable focus for the culturally, politically, socially & environmentally wide awake.
• Just    Fair Trade Shop in the heart of Leicester, and a website which combines economy of design with innate style if they don't mind me saying.
• No Logo   Naomi Klein is required reading for anyone interested in globalisation, multi-nationals, branding, fair trade and struggles for justice.  Highly polemical of course.  Check out the section on fair trade in the book - it isn't there!   The phrase 'fair trade' does not occur even once.  In this website the arguments AGAINST consumer activism and the fair trade movement are spelled out. 
• Shared Earth     Fair Trade retailers with shops in York, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham, members of WFTO & BAFTS. 
• Fair Deal World Shop    A world shop in Luton and distribution network thoughtfully led by Lynn Heron and her team.   They are prepared to take risks, try things out and engage with all the issues.  WONDERWORLD stockist.
• World Fair Trade Organisation  The body formerly know as IFAT, and then IFTA.  One of  very few organisations which can bring together producers, importers, ATOs, wholesalers and retailers to discuss fair trade, alternative trade, etc and to set standards.
• Garstang Fairtrade Town    Fairtrade towns, cities, villages are interesting initiatives.     Everyone thinking about the future of the fair trade movement should have a look at this.
• Haworth Fair Trade Village    Haworth has just become the latest UK Fairtrade community.  
• Bishopston Trading Company   Experienced co-op making garments with a co-op in South India for retail & wholesale in the UK.  My contact with this group has been fairly limited.  However my impression is that they combine a solid, sustainable business approach & working in co-operative structures, here and in India, & have delivered significantly better livelihoods to producers.  Thus they could be said to be 'state of the art' in fair trade terms.   
• Tropical Wholefoods     Fair trade wholefoods in London.
• One Village     A very well known, experienced & professionally run UK 'alternative' wholesale supplier and retailer with strong views on fair trade issues.   Their approach to many key questions is significantly different to WONDERWORLD.  They have a much stronger emphasis on supporting social justice/development orientated producer groups rather than encouraging change in conventional trading practises.  Consequently a visit to One Village is essential for anyone interested in the range of thinking to be found in the fair trade movement. 
• Clipper Teas     Tea company with aspirations toward Fair Trade.
• Ganesha   Shop on the South Bank, London - dealing directly with many producer groups in eastern India & Gujerat, in fact an impressive list of suppliers who embody radical, alternative values around producers empowerment.   Interesting, good looking website.
• Green & Blacks     Fair Trade chocolate, beverages and other yummy stuff
• IRATE  Ilkley Residents Against Tesco Encroachment.  I see this issue as directly connected with fair trade - regardless of how efficient Tesco might be shifting Fairtrade branded goods.
• Valvona & Crolla    World class delicatessen in Edinburgh selling superior sandwiches and other goodies, near the inestimably ace shop called The Cat's Miaou. I hope I spelled that correctly.
• Equal Exchange   Food commodity Fair Trade marketing innovators and helpful figures.  Another Edinburgh outfit.   As a committed northerner I regard Edinburgh as my capital city.
• World Development Movement   Leading UK campaigning organisation to get justice for the world's poorest people in international trade
• Dutch National World Shop Association    WONDERWORLD supplied the 400+ network of Dutch World Shop's through a reciprocal relationship with the Dutch World Shop licensed supplier The Twinning Company.   We have found the Dutch National Association are pragmatic, clear and consistent in their approach to the practise of fair trade.
• Tumi    Latin-American crafts & music, shops in Bath, wholesalers
• Out of this World    Ambitious chain of fair trade "supermarkets".
• Rainbow Turtle   A fair trade shop and warehouse service in Paisley, west of Glasgow.
• Ethical Trading Initiative   An alliance of companies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and trade union organisations articulate and promote decent labour codes in trading relationships.
• Fairtrade Foundation    The sophisticated organisation behind the Fairtrade mark on your supermarket shelves. Delivering more business on better terms to producers - no doubt, getting the profile of fair trade raised and into mainstream outlets - yes, but also moving the goalposts and shifting the playing field that many fair trade people thought they were contesting.
• Earth Squared   Fine taste & high value fair trade e-retailer and wholesaler in Scotland.
• Thinking Sustainable Profits   Excellent article on role of small-scale businesses in development & fair trade.
• Authentic Business   A newsletter about business with purpose as well as profit.  
• Why Pay More For Fairness?  Princeton professor Peter Singer offers support for the basic idea of paying producers more.
• Fair Trade Wage Calculator  Hmm - interesting, ambitious - I'll get back to you when I have had chance to try it out.
• Fair Trade For All: How Trade Can Promote Development  Nobel Prize winner for Economics Joseph Stiglitz has a focus on development, social justice and poverty reduction and is a big critic of current trade agreements which he sees as neither free nor fair.   Fidel Castro thinks Jo is more radical than himself.  However as the title of his book implies the positive alternatives he discusses are clearly a reform of the structures and processes we already have rather than anything fundamentally different.  Should he have used the phrase 'Fair Trade' in this context?
• Pachacuti  One of the companies many of us should look to for inspiration and a kick up the bum. Carry Somer's eye for design, quality and fair trade has Pachacuti involved with WFTO product labelling inovations and has won national and international recognition.
• Tibetan Cultural Web    Great info & links on Tibet and the Tibetan diaspora, part of a Kotan.org  with lots to check out there also.
• Su Su Ma Ma World Wear   BAFTS suppliers of children's clothing.
• Indigo Ocean Trading Online Fair Trade shop dedicated to bringing stunning hand crafted Fair Trade Jewellery and gifts created by highly skilled people from places such as Afghanistan, Nepal, Indonesia, South Africa and India. 
• The Pink Planet Company   Selling fair trade products, specialising in jewellery and accessories.  BAFTS supplier.
• Sri Aurobindo Ashram     Cottage Industries, WFTO member, suppliers of our wonderful Fragrant Garden Natural Incense are a department of this famous ashram in Pondicherry, South India.
• Kerala Off The Beaten Track  Grassroots home-stay hospitality in India's southern paradise state. 
• Circular Cube  Web design services for businesses, organisations and individuals from the lovely FWBO order member,  Leeds United supporter (a West Yorkshire  soccer team currently in the second tier of  English football), chess player and mimic Samudradaka. Former Chairman of Padmalokha and last heard of in Arabia!
• Leeds Buddhist Centre    Sound sangha gang in Leeds - Tri-Ratna Buddhist Community (formerly the FWBO).  David is now a 'mitra' in the TBC - ie someone who has decided that the TBC will be a principle context for their personal journey towards wisdom and compassion.
• Rory Stewart MP  Giving just a smell of the immense complexity of Afghanistan and implicitly asking the question - what do we think we are doing there - read The Places In Between about Rory's hike with a dog over the central mountains of Afghanistan in 2002. This guy is an individual. Tory MP but I would have to vote for him.
• Buddhafield North  Good bye Limetree Farm - you are in my heart, hello Fell Edge.  Everything comes and goes and come and goes.  Once the spreading chestnut tree, now the grey stones along the skyline.  We'll see how I feel about it.
• Ylem   Jools Marley's latest musical project.  Tapes of Jools' legendary Meeting House concert still exchange hands for good money in some circles.
• Copshaw Holm Common Riding  Git In, Git Oot!  
• Click & Clack - Car Talk  Spurious car advice from US NPR.
• David J Turner - Artist   David goes public with his first 'official' art work.  
• Tripod.Home   Our mates Myles & Jac Podmore supply furniture & other attractive items from their Clevedon headquarters.   Myles supports Manchester City and there is nothing wrong with that.
• Cud  The great indie rock band from Leeds. Kaiser Chiefs - who? who? I said who?
• 1 in 12 Club   The club, cafe, venue in Bradford for nice but unruly persons.
• Cornerstone Resource Centre    A hub for alternatives in Leeds. 
• The Oatcake    The greatest Stoke City fans' website.  My mental state is influenced by the outcome of a weekly kickabout between 22 daft lads. Ridiculous but true.  Currently in the Premier League. Leeds United, on the other hand, are not.  
• Ulva & Gometra Alex Gray and I hiked to Gometra, off Mull, via Ulva, in the summer of 2006.  I would recommend it.   
• Amazella Fine silver jewellery on-line from a Fragrant Garden Natural Incense regular customer.
• Meditation Supplies  Jamie Spiers' business in Ayrshire
• Wild Geese  Mary Oliver. All you need to know.
• Calmac Ferries  Purveyors of mythic journeys, of joy, wonder & excitement.
• Asturias & The Picos de Europa  Even better than I expected.
• Neist Point is to the minke whale as Chanonry Point is to the Bottlenose Dolphin. A great place for whale watching, interesting  basalt columns, spectacular Waterstein Head.  So much of Scotland, so little time. 
• Knockfarrell Hill fort near Dingwall. Pictish - what ever that means, probably.  Vitrified - yes but was it deliberate to make the walls stronger, or an accident, or an attack?  Red kites here too. 
• Assynt  I am in love
• Ardmair Point About four miles north of Ullapool. Lovely campsite on a beautiful bay with a stunning mountain backdrop. The sea otters are right there too.