LINKS

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 IFAT & NEWS (see below).   BAFTS undertakes a brave, necessary but difficult and often controversial role in spelling out operational fair trade criteria for retailers and suppliers  in UK.
  • Suma Wholefoods  A handy source for our Fragrant Garden Natural Incense if you are in the wholefood trade.
  • 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.
  • Network of European World Shops   The organisation co-ordinating Fair Trade retailers across Europe from Finland to Spain.   
  • 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 IFAT & 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.
  • International Federation for Alternative Trade     One of the very few organisations which can bring together producers, importers, ATOs, wholesalers and retailers to discuss fair trade, alternative trade, etc and to set standards.
  • Arkadash Sweatshop-free and organic cotton clothing based in Leeds
  • 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 with  working in co-operative structures, here and in India, and 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.  BAFTS members.
  • Green & Blacks     Fair Trade chocolate, beverages and other yummy stuff
  • Traiding Post - Truro   WONDERWORLD stockists in Cornwall doing a fine job for fair trade over the years.
  • Valvona & Crolla    World class delicatessen in Edinburgh selling superior sandwiches and other goodies, near the inestimably ace shop called Mad Jack's Back whose website has gone missing - temporarily I hope.
  • 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 supplies 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.
  • Amba Nature   Lessening poverty, creating & sustaining employment in  micro cottage handicraft industries (ngo, voluntary & small business) in The Philippines by providing access to the UK market & helping to promote and sell products.
  • 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 in Paisley, west of Glasgow. WONDERWORLD stockists.
  • Ethical Trading Initiative   An alliance of companies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and trade union organisations articulate and promote decent labour codes in trading relationships.
  • Fair Trade Foundation    The sophisticated organisation behind the Fairtrade mark on your supermarket shelves.
  • Earth Squared   Fine taste & high value fair trade retailing in ambitious surroundings at Ocean Terminal, Leith Docks in Edinburgh, and on the web.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • The Pink Planet Company   Selling fair trade products, specialising in jewellery and accessories.  BAFTS supplier.
  • Sri Aurobindo Ashram     Cottage Industries, IFAT 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 soccer team currently in Coca-Cola League One), chess player and mimic Samudradaka. Now Chairman of Padmalokha!
  • Leeds Buddhist Centre    Sound sangha gang in Leeds - FWBO.  David is now a 'mitra' in the FWBO - ie someone who has decided that the FWBO will be the principle context of their spiritual development.
  • Buddhafield North  I was in Manhattan recently, it was empty, silent.  At Limetree Farm, the buttercups had got my attention.
  • Ylem   Jools Marley's latest project.  Tapes of Jools' legendary Meeting House concert still exxhange 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.
  • Tripod.Home   Our mates Myles & Jac Podmore supply furniture & other attractive items from their Clevedon headquarters.   Myles supports  Manchester City and we think that is entirely admirable. 
  • Bulgarian Holiday Homes  My cousin Mark and his wife are busy as usual!
  • Cud  A band whose talent overshadows so many, especially those Kaiser Chiefs.
  • 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.  This cannot be right and I am going to stop it straight away. 
  • Ninety Miles from Home    Stoke City fans in Leeds & West Yorkshire sharing occasional joy, lifts but  more usually frustration & bewilderment.
  • Ulva & Gometra Alex Gray and I hiked to Gometra, off Mull, via Ulva, in the summer of 2006.  I would recommend it.   
  • 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.

Below are Links with people we don't know personally but who have visited this site and have requested a Link Swap.    It is Link Swapping which really generates traffic for websites so .........

E-mail us at info 'at' wonderworld.co.uk if you think your website should be listed here.   Recently we have been tracking referrals to our website and we can report that reciprocal links DO deliver traffic.  This website generates substantial business for us so lets swap links!