Recycled paper has never felt so good when wearing these funky chains of beads made by women in Uganda. Each bead is rolled by hand to create an individual piece of eco and socially conscious jewellery

Anokhi have been around for more than 30 years and are well known for their ethical production methods. Their garments carry to Craftmark of India which is an initiative of the All India Artisans and Craftworkers Welfare Association. It helps to denote genuine Indian handicrafts, set minimum standard and increase consumer awareness of distinct handicraft traditions.

Global Organic Textile Standard

Our certification is second-to-none! Everything Frugi is certified by Control Union (formerly SKAL). They are probably the biggest and best certification agency in the world. (Others include the soil association and IMO) They certify our clothes to the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS).

If you get GOTS certified then all areas of the supply chain have been audited, to comply with strict social criteria as well. This includes workers being paid a living wage, no child labour, maximum 48hr week, freedom to join unions – the list goes on. It does not however stop them from becoming friends on facebook and posting you pictures of their pets and children.

Social Accountability

Our main manufacturers have also achieved the Social Accountability 8000 standard which goes even further than those laid down in GOTS. It is an internationally renowned standard that has very strict criteria. For example, our manufacturers supply all their workers AND their families with health insurance

1% For The Planet

We are also members of the 1% for the planet movement. We donate 1% of our turnover, regardless of profit, to two grass-roots environmental charities. We are currently involved in 2 projects; the first with the Pesticide Action Network in Benin, W. Africa  helping research into new improved methods for organic cotton farmers and the second with the Cornwall Wildlife Trust BEEP project, helping to prevent marine mammal strandings.

There is a lot of trust at Frugi. We trust our retailers to sell, promote and love Frugi as we do. In return our retailers trust us to always do what we say that we will. Friendships develop and conversations flow across boarders and across continents. It’s what we like to call ‘informal professionalism…man

Green Living Organics (glo) began in Canada in 2005 with the simple concept of “do well by doing good”. With glo, you have the assurance that our bed, bath and baby products have been made in ways that are both socially and environmentally responsible.

Launched in September 2007, KNIT FOR LIFE is a community based, not-for-profit organisation which provides income generation and poverty relief to a community of over 200 rural women in the South-East of Zimbabwe, skilled in hand knitting of baby and children’s knitwear and knitted toys all in 100% local cotton for export to Australia and globally.

An Australian initiative to provide income to the Jesa co-operative of women and provide training in hand knitting, quality assurance and exporting to the Australian and New Zealand markets, and then globally.

KNIT FOR LIFE allows rural Zimbabwe women to earn an income whilst caring for their children and is actively seeking interested donors, partners, investors or sponsors to support the initiative and provide a greater development impact for this community!

An Australian initiative to provide income to the Jesa co-operative of women and provide training in hand knitting, quality assurance and exporting to the Australian and New Zealand markets, and then globally.

KNIT FOR LIFE allows rural Zimbabwe women to earn an income whilst caring for their children and is actively seeking interested donors, partners, investors or sponsors to support the initiative and provide a greater development impact for this community!

The books are made in Australia using high quality acid free pages inside. The covers are silk-screen printed onto Hemp muslin and the bags that the books come in are silk-screen printed onto Hemp canvass. Super sturdy and will protect the books for years and years.  Included is a matching notebook, called a Chatter Book, for recording your child’s wonderful chattering as they grow and learn to speak and make us laugh out loud with joy or gasp in horror at something said in public.

Each Once-A-Year Book comes with a pamphlet of hints and tips on how to use the book, what to write and keep a record of, how to take photos if you’re starting from scratch or how to backdate a book if your chld is older.

Mehera Shaw’s style reflects a dialogue between cultures, a melding of histories and ideas.  We strive for a fine balance of East and West, vintage and contemporary, in an artistic conversation that people all over the world can share.

Each of our collections includes heritage crafts and indigenous stitching techniques. All of our printing and dying are done by hand, using traditional methods, and employing fair labor standards.

Stitching techniques are all couturier. We use many couturier design techniques as well, incorporating pintucking, pleating, and crinkling, to get greater texture on flat surfaces.

All of our garments are made using sweatshop-free, fair labor standards. We provide sufficient pay to improve quality of life and a positive work environment, with an atmosphere of respect for all and of cultural sensitivity. Mehera Shaw does not use any child labor.We work with our employees — pattern masters, stitchers and managers — at our production studio in Jaipur to develop the best product possible. We also work directly with the various dyers and block printers, who are free agents and set their own terms of employment and prices. We make every effort to work within the natural and cultural environment, using indigenous design motifs and styles in our collections. We often incorporate artisan techniques, such as hand block printing, hand quilting (“hath tagaii”), and non-mechanized spinning and looming, in support of rural, decentralized, and environmentally positive methods of production.

New Sadle is a fair trade organisation based in Kathmandu Nepal. New Sadle's vision is to 'Improve socio-economic status of socially discarded people of the country by providing social support and raising the level of income through handicraft'.

New Sadle's mission is to achieve sustainability of New Sadle through establishing a reputed sustainable income generating handicraft business in order to rehabilitate and establish the socially discarded and marginalized men and women by providing them social support and employment opportunity.

Their objectives include:

www.newsadle.org.np

One Village garments are produced by Zameen Organics which is a pioneering farmer-owned company for Fairtrade, organic and pesticide-free cotton.

They work with marginalised farming communities in rural India to improve livelihoods by increasing efficiencies, lowering input costs and raising income.Zameen’s ethos and objectives centre on farmer empowerment. Their farmers are the largest shareholders in Zameen and therefore play a big part in shaping our policies as well as benefitting from shareholder dividends.

www.zameen.org