GIFTS Fairly Given

We love gift list ideas which offer something for everyone, whether it is a donation to a charity or a contribution to a developing country. This week we look at a gift list company with 'fair trade' principles.

At new wedding gift list company Fairgift®, everything is fairly traded and traceable back to the original producer and their community.

“The idea is simple really” says Fairgift founder Brian Walmsley who set up Fairgift on returning to the UK after living in Tanzania and being unable to find anything similar when setting up his own wedding gift list with his fiancé Jo. “There are now hundreds of outstanding fairly traded products available in the world, across dozens of different categories. By bringing them all together for the first time people have access to a fantastic range of gifts from which to choose. It’s perfect for either a last minute gift or for setting up an exciting and original wedding list.”

Fairgift products are predominantly handmade and manufactured in small quantities by skilled craft makers across Latin America, Asia and Africa. Perfect for a wedding gift list, the range covers bespoke ethical products for the home and garden including large items of furniture such as stylish tables as well as gorgeous bed linen, stunning wedding albums and beautiful household accessories.

Through every product purchased, Fairgift is able to advance the fight against poverty by ensuring sustainable income and good working conditions. Setting up a gift list with Fairgift is simply a matter of logging onto the website fairgift.co.uk, completing a few personal details and clicking onto your selected items. Photos of all Fairgift's products can be seen on the website or viewed in person at the company’s showroom in Henley on Thames (0870 803 3226).

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GIFTS With Love

Guests love giving - especially if it is a gift with a little message to cherish forever. We take a look at a Victorian pottery in Stoke-on-Trent where we found some fab gift ideas.

Based in Stoke-on-Trent, Emma Bridgwater pottery is all made by hand in her Staffordshire factory, using earthenware, a variant on Wedgwood's 18th century recipe for creamware. Finished with hand-sponged patterns or hand-applied litho designs, you can have your Emma Bridgewater cup, teapot or other cute vessel personalised with a message.

Best of all you can direct your keenest guests to emmabridgewater.co.uk where they simply need to choose a pattern, such as polka dots or hearts, and then pick a shape, whether it's a bowl, mug or plate. Adding £1 per letter to the price of the gift, tap your message into the box and check out! Allow a few weeks for delivery - personalisation is a bit of a long process - and wait to see the happy grin!

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GIFTS Give a Little

'Must have’ gifts for your wedding list can be life changing for others if you go for a World Vision list and opt for fruit trees, goats, loos or lamas.

Each World Vision gift is a real ‘must have’ for people living in communities in almost 100 developing countries where the international relief, advocacy and development agency, World Vision, works. Giving just one goat to a family in Kenya, means they can drink and trade its milk and the goat’s kids will be given to other families, helping the whole community. A mosquito net will provide vital protection from malaria for children and families in long term emergencies, and improved breeds of Llama will be used to provide quality wool in the Bolivian Andes which they can sell for a higher price. These ‘must haves’ are real gifts, for real people hoping for real and lasting change.

To set up a gift list, go to musthavegifts.org and start shopping!

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