Your Checkout Donations – 2021 Totals
Throughout another difficult year we have continued to give our customers the chance to donate to one of seven wonderful charities when making their order. Donating is easy, when in the checkout simply select...
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Thank you for your support of the Regenerators Appeal
It has been a few months since Traidcraft Exchange wrapped up the Regenerators Appeal and we’ve been hard at work totting up the final total. Thanks to our amazing supporters, we have reached a...
Time to Talk Periods – Thank you!
From the 16th June – 16th July 2021, we launched our first ‘Time to Talk Periods’ campaign. The aim of our campaign was to raise awareness and help put an end to period poverty;...
Period Poverty and Bloody Good Period
What is Period Poverty? Not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to afford and access period products as period poverty continues to be a global issue with many resorting to dangerous and unsafe...
Meet the Regenerators
Mary Milne from Traidcraft Exchange introduces their new appeal. I wonder if you’ve seen Sir David Attenborough’s recent Netflix documentary A Life on our Planet? If you haven’t, it’s well worth a watch. He...
National Dolphin Day. A Q&A with WDC’s Charlie Phillips
Charlie Phillips here, I’m the adopt a dolphin field officer for Whale and Dolphin Conservation and I think that I have one of the best jobs in the world on the north east coast...
Traidcraft Exchange’s Regenerators Appeal
In the villages across Tanzania and Bangladesh where Traidcraft Exchange works, no one asks if climate change is real. They ask, ‘When will the rains come?’ And ‘what will we eat now the floods...
WDC’s Green Whale Campaign – Guest Blog
If it’s taught us anything, the coronavirus crisis has shown us that we need to be willing to make changes in our lives to ensure that our neighbours, both locally and globally, survive. The...
Food Bank Friday 2019 – thank you!
For the past five years we’ve been running our ‘feel good alternative’ to the same old Black Friday sales you see every year – to help give shoppers a genuine deal and give something...
Food Bank Friday 2018
This year’s Food Bank Friday has seen a huge £7,000 worth of products being donated to the Newcastle West End Food Bank! For the last few years we have run an alternative to Black...