Fair Silver is a Fairtrade organisation.
What is Fairtrade?
Fairtrade is quite simply a set of guidelines that have been created to give a fair deal to Third World producers. Fairtrade is very specifically not charity, it is a trading partnership between retailers and consumers in developed countries, and producers and craftspeople in the developing world.
Some key aspects of Fairtrade are;
• Producers receive a fair price for their goods and advances on orders.
• Fairtrade organisations work with producers to ensure products are made to a high quality.
• Resources, production and workplaces do not exploit people or the environment.
• Fairtrade organisations commit to long-term relationships with producers to ensure continuity of orders, which is very important to producers.
• Fairtrade organisations commit to inform consumers about the people who make the products they purchase, increasing their loyalty and understanding that their purchasing power makes a difference.
How does Fair Silver works towards Fairtrade ethics?
• We pay for the production of our orders in advance.
• We have spent time with our silversmiths to cost each piece of jewellery accurately so that they make a good living from the products you buy.
• We design the products in conjunction with the Silversmiths.
• We are working to delivery times stated by the producers we work with, not us.