Divine Chocolate Ltd (formerly The Day Chocolate Company) is a unique partnership between small-scale cocoa farmers in Ghana and organisations in the UK that support fair trade.
Divine Chocolate Ltd also produces Dubble Fairtrade chocolate, the funky bar for kids with Added Comic Relief. Find out more at
Kuapa Kokoo is a co-operative of over 40,000 small-scale cocoa farmers in Ghana, West Africa who own almost a half of Divine Chocolate Ltd and produce the beans for Divine and Dubble.
Twin Trading is a major shareholder and founder of Divine Chocolate Ltd.
3rd Floor, 1 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3JX
Tel: 020 7375 1221
The Body Shop International Plc was originally a shareholder in Divine Chocolate Ltd, Watersmead, Littlehampton, West Sussex BN17 6LS
Christian Aid is one of the founding partners of Divine Chocolate Ltd. Christian Aid works in over 60 countries helping people, regardless of religion or race, to improve their own lives and tackle the causes of poverty and injustice.
35 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London SE1 7RL
Tel: 020 7620 4444
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Comic Relief exists to tackle poverty and promote social justice by helping disadvantaged people across the UK and Africa to realise their aspirations and potential. Dubble (the Fairtrade chocolate bar for kids) was launched in October 2000 as a result of a partnership between Divine Chocolate Ltd and Comic Relief.
5th Floor, 89 Albert Embankment, London SE1 7TP
Tel: 020 7820 5555
The Department for International Development (DFID) guaranteed a business loan when the company was set up
dfid.gov.uk
The Co-operative Group is the leading supermarket in terms of their range of Fairtrade products. Divine Chocolate Ltd supplies Co-op with Kuapa Kokoo's cocoa for their range of Fairtrade chocolate bars.
PO Box 53, New Century House Manchester M60 4ES
Tel: 0161 834 1212
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Trading Visions is the charity set up by Divine Chocolate Ltd to develop and expand the educational and campaigning initiatives to promote Fairtrade particularly amongs young people.
Papapaa is the source of the multimedia educational materials developed and designed by Comic Relief and Dubble, and now being further extended by Trading Visions.
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Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO) is the worldwide Fairtrade standards setting, certification and monitoring organisation.
Kaiser Friedrich Strasse 13, D - 53113 Bonn, Germany
Tel: +49-228-949230
AgroFair UK supply Fairtrade fresh fruit - bananas, mangoes, pineapples, citrus fruits and soon a whole fruitbowl full - to supermarkets in UK.
1 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3LT
Tel: 020 7422 0755
cafédirect is the UK's largest Fairtrade hot drinks company. Cafédirect coffees and Teadirect teas are sold through most of the major supermarkets and served in a rapidly increasing number of cafés, including Costa.
City Cloisters Suite B2,196 Old Street, London EC1V 9FR
Tel: 020 7490 9520
Equal Exchange produce their own range of Fairtrade teas, coffees, sugar, cocoa, honey and nuts; as well as acting as a major wholesalers for other Fairtrade products, like Divine.
10a Queensferry Street, Edinburgh EH2 4PG
Tel: 0131 131 220 3484
Fruit Passion Fairtrade juices
BAFTS members with websites: Bishopston Trading Company; Chandni Chowk; The Fair Trade Cafe; Funky Wares; Ganesha; Just Fairtrade Ltd; One Village; One World Shop (Edinburgh / Glasgow); Pachacuti; People Tree Ltd; Shared Earth; Siesta; silverchilli.com; Tumi; The World Shop (NEAD); The World Shop (RISC)
Network of European World Shops
Ethical Junction- a portal site for ethical organisations and ethical trading; including an on-line ethical shopping centre.
One World Net is a site dedicated to harnessing the democratic potential of the internet to promote human rights and sustainable development. Good general site for exploring development issues.
Network of groups producing excellent research and publications on issues affecting the South.
The Eden Project is a dramatic global garden, the size of 30 football pitches, based in Cornwall. They sell both Divine and Dubble in their fantastic retail shop!
Bodelva, St Austell, Cornwall PL24 2SG
The Trade Justice Movement is a group of organisations who are concerned with the negative impact of international trade rules on the poorest people in the world, on the environment, and on democracy. The TJM calls for fundamental change to the unjust rules and institutions governing international trade, so that trade is made to work for all.
Make Poverty History
MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY brings together a wide cross section of nearly 100 charities, campaigns, trade unions, faith groups and celebrities who are united by a common belief that 2005 offers a unprecedented opportunity for global change. 2005 - what we are asking for: Trade Justice. Drop the debt. More and better aid.
Oxfam is a development, relief and campaigning organisation that works with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering world-wide. Oxfam shops which sell food items stock the full range of Divine products. Oxfam House, John Smith Drive, Oxford OX4 2JY.
Telephone 0870 333 2444
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Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI)
Traidcraft a leading organisation in helping poor communities fight their way out of poverty through trade. Traidcraft sells fairly traded items through their fair trader network and online.
Kingsway, Gateshead NE11 0NE
Tel: 0191 491 0591
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Banana Link campaigns for sustainable production and trade in bananas on behalf of the small scale producers and plantation workers.
Farmers World Network (FWn) unites farmers and rural communities worldwide. FWn carries out development education work on world agricultural production, distribution and trade.
Labour Behind the Label campaigns for workers' rights in the global garment industry
New Economics Foundation works to construct a new economy centred on people and the environment.
New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality
People and Planet UK student action and campaigning on world poverty, human rights and the environment.
Red Pepper is a radical left independent magazine with political and social debate.
War on Want campaigns against world poverty working in partnership and solidarity with people across the globe.
World Development Movement campaigns to tackle the root causes of poverty.
BCCCA
International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO)
Federation of Cocoa Commerce (FCC)
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